Project SUCCESS (Schools Using Coordinated Community Efforts to Strengthen Students) - November 13-15, 2024
- Registration Closed
A 17.5-Hour Training with Ellen Morehouse, LCSW, CASAC, CPP
8:30am-5:00pm | 11/13 & 11/14
8:30am-12:15pm | 11/15
130 Pembroke Road, Suite 150, Concord, NH 03301
Presentation: NH Training Institute on Addictive Disorders is offering training in the highly rated SAMSHA program, Project SUCCESS (Schools Using Coordinated Community Efforts to Strengthen Students). Project SUCCESS prevents and reduces substance use among secondary school adolescents, by providing a full range (universal, selective, and indicated) of substance use prevention strategies. These include a prevention education series, school-wide awareness activities, counseling, screening and referral, and environmental skills needed to implement the program.
As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
- Identify at least 2 risk factors associated with preventing and reducing adolescent substance use;
- Identify at least 2 protective factors associated with preventing and reducing adolescent substance use;
- Explain the importance of school-wide awareness activities;
- List the four topics for the Prevention Education series;
- Interpret how to provide a comprehensive strength-based assessment;
- Describe the focus of Project SUCCESS groups; and
- Identify the steps in counseling a COA.
NH Participants: $75, Out-of-State Participant $350. Registration Fee includes Project SUCCESS Implementation Manual, Resource Manual, Presentation and packet of reading materials.
17.5 Contact Hours Available
CRSW Performance Domains: None
LADC/MLADC Categories of Competence: 6, 13 & 15
Certified Prevention Specialist Domains: 1-6
NBCC: LICSW/L-MFT/LCMHC (Category A) & Psychologist (Category A)
NH Alcohol & Drug Abuse Counselors Association has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider. ACEP No 6754. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. NHADACA is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.
This training is financed under a contract with the State of NH, Department of Health and Human Services, with funds provided in part by the State of NH and/or such funding sources as were available or required, e.g., the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
Ellen Morehouse
Executive Director
Student Assistance Services Corporation
Ellen Morehouse, LCSW, CASAC, CPP is an entertaining and engaging nationally known substance abuse prevention expert that has presented to parents, professionals, and school and community groups in 44 states. She is the creator of three national model substance abuse prevention programs. As Executive Director of Student Assistance Services Corporation, she has been the recipient of grants from the CDC, the U.S. Dept. of Education, the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Ellen has published several articles in professional journals, has appeared on a number of television shows including Good Morning America, Nightline and ABC Network News and has been interviewed by People Magazine, Reader's Digest, Psychology Today, Family Circle, Women’s Day, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, Harper’s Bazaar, and Parents Magazine. She was one of the founders and is an advisory board member of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics.