Description:
Day 1 of this training focuses on ways to engage and support family members caring for youth and young adults with substance use disorders. Topics covered include: understanding parental challenges, reframing addiction as a chronic family disease, and identifying family recovery resources at the local, state, and national levels.
Day 2 of this training explores ways to engage and support families where there is multi-generational substance use issues, and the impact of adult substance use disorders on children, teens, and young adults in the family. Best practices to support youth impacted by parental substance use when caregivers have not yet committed to recovery, as well as ways to work with parents/caregivers who are in active recovery, will be explored. Resources to support both youth impacted by parental substance use disorders and resources to support parents/caregivers in need of treatment and recovery will be discussed.
This training is aimed towards anyone working with youth and young adults; prior knowledge is not required.
Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to...
United States