VIRTUAL-Thursday, January 9, 2025, 9:00am-12:00pm-Youth Vaping & Tobacco Use: Strategies for Intervention with Suzy Langevin, LICSW, LADC I

VIRTUAL-Thursday, December 9, 2024, 9:00 AM-12:00 PM

Youth Vaping & Tobacco Use: Strategies for Intervention

Suzy Langevin, LICSW, LADC I

This three-hour training for mental health professionals as well as educational professionals will explore the problem of vaping, both from the public health perspective as well as individual challenges for students who vape. Strategies for intervention at both tier one and tier three levels will be discussed, including a more in-depth look at motivational interviewing interventions. It will also discuss ways to introduce public health campaigns around vaping into the school environment. 

Following this training the participants will understand:

1.         The current landscape of youth nicotine use

2.         The differences between smoking and vaping and need for different interventions

3.         Applications of motivational interviewing for individual vaping reduction/cessation

4.         Availability of public health tools to combat rising vape usage and help current vape users quit 

Your Trainer:

Suzy Langevin, LICSW, LADC I, Director of Training and Professional Development at Open Sky Community Services, is committed to making the best evidence-based tools and supports available to both Open Sky employees and the broader provider community through the Bridge Training Institute. Ms. Langevin has presented regionally and nationally on implementing evidence-based treatment modalities, including the Stephanie Moulton Symposium, NAADAC National Webinar Series, and the Massachusetts Psychiatric Rehabilitation Collaborative Annual Conference. She has extensive training and fidelity coding experience in Motivational Interviewing and is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT).

She had provided training and consultation in a variety of evidence-based treatment modalities to mental health providers, school systems, community groups and state agencies, where feedback has included, “Suzy is very knowledgeable and provides practical insight on how to apply the skill learned in real life situations. Her training approach is upbeat, engaging, and informative.”

In her more than decade long tenure at Open Sky, she served as Director of Dual Diagnosis Services, where she developed a model for services for co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders within the agency’s community mental health programming. She also previously worked to implement and supervise the provision of Illness Management and Recovery (IMR) services across adult and adolescent treatment settings and the development and opening of The Bridge Counseling Center, Open Sky’s outpatient division. In 2014, Ms. Langevin was awarded the ABH Excellence in Outcomes Award as a member of the CR for PTSD group. She was selected to the Worcester Area Chamber of Commerce Leadership Worcester Class of 2021.

In addition to her work at Open Sky, Ms. Langevin has experience in a diverse range of settings, including emergency mental health, juvenile justice, residential treatment, and hospital inpatient care.