DESCRIPTION:

This is the second of six highly interactive sessions focused on taking a deep dive into principles of the Substance Misuse Prevention Code of Ethics. The focus of this session will be on the principle of Competency. After a short presentation on this principle, participants will work together in small groups to look at how this principle can be applied to real-life situations using the Ethical Decision-Making Process.

Important Note: This prevention ethics series is for substance misuse prevention practitioners that have already completed an Ethics in Prevention Foundations training. If you would like to attend this series but have not yet completed the prevention ethics foundation course, please complete the free, self-paced, online prevention ethics course on HealtheKnowledge before attending this ethics series.

For more information and registration links for the entire series click here. 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Describe the competency principle of the Prevention Code of Ethics
• Apply the Ethical Decision-Making Process to the competency principle

CERTIFICATES:

Registrants who fully attend this event or training will receive a certificate of attendance via email within two weeks after the event or training. 

PRESENTER: 

Nicole Augustine

Nicole Augustine is an entrepreneur, public health professional and social justice advocate. In August 2022, Nicole published the Prevention Specialist Exam Study Guide to help readers understand the competencies and knowledge necessary to become certified. Nicole is a passionate prevention thought leader with a desire to be of greater impact and drive community change through innovative strategies.

The Great Lakes PTTC is offering this training for individuals working in HHS Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI. This training is being provided in response to a need identified by Region 5 stakeholders.

Session 1: Overview of Substance use and Substance Use Disorders (1/24)

Session 2: Prevention (2/7)

Session 3: Treating Substance Use Disorders (2/14)

Session 4: Case Illustrations (2/21)

Session 5: Reflections Upon Important Substance Use Topics – Q/A (2/28)

Date: February 8, 2023		Format: Webinar
Time: 11:00 AM—12:30 PM EST		Cost: FREE

ABOUT THE LEARNING SESSION

What are social determinants of health and how do they affect substance use? This webinar will explore these questions to help participants understand social determinants of health and how SUD prevention practitioners can integrate this knowledge into their work.

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will gain a foundational understanding of Social Determinants of Health
• Participants will be able to apply their understanding of Social Determinants of Health to their work

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Jennifer R. Ceide, MPH, CHES, is the Assistant Director of Public Health Workforce Development at the University of New England School of Public Health. As a faculty member for Graduate Programs in Public Health, she teaches Program Planning and Evaluation and Health Education Design. Ms. Ceide has worked in the field of public health since 2009, with a strong emphasis on health education and communication.

About the webinar: This webinar is hosted by the New England PTTC, a program funded through SAMHSA, in response to an identified need for additional training on determinants of health within the New England prevention workforce. Participants will receive a certificate of participation for 1.5 contact hours; no partial credit is available.

Date: February 8, 2023		Format: Webinar		Contact Hours: 1.25 (NAADAC pending)
Time: 1 PM—2:30 PM ET		Cost: FREE		Target Audience: Prevention Professionals

COURSE DESCRIPTION

In this targeted group session, participants from the first two sessions will gather to discuss applied grant writing needs. This session is reserved for HHS Region 3 participants who are currently writing or actively preparing to write a grant application.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Prepare for writing a specific, complete grant application
2. Explore capacity and prioritize needs for completing your application
3. Discuss and utilize ways to overcome barriers and leverage strengths in your application

Participants who attend this session will receive more information on scheduled, one-on-one sessions with Dr. Daniel Webb and/or Dr. Meghan Guinnee of Catalyst Research, LLC. In these one-on-one sessions, participants will receive guidance on their grant application from grant writing practitioners with over 19 years of experience writing local, regional, state, and federal grants.

PRESENTERS

Meghan Guinnee, PhD has served as an evaluator or consultant on a number of health and education projects. Her specialties include quality improvement – assisting clients in making data-driven changes that lead to better outcomes and efficiencies – and quantitative evaluation methods and analysis. Meghan holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

*CONTACT HOUR ELIGIBILITY

In order to be eligible for the 1.25 NAADAC(pending) contact hours/certificate of attendance, you must join the live webinar in Zoom.

Certificates must be requested within one week of the event and will be processed within 30 days.

If you are having issues accessing the room/application at the time of the event: Please email webinars@danyainstitute.org at the start of the webinar so that we can assist you.

