Building the Bridge: Effective screening, brief intervention, and referral to services and support for young people faced with substance use or mental health challenges

Registration Deadline 9/26/24

LOCATION: Windjammer/Best Western 1076 Williston Rd, South Burlington, VT 05403

TRAINER:

Mitchell Barron, LICSW LADC

Trained as a clinical social worker and addiction treatment provider, Mitch Barron is a Principal with Centerpoint Consultation, Training, Technical Assistance (CTTA), with a focus on systems and practice improvement and advisory roles within child protection services and the judiciary. Mitch is also a Director with Principles to Practice, L3C, which includes supervision, leadership coaching, and clinical practice. Mitch is Co-Lead with the Vermont Treatment Enhancement Program (VTEP), having previously been a Principal with the federally-funded Youth Treatment Enhancement Program. For 26 years, Mitch served as the Director of Centerpoint ATS, Vermont’s largest provider of integrated treatment for adolescents and families. In this role, he was responsible for insuring the highest-quality services and support to meet the mental health, substance abuse, and special education needs of Vermont teens, young adults, and their families. Mitch has served as National Treatment Faculty with Reclaiming Futures, a public health and juvenile justice reform organization based at Portland State University, Oregon. Mitch has provided tenured leadership with the Vermont Alcohol and Drug Abuse Council and the Vermont Association of Addiction Treatment Providers and has fulfilled Board leadership roles with regional youth development, health promotion, and substance abuse prevention coalitions. Through his career, Mitch has been a practicing clinician, clinical supervisor, program director, educator, and administrator. He teaches, trains, and consults regionally and nationally on a variety of topics related to adolescent and family mental health, addiction, resiliency, and well-being.

DESCRIPTION:

Screening, Brief-Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) programming continues to blend and braid some of the most promising practices of integrated healthcare, public health modeling, and full-range of PITRE (Prevention, Intervention, Treatment, Recovery, Enforcement) frames in efforts to address the hazards and reduce the harms of substance
use. As with all youth and family-focused services, developmentally matched
considerations are essential to ensure that models and frames typically designed for the ‘general public’ are adapted and applied for the novel needs of young people and their caregivers.
Both introductory and intensive (review and application) and building upon four decades of foundational developments within SBIRT programming, this training identifies principles and practices that allow the most effective ‘client-centering’ service, across the contexts with which young people are most often engaged. This training is designed to be dynamic, participatory, curious, creative, and FUN (as should be our work with the young people we serve!). All are welcome for Building the Bridge: Effective screening, brief intervention, and referral to services and support for young people faced with substance use or mental health challenges.

AGENDA:

There will be (2) 15 minute breaks, scheduled for 10:45 and 3:00, and a 1 hour lunch break scheduled for noon.

9:00 

Gather, Welcome, Introductions, 

Orientation and Grounding: Why this? Why now?

Building the Bridge and Readiness for Change: Developmentally-Matched Care

The work and the job(s)…

9:30

Essential Elements of SBIRT Modeling: Principles and Practices

Standard Care vs. Adolescent Care: Where do we start?

10:00

Screening: What is it good for?

Universal (Public Health Screening) or/and Client-Centered Care (Situational Screening)

Methods and Modes of Screening: Validity, Reliability, Relevance (CRAFFT 2.1, MAYSI-2,

and the briefest of screeners)

Service to Science: Models and Apps (Project Checkpoint, Check Yourself, and

participant engagement)

Inclusivity, Adaptation, Accommodation, Sociocultural Context, and Intersectional Identities 

11:00

Brief Intervention: What is it good for?

Principles and Practices – the ‘Spirit’ of Motivational Interviewing, matched to the

adolescent mind, body, and ‘spirit’

Building the bridge: Core Principles of Effective Adolescent Engagement

Samples, Examples, Rehearsal, and Role Play

1:00

Regroup, Reground, Review

1:15

Brief Intervention across contexts

Hazards and Harms

2:00

Referral to Services and Supports: What is it good for?

Building the bridge: Core Principles of Effective Adolescent Treatment

The ‘real’ warm hand-off: what are we hoping to achieve?

Setting the Stage for Success

What does a young person seek, prefer, and require?

What do parents/caregivers seek, prefer, and require?

What do providers and programs seek, prefer, and require?

3:15

Opportunities and Obligations

What happens when, what happens if… anticipating the obstacles in all forms

Ancillary/Adjacent Skills and Strategies

What matters most? And what did we miss?

Ideas into Action

4:30

Appreciations and Conclusions

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. Review key components of standard and dynamic SBIRT programming, with a focus toward
   adolescent and family adaptation and application.
2. Review and rehearse developmentally, socially, and culturally-matched models of screening,
   brief intervention, and enhanced referral and engagement.
3. Explore Core Principles of Effective Adolescent Treatment© as relevant for SBIRT modeling.
4. Consider the differentiated cultural, racial, and intersectional needs and opportunities with
   diverse youth populations, particularly for those marginalized in our communities and systems
   of care.