![]() She asked if I could attend the meeting where this student would be discussing his reentry to school he was serving in-school suspension due to being caught stoned at school. They called me because word has started to spread about our program that provides support and a safe space for teens with substance use challenges. A 13-year-old boy was caught smoking pot at school and admitted he had been smoking pot since he was seven (7) years old. Recently, I received a call from the Assistant Principal of a local middle school. In the following account, the APG Counselor describes the many pieces of the puzzle that need to come together to support teens with substance use challenges and how this program provides many of those pieces. Thus far, three (3) large public schools on Cape Cod are working with the APG Counselor and staff to create specific programming and processes to bring APG services to their students -1) Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School is creating an APG program specific to the needs of their Alternative Learning Program students 2) Bourne Middle School Administrators and their Project Purple student group (Chris Herren’s Substance Use Prevention Program) are developing an APG program that integrates with the school’s new disciplinary policies regarding substance use and vaping and 3) Nauset Middle School is bringing the APG Counselor directly into school to meet with specific students and their families. The School Based APG brings this evidence-based model of recovery support directly into the school setting to reach disadvantaged students, advance behavioral health equity and reduce stigma. Informed by the lessons we learned during the planning stage for our stand-alone APG, we began the development of a School Based APG program. ![]() Overall, since APGs have been in existence, they have a recovery rate greater than 85% versus a nationwide recovery rate of around 30% (Basinger & Edens). ![]() APGs are a comprehensive adolescent recovery support model that integrates recovering peers and prosocial activities into an evidence-based clinical practice. Through our work with teens in recovery, we learned of an evidence-based model of teen recovery support called an Alternative Peer Group (APG) and launched a pilot of the APG model on Cape Cod in April 2018. is to create innovative, broadly available solutions for individuals and loved ones who suffer from behavioral health challenges, initially focused on the prevention of, and recovery from, substance use disorder, anxiety and depression in teens. Our mission at Behavioral Health Innovators, Inc. ![]() Stephanie shares the work of her team, creating a program that provides in-school support and treatment for high school students with Substance Use Disorder. Behaviorial Health Innovators is a recent recipient of NNLM NER grant funding. The following blog post was written by Stephanie Briody, co-founder of Behavior Health Innovators, Inc. Posted by Susan Halpin on January 4th, 2019 Posted in: Funded Project Tags: Addiction, Alternative Peer Group, high school students with substance use disorder, recovery, substance use disorder, treatment School-based Alternative Peer Group (APG): An Innovative Solution to Reach Disadvantaged Students, Advance Behavioral Health Equity and Reduce Stigma in the Prevention and Recovery of Adolescent Addiction
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