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Trauma-Informed Care for Adolescent Substance Use (NEW!!)
A course for behavioral health professionals seeking to improve their knowledge and skills related to trauma-informed care for adolescents who use substances.
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 -- Open Registration (Virtual) 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Tuesday, August 12, 2025 -- Open Registration (Virtual) 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Family-Based Behavioral Treatments for Adolescent Substance Abuse - Best Practices (NEW!!)
An overview of evidence- and family-based interventions that empower parents and other caregivers to take an active role in their young person’s care and address the parenting practices and family dynamics that often contribute to adolescent substance use.
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 -- Open Registration (Virtual) 9:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Tuesday, August 5, 2025 -- Open Registration (Virtual) 9:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Botvin LifeSkills Training
Research-validated substance use prevention program proven to reduce the risks of alcohol, tobacco, drug abuse, and violence by targeting the major social and psychological factors that influence the initiation of substance use and other risky behaviors (manual included).
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 – Open Registration (Virtual) 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 – Open Registration (Virtual) 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, August 7, 2025 – Open Registration (Virtual) 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, September 4, 2025 – Open Registration (Virtual) 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
SBIRT with Adolescents
Participants learn about SBIRT as a public health approach to supporting adolescents. Using SBIRT as a systems-change initiative, providers learn how to screen for substance use, reinforce healthy lifestyle choices, utilize the steps of the brief intervention, and facilitate referrals to appropriate treatment.
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 – SBIRT with Adolescents – Open Registration (Virtual) 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday, July 22, 2025 – SBIRT with Adolescents – Open Registration (Virtual) 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, August 14, 2025 – SBIRT with Adolescents – Open Registration (Virtual) 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, September 18, 2025 – SBIRT with Adolescents – Open Registration (Virtual) 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Motivational Enhancement / Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 5 (MET/CBT5)
Evidence-based intervention developed to help behavioral health providers conduct a brief five-session treatment intervention for adolescents engaged in cannabis misuse. Combines two sessions of motivational enhancement therapy provided individually and three sessions of cognitive behavioral therapy provided in a group format.
Thursday, March 20, 2025 -- Open Registration (Virtual) 9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 -- Open Registration (Virtual) 9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA)
Two-day event that provides training in all nineteen A-CRA procedures and includes one (1) complimentary manual. Completion of the full training is required to pursue A-CRA certification.
Monday, April 7 & Tuesday, April 8, 2025 -- Open Registration (Virtual) 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. (both days)
Thursday, August 21 & Friday, August 22, 2025 – Open Registration (Virtual) 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (both days)
The training schedule is updated regularly.
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Parent CRAFT
Self-paced online video course that teaches parents, caregivers, and concerned others solution-focused, practical skills and techniques needed to meet the risks of substance use. Highly engaging online video segments include structured suggestions for practicing skills that are not only applicable to families with substance-involved youth but also relevant to anyone raising an adolescent.
SBIRT in Schools
A self-paced, online training in which school-based providers learn how to utilize SBIRT to screen for substance use, reinforce students’ healthy lifestyle choices, utilize the steps of the brief intervention, and facilitate referrals to appropriate treatment. In addition to the SBIRT model, this course offers supplemental training including Motivational Interviewing: What School-Based Providers Need to Know, Youth Use of Electronic Smoking Devices and other Tobacco Products, and SBIRT Implementation in School-Based Wellness Centers. Video demonstrations and optional simulation are also included.
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