Description
This training is designed to build a knowledge base for youth providers regarding the challenges associated with stimulants and implications for youth populations. The training covers essential research-based information on the pharmacology of stimulants, including the epidemiology of trends, short and long-term developmental effects on youth physiology and behaviors, and best practices for treating stimulant use disorders. The training will assist providers in applying the knowledge gained to refine the ways educational strategies are implemented in service settings to gain buy-in and inspire behavior change among youth populations who have issues with stimulants.

Learning Objectives

1. Describe epidemiological trends of stimulant use among youth populations recognizing concerning indicators of severity.
2. Differentiate four (4) of the short- and long-term risks associated with stimulant use among youth populations.
3. Demonstrate two (2) evidence based therapeutic practices to address stimulant issues among youth in service settings.
4. Identify two (2) local level resources available for addressing stimulant use issues among youth populations.

Intended Audience

Healthcare professionals and treatment providers working with youth substance use populations, including:

• Licensed Psychologists and Registered Psychological Associates

• Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors

• Licensed Vocational Nurses

• Licensed Psychiatric Technicians

• Registered Nurses

• Nurse Practitioners

• Registered and Certified SUD Counselors

• Associate/clinical trainees/interns/students working under the supervision of licensed clinicians.

Instructor
Rachel Gonzales-Castaneda, PhD, MPH & Richard Rawson, PhD

Dr. Rachel Gonzales-Castaneda is a Professor of Psychology at Azusa Pacific University, where she helps lead the university’s Drug and Alcohol Counseling certificate program and Peer Support Specialist training initiatives. She also serves as an Associate Researcher, Step II, at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Integrated Substance Use and Addiction Programs, where she leads and supports multi-year, federally and state-funded research and evaluation projects, including the California Services to Science Academy (CSSA) pilot and the Substance Use Prevention Evidence-Based Resource (SUPER) initiative. With over 20 years of experience in substance use disorder (SUD) research, program development, and training, Dr. Gonzales-Castaneda has worked extensively with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Substance Abuse Prevention and Control (SAPC) to design and deliver the YSOC workforce development training series. Her trainings integrate culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and family-centered approaches for providers serving youth and Transitional Age Youth (TAY) across the continuum of care—prevention, early intervention, treatment, and recovery support. Her expertise spans the implementation of Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT), co-occurring disorder care, engagement strategies for justice-involved youth, recovery support models, and innovative prevention and early intervention programming for youth and family systems to address substance use risk. She also serves on several local, state and national behavioral health committees that support efforts to strengthen youth substance use prevention, early intervention and treatment programming in school, healthcare, justice, and housing settings.

Richard Rawson, PhD, is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science, UCLA School of Medicine and a Research Professor at the University of Vermont. He has conducted an extensive portfolio of research on methamphetamine, including projects on behavioral and medication treatments, with brain imaging measures. He was a member of the Federal Methamphetamine Advisory Group for Attorney General Janet Reno. During the past decade, he has worked with NIDA, SAMHSA, the U.S. State Department, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime on international substance abuse research and training projects, exporting US technology and addiction science throughout the world.

Hours/CEs
1.0

Format
This online course uses a mixed-media format with PowerPoint slides, voice-overs, and closed captions.

Process
At the start of the training, participants will be given a pre-test assessment. During the training, participants will read or listen to the material presented in the slides. At the end of the training, participants will need to pass the training post-test with a score of 80% or better to print a certificate of completion and receive CE credits. 

CE Approval

This course meets the qualifications for one (1.0) hour of continuing education credit/contact hours (CEs/CEHs). Los Angeles County (LAC)-Department of Public Health (DPH) Substance Abuse Prevention and Control (SAPC) is an approved provider of continuing education for CMPSS (CalMHSA, #1014); CAODCs, SUDRCs, SUDCCs (CADTP, #181); RADTs I/II, CADCs-CASs, CADCs I/II, CADCs-CSs and LAADCs (CCAPP, #4-19-316-0227); and, CATCs I/II/III/IV/V/N/i/R (CAADE CEU Provider #: CP40 989 AHC 0725). Los Angeles County-Department of Public Health (LAC-DPH) Substance Abuse Prevention and Control (SAPC) is approved by the California Psychological Association to provide continuing professional education for psychologists. The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts continuing education credit granted by the California Psychological Association or by any of its Approved Providers. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 18086, for 1 contact hour. LAC-DPH SAPC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Disclosure
County of Los Angeles, Department of Public Health, Substance Abuse Prevention and Control does not receive commercial support for the content of these trainings. Azusa Pacific University does not receive commercial support for the content of these trainings. County of Los Angeles, Department of Public Health, Substance Abuse Prevention and Control does not receive commercial support for the content of these trainings.

Questions and Concerns
If you have any questions related to the training content, please email HEALTHPSYCHLAB@APU.EDU.

If you have any questions related to continuing education, please email SAPC.CST@PH.LACOUNTY.GOV.

If you have any questions or concerns with the training, please email INFO@SAPC-LNC.ORG.