In 2018, the combined Federal Drug Control budget request was $27.57 billion and 50% of that value is devoted to treatment and prevention.
The Graduate Online Certificate in Addiction Intervention is targeting non-clinical graduate students and give each person who enrolls in the program essential evidenced-based tools with which he/she can effectively refer anyone, using or affiliated with Substance Use, to prevention and treatment programs that have proven effective.
Building the U.S. workforce with information and skills for effective referral is the targeted outcome of the program. Any graduate student from any of the following disciplines, but not limited to, would benefit from the Certificate Program.
The Certificate will be awarded by the Indiana Counselors Association for Drug Use and Alcohol (ICAADA). A Graduate Certificate in Public Health can lead or enhance careers in positions including:
- Community Health Educator
- Disease Prevention Manager
- Health Promotion Specialist
- Intervention Designer
- Maternal and Child Health Specialist
- Obesity Prevention Coordinator
- Public Health Educator
- Public Health Program Manager
- Public Health Researcher
- Sexual Health Educator
- Technical Advisor for HIV/AIDS Programs
- Vaccine Advisor and Program Manager
- Youth Tobacco Prevention Coordinator
- Social Worker
- Law Enforcement
- Teacher
- Education Administrator
- Education Counselors
- School Nurses
- Nurse Educator
- Corrections Officer
- Criminal Justice
- Social Services professionals
- Public Health Policy professionals
- Lawyers
- Political Science