Dr. Steve Stiles heads up our new Addictions Studies Certificate Program. Dr. Stiles also pastors New Life Center church in Santa Cruz where emergency shelter and drug and alcohol treatment are provided in residential and outpatient services. Dr. Stiles has been teaching addiction studies for over 20 years. He is a graduate of the American Baptist Seminary of the West and is certified through the National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors. He is the author of two books through Gospel Publishing House, Thorns in the Heart and Recovery for Co-Dependency.