Early Intervention Specialist

Early Intervention Specialist will be a primary service provider and will meet all the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs requirements for the Counselor position. This individual will help to provide evidence-based services to young people for them to recognize the harmful consequences of high-risk substance use and/or addiction.

The Early Intervention Specialist must develop community wide response to growing substance use issues among young people and their families. Also, the Early Intervention Specialist must provide young people at high risk of addiction with protective factors, which will help them to make positive decisions concerning substance use.