ACCOMMODATIONS

If you are in need of any special accommodations, please notify the Central East PTTC Webinar Team three weeks in advance of the event, or as soon as possible, by emailing webinars@danyainstitute.org.

Date: February 9, 2023		Format: Webinar
Time: 9:00 AM—11:00 AM ET		Cost: FREE		Target Audience: Prevention Professionals, Rural Communities, Community Members

SERIES DESCRIPTION

The four part series 360 SAFETY: Keeping Staff Safe by Helping Clients Feel Secure - will empower your organization to create synergy with clients while ensuring physical and environmental safety for staff. Participants learn practical strategies for prioritizing their physical safety, enabling them to focus on the client’s situation. Our system further empowers staff to maintain their personal safety by emphasizing goal centric teamwork that provides emotional security to the client. As a result, clients often transform their energy of aggression into fuel for successful case plan completion. Whether taken as a series or an individual course, the goal is to help participants better partner with clients while ensuring their own personal safety.

SERIES LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. Participants will understand the importance of teaming with those they serve by emphasizing goal centric teamwork to achieve case plan objectives while also enhancing their own personal safety.
2. Participants will understand the reality of violence in their work, the risk factors of workplace violence for caseworkers and the need to take measures for personal safety.
3. Participants will apply vigilance strategies during office and field interactions, on home visits and while navigating the neighborhoods in which our clients reside.
4. Participants will use verbal de-escalation tactics to diffuse potentially hostile and aggressive clients or strangers.

SESSION 2:

Learn how to keep workers protected from potential drug exposure. Also learn how to keep workers and their family’s safe from pests (bedbugs, roaches and mice) and pets (dogs, etc.) that may be encountered at a client’s residence all while keeping the client’s dignity in tact.

Registration for this series is being managed by Delaware Health and Social Services-Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health.

PRESENTERS

Prevention coalitions are encouraged to build a diverse and inclusive membership that reflects the composition of the communities served. Doing so helps ensure representation of the perspectives necessary to identify and respond to substance misuse-related problems and consequences most effectively, and to prevent or intervene to address existing health inequities and disparities. For some, the challenges are understanding how to work with unfamiliar populations, overcoming anxiety with making a mistake, or building trust with diverse of impacted populations. Other coalitions, located in what appear to be racially or ethnically homogonous communities, wrestle with digging deeper to identify and comprehend the rich diversity present, regardless of what the demographics indicate. Regardless of location, how might coalitions engage community members across cultural identities as partners to address health disparities, center equity in their prevention approaches, and overcome common barriers? What helps communities and coalitions to overcome histories of distance and mistrust? How can progress and success be identified and measured?

Join this collaborative series from the National Hispanic and Latino PTTC and Northeast and Caribbean PTTC for a deep exploration of these issues and an opportunity to receive expert guidance around real-world challenges experienced.

By the end of this series of technical assistance services, participants will/be able to:

• Develop a personal understanding of the positive impact of attention to diversity, equity, and inclusion to their community and prevention efforts
• Increase awareness of common biases or practices that reinforce inequity and exclusion
• Identify three personal and coalition practices or policies to apply that increase equity in prevention efforts

DEI Webinar Session

• Gain a deeper personal understanding of culture, DEI, and related concepts of identity within coalitions and communities
• Understand how to interpret health equity data and identify community assets
• Review tools to better understand community (historical background),
• Review how to practically apply DEI in real world settings

Coalition Leader Practices TA Session

• Assess personal challenges encountered and potential strategies to address
• Identify effective practices and tools coalition leaders can apply to work effectively with community/partners
• Review practices how to engage partner experiences in real world settings and address current personal challenges

Coalition Practices TA Session

• Identify coalition policies and practices to address
• Review everyday coalition practices to incorporate and apply to identified challenges
• Identify strategies, values and tools to engage and work effectively with new partners

