Teen-Intervene Training

Help your staff maintain program fidelity and optimize your clients experience and your outcomes with this research-based Teen-Intervene program. Training is scheduled regionally on an as-needed basis, or can be scheduled and customized to fit the needs of your major program installation.

Who should attend

• Substance abuse counselors
• Case managers
• Psychologists
• Vocational counselors
• Teachers
• Social workers
• Family therapists
• Faith-based program counselors

Participants will be able to

• identify the developmental considerations when motivating youth to change their health behaviors
• understand the role of brief intervention in the treatment continuum for adolescents suspected of drug abuse
• identify how stages of change theory can be implemented into a treatment regimen
• discuss the basic tools of a brief intervention tailored for application with drug-abusing adolescents

Length of training

• 1 day, 8:00 - 4:30

Contact us

If you have any questions about any of our implementation training programs please email us, or call 800-328-9000, ext. 4672.   

Agenda

  8:30  Welcome and Introductions
  9:00  Developmental considerations when treating drug-abusing adolescents
10:30  Break
12:15  Lunch
  1:15  Elements of a 3-session brief intervention model
  2:30  Break
  2:45  Elements of a 3-session brief intervention model
  4:00  Closing and evaluation

Contracted trainings for Teen-Intervene are available.