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Reframing Adolescent Substance Use and Its Prevention: A Communications Playbook

The Reframing Adolescent Substance Use and Its Prevention playbook provides a step-by-step guide to using evidence-based framing strategies to communicate about adolescent substance use. The playbook presents findings from extensive multi-method research to develop and test effective strategies for communicating about adolescent substance use. Explanations of each framing strategy, models…

988 and Mobile Crisis Response with the CCBHC Model

Learn how states can use the CCBHC model to streamline mobile crisis response and other mental health and substance use services, including 988.

Raising Resilient Kids

Raising Resilient Kids is a guide for parents and other caregivers that offers research-based best practices and resources with the goal of fostering positive child development and helping children lead healthy, fulfilling lives. There is also a link to a webinar on the topic hosted by Emmy-winning journalist Elizabeth Vargas…

Preparing Advanced Practice Registered Nursing Students to Deliver Adolescent SBIRT for Substance Use

Kuzma et al. argue that advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) should be taught how to incorporate SBIRT methods into the clinical setting because APRN’s tend to have strong pre-existing relationships with patients. Kuzma et al. selected a cohort of APRN’s to receive a multi-part SBIRT training, which included readings, presentations,…

Moving Upstream: Addressing Youth Substance Use

This infographic highlights progress made towards advancing the Hilton Foundation’s Initiative. Research findings shed light on the importance of early intervention, organizing cross-sector coalitions to establish effective evidence-based policies, training health and community service providers on the delivery of prevention and early intervention practices, and engaging peers and parents/ caregivers…

Medicaid Offers New Strategies to Prevent Substance Misuse

This policy brief summarizes specific Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) guidelines that can be leveraged to support SBIRT and other public health approaches to preventing substance use among adolescents. In addition to the summary of each guideline, the policy brief also includes a brief description of the relevance…

Massachusetts Medical Students Feel Unprepared to Treat Patients with Substance Use Disorder

Bäck et al. argue for increased focus on addiction education in medical schools in Massachusetts. Survey results indicate that only one tenth of medical students surveyed feel that they receive adequate training around addiction medicine, while almost all respondents reported that addiction medicine is an important area in which to…

Mapping the Gaps Between Expert, Practitioner, and Public Understandings of Adolescent Substance Use

This report is the first in the series of studies by the FrameWorks Institute intended to map the communications landscape and develop an evidence-based strategy for demonstrating the importance of understanding and effectively communicating about adolescent substance use, including prevention and early intervention approaches. This study compares experts’ shared understanding…

Project Amp

C4 Innovations Project Amp is a young adult peer-based substance use prevention and early intervention program designed to prevent and reduce substance use among low to moderate risk youth. Project Amp supports the goals of state substance use directors by expanding connections to peer support and enhancing key prevention and…

Improving Access to Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment in Primary Care for Adolescents: Implementation Considerations

In 2016, the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) launched a learning collaborative of safety net health plans to increase access to SBIRT for adolescent Medicaid beneficiaries within primary care settings. Seven participating health plans trained 300 providers in SBIRT at more than 40 provider sites over three years. Tew…