This page presents resources for screening and assessing children and youth’s substance use disorders.

Preventing, Identifying, and Treating Substance Use Among Youth in Foster Care

Series Title
Bulletins for Professionals
Author(s)
Child Welfare Information Gateway
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Year Published
2020
Youth in foster care often face multiple challenges that place them at increased risk of using substances. This bulletin provides child welfare professionals with information about the extent and effects of substance use among youth in foster care, ways to identify substance use, how to support youth in care who currently use or are at high risk for using substances, and strategies for prevention. It also addresses why and how you can collaborate with professionals in other fields.

Screening & Assessment
Youth.gov
Provides information on screening and assessment in identifying substance use and dependence in youth. 

Screening Tools for Adolescent Substance Use
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse (2019)
Offers two online screening tools that providers can use to assess for substance use disorder risk among adolescents 12–17 years old. 

Substance Use Screening & Assessment Instruments Database
University of Washington, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute
Assists clinicians and researchers in finding instruments used for the screening and assessment of substance use and substance use disorders.

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