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FREE PROVIDER TRAINING
& FAMILY SUPPORT OPPORTUNITIES
Maryland Family and Youth Interventions
for Substance Use (Maryland FYI)
You are invited to register for FREE upcoming training events and family support opportunities for evidence-based adolescent substance use prevention and intervention strategies. Maryland Family and Youth Interventions for Substance Use (Maryland FYI) is part of the Maryland State Opioid Response, funded by SAMHSA. Maryland FYI Partners include: Maryland Department of Health Behavioral Health Administration, the National Center for School Mental Health, Bowie State University, Morgan State University, NAMI Maryland, and the Maryland Coalition of Families.

All events are FREE to Maryland providers/families and all interventions are adaptable for virtual implementation.

Continuing education credits available for most events.
offered by the National Center for School Mental Health
See below for details and upcoming workshops!
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROVIDER TRAININGS
Trauma-Informed Care for Adolescent Substance Use
Provider Workshop
** FREE **
for all Maryland counselors, psychologists, and social workers!
The Trauma-Informed Care for Adolescent Substance Use provider training is a 4-hour professional development course for behavioral health professionals seeking to improve their knowledge and skills related to trauma-informed care for adolescents with substance use. The training provides an overview of best practices in adolescent substance use treatment, including trauma-informed screening and assessment, care planning and treatment considerations. Learners will be engaged in learning through didactics on evidence-based practices, individual and small group reflection activities, and opportunities to apply skills learned to youth and family case vignettes. All participants will be provided with a list of references and resources for further learning to support professionals with implementing the practices discussed in the training.

Up to 3.5 Category A/I continuing education credit hours provided for eligible counselors, social workers, and psychologists. Length of training varies.

Family-Based Behavioral Treatments for Youth Substance Use - Best Practices
Provider Workshop
** FREE **
for all Maryland counselors, psychologists, and social workers!
Family-Based Behavioral Treatments for Youth Substance Use – Best Practices is an overview of evidence-based practices for addressing adolescent substance misuse in outpatient clinical settings. In particular, the workshop will focus on 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. Participants will be given tools and clinical techniques targeting adolescents, parents, and the family system as a whole. Ideas for how to sequence and integrate treatment components will be discussed. Examples of techniques to be discussed include youth motivational enhancement, parenting skill development, and family communication exercises. Throughout, the workshop will emphasize how to engage and provide culturally-responsive care to a diverse array of families including marginalized and minoritized youth and families facing multiple stressors.

Up to 4 Category A/I continuing education credit hours provided for eligible counselors, social workers, and psychologists.  Length of training varies.
Botvin LifeSkills Training (LST)
Provider Workshop
** FREE **
for all Maryland teachers, health educators, counselors, psychologists, social workers, and nurses!
Botvin LifeSkills Training (LST) is a research-validated substance abuse 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. The curriculum provides adolescents with the confidence and skills necessary to handle challenging situations. Participants will receive one (1) leader manual and one (1) student workbook for the level of their choosing: elementary, middle, or high school.                 

Up to 5 Category A/I continuing education credit hours provided for eligible counselors, social workers, and psychologists.  Length of training varies.
Screening, Brief Intervention, & Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) in Schools
Self-Paced Online Training
Screening, Brief Intervention, & Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) in Schools is a self-paced, online training in which school-based providers learn how to screen for substance use, reinforce students’ healthy lifestyle choices, utilize the steps of the brief intervention, and facilitate referrals to appropriate treatment. SBIRT is brief, highly accepted among school staff, and benefits students at all levels of substance use (including abstinence). 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. 


** FREE **
for all school-based Maryland counselors, social workers, psychologists, and nurses!
SBIRT Provider Training is a live training in which 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. SBIRT is evidence-based, brief, highly accepted among providers, and benefits individuals at all levels of substance use (including abstinence). SBIRT with Adolescents teaches participants how to apply SBIRT in various general adolescent-serving roles. 

Up to 5 Category A/I continuing education credit hours provided for eligible counselors, substance use counselors, social workers, and psychologists. Length of training varies. 
** FREE **
for all Maryland counselors, social workers, psychologists, and nurses!
Screening, Brief Intervention, & Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)
Provider Training
Motivational Enhancement Therapy/
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 5 (MET/CBT5)
Provider Training
** FREE **
for all Maryland counselors, social workers, and psychologists!
Motivational Enhancement Therapy/Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 5 (MET/CBT5) is an evidence-based intervention developed to help behavioral health providers conduct a brief five-session treatment intervention for adolescents engaged in cannabis misuse.

MET/CBT5 combines two sessions of motivational enhancement therapy provided individually and three sessions of cognitive behavioral therapy provided in a group format.

• MET sessions focus on factors that motivate clients to change.
• CBT sessions help clients learn skills to cope with problems and meet their needs in ways that do not involve turning to marijuana or alcohol.

Up to 4 Category A/I continuing education credit hours provided for eligible counselors, social workers, and psychologists. Length of training varies.

Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA)
Provider Training
Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA) is an evidence-based behavioral intervention that seeks to reduce environmental factors that promote substance use and build resilience with pro-social behaviors. Clinicians assume a flexible approach to reduce adolescent substance use by choosing from a menu of 19 different A-CRA procedures that address areas such as problem-solving skills, communication skills, and relapse prevention.    

A-CRA Provider Training is a two-day event (12-17 total hours) 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 (click "Learn More" below for more information).

Up to 11 Category A/I continuing education credit hours provided for eligible counselors, substance use counselors, social workers, and psychologists. Length of training varies. 
** FREE **
for all Maryland counselors, social workers, and psychologists!
PARENT & CAREGIVER SUPPORT
** FREE **
for all Maryland parents and caregivers!
Parent CRAFT is a 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. Focus areas include effective communication, positive reinforcement, natural consequences, strategies to support youth accepting treatment. The Parent CRAFT course consists of five sections, with each section building on previous skills learned. The video portion of each section is less than one hour. Parents are encouraged to complete the sections over a period of several weeks and practice the skills before moving on to a new section.

Free print materials aimed at family engagement can be requested for display by providers/schools and distribution to families. **While supplies last

The Parent CRAFT registration QR code and a variety of images are available upon request for displaying on provider websites, social media, and flyers.

This resource is available to all Maryland parents and caregivers for FREE (a $200 value) through Maryland FYI.


Parent CRAFT
Self-Paced Online Course for Parents and Caregivers
For more information on substance use prevention and intervention
training and family support opportunities available through the NCSMH, please contact:
Melissa Ambrose, LCSW-C
Training Director, Maryland FYI for Substance Use
National Center for School Mental Health
mambrose@som.umaryland.edu
National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH)
University of Maryland School of Medicine 
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 
737 W. Lombard Street, 4th Floor 
Baltimore, MD 21201

www.schoolmentalhealth.org