#3 - Trina Faatz: The CRAFT Program - An Intervention Model Approach to Reducing Substance Use

I'm Dr. Shelly Mahon, your host, and today’s WELL source is Trina Faatz. Trina is an advocate for child welfare and family wholeness. She is certified as a Peer Recovery Coach to work with parents and teens struggling with the challenges of substance use.  Now, as the facilitator of the Boulder County Substance Advisory Group, and leader of young people in recovery panels, she brings a personal and humane approach to intervention and hope. 

In today’s show, Trina will talk about the challenges young people face and how a cutting-edge program called CRAFT is helping parents navigate substance use in today’s world. Specifically, we will discuss:

• The challenges young people face when it comes to substance use
• How social media can have positive and negative impacts on substance use
• Fentanyl
• Substance use and brain development
• Recognizing substance use in your child
• Skill building: understanding triggers, communicating, establishing rewards/consequences, and strengthening the parent-child relationship
• A parent’s role in increasing or decreasing a child’s substance use
• Resource: Chart: Understanding Substance Use Experimentation
• Resource: Natural Highs: Healthy Alternatives to Drugs & Alcohol
• Resource: The CRAFT Program: Community Reinforcement and Family Training
• Resource: The Effekt Training: To increase parents’ attitudes, norm-setting and monitoring about alcohol
• Resource: Reach Out for Change – CRAFT Classes