Note: Once the live event has passed, please allow two weeks for the recording and slide presentations to be posted.

Target Audience: This activity is designed for counselors, social workers, students and family. This activity is accredited for social workers.

Webinar Description: The webinar is intended to explore practical strategies for preventing opioid, stimulant, and other substance use disorders among children and youth affected by addiction in their families and communities. Participants will learn how early exposure to substance use, chronic stress, and community conditions can increase vulnerability over time—and how protective factors like connection, stability, belonging, and healthy coping skills can reduce risk. The session highlights what families, schools, and community helpers can do early to support resilience and interrupt cycles of addiction before they take hold.

Educational Objectives:

• Participants will be able to name key factors that increase risk for substance use disorders in children and youth (including early exposure, stress, trauma, and community conditions).
• Participants will be able to identify protective factors that help children and youth build resilience, including strong relationships, stability, coping skills, and supportive environments.
• Participants will be able to apply practical strategies to support prevention in everyday settings—at home, in schools, and in the community—so children and youth receive support early.

Accreditation:

This educational program is approved by NAADAC (Approval #189), (NBCC ACEP No. 5703), ADACBGA (Approval #2021-06-0006), CCB-approved, CADTP (Approval #174), CCAPP #OS-07-100-0826, CACCF # S220501, CAMFT Provider # 1000103, NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0720, accredited by the American Probation & Parole Association and accepted by OASAS. NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals, #1754, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 01/12/2025 – 01/12/2028. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 general continuing education credits continuing education credits. IBC approved for 1.5 hrs. in Alcohol & Drug Specific.