About This Event
đź“… Date: Friday, May 15, 2026
đź•› Time: 8:30am - 11:30am
đź“Ť Location: Journey Mental Health Center, Madison
 📚 CE: 3.0 NBCC*/ACEP #6760 CE Hours
🎟️ Tickets: $60.00
Morning CE Training
This training explores youth substance use through a developmental, trauma-informed, and systems-based lens. We’ll examine how brain development, lived experience, and environmental conditions shape youth behavior and coping - and how prevention, relational health, and shared responsibility play a role in reducing risk.
Structured reflection and opportunities for connection are embedded throughout the morning to support deeper understanding and cross-system collaboration.
Stay for Lunch -Â Real Voices. Real Context.
After the CE, you have the option to stay for a luncheon and live panel conversation that brings the morning’s themes into real-world perspective.
Hear directly from:
• Dr. Jasmine Zapata - pediatrician, public health official, and youth advocate
• Kate Duffy - founder of Motherhood for Good, sharing lived experience in mental health and recovery
• Youth panelist - because conversations about teens should include teens
This discussion focuses on what teens are actually experiencing right now around substance use -Â and what truly helps.
Add the luncheon to your CE registration for $30.
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Full Training Details and CE Information
Training Description:
This training explores youth substance use through a developmental, trauma-informed, and systems-based lens. Emphasizing prevention, relational health, and shared responsibility, it examines how brain development, lived experience, and environmental conditions shape youth behavior and coping. Structured reflection and opportunities for connection are embedded to deepen understanding and support proactive collaboration across systems.
Learning Objectives:
- Summarize key principles of adolescent brain development relevant to substance use prevention and early intervention.
- Describe how trauma, stress, and environmental factors interact to influence youth substance use risk.
- Examine the role of relationships, belonging, and social connection as protective factors for youth.
- Recognize how family, school, and community systems contribute to both risk and resilience.
- Develop strategies for cross-system collaboration that support prevention and youth well-being.
*Journey Mental Health Center has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6760. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credits are clearly identified. Journey Mental Health Center is solely responsible for all aspects of this program.
About the Presenter:
Dr. Kimby Shult Hughes is an educator, mental health practitioner, consultant, and speaker whose work centers on wholistic care, trauma-aware practice, and social justice. Deeply committed to creating a more compassionate and just world, she approaches her work with the belief that learning, healing, and growth flourish in authentic spaces where people feel valued, understood, and included.
Kimby holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, a Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy, and a Doctor of Education. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with extensive professional experience spanning mental health care, education, ministry, and athletics. Her clinical work has included serving individuals, couples, and families in outpatient, school-based, community, recovery, and correctional settings.
As an educator, Kimby has worked across elementary, middle school, high school, and higher education contexts, designing curriculum, teaching, mentoring educators, and supporting organizational learning. She has also served as the director of a nonprofit, a wellness consultant, and an athletics coach working with early childhood, secondary, and collegiate students. In all she does, she uses a strength-based lens to cultivate environments that honor human dignity, promote collaboration, and support holistic development.
Kimby’s areas of focus in research, practice, and teaching include psychotherapy theory and practice; substance use assessment and treatment; psychological assessment; adolescent and youth development; mindfulness in theory and practice; neurodiversity; traumatic stress; race-based traumatic stress; systemic therapy; organizational development and change; trauma-aware educational practices; emerging technology and educational equity; and Universal Design for Learning (UDL). She currently finds great joy in guiding doctoral candidates as they dissertate on related topics.
As both a person and a professional, Kimby is committed to exuding compassion, promoting healing, and remaining a lifelong learner. Outside of her professional roles, Kimby is the wife of a first responder and a proud mother of two thoughtful, insightful children who teach and grow her daily. She finds grounding and joy through travel, movement, art, music, meditation, laughter, learning, and meaningful connection with others. She lives with a deep orientation toward gratitude, a keen awareness of her privileges, and a commitment to leveraging those privileges to help create a more equitable, just, and inclusive world.
