The ASSIST Program

The Adolescent Substance Abuse Screening, Intervention, Support, and Treatment (ASSIST) referral program is designed to offer families and schools a rapid response assessment for teens that have been disciplined for violating school policy or caught by parents abusing alcohol, marijuana, or other drugs. The teen and parents participate in a thorough clinical assessment that screens for depression, anxiety, learning challenges, and other common co-occurring issues and also provides a supervised urine drug screen to access the exact level of a teen's substance abuse. Parents are offered helpful and practical steps to re-establish authority and set limits with teens to keep them safe. In most cases a teen and their family can be seen within 24 to 48 hours of their first call to Insight Counseling.