5.23.2025 10am-12pm – Substance Use Treatment with Young Folx: Harm Reduction Healthy, Safe, and Alive when ‘Just Say No’ isn’t Working (virtual)
Friday, May 23, 2025 10am-12pm
Training Overview:
Realities of youth drug use, prevalence, and maturing out. How society impacts youth drug use and peer and social pressure. Drug use, developmental stage, and change in internal and external perception. Harm Reduction strategies for working with young people and drug use; questions for young people to consider and managing ourselves and our own countertransference.
At the conclusion of this training, participants should be able to:
- identify at least one reason why using stigmatizing language affects treatment outcomes.
- utilize harm reduction interventions and tools in the assessment and treatment of substance use and co-occurring disorders with young people.
- integrate harm reduction practices within the provider’s routine clinical work with youth.
- identify at least two ways that countertransference is important to pay attention to when working with young people and drug use.
Facilitator: Maurice Byrd, LMFT (He/Him/His)
Continuing education units (CEUs) are available thanks to the Center for Learning and Innovation (CLI) for the following disciplines:
- Certified Addiction Professionals (CCAPP)
- Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSW)
- Licensed Educational Psychologists (LEP)
- Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFT)
- Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors (LPCC)
- Registered Nurses (RN)
Equity Statement
The San Francisco Department of Public Health is committed to leading with race and prioritizing Intersectionality, including sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, class, nationality, language, and ability. SFDPH strives to move forward on the continuum of becoming an anti-racist institution through dismantling racism, building, building solidarity among racial groups, and working towards becoming a Trauma-Informed/Trauma Healing Organization in partnership with staff, clients, communities, and our contractors. When attending, SFDP trainings, events, and/or meetings, we uphold expectations and standards of rules of engagement for our employees and contractors. We expect that all participants operate in professional integrity and adhere to the DPH Employee Code of Conduct or their employee conduct. Participants will be accountable for upholding any group agreements provided by the trainer or host and uphold principles of transparency, confidentiality and respect. We support respectful participation across intersecting identities and experiences including race, ethnicity, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, class, nationality, religion, language, physical and mental ability, and political ideology. While we strive to make an space of inclusivity, belonging, and hub for various perspective, we do not tolerate any inappropriate behavior or comments rooted in anti-blackness, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, sexism, or any comments or behavior that is discriminatory, disruptive, or divisive. If participants cannot abide by these expectations, they will be removed from the training or event and will not be allowed to attend any additional DPH trainings, event, and/or meetings. Trainers have been informed to notify DPH of any misconduct and a DPH representative will follow up with that employee’s supervisor or participant’s agency regarding the misconduct.
