Youth and Adolescent iECHO | Key Development Issues: Risks and Resiliency
The Project ECHO on Treating Adolescent Substance Use addresses the full spectrum of behavioral health care, from screening and assessment to treatment. This series emphasizes a family-centered approach, incorporating the latest updates from the adolescent ASAM Criteria. Key topics include the developmental needs of adolescents, the impact of social and behavioral health, confidentiality and consent, and the importance of fostering resilience and leveraging individual strengths. This series addresses the learning needs of behavioral and mental health providers.
Objectives:
- Identify and respond to adolescent unique prevention and treatment needs for substance misuse and substance use disorders.
- Describe how to incorporate significant others and family in their treatment.
- Define risk factors, co-occurring issues, and other complexities.
- Examine the social and developmental issues that adolescents experience.
- Outline evidence-based practices.
August 19, 2025 | Laura Grubb, MD, MPH | Key Development Issues: Risks and Resiliency
September 2, 2025 | Amanda Chamberlain | Assessing and Screening: What Works and What Changes are on the Horizon with ASAM
September 16, 2025 | Laura Grubb, MD, MPH | Reaching Kids Where They Are: Substance Use Prevention and Treatment
October 7, 2025
October 21, 2025
November 4, 2025 | Diana Padilla | The Ripple Effect: Social Impacts on Youth Substance Use
November 18, 2025 | Amy Yule, MD | Complexities of Mental Health
December 2, 2025 | Christine McNulty, LCSW, LADC, CCS | Self-Care and Clinical Burnout
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 ™.
This course has been approved by Co-Occurring Collaborative Serving Maine (CCSME), as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 1 educational credits. NAADAC Provider #324712, CCSME is responsible for all aspects of the programming.
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 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.
Speaker
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Laura Grubb MD MPHI am a board-certified pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist with over two decades of experience advancing adolescent behavioral health through clinical care, public health leadership, and national advocacy. My expertise centers on youth substance use prevention, treatment, and recovery, with a strong focus on implementing trauma-informed, evidence-based practices across clinical and community settings. As a Subject Matter Expert for the New England ATTC and consultant to the Opioid Response Network, I provide targeted technical assistance (TTA), training, and policy-informed consultation to behavioral health providers and systems. My work supports systems-level integration of adolescent substance use services, including medication for addiction treatment (MAT), and enhances provider capacity through tailored curricula and strategic planning. I bring extensive experience in academic medicine, federal service, and program development, which positions me to contribute meaningfully to ATTC’s mission of building workforce competency in substance use care.
