1-Day ASAM Adults Vol.1 Core Concepts

1-Day ASAM Adults Vol.1 Core Concepts
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April 21st, 2026 - ASAM Criteria Fourth Edition, Adults Volume 1: Core Concepts One-Day Open Enrollment Training (04/21/2026) 8:30am Central - 4:30pm Central
Seats Available: 17
Online Price: $295.00
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Build Clarity and Confidence in Utilizing The ASAM Criteria, Fourth Edition, Volume 1: Adults—In Just One Day

Make faster, more objective, and defensible level of care decisions with this expert led, highly interactive virtual training. In a single day, you'll learn the major updates to the Fourth Edition and practice applying them using real-world case scenarios, hands on activities, and a resource-rich workbook.

Ideal for professionals across behavioral health and substance use services including: clinicians, counselors, peers, therapists, case managers, supervisors, billing staff, and anyone involved in assessment, placement, documentation, or treatment planning.

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(Limited seats available and this training often fills quickly.)

Why This Training Is Essential
The ASAM Criteria® underwent major updates updates in 2023—impacting assessment, patient placement, documentation, and the entire continuum of care. This training gives you the clarity and confidence needed to apply the Fourth Edition standards accurately and consistently.

This training brings to life The ASAM Criteria, Fourth Edition updates that strengthen the commitment to meeting people where they are. For many of us, these harm-reduction and person-centered approaches aren't new—they reflect the way we've been supporting individuals for years.

What's changed is that these holistic best practices are now formally codified. The training translates them into clear, actionable guidance that helps us continue doing what we do best: keeping people healthy and alive by engaging them, honoring their lived experience, and helping them connect with the treatment and support that aligns with their goals.

By grounding long-standing, real-world practice in structured guidance, this training ensures that compassionate, practical care becomes even more consistent and accessible across our work.

Register for Training and Strengthen Person-Centered Care

Training Details

  • Dates Available Monthly
  • Time: 8:30 AM – 4:30 p.m. Central
  • Format: Live Virtual Event
  • Price: $295
  • 7 CEs
  • Seats: Limited

You'll Walk Away With:

  • Clear understanding of the Fourth Edition updates—new assessment standards, dimensional rules, continuum-of-care structure, and treatment planning expectations.
  • Practical, hands-on experience applying the Criteria through breakout discussions, case scenarios, polls, and guided exercises.
  • Skills that strengthen clinical consistency for easier authorization approvals across your team or organization.
  • A completion certificate + 7 CE hours to support your professional growth.

What You Will Learn (Training Objectives)
By the end of the training, you'll be able to:

  • Describe the foundational principles of The ASAM Criteria and the major updates to The ASAM Criteria, Fourth Edition
  • Distinguish the six dimensions and subdimensions of the Fourth Edition's multidimensional assessment, and differentiate between the Level of Care Assessment and the Treatment Planning Assessment
  • Analyze the Fourth Edition's Continuum of care and how the updated criteria promote person-centered, culturally humble, integrated, and trauma responsive care
  • Apply The ASAM Criteria Fourth Edition to a diverse patient case study by utilizing level of care assessment guidelines to make a level of care recommendation and label Dimensional Drivers
  • Identify the content, functionality, and capabilities of the redesigned digital and print tools of The The ASAM Criteria
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What Participants Are Saying

"This training gave me confidence. One of the best trainings I've attended in 25 years."

"The facilitators were excellent. The group discussions and real world applications made the content easy to follow and immediately useful. I highly recommend it."

"I didn't expect trainers who could simplify such a complex topic. The pacing was perfect, and the material covered directly impacts my work."

