Young Adult ECHO: Supporting Affected Others | Supporting Grandparents raising Grandchildren due to SUD
A 2021 study found that positive involvement of affected others in SUD treatment improves the treatment outcomes for an SUD client regardless of their age and the treatment model used. Conversely, affected others are at a higher risk of developing an SUD themselves. Affected others, commonly composed of impacted family members, friends, and community members, regularly report receiving few if any services. This ECHO series will explore strategies providers and their teams can incorporate into practice to meet the needs of affected others, as well as their SUD patients.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will explore how SUD impacts individuals using a substance and affected others, with special consideration for adolescents and young adults
- Participants will examine how positive community experiences impact the treatment of SUD
- Participants will review the impact of stigma on individuals with SUD and affected others
- Participants will learn strategies to support individual with SUD and those impacted by SUD
April 24- Sarah Asch- Supporting Grieving Adolescents
May 8- Jordana Willers Brown Ed.M – Supporting adolescents with parents or loved ones in active SUD or who are in recovery
May 22- ORN Amy McCarthy Bauch LICSW – Supporting a family w/ adolescent with active SUD or in recovery
June 12- ORN Laurie Gates – Relationship Violence and SUD
June 26 – Tobias Nicholson, MD – Supporting Affected Others in relation to homelessness
July 10 – Megan Dolbin-MacNab, PhD – Supporting Grandparents raising Grandchildren due to SUD
Audience:
Prescribing Clinicians and their teams
Continuing Medical Education:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education and CCSME. The Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education is accredited by the Maine Medical Association Committee on Continuing Medical Education and Accreditation to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education designates this regularly scheduled series for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
*Nurses and Nurse Practitioners will be awarded a certificate of participation with a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™.
Contact Hours
1 contact hours for social workers, licensed clinical professional counselors, and behavioral health professionals.
1 Category 1 Contact hours for psychologists. CCSME is a pre-approved sponsor and provider of Professional Education Activities for Psychologists.
1 contact hours for Alcohol and Drug Counselors pending approval by the Maine Board of Alcohol and Drug Counselors
1 contract hours CHES. CCSME is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission of Health Education Credentialing, Inc.
Funding for this initiative was made possible (in part) by grant no.1H79TI088037 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
Speaker
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Megan L. Dolbin-MacNab PhdDr. Megan Dolbin-MacNab is Professor of Human Development and Family Science and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Gerontology at Virginia Tech. She is also a licensed marriage and family therapist and a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America. Dr. Dolbin-MacNab has been researching and working with grandfamilies for over 25 years. Grounded in family systems and family resilience perspectives, her research focuses on 1) the intersection of relational processes and grandparent and grandchild well-being, 2) family-based practice strategies designed to improve grandfamily health, and 3) the role of larger social structures (e.g., federal and state policies) in shaping grandfamilies’ needs and well-being. Dr. Dolbin-MacNab’s research has been funded by the Virginia Department of Health, the National Institute on Aging, and the National Institute for Food and Agriculture. She has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on grandfamilies, including a review of the impact of the opioid epidemic on grandparents raising grandchildren. In 2017, Dr. Dolbin-MacNab was a witness at the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing, Grandparents to the Rescue: Raising Grandchildren in the Opioid Crisis and Beyond, which helped inform the Supporting Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Act (S.1091). She has provided interviews on grandfamilies to USA Today, AARP Bulletin, PBS NewsHour, NPR, Minnesota Public Radio, and West Virginia Public Broadcasting and regularly consults with local and state agencies and support programs about delivering effective services to grandfamilies.
Every second and fourth Friday through July 2026
12:00-1:00 pm ET