Mentoring Youth Impacted by Opioids
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The effects of the opioid epidemic have been devastating to communities across the country. This webinar addresses considerations for mentoring programs serving youth and families impacted by opioid and substance misuse.
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Benji Thurber, Communications Director, MENTOR Vermont
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Chris Hultquist, Executive Director, The Mentor Connector
Elizabeth Joy, Consultant/Coach/Author, Survivors to Alivers
Gabriela Zapata-Alma, Director of Policy and Practice for Domestic Violence and Substance Use, National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health
Presenters will discuss the effects of the opioid epidemic on communities from a trauma informed lens and the role of mentoring, provide a clinical overview of supporting youth who have or are at risk of developing a substance use disorder including discussion of risk and protective factors, and share hands-on mentoring strategies and insights that mentoring practitioners can utilize to better support youth mentees in their programs who are impacted by opioids.
The Collaborative Mentoring Webinar Series is funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and facilitated in partnership with MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership.
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- Resource Publication Date: 2019
- Organizational Author(s): MENTOR & OJJDP
- Posted by: Youth Connections TA 1
- Posted in: Youth Connections