Working With Youth: Evidence-based Programs & Supports - May 21-22, 2015 - San Diego, CA, USA

Prevention, Management & Treatment of Adolescent Delinquency, Substance Use & Criminal Conduct

When: May 21-22, 2015

Where: San Diego, CA, USA

** Bring your team and take advantage of group rates

Promoting alternative recreational activities, improving self-efficacy, building social competence and providing broadening cultural experiences are the most effective strategies for delinquency and drug abuse prevention. What has been most difficult to achieve is the translation of these factors into viable strategies that communities can actually implement.

PROGRAM DETAILS

Cognitive restructuring and coping skills training can be effectively taught to adolescents in various settings including correctional or community-based settings providing that the material is presented in an interactive and multi-sensory format, drawing on themes that have both immediate and long-term importance to the target population. Counseling strategies are specifically designed to engage youth as architects of their own plans for pro-social change.

This seminar envisions a juvenile justice system that focuses on positive youth development. Significant reductions in juvenile crime, substance abuse and emotional distress can be achieved through an integrated system-wide focus on prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and restoration.

Moving beyond simple risk-avoidance, guidelines are presented for empowering a network of evidence-based, cost effective, and strategically situated community programs across a continuum of prevention, intervention and treatment services. Special attention is devoted to the facility-to-community transition process for youth in out of home placements.

Using an interactive hands on approach, this workshop is taught by eminent psychologist and author Dr. Harvey Milkman, working with innovative youth education specialist, Tasha Milkman, M.Ed.  The program teaches evidence-based strategies for interfacing with teenagers and the essential components of an effective treatment program for working with youth.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Participants Will Learn;

• Adolescent development and pathways to juvenile crime and drug abuse
• Fundamental principles of cognitive-behavioral treatment for juvenile justice clients 
• Comprehensive guidelines for treating female juvenile justice clients
• Relationships between adolescent brain development, substance abuse and criminal conduct
• How to address trauma and mental health issues in the context of juvenile justice treatment
• Methodology for engaging clients in developing their individualized plan for change
• Strategies for addressing gang affiliations
• Techniques for developing a support network upon community re-entry

Participants also each receive - 2 sought after industry publications;

• Criminal Conduct and Substance Abuse Treatment for Adolescents: Pathways to Self-Discovery and Change - Provider’s Guide (2nd Edition) by H. Milkman and K. Wanberg, Sage Publications, Inc., 2012 (retail value $76.28)
  
  
• Criminal Conduct and Substance Abuse Treatment for Adolescents: Pathways to Self-Discovery and Change - Participant’s Workbook (2nd Edition) by H. Milkman and K. Wanberg, Sage Publications, Inc., 2012 (retail value $39.00)

AT-A-GLANCE

Section I. Theoretical and Research Perspectives

This section describes the theoretical foundations and research evidence for development and implementation of adolescent-focused treatment programming. Included are discussions of risk and resiliency factors that mediate problem behaviors; mental health factors associated with deviant activity; bio/psycho/social underpinnings of substance abuse and crime; the action of AOD on the developing adolescent brain; factors that predict adolescent-limited and life-course-persistent patterns of criminal involvement; gender differences and treatment implications for juvenile justice clients; treatment enhancement through cultural mindfulness; perspectives on assessing risk and resiliency for screening; in-depth treatment planning; and outcome assessment.

1. Adolescent Development and Pathways to Problem Behavior

2. Causes, Correlates, and Consequences of Teenage Substance Abuse

3. Mental Disorder within the Juvenile Justice Population

4. Substance Abuse and the Adolescent Brain

5. Juvenile Crime and Violence

6. Addressing Gang Culture in a Treatment Context

7. Female-Focused Treatment in the Juvenile Justice System

8. Youth Culture and Diversity

Section II. Foundational Treatment Models: Evidence-Based Approaches

This section explains the basic principles of cognitive-behavioral treatment, including the primary focal points of cognitive restructuring and social skills training. The integration of therapeutic and didactic approaches, as well as the synthesis of correctional and therapeutic strategies, results in improved relapse and recidivism prevention outcomes. Visual schemas, used throughout the program, are introduced to clarify how thinking and behavior are related to learning and change. A visual blueprint of the sequential model for relapse and recidivism prevention is provided. Section II shows how generic CBT principles are applied for juvenile justice clients and how these basic approaches are adapted for individual, family, and residential treatment applications.