Date: February 10, 2023		Format: Webinar
Time: 11:00 AM—12:30 PM EST		Cost: FREE

Planning for Program Sustainability Part 1: Foundations of Sustainability

ABOUT THE LEARNING SESSION

This two-part series will provide an introduction to program sustainability followed by a more advanced look at how prevention agencies can navigate the current funding landscape while planning for the future. Part 1 will address foundational concepts of program sustainability and how to consider sustainability in your planning. Part 2 will take a deeper dive into unique considerations for program sustainability and how to navigate the current funding landscape. Participants may choose to register for either or both webinars.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Dodi Swope, M.Ed., LMFT, has over 35 years of experience across the continuum of behavioral health prevention, intervention and treatment. Her background includes teaching in regular and special education settings and a clinical practice serving children and families for over ten years, before moving towards the prevention end of the spectrum. For twenty plus years she has supported prevention strategies at community, region, state and national levels through her work as a training and technical assistance specialist with Education Development Center. Dodi coordinates two community coalitions in her local community, one focused on helping middle school aged girls thrive and the other on early childhood development and wellbeing. Dodi also teaches a graduate level course at Clark University on Grant Writing for Community Developers. She maintains an independent community public health consulting practice from her home in Worcester, Massachusetts.

About the webinar: This series is hosted by the New England PTTC, a program funded through SAMHSA, in response to an identified need for additional training on sustainability planning within the New England prevention workforce. Participants will receive a participation certificate for 1.5 contact hours for each webinar.

REGISTER - Part 2: Navigating the Funding Landscape - February 17, 2023, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Love is in the Air – A Mini Mindfulness Series

These meditation sessions invite you to expand and clarify your definition of “love” by examining the concept of “metta”. Sometimes referred to as “loving kindness”, metta has been interpreted in some communities as “Love that is strength and gives strength.” The first session will focus on the meaning of “metta” and describes how metta is different from “sympathy” or “empathy”. The second session focuses on using metta to explore our loving relationships without being hampered by worldly conditions that may hinder our ability to love in a wise and compassionate way. Each session offers an informational talk on metta followed by a short meditation session on metta.

Dates:

• Session 1: Friday, February 10, 2023, at 11:30 a.m. ET
• Session 2: Monday, February 13, 2023, at 11:30 a.m. ET

Learning Objectives:

1. Define metta.
2. Recognize how metta is different from sympathy or empathy. 
3. Understand how a metta frame of reference can improve all relationships including relationships with others and ourselves.

Instructor:

Dr. Bill Geary began studying mindfulness and meditation in 1982. His interest in meditation started sporadically, and over the subsequent years he has gradually deepened his meditation practice to include weeklong silent meditation retreats, studying an increasing variety of teachers and expanding the length and complexity of his daily meditations. Bill is in the final months of a two-year training course on mindfulness meditation techniques. He will soon attain his Teaching Certificate in Mindfulness Meditation from SoundsTrue. Bill’s teachers include Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, davidji, Jake Dartington, and others.  He is currently the owner of Global Evaluation Solutions (GES). Bill has worked on substance abuse and violence prevention for the past 22 years. He currently resides in Doylestown, PA.

Date: Febraury 13-16, 2023		Format: Webinar 4 days, 2 hours daily, Participation certificates and up to 8 CE credits available
Time: 11:00 AM—1:00 PM EST Daily		Cost: FREE

ABOUT THE LEARNING SESSION

Learn more about innovative approaches to supporting better outcomes for those who provide care as well as those seeking and receiving behavioral health care in communities of color in New England!

Presenters, including clinicians, researchers, faith and community leaders, and people with lived expertise, will explore strategies for:

• Delivering culturally competent care
• Creating recovery-ready workplaces
• Integrating peer support in the workforce
• Building career ladders for existing staff and retaining early career staff

EVENT COVENER 

EVENT COLLABORATORS

Love is in the Air – A Mini Mindfulness Series

These meditation sessions invite you to expand and clarify your definition of “love” by examining the concept of “metta”. Sometimes referred to as “loving kindness”, metta has been interpreted in some communities as “Love that is strength and gives strength.” The first session will focus on the meaning of “metta” and describes how metta is different from “sympathy” or “empathy”. The second session focuses on using metta to explore our loving relationships without being hampered by worldly conditions that may hinder our ability to love in a wise and compassionate way. Each session offers an informational talk on metta followed by a short meditation session on metta.

Dates:

• Session 1: Friday, February 10, 2023, at 11:30 a.m. ET
• Session 2: Monday, February 13, 2023, at 11:30 a.m. ET

Learning Objectives:

1. Define metta.
2. Recognize how metta is different from sympathy or empathy. 
3. Understand how a metta frame of reference can improve all relationships including relationships with others and ourselves.

