Virtual meeting
Via Zoom
Description
This training is designed to increase awareness and knowledge around nicotine and tobacco use among youth in the United States. Participants will explore current data on youth prevalence, identify key risk and protective factors influencing youth substance use, and examine policies that affect access to nicotine products. The session also highlights the short- and long-term effects of nicotine use in adolescents and introduces two evidence-based interventions for treating nicotine and tobacco use disorders in youth. Ideal for educators, healthcare providers, and youth-serving professionals, this training offers practical insights to better support prevention and treatment efforts.
Intended audience
Providers, nurses, social workers, psychologists, peer supports, other clinical staff, and non-clinicians.
Speakers
Brittany L. Carney, DNP, FNP-BC (she/her)
Brittany (Britt) is a clinical nurse educator for Boston Medical Center's (BMC) Grayken Center for Addiction Training and Technical Assistance, a doctorally-prepared Family Nurse Practitioner in General Internal Medicine at BMC, and an assistant professor of medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. Britt earned a Doctor in Nursing Practice (DNP) and master’s in nursing from the University of Massachusetts Graduate School of Nursing, and she earned a Master of Medical Sciences from Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine.
Megan (Meg) Hudson, MSN, PMHNP-BC
Meg is a clinical nurse educator with Boston Medical Center's (BMC) Grayken Center for Addiction Training and Technical Assistance and a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner at Boston Medical Center. Prior to obtaining her MSN, she worked as a nurse care manager in the Stimulant Treatment and Recovery Clinic (START) clinic, integrating harm reduction, infectious disease treatment, medical addiction groups, and co-management of stimulant use disorders and mental health conditions. Her clinical expertise includes harm reduction, low barrier treatment, complex care management, early identification and management of acute and persistent stimulant-induced psychosis. She earned both her BSN and MSN from Regis College.
Objectives
At the end of this training, participants will have the knowledge necessary to:
- Describe the prevalence of nicotine/tobacco use among youth in the United States.
- Identify two risk and protective factors that impact youth substance use.
- Recognize policies that impact youth nicotine access.
- Identify effects related to youth nicotine consumption.
- Describe two evidence-based interventions to support treatment of nicotine/tobacco use disorders in youth.
Sponsored by
Boston Medical Center Grayken Center for Addiction TTA, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services (DPH/BSAS)
Funding for out of state attendees is provided by the Opioid Response Network (ORN).
Funding for this initiative was made possible (in part) by grant no. 1H79TI085588-02 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
Accreditation information
Please read the Accreditation Information section of the training page to learn about the requirements for receiving credit or a certificate of completion.