1. Treatment Systems, Modalities, and Models of Care

2. The Cognitive-Behavioral Model and Core Treatment Strategies for Adolescents

3. Community Reintegration: Reinforcing Change through Continuing Care

Section III. The Treatment Curriculum

Implementation and operational procedures for delivery of an adolescent focused, cognitive-behavioral, group treatment curriculum are provided. This section presents detailed guidelines for how to introduce cognitive-behavioral treatment in an atmosphere of safety, trust, and rapport within adolescent settings. The theoretical and research basis for sequential treatment phases are presented as clients move through Challenge to Change; Commitment to Change; and Ownership of Change. Hands-on counseling skills building exercises are the primary focus of this core training segment.

Expanding Your Toolbox

Creative methods for engaging youth are explored. Resources are provided you can take back for immediate use.

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Practitioners, program managers, staff, supervisors and managers of teams who work with clients and other stakeholders at substance abuse and co-occurring disorder treatment and prevention programs should plan to attend.  They will benefit tremendously. 

KEY REASONS YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES SHOULD ATTEND A JOYFIELDS INSTITUTE PROGRAM

Join others and learn to quickly get your program initiatives on a solid EB foundation

• Learn in a focused setting without the distractions of being sold to
• Network with colleagues to share invaluable ideas and experiences from different parts
• Meet other professionals and learn how they overcame implementation challenges they faced
• Leave at the end of the program with action steps to begin addressing challenges you face
• Learn first hand the best and latest resources for addressing needs and how to apply them
• Learn from experts and outstanding practitioners “what works” and what not to do
• Through discussion groups and trouble shooting exercises you will learn to embrace opportunities ahead

“I liked that the information was tactical, action-oriented, and given from the perspective of organizational development. I liked that we were provided with specific tools (questionnaires and assessments) to utilize with our agencies. I am in strong agreement that we need to focus on internal processes and on staff outcomes as part of an evidence-based approach and I think it's great that the workshop highlighted this throughout “

 CERTIFICATE & CONTINUING EDUCATION TRAINING HOURS

Approved for 13 CE training hours

Joyfields Institute CE: Upon completion of the course, participants will receive a certificate as evidence of your accomplishment and status as a practitioner who has acquired specific new skills.   Many licensing/certification bodies accept this designation.  Please check with your licensing body.

Licensed Alcohol & Drug Counselors: Joyfields Institute is an approved education provider by National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC)/National Certification Commission (NCC) Provider #745.  Many licensing/certification bodies accept this designation.  Please check with your licensing body.

Substance Abuse Counselors: Joyfields Institute is an approved education provider by National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC)/National Certification Commission (NCC) Provider #745.  Many licensing/certification bodies accept this designation.  Please check with your licensing body.

California LMFT, LEP, LCSW, LPCC: Joyfields Institute courses meet the qualifications for CE credits in CA as required by CA BBS. Joyfields Institute is an approved education provider by CA BBS, license number PCE 5522.

Professional Counselors: Joyfields Institute is an approved education provider by the National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC)/National Certification Commission (NCC) Provider #745.  Many licensing/certification bodies accept this designation.

California State Standards & Training for Corrections: Joyfields Institute is a approved California State Standards and Training for Corrections (STC) education provider.

Please check with your licensing body.  For assistance, call +1(770)409-8780. 

• Harvey Milkman Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychology, Metropolitan State University of Denver

• Tasha Milkman, M.S.Ed, Philadelphia School

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* Program content and faculty subject to change without notice