By Benjamin Chambers, January 20 2011
Want free training and certification for your juvenile drug court in techniques designed to enhance treatment engagement and provide effective intervention?
Thanks to the National Drug Court Institute (NDCI), along with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) and the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), you're eligible to get it if you have a juvenile drug court funded by OJJDP.
No OJJDP funding for your juvenile drug court? Don't despair - the announcement says "other juvenile drug courts" are also eligible.
The goal of the training is to help local courts "implement Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (BIRT) combined with Motivational Enhancement Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (MET/CBT 5)." Once you're trained up, your drug court could provide teens with an evidence-based five-session treatment, made up of two one-on-one MET sessions, and then three, weekly group CBT sessions. (And yes, research indicates such a brief course treatment can be highly effective.)
Training topics include, but are not limited to:
- Overview of addiction treatment for youth
- Epidemiology of co-occurring disorders
- Prevalence rates for youth
- Social psychology of addictions
- Developmental psychology
- Review the theory and rationale for MET and CBT strategies
- Specific session procedures for MET and CBT
- certification procedures
The Kicker
Want the training? You have to agree to get certified. Email Austine Long for more information, or contact Austine via phone at 1-877-507-3229 ext. 30.
(Hat tip to Christa Myers for alerting me to this training.)
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Updated: January 20 2011