Weber Human Services
237 26th Street Ogden, UT 84401
Substance Use Disorder Treatment for Youth
Services for Children and Youth Substance Use Disorder Problems
Weber Human Services is committed to providing research-based treatments to clients served. Each of the treatments listed below have been thoroughly tested in multiple research settings and been shown to improve the mental health and/or substance use symptoms and problems for which they were developed.
Adolescent Substance Abuse
Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA)
What is A-CRA? A behavioral intervention that aims to replace drug and alcohol use with behaviors and strategies that promote a clean and healthy lifestyle. It has been shown to reduce teen substance use and dependence, and improve life satisfaction.
Who benefits from A-CRA? Youth ages 12 – 18 who are abusing or dependent on alcohol and other drugs.
How is A-CRA delivered? In individual and family therapy sessions.
How often and how long should I participate in A-CRA? To benefit from this treatment, participants need to attend weekly individual and family therapy for 16 weeks.