About This Event
đź“… Date: Friday, May 15, 2026
đź•› Time: 8:30am - 11:30am
đź“Ť Location: Journey Mental Health Center, Madison
 📚 CE: 3.0 NBCC*/ACEP #6760 CE Hours
🎟️ Tickets: $60.00
Morning CE Training
This training explores youth substance use through a developmental, trauma-informed, and systems-based lens. We’ll examine how brain development, lived experience, and environmental conditions shape youth behavior and coping - and how prevention, relational health, and shared responsibility play a role in reducing risk.
Structured reflection and opportunities for connection are embedded throughout the morning to support deeper understanding and cross-system collaboration.
Stay for Lunch -Â Real Voices. Real Context.
After the CE, you have the option to stay for a luncheon and live panel conversation that brings the morning’s themes into real-world perspective.
Hear directly from:
• Dr. Jasmine Zapata - pediatrician, public health official, and youth advocate
• Kate Duffy - founder of Motherhood for Good, sharing lived experience in mental health and recovery
• Youth panelist - because conversations about teens should include teens
This discussion focuses on what teens are actually experiencing right now around substance use -Â and what truly helps.
Add the luncheon to your CE registration for $30.
____________________________________________________________
Full Training Details and CE Information
Training Description:
This training explores youth substance use through a developmental, trauma-informed, and systems-based lens. Emphasizing prevention, relational health, and shared responsibility, it examines how brain development, lived experience, and environmental conditions shape youth behavior and coping. Structured reflection and opportunities for connection are embedded to deepen understanding and support proactive collaboration across systems.
Learning Objectives:
- Summarize key principles of adolescent brain development relevant to substance use prevention and early intervention.
- Describe how trauma, stress, and environmental factors interact to influence youth substance use risk.
- Examine the role of relationships, belonging, and social connection as protective factors for youth.
- Recognize how family, school, and community systems contribute to both risk and resilience.
- Develop strategies for cross-system collaboration that support prevention and youth well-being.
*Journey Mental Health Center has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6760. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credits are clearly identified. Journey Mental Health Center is solely responsible for all aspects of this program.
About the Presenter:
Dr. Kimby Shult Hughes is an educator, mental health practitioner, consultant, and speaker whose work centers on wholistic care, trauma-aware practice, and social justice. Deeply committed to creating a more compassionate and just world, she approaches her work with the belief that learning, healing, and growth flourish in authentic spaces where people feel valued, understood, and included.
Kimby holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, a Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy, and a Doctor of Education. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with extensive professional experience spanning mental health care, education, ministry, and athletics. Her clinical work has included serving individuals, couples, and families in outpatient, school-based, community, recovery, and correctional settings.
As an educator, Kimby has worked across elementary, middle school, high school, and higher education contexts, designing curriculum, teaching, mentoring educators, and supporting organizational learning. She has also served as the director of a nonprofit, a wellness consultant, and an athletics coach working with early childhood, secondary, and collegiate students. In all she does, she uses a strength-based lens to cultivate environments that honor human dignity, promote collaboration, and support holistic development.
Kimby’s areas of focus in research, practice, and teaching include psychotherapy theory and practice; substance use assessment and treatment; psychological assessment; adolescent and youth development; mindfulness in theory and practice; neurodiversity; traumatic stress; race-based traumatic stress; systemic therapy; organizational development and change; trauma-aware educational practices; emerging technology and educational equity; and Universal Design for Learning (UDL). She currently finds great joy in guiding doctoral candidates as they dissertate on related topics.
As both a person and a professional, Kimby is committed to exuding compassion, promoting healing, and remaining a lifelong learner. Outside of her professional roles, Kimby is the wife of a first responder and a proud mother of two thoughtful, insightful children who teach and grow her daily. She finds grounding and joy through travel, movement, art, music, meditation, laughter, learning, and meaningful connection with others. She lives with a deep orientation toward gratitude, a keen awareness of her privileges, and a commitment to leveraging those privileges to help create a more equitable, just, and inclusive world.