Effective Engagement Strategies for Early Intervention Services

When: 11/14/2025 - 11/14/2025,
From: 9:00 AM to 12:15 PM
Location: Zoom - Pre-Registration is Required!
Imparted by: Kelly Duggan Shearer, Ph.D., LMFT, LPCC, Rachel Gonzales-Castaneda, Ph.D., MPH
Visit: https://apu.zoom.us/meeting/register/ExqS08K9Rm-YxdTJ4IPYsw
Description:

IMPORTANT

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. REGISTER ONLINE AT:
November 14, 2025, https://apu.zoom.us/meeting/register/ExqS08K9Rm-YxdTJ4IPYsw
You will receive written confirmation of your registration and additional details about the training at least three (3) days prior to the webinar date. If you do not receive either of these at least three (3) days prior to the lecture date, please contact us directly at healthpsychlab@apu.edu.

PLEASE NOTE: This webinar is free but pre-registration is required. To receive a CE certificate, you must attend the full webinar (attendance is tracked through Zoom) and submit a completed CE Evaluation Form, which includes a posttest, to the Training Coordinator. For questions about the training or concerns with registering for the training, please email healthpsychlab@apu.edu.

TRAINING DESCRIPTION:

Substance-using at-risk youth often present for early intervention services with complex needs that challenge engagement. These youth face developmental, sociocultural and trauma-related stressors that can create barriers to building trust, maintaining participation and adhering to service plans. This interactive three-hour webinar equips providers with actionable strategies to strengthen therapeutic alliance, apply trauma-informed practices, and adapt early intervention curriculum delivery to meet youths’ lived experiences. Through case-based practice applications, participants will learn how to recognize engagement barriers, respond in developmentally attuned ways, and collaboratively set meaningful, youth-centered goals that increase connection and adherence to early intervention services. 

TRAINING OBJECTIVES: 
After this training, participants will be able to:
1. Identify and apply at least three (3) components of effective engagement using a therapeutic alliance framework (e.g., trust, collaboration, goal-setting).
2. Analyze and explain two (2) biopsychosocial developmental factors that influence engagement in services with application using the early intervention curriculum. 
3. Integrate and articulate ways to use strengths-based, culturally responsive engagement 
approaches with youth exposed to trauma (e.g., recognize signs of trauma, avoiding re-traumatization). 
4. Describe two (2) strategies that can be implemented to enhance provider skills for engaging youth in early intervention service programming (e.g., mattering, empathic attunement, flexible/adapted session activities).