Despite ever increasing energy and support devoted to drug education and prevention, many kinds of substance use occur more often and at younger ages than in many years. This suggests that current efforts are simply not working.
The practitioners and researchers of CERD are pleased to announce one of the first practical, interactive, scientifically sound approaches to drug education, prevention and treatment – Resilience Drug Education.

If you are interested in shifting your educational, human service or business organization to a strengths-based focus, phone or email today to connect with CERD's director and receive a free consultation (1.866.ASK-CERD: jhb@cerd.org), See how CERD can custom fit your needs with our extensive "hands-on"resilience services.

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CERD gets to the heart of Resilience. For over ten years, we have successfully made Resilience Drug Education a reality. We’ve devoted ourselves to enriching lives – to empowering youth and adults. How? By proactively focusing on each person’s inherent ability to succeed, and to foster that success in others.

CERD is unique. Conventional teaching methods promote an approach that assumes something is wrong and needs fixing. This merely addresses symptoms, not the larger issues. We believe that if an individual’s inherent strengths, interests and unique capacities are emphasized through awareness in the day-to-day, moment-to-moment experiences of life, genuine learning and development can grow and even flourish.

CERD’s Resilience Drug Education is groundbreaking. It is not simply an “add on” program. Resilience Drug Education is designed to become a part of you; to function in the background. We work with each CERD client to cultivate and bring together two parts of human interaction – the power of each person to make decisions, and the information around which those decisions are made – to support individualized learning and decisionmaking regarding drug information, prevention and treatment.

CERD engages people. We work on the specific means of using people’s hearts and minds to co-create and participate in the development of a healthy, democratic learning group or community. This community is built with professionals who both cultivate and model CERD’s process of lifelong learning. Our approach draws from several disciplines not often considered together as part of Drug Education: Human Development, Physiological Psychology and Educational Psychology.

One example: "It was amazing how the tension in my Drug Treatment group lifted when the focus shifted away from primarily client crises to the mobilization of client strengths. With the positive exchanges that subsequently occurred, I was not surprised by how connected we all felt within the group. In the CERD workshop, I was able to practice strategies that I encounter all the time at work, helping me to ‘let go’ and allow my professional skill to guide an empowering, healing and life-affirming process with my clients." Drug Treatment Counselor

CERD welcomes you. The Resilience Drug Education professional development seminar consists of three workshop sections for educators, helping professionals, leaders and business people who want to build a strengths-based focus to address or treat substance use, misuse or abuse. Our workshops focus on the Resilience Education process combined with honest, accurate and complete drug information, as well as how to integrate and apply what you learn. Additional training, consultation and evaluation are available to custom fit with your organization’s business practices or special needs.

CERD’s team of nationally renowned practitioners is eager to respond to any questions you may have. We look forward to making you and those you work with a part of CERD’s Resilience experience.

This is our Mission
CERD offers a unique opportunity to experience Resilience. When developing individual strengths and interests, anyone can increase awareness to take responsibility for his/her own lifelong learning and development. Many can then cultivate this experience with others. Through nationally recognized and time-tested consultation, research and evaluation, CERD promotes healthy youth, strong families, innovative organizations and progressive communities.