DBH UK Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment and Training (FY16)

This proposal will assist current and new providers in developing, redesigning or enhancing current adolescent substance abuse services across the continuum of care, including screening, assessment, outpatient, intensive outpatient and high quality residential and hospital-based services. Furthermore, this proposal involves developing an innovative adolescent substance use treatment project using evidence-based practices to treat adolescents and train community agency treatment providers to use evidence-based approaches recommended by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.