Resources

  • Becoming our Young People’s Case Managers: Caregivers’ Experiences, Needs, and Ideas for Improving Opioid Use Treatments for Young People Using Opioids
  • Family-based Treatments for Adolescent Substance Use
  • Helping a Loved One Dealing with Mental and/or Substance Use Disorders
  • POWERPOINT SLIDES - Working with Families Impacted by Substance Use
  • Prevention Works. Treatment is Effective. People Can and Do Recover.
  • Select Resources for Families Dealing with Active Substance Use
  • Supporting a Loved One Dealing with Mental and/or Substance Use Disorders: Starting the Conversation
  • Worried About your Child’s Exposure to Drugs and Alcohol?
  • 2-1-1 Maine
  • A Handbook for Youth by youth in Foster Care by Youth Leadership Advisory Team (YLAT)
  • Access Maine - A Path to Resources and Supports for Families in Maine
  • Addressing Social Determinants of Health: Examples of Successful Evidence-Based Strategies and Current Federal Efforts
  • Eyes Open For Me
  • FindTreatment.gov
  • Good to Know - Marijuana in Maine
  • Guide to Mainecare Katie Beckett Application Process
  • Healthy People 2030 - Social Determinants of Health
  • High School and Beyond, A Guide to Transition Services in Maine
  • Maine Access Points
  • Maine Access Points
  • Maine Behavioral Healthcare - Youth Peer Support Statewide Network (YPSSN) Redefining Youth and Young Adult Mental Health Services in Maine
  • Maine Behavioral Healthcare: Youth Peer Support Statewide Network (YPSSN) Redefining Youth and Young Adult Mental Health Services in Maine
  • Maine Care Assistance
  • Maine Regional Care Teams
  • McKinney-Vento Education in Maine
  • My Maine Connection
  • My Maine Connection
  • Naloxone in Maine Saves Lives
  • National Council for Mental Wellbeing - YSBIRT
  • Non-Emergency Transportation - Department of Health and Human Services
  • Non-Emergency Transportation - State of Maine Department of Health and Human Services
  • Options Save Lives - There are Multiple Pathways
  • Options Save Lives - There are multiple Pathways
  • POWERPOINT SLIDES - Social Considerations
  • Review of Evidence for Health-Related Social Needs Interventions
  • Screening Children for Social Determinants of Health: A Systematic Review
  • Screening Tools - Boston Medical Center - Thrive Screening Tool
  • Screening Tools - The Health Leads Screening Toolkit
  • Search and connect to support. Financial assistance, food pantries, medical care, and other free or reduced-cost help starts here:
  • Social Determinants of Health
  • World Health Organization - Social Determinants of Health
  • Youth by youth in Foster Care by Youth Leadership Advisory Team (YLAT)
  • Developing Harm Reduction in the Context of Youth Substance Use
  • First Responders can Safely Administer Naloxone During the Covid-19 Pandemic
  • Harm Reduction- Naloxone via mail and more
  • National Community-based Naloxone Finder
  • National Harm Reduction Coalition
  • Principles of Harm Reduction for Young People Who Used Drugs
  • SSP Locations: NASEN Directory
  • Syringe Service Program Laws
  • A Community-Based Systems Learning Approach to Understanding Youth Violence in Boston - PubMed (nih.gov)
  • Adolescent Health Highlight – Positive Mental Health: Resilience
  • Adolescent Health Highlight – Positive Mental Health: Resilience
  • Blum Center Program: Fostering and Preventing Depression, Stress, and Suicide in Youth
  • Botvin Life Skills Training Program
  • Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Wings: Ginsburg MD MSEd FAAP, Kenneth R.: 8601404927379: Amazon.com: Books
  • CDC Promising Practices: The Aban Aya Youth Project (AAYP)
  • Center for Parent and Teen Communication
  • Developing Norms for the California Resilience Youth Development Module: Internal Assets and School Resources Subscales
  • Familias Unidas™ – Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development (blueprintsprograms.org)
  • Fathers and Sons - Prevention Research Collaborative – UM SPH (umich.edu)
  • Maine Resilience Building Network
  • Multidimensional Family Prevention for At-Risk Adolescents
  • Positive Youth Development | The Administration for Children and Families (hhs.gov)
  • Positive Youth Development | Youth.gov
  • Preparing for the Drug Free Years
  • Program Structure - Botvin LifeSkills TrainingBotvin LifeSkills Training
  • QUT Resourceful Adolescent Program - Resourceful Adolescent Program
