Vaping: Strategies to Slow the Runaway Train

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(November 2022) Vaping: Strategies to Slow the Runaway Train

Vaping, or the use of electronic cigarettes among adolescents has never been greater. This workshop will examine how it became an epidemic while also exploring evidence-based strategies to slow it down. Participants will leave with practical solutions that they can implement in their work with adolescents.  This presentation is a good fit for clinicians, educators, parents, and consumers of care.

Thad Shunkwiler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Science. In addition to his academic work, he is a licensed behavioral health provider with over a decade of experience in treating people with mental health and substance use disorders in outstate Minnesota. In 2021, he was named a Presidential Teaching Scholar and one of seventeen healthcare professionals in the country named a Rural Health Fellow of the National Rural Health Association. In 2022, he was named to the Board of Directors for the Minnesota Association for Children’s Mental Health and received a Governor’s appointment to the Board of Marriage and Family Therapy.

Watch time: 82 minutes

Eligible Certificate of Completion time: 90 minutes