How This Training Improves Your Work
You will leave prepared to:

  • Make more consistent, objective decisions using updated standards
  • Improve client outcomes with clearer, more aligned treatment planning
  • Strengthen documentation and authorization approvals
  • Increase team alignment through shared understanding of the new criteria

Who Should Attend
Great fit for anyone working in:

  • Behavioral health, mental health, co-occurring services
  • Substance use treatment or prevention
  • Recovery support
  • Human services roles that interact with behavioral health systems

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Exclusive Bonus for Attendees

Receive 10% off The ASAM Criteria, Fourth Edition, Volume 1: Adults print version using code TRAINING10. (Product sold separately and are not included in training fee; some restrictions apply.)

Ready to Strengthen Your Clinical Skills?
This training is designed to deliver clarity, confidence, and consistency—no matter your experience with The ASAM Criteria, Fourth Edition.

Become Confident in The Fourth Edition

MEET OUR TRAINERS

This course is led by Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation master trainers and consultants who are dedicated to helping others embrace the full value of The ASAM Criteria, Fourth Edition. Their collaborative goal is to give behavioral health professionals the knowledge and tools needed to implement the revised and redesigned guide for improved patient care. Having used The ASAM Criteria as practicing clinicians themselves, they directly understand how the standards and practices align to patient needs in a clinical setting.

Trainer Don Bartosik
Don Bartosik
MS, LMFT, Master Trainer and Consultant for the Consulting and Training Team at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

As a licensed marriage and family therapist, Bartosik, has spent over 25 years developing community-based health care programs, utilizing implementation science, building trusting relationships, and improving access to care for underserved communities. He's dedicated to providing clinical guidance, interdisciplinary administrative leadership, and targeted training and consultation across the country for evidence-based and emerging practices in behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment.

Trainer Andrea Boxill
Andrea Boxill
MS, LMFT, Master Trainer and Consultant for the Consulting and Training Team at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

During her more than 30 years in the field of addiction and mental health, Boxill has focused on boundary spanning between social services and the legal systems. She has developed mental health and addiction groups, facilitated discussions and trainings regarding intersystem collaboration, and has integrated behavioral health providers to address the negative impact of social determinants in obtaining quality health care. Prior to her position at Hazelden Betty Ford, she served as the first specialized docket coordinator for the Franklin County Municipal Court, was the deputy director for the Ohio Governor's Cabinet Opiate Action Team, and most recently was the administrator for the Department of Addiction Services at Columbus Public Health.

Trainer Kathrin Hohenstern
Kathrin Hohenstern
PhD, LICSW, Master Trainer and Consultant for the Consulting and Training Team at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

With over two decades of experience in clinical social work, Hohenstern's clinical expertise includes treating individuals with co-occurring disorders and those at risk for suicide across residential, outpatient, and telehealth settings. She is certified in several evidence-based practices, including cognitive processing therapy, social skills training, cognitive behavioral therapy for substance use disorders, cognitive behavioral therapy for suicide prevention, and problem-solving therapy for suicide prevention. She also brings advanced skills in motivational interviewing and dialectical behavior therapy.

Diana Kelly
Diana Kelly
LCSW, Clinical Director, Master Clinical Trainer and Consultant for the Consulting and Training Team at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

As a person in long-term recovery and a clinician working in substance use disorder recovery for over 13 years, Kelly has a deep, personal passion for working with those impacted by both trauma and substance use disorders. She is also an Army veteran who has worked at the Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center in their Substance Use Disorder Recovery Program for five years and was the clinical director for New Life Recovery Home where she worked with justice-involved individuals transitioning out of incarcerated settings. Kelly's dedication for teaching and mentoring was illuminated during her time as a faculty lecturer at the Indiana University School of Social work and now was a master clinical trainer and consultant at Hazelden Betty Ford.

Trainer James Puckett
James Puckett
EdD, LPC, NCC, CSAC, MAC, Clinical Trainer Consultant for the Consulting and Training Team at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

Puckett holds a doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision and brings extensive experience in the human services field, including juvenile justice and specialty treatment courts. A clinical therapist by trade, he specializes in trauma and addiction. Puckett serves as core faculty for Walden University's mental health counseling graduate programs and is a trainer for All Rise. He lives in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and considers his three sons his greatest accomplishments.