  • RULER - Evidence Based Approach to social and emotional learning (SEL) developed at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence
  • Resilience Helps to Prevent Youth Substance Use
  • Resilience and Youth Development Module – Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness (harvard.edu)
  • Resilience for Teens: 10 Tips to Build Skills on Bouncing Back from Rough Times
  • Strengthening Families Program by Karol Kumpfer
  • Suicide, Overdose, and Adverse Childhood Experiences Prevention Capacity Assessment Tool (SPACECAT) (astho.org)
  • Welcome - Strengthening Families Program
  • What is YES? - YES: Youth Empowerment Solutions (umich.edu)
  • What is a planning model? An introduction to PRECEDE‐PROCEED - Crosby - 2011 - Journal of Public Health Dentistry - Wiley Online Library
  • ASAM eLearning - SUD
  • Educating & Supporting Inquisitive Youth in Recovery (ESQYIR)
  • Online/Digital Recovery Support Resources
  • Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs)
  • SAMHSA “Talk. They Hear You” App
  • SMART Recovery Family & Friends
  • Technology-Assisted Care for Substance Use Disorders
  • Technology-based Interventions for Preventing and Treating Substance Use Among Youth
  • Using Science to Inform the Development, Evaluation, and Implementation of Novel Digital Health Tolls for Substance Use, Mental Health and Other Health Conditions
  • Worried About Your Child’s Exposure to Drugs and Alcohol? Parent CRAFT Can Help.
  • Clinical Research Article: Self-reported PTSD is Associated With Increased Use of MDMA in Adolescents With Substance Use Disorders
  • Inhalants Drug Facts
  • Inhalants Drug Facts
  • Inhalants: What You Need to Know
  • Prediction of Alcohol Withdrawal Severity Scale
  • Understanding Adolescent Inhalant Use
  • Other Drugs
  • Polysubstance Use Facts
  • Using Alcohol and Marijuana Together Exacerbates Negative Consequences in Young Adults
  • Using Alcohol and Marijuana Together Exacerbates Negatives Consequences in Young Adults
  • Depressants Fact Sheet
  • Prescription CNS Depressants Drug Facts
  • Prescription Stimulant Misuse and Preventing Among Youth and Young Adults
  • Stimulants Fact Sheet
  • Adolescent Drug Testing Policies in Schools
  • Integrating Behavioral Health Into a School Based Health Center
  • Integrating Substance Use Treatment Into Adolescent Health Care
  • Recovery High Schools: Effects of Schools Supporting Recovery from Substance Use Disorders
  • Role of the School Nurse in Providing School Health Services
  • Slides - Supporting Youth in or Seeking Recovery
  • Tobacco-Free School District
  • Adolescent Drug Testing Policies in Schools
  • Caring for Patients During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Adjusting Drug Testing Protocols
  • Public Policy Statement On Drug Testing as a Component of Addiction Treatment and Monitoring Programs and in other Clinical Settings
  • Toxicology Screening
  • ADOLESCENT SBIRT Toolkit for Providers
  • Health Education & Training Institute
  • POWERPOINT SLIDES - Referral to Treatment
  • Substance Use Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment
  • 21st Century Cures Act - Adolescent Confidentiality
  • A Pediatrician’s Guide to an LGBTQ+ Friendly Practice
  • AMA Code of Medical Ethics
  • Addiction Nursing Competencies: A comprehensive Toolkit for the Addictions Nurse
  • Building Health Equity and Inclusion
  • Case Study Notes - Case 7: Andrew MacLean Facilitator
  • Characteristics of Medicaid-Enrolled Adolescents with Unhealthy Opioid or Other Substance Use
  • Confidentiality Protections in Billing for Adolescent Health Care
  • Focus PHI
  • Investing in Adolescent and Young Adult Health Booklet
  • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+): SAMHSA Programs and Initiatives
  • Minors' Rights - A Guide to Confidential Health Care in Maine
  • POWERPOINT SLIDES - Addressing Barriers to Adolescents Seeking Treatment
  • POWERPOINT SLIDES - Confidentiality for Adolescents Seeking SUD
  • POWERPOINT SLIDES - Working With Youth Who Use Substances
  • Pronouns Matter
  • Protecting Confidentiality under Health Care Reform
  • SUD Prevention, Treatment Financing to Enhance Equity and Improve Outcomes
  • Stigma Free Me
  • Substance Use and SUDs in LGBTQ* Populations
  • Why Interventions to Influence Adolescent Behavior Often Fail but Could Succeed
  • Words Matter: Preferred Language for Talking About Addiction
  • Words Matter: Preferred Language for Talking About Addiction