Acknowledgements

Youth & Drugs and Mental Health: First Contact

First Contact: A Brief Treatment for Young Substance Users With Mental Health Problems as developed and written by: Elsbeth Tupker

This manual is an adaptation of the first edition of the First Contact: A brief treatment for young substance users developed and written by:

• Curtis Breslin
• Elsbeth Tupker
• Kathy Sdao-Jarvie
• Shelly Pearlman

We gratefully acknowledge the following agencies that field tested First Contact and the counsellors who gave us valuable suggestions for adapting the program so that it may be used for young drug users who also have mental health problems.

Royal Ottawa Hospital

• Sheldon Box
• Terry Levesque
• Richard Voss

Centre David Smith Centre, Ottawa

• Ginette Chouinard
• Lyne Monpetit
• Marie Taylor

Open Doors for Lanark Children and Youth, Carleton Place

• Nicki Collins
• Steve Martin
• Karen Moore

Tri-County Addiction Services, Smith Falls

• Marleen MacDonald
• David North

Maryvale Adolescent and Family Services, Windsor

• Morana Sijan
• Tricia Ethelstone

Alternatives for Youth, Genesis Program, Sault Ste. Marie

• Phil Jones
• Jeff Lefave

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

• Bruce Ballon
• Sukhi Bubbra
• Maria Carinelli
• Gloria Chaim
• Joanna Henderson
• Colleen Kelly
• Megan McCormick
• Helen McGee
• George Papatheodorou
• Solomon Shapiro
• Joanne Shenfeld
• Tracey Skilling
• Christine Wekerle

The field test was co-ordinated by:

• Angela Barbara

The art therapy modules were developed by:

• Beth Merriam

The feedback at assessment graphs were developed by:

• Angela Barbara
• Abby Goldstein

The CAMH Project Team

• Jane Fjeld
• Kathy Kilburn
• Louise LaRocque-Stuart
• Brian Mitchell
• Elsbeth Tupker
• Darryl Upfold

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