PD: Substance Use Prevention: What Every School Counselor Needs to Know

When: Nov 17, 2022 05:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Substance Use Prevention: What Every School Counselor Needs to Know

Register in advance for this webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kLOrAYPuTjGEKU81lvsOOQPresenter:  Chloe Lancaster, Ph.D. Associate Professor of School Counseling

Title: Substance Use Prevention: What Every School Counselor Needs to Know

Presenter Bio: Chloe Lancaster, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in Counselor Education and a former middle school special education teacher and elementary school counselor. She teaches graduate courses in substance abuse counseling to school counselors in training, co-chairs the Shelby County Health Department's Data Integration Taskforce for Opioids, and provides consultation to substance use prevention coalitions.

Session Synopsis:

Adolescent substance use has markedly increased since the COVID pandemic, as has the lethality of street-manufactured drugs. The intersection of these disturbing trends has resulted in an unprecedented number of overdose fatalities involving youth and underscores the need for more compelling school-based substance use prevention programming. This presentation will arm school counselors with the information, strategies, and resources to implement up-to-date, evidence-based substance use prevention and identify free evidence-based resources to strengthen school counselors' current prevention efforts.

Session Objectives:

• Outline current substance use trends and terminology
  
• Identify factors that have contributed to a spike in adolescent overdose fatalities
  
• Discuss the effect of addiction on the teenage brain
  
• Identify the types and modalities of substance use prevention
  
• Identify free resources for assisting school counselors with evidence-based programming.
  
• Locate national and state databases for accessing accurate information about local use issues.