Since April 2016, Janina Kean, substances use disorders expert and Yale trained, board certified psychiatric and mental health nurse practitioner, has been teaching a two day course called the Community Awareness Program on Addiction. This is the same course she offered to families and individuals whose lives are impacted by addiction during her 18 year tenure as CEO of a treatment facility in CT. The free program as been made available to the Nantucket community through A.S.A.P. and grants from SAMSHA and the Town of Nantucket.