Who Should Attend
* Adolescent treatment researchers, evaluators, and data managers
* Project directors and clinical supervisors and/or clinicians involved in delivering services under CSAT or other Federally funded grants (this may qualify towards annual meeting requirements)
* Federal, State, local and private foundation policy makers
* Youth, families and other members of the recovery community
Theme
The 2012 JMATE theme is “Collaborating and Integrating to Support Youth and Families in an Era of Change.” Within the current era of change and reform in treatment and numerous other systems, stakeholders serving youth—adolescents ages 12–17 years and transitional age youth 18–27 years—need to develop meaningful ways to coordinate and, in some cases, integrate their services while maintaining youth and family voices. The 2012 JMATE will serve as a platform for these stakeholders to gather to learn and share information about evidence-based practices (EBPs), youth and family issues, and effective collaboration and integration strategies.
The current era of change spans many fields and cuts across multiple levels:
• A young people’s recovery movement that includes greater listening to youth and families in directing their care and their need to learn about recovery from their peers
• Preparing the field for healthcare reform (including meaningful use and health information technology)
• Changes in Federal funding for substance use disorder treatment
• Integration of substance use disorder and mental health treatment into behavioral health services
• Expanding substance use disorder and mental health treatment into primary care
• School-based health care
• No Child Left Behind Act and education policy changes and modifications that may expand resources for treatment
• Second Chance Act for offender re-entry, increase in diversion funding, and other changes in juvenile justice
• Increasing demand for recovery support services
The 2012 JMATE includes six concentration track areas:
• Treatment and Recovery Systems Collaboration and Integration
• Youth and Families
• Evidence-Based Practices
• Juvenile Justice
• School-Based and Recovery Services
• Special Topics