Substance Use
The Integrated Health Pathway is here to support your family!
Enhanced Assessments Specialized Care
With enrollment onto the Integrated Health Pathway your family will receive access to the following services:
Our Power of Choice group helps teens to learn more about how the substances they are using impact their brain, emotions, and life choices. This is offered regularly in person and virtually.
Partner with our prevention specialist to create a substance use safety plan tailored to meet your family’s needs.
Your child can receive ongoing support from a trained young adult who has lived experiences with mental health and substance use issues.
Talk to your therapist about referring your child to the pathway today!
To ensure your child is receiving the most effective care we will provide monthly assessments. These will be administered by our care coordinator and will be kept confidential. This will help us track your child’s success through the program.
Targeted assessments we provide:
CRAFFT+N: A screening tool designed to identify potential issues with alcohol, drugs, and nicotine. It assesses risky behaviors such as using substances to relax, forgetting things while using substances, or riding in a car with someone under the influence.
Adolescent Drug Involvement Scale: Explores substance use patterns, reasons for using substances, methods of obtaining substances, and the social and emotional consequences of use. This tool allows our treatment team to have a comprehensive picture of an adolescent’s relationship with substance use.
Things to know about youth substance use:
It is common
It is treatable
You are part of the solution
Millions of kids experiment with drugs and alcohol as a normal part of adolescence but many kids find themselves facing addiction when experimentation shifts to prolonged and increasing use.
Working with your Integrated Pathway team at Easterseals MORC will give your child access to a comprehensive array of interventions and supports to help them reduce their use and address the issues surrounding their use to prevent future problems.
Parents play a huge role in their child’s treatment. Family support, expectations, boundaries, and attitudes can make your child feel safe and supported as they recover.
Things you can do to help your child today:
Strengthen family bonds
Secure all substances Model healthy coping skills
Prioritize family meals, incorporate fun activities with your child, spend time with them in ways that they choose, listen carefully and allow them time to share
Eliminate or lock up any alcohol or drugs in your home, including prescription drugs. Ask family members and friends to secure all substances in their homes and refrain from using around your child.
Notice your substance use and consider abstinence. Practice and model coping with stress in healthy ways such as exercise, prayer or meditation, enjoying hobbies, eating healthy food, spending time with loved ones.