Josh Seezs
Josh Seezs
CSW-PIP, Clinician, Master Trainer and Consultant for the Consulting and Training Team at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

With a passion for employing evidence-based practices, Seezs is dedicated to guiding individuals toward positive change, including as an adjunct faculty member at the Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School and while serving on the Board of Directors at Central Minnesota Mental Health Center. He is certified in Motivational Interviewing and is experienced in cognitive-behavioral therapy and suicide prevention. For 14 years, Seezs treated co-occurring disorders and served Veterans and their families at the St. Cloud Veterans Affairs Health Care System.

 
Trainer Aman Singh
Aman Singh
LCSW, Substance Use Disorder Counselor for the Consulting and Training Team at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

Singh is a licensed clinical social worker with a BA/BS in psychology and sociology from Wayne State University and an MSW from the University of Southern California, where she focused on mental health and military social work. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in social work through Tulane University.

Singh has worked in nearly every level of care in substance use disorder treatment since 2007 and currently serves as a counselor at Hazelden Betty Ford in Naples, Florida. She has facilitated a complex trauma grief group for nine years at Valerie's House, a local nonprofit, and has taught chemical dependency courses as an adjunct professor at Florida Gulf Coast University. Singh has also provided supervision to BSW and MSW students and worked in probation counseling for anger management and domestic violence.

She has completed more than 2,000 hours of training in treatment modalities and special populations and is known for incorporating creativity, humor, and mindfulness into her work. Outside of her professional life, Aman has fostered over 350 pugs, chased storms in Tornado Alley for 11 years and will celebrate 20 years of sobriety in March 2026.

Trainer Joyce Starr
Joyce Starr
Master Trainer and Consultant for the Consulting and Training Team at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

With 40 years of experience in the public and private sector, Starr is a seasoned substance use disorder expert. Prior to retiring from the State of Ohio's Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (ODADAS), she served as chief of recovery supports and housing. Prior to holding that role, Starr was the chief of treatment services and chief of treatment and recovery services for ODADAS. She began her career with Project Linden, Inc., where she served as a substance use and recovery counselor for justice-involved individuals.

 
Klementyna (Ky) Weyman
Klementyna (Ky) Weyman
LCSW, Master Trainer and Consultant for the Consulting and Training Team at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

Weyman's work in direct practice has focused on program development and implementation of evidence-based practices for co-occurring disorders, with a specific focus on young adults. She also has a passion for teaching, with experience training clinicians in risk assessment and crisis intervention. Her current areas of interest include finding synergy between evidence-based treatment modalities for mental health, substance use, and co-occurring disorders, implementation and organizational change processes, and integration of care across providers and treatment delivery systems.


*CEs available for psychologists, counselors, mental health and family therapy professionals, social workers, nurses, and medical professionals. Please check with your board to confirm credits. A CE certificate is emailed upon completion of post-course evaluations.

CE
The Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School, provider #1487, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period:11/22/23-11/22/26. Social workers completing this course receive 7 continuing education credits.

Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0529. The Graduate School is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Graduate School maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. The Graduate School is an NBCC approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP # 6547, and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP solely is responsible for all aspects of the program. The Graduate School is approved to provide continuing education by CAADE Provider # CP40 975 C 0325, CCAPP Provider Number 1N-88-160-1227, CADTP provider # 125, and CA BRN CEP 16722.

Cancellations and Refunds
No cancellations, refunds or transfer of training dates can be made. For our full policy details, please visit this page.

Discount Restrictions:
The 10% discount may only be applied on resources needed for the training, and may not be applied to additional copies needed for organization or client implementation. We reserve the right to restrict the overall value of the discount to a certain max percentage of the training value.

Questions, ADA requests or grievances, please contact Addison Jones, customer implementation manager, Customer Solutions Delivery & Success by email at  AJones@HazeldenBettyFord.org or phone 651-213-4655.

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