By Michael L. Denn..., April 07 2010
Interested in juvenile justice and adolescent substance abuse treatment?
Then you don't want to miss the nation's only conference devoted exclusively to adolescent substance abuse treatment -- the Joint Meeting on Adolescent Treatment Effectiveness (JMATE). It will be held in Baltimore this year, December 14- 16, 2010. You can learn more at the new conference web site, which you'll want to bookmark: www.jmate.org/jmate2010. Registration will open on June 1, 2010. A call for abstracts will be open from April 1–June 4, 2010. [May 25, 2010 UPDATE: According to the JMATE web site, the deadline to submit proposal abstracts for presentations has been extended to July 1, 2010. - Ed.]
The 2010 JMATE offers a unique opportunity for practice, research, and recovery communities to exchange ideas and data, thereby moving the field of adolescent substance abuse treatment toward effective, evidence-based, and promising practices. As a premiere meeting, JMATE provides high-caliber content and speakers.
Tracks will include:
- Juvenile Justice
- Treatment System Frameworks
- Family/Youth
- Evidence-Based Practice
- Integrated Services and Recovery
- Special Issue Topics
Who should attend?
- Project directors and clinical supervisors, and/or clinicians - especially those involved in delivering services under Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) grants or other federally-funded grants (this may qualify towards annual meeting requirements)
- Federal, state, local and private foundation policy makers
- Youth, families and other members of the recovery community
- Adolescent treatment researchers, evaluators, and data managers
This year's sponsors include Reclaiming Futures and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), as well as the Association of Recovery Schools, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), Department of Education (ED), National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), and Society for Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Effectiveness (SASATE).
If you have other questions regarding JMATE, please email JMATE-info@jbsinternational.com.
Michael L. Dennis, Ph.D., submitted this post on behalf of the 2010 JMATE Planning Committee. He is Senior Research Psychologist & Director Of The Global Appraisal Of Individual Needs (Gain) Coordinating Center, Normal, IL.
Updated: February 08 2018