Title: Using Mindfulness To Support Adolescents and Young Adults: An Introduction for Providers

Announcing a FREE live webinar to discuss how to support adolescents and young adults who struggle with substance use and related mental health challenges! This webinar will include actionable, pragmatic, and concrete ways to assess, engage, and teach capacity-building self-regulation skills such as mindfulness to support adolescents and young adults with substance use disorders and related struggles (i.e., trauma, family conflict, impulsiveness, violence, etc.).

Date & Time: Tuesday, 09/13/2022 @ 12PM PST for 60 minutes!

If you’re a substance abuse counselor, social worker, psychologist, therapist, educator, case manager, mentor, or really any type of professional who works directly with substance-use impacted youth, this webinar is for you.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe at least one aspect of SUD screening/assessment
• Review a conceptual for mindfulness as an intervention for substance-use disorders
• Define mindfulness in concrete, applicable way
• Present pragmatic steps to teach formal mindfulness meditation and necessary adaptations for youth and addiction-impacted populations

Other notes:

• This webinar will be one hour long!
• This webinar will take place during the PST time zone!
• There will be a replay of this webinar sent out!
• You will be emailed instructions for CE and a certificate!