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Maryland Family and Youth Interventions
for Substance Use (Maryland FYI)
FREE PROVIDER TRAINING
& FAMILY SUPPORT OPPORTUNITIES
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
** FREE **
for all mental and behavioral health providers serving Maryland youth!
Jordan Peer Recovery's ASK Model training course focuses on the process of delivering culturally responsive behavioral health services to youth and families.  The ASK Model is introduced through a series of activities where participants are asked to look internally at their own biases in order to increase cultural responsiveness in service delivery.  The ASK Model can be utilized to build awareness, skills and knowledge to facilitate culturally responsive one-on-one and group sessions. This course focuses on person-centered interventions when working with youth and families, including motivational interviewing, active listening and setting SMART goals. The ASK Model incorporates the 8 systems of influence, 5 stages of learning, 3 learning styles and 2 types of instruction to deliver a culturally responsive workforce.
This self-paced online course explores the process of building cultural responsiveness and delivering culturally responsive behavioral health services to youth, young adults, and families.  Course completion time varies; approximately 4 hours.
SELF-PACED OPTIONS:
Continuing Education credits provided for eligible peer recovery specialists. 
ASK Model for Youth, Teens, & Families 
This 1.5-hour self-paced online course features a recording of a live training focusing on a selection of foundational ASK Model techniques to build cultural responsiveness and aid in delivering culturally responsive behavioral health services with adults and families.  
Foundations of ASK for Adults & Families (RECORDED)
1.5 Category B/II Continuing Education credits provided for eligible
counselors, social workers, and psychologists. 
LIVE TRAINING OPTIONS:
This live interactive online training teaches foundational ASK Model techniques to build cultural responsiveness and aid in culturally responsive mental and behavioral health services with adults and families. 

Foundations of ASK for Adults & Families (LIVE)
Up to 2 Category A/I CE credits provided for eligible counselors, social workers, and psychologists. 
Jordan Peer Recovery's ASK Model for Cultural Responsiveness
Self-Paced Online Course for Behavioral Health Workers
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.
Kognito Screening & Brief Intervention (SBI)
Online Training Simulation
Kognito SBI Online Training Simulation is a unique self-paced learning experience that uses avatars to teach and reinforce SBI skills. Participants practice SBI skills in engaging simulated interactions with an adolescent. Each training component can be revisited and practiced as often as desired. 
** FREE **
for all Maryland counselors, social workers, psychologists, and nurses!
SBI with Adolescents: Comorbid Substance Use and Mental Health is a conversation simulation designed to prepare behavioral health professionals to identify and support adolescents at risk for multiple behavioral health issues, including substance use, depression, and suicidal ideation. 
SBI with Adolescents is a conversation simulation designed to prepare behavioral health providers to screen adolescents for substance use, conduct brief interventions, and, when necessary, refer to further support. This simulation helps practitioners learn techniques to screen patients and conduct brief interventions to drive positive change in health behaviors.

TWO TRAINING OPTIONS:
Screening, Brief Intervention, & Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)
Provider Training
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).            

Up to 4.5 Category A/I continuing education credit hours provided for eligible counselors, social workers, and psychologists.  Length of training varies.
** FREE **
for all Maryland counselors, social workers, psychologists, and nurses!
SBIRT in Schools is an equivalent training to our workshop for adolescent providers, with a focus on the use of SBIRT with students and the unique needs of school-based providers.
SBIRT with Adolescents teaches participants how to apply SBIRT in a variety of general adolescent-serving roles.  We do also offer an equivalent SBIRT for Schools Training which focuses on SBIRT use with students.

TWO TRAINING OPTIONS:
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!
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 3.5 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.    

Continuing education credits provided for eligible counselors, social workers, and psychologists.  Length of training varies.
** FREE **
for all Maryland counselors, social workers, and psychologists!
Intensive A-CRA 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 10 Category A/I CE hours; length of training varies.
Introduction to A-CRA is an overview (6-8 hours) that provides exposure to A-CRA philosophy and select procedures, featuring case examples, vignettes, and video demonstrations.  Corresponding procedure forms and one (1) complimentary manual is included.

Up to 5 Category A/I CE hours; length of training varies.
TWO TRAINING OPTIONS:
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
** FREE **
for organizations serving youth and their caregivers!
The Strengthening Families Program (SFP) is a group-based parenting and youth skills program that aims to promote good parenting skills and positive family relationships, reduce child and adolescent aggression and hostility, and prevent adolescent initiation of substance use. The program can be offered by any youth-serving organization that has the ability to work directly with parents and youth. The Strengthening Families Program is suitable for all youth ages 7-17 years as well as for youth who may be at higher risk of developing a substance misuse disorder (e.g., those already receiving services for substance misuse). 

While there is some flexibility in how the program gets delivered to families, the program works best when 5-6 families participate together and when each weekly session involves parents-only, teens-only, and whole family together segments. SFP is provided to families by staff members of participating organizations (professionals or skilled paraprofessionals) who receive three days of training (16 hours total) as Family Coaches and ongoing implementation support. 
Strengthening Families Program (SFP)
Group-Based Parenting and Youth Skills Program
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