Drug Impairment Training for Educational Professionals

Drug Impairment Training for Educational Professionals (DITEP)

 Course Overview: The DITEP training is two (2) days and is for anyone who works with youth in an academic environment. Examples include, but are not limited to, school administrators, teachers, counselors, school nurses, school resource officers, or anyone else who interacts with students in the school or a school-sponsored setting. 

• Day one (1) focuses on current drug trends, drug paraphernalia, general drug impairment, and policies.
• Day two (2) focuses on skill development that aids in identifying drug impairment and how to document the impairment. 

Program History 

In 1996 President Clinton pledged support for programs dealing with underage drug-impaired drivers. In 1998 Arizona, Kansas, and New York each independently developed training to address this issue and help combat the growing problem of drugs in the educational environment. In cooperation with the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA), the strengths from the three programs were combined to form the Drug Impairment Training for Educational Professionals (DITEP). The program is now being taught throughout the United States and Canada. This training is intended to provide school administrators and nurses with a systematic approach to recognizing and evaluating individuals in the academic environment who are abusing and impaired by drugs, both legal and illegal, in order to provide early recognition and intervention. 

DITEP is derived from the National Drug Evaluation and Classification (DEC) Program, a successful law enforcement procedure used to detect drug and alcohol-impaired drivers. The methods employed in this training are based on medical and scientific facts. The information is supported by research conducted in both laboratory and field studies. The DEC Program was validated in a laboratory by studies conducted at the Johns Hopkins University, and in the field by the Southern California Research Institute. Although DITEP is not intended to qualify participants as Drug Recognition Experts (DREs), it is intended to make participants competent and confident in evaluating and documenting those individuals suspected of abusing drugs in the school setting. 

The training will enable participants to determine first of all, whether or not the student is impaired. If it is determined that there is impairment, whether the impairment is due to a medical problem or is drug related. And finally, if the impairment is drug-related, through proven diagnostic procedures, what category, or combination of drug categories, is likely causing the observed impairment. 

By providing training to school officials and health care professionals, it is anticipated that drug usage in schools employing an aggressive evaluation and detection program will decline. Consequently, not only will the disruption caused by individuals abusing drugs be decreased, but also the incidence of those individuals driving to and from schools while impaired by either alcohol or drugs will also be greatly reduced, making our communities and schools a safer place for all. 

Cost: $50 for Lunch/beverages on both days

 

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