Instructor:

Dr. Bill Geary began studying mindfulness and meditation in 1982. His interest in meditation started sporadically, and over the subsequent years he has gradually deepened his meditation practice to include weeklong silent meditation retreats, studying an increasing variety of teachers and expanding the length and complexity of his daily meditations. Bill is in the final months of a two-year training course on mindfulness meditation techniques. He will soon attain his Teaching Certificate in Mindfulness Meditation from SoundsTrue. Bill’s teachers include Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, davidji, Jake Dartington, and others.  He is currently the owner of Global Evaluation Solutions (GES). Bill has worked on substance abuse and violence prevention for the past 22 years. He currently resides in Doylestown, PA.

Date: Febraury 13-16, 2023		Format: Webinar 4 days, 2 hours daily, Participation certificates and up to 8 CE credits available
Time: 11:00 AM—1:00 PM EST Daily		Cost: FREE

ABOUT THE LEARNING SESSION

Learn more about innovative approaches to supporting better outcomes for those who provide care as well as those seeking and receiving behavioral health care in communities of color in New England!

Presenters, including clinicians, researchers, faith and community leaders, and people with lived expertise, will explore strategies for:

• Delivering culturally competent care
• Creating recovery-ready workplaces
• Integrating peer support in the workforce
• Building career ladders for existing staff and retaining early career staff

EVENT COVENER 

EVENT COLLABORATORS

Session 1: Overview of Substance use and Substance Use Disorders (1/24)

Session 2: Prevention (2/7)

Session 3: Treating Substance Use Disorders (2/14)

Session 4: Case Illustrations (2/21)

Session 5: Reflections Upon Important Substance Use Topics – Q/A (2/28)

Date: February 14, 2023		Format: Webinar		Contact Hours: 1.25 (NAADAC pending)
Time: 1 PM—2:30 PM ET		Cost: FREE		Target Audience: Prevention Professionals

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Research has shown that the words we use to describe substance use disorders (SUD) and recovery have a significant impact on those struggling and how they are treated. While evidence shows that SUDs are medical illnesses, it is still too common for SUDs to be characterized as a moral failing or character flaw. Disparaging words are, unfortunately, still used to describe SUDs and the individuals suffering from them. Research suggests that improving our language when we describe addiction, such as using person-first language when talking about the disease, restores and empowers the humanity of individuals, rather than defining them by their illness.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Understand that addiction is a medical condition, and the words we use to describe it should be non-stigmatizing.
2. Understand the importance of person-first language and how to implement it when talking about substance use disorders (SUD).
3. Understand the role stigma plays in keeping individuals with SUD from seeking help.

PRESENTER

*CONTACT HOUR ELIGIBILITY

In order to be eligible for the 1.25 NAADAC(pending) contact hours/certificate of attendance, you must join the live webinar in Zoom.

Certificates must be requested within one week of the event and will be processed within 30 days.

If you are having issues accessing the room/application at the time of the event: Please email webinars@danyainstitute.org at the start of the webinar so that we can assist you.

ACCOMMODATIONS

If you are in need of any special accommodations, please notify the Central East PTTC Webinar Team three weeks in advance of the event, or as soon as possible, by emailing webinars@danyainstitute.org.

Join us to focus on healthy aspects of traditional living during the winter months. Being well and making healthy choices during this time is a topic for consideration in the areas of making connections, taking care of ourselves while caring for others, getting active together, and building healthy relationships with our families. We have strengths in our culture and traditions. Let us look for ways to build up ourselves with healthy habits through our Indigenous ways of knowledge.

2-3:30 ET / 1-2:30 CT / 12-1:30 MT / 11-12:30 PT / 10-11:30 AKT

Date: Febraury 13-16, 2023		Format: Webinar 4 days, 2 hours daily, Participation certificates and up to 8 CE credits available
Time: 11:00 AM—1:00 PM EST Daily		Cost: FREE

ABOUT THE LEARNING SESSION

Learn more about innovative approaches to supporting better outcomes for those who provide care as well as those seeking and receiving behavioral health care in communities of color in New England!

Presenters, including clinicians, researchers, faith and community leaders, and people with lived expertise, will explore strategies for:

• Delivering culturally competent care
• Creating recovery-ready workplaces
• Integrating peer support in the workforce
• Building career ladders for existing staff and retaining early career staff

EVENT COVENER 

EVENT COLLABORATORS

As prevention professionals, we spend much of our time facilitating trainings for our peers and various community sectors. Facilitators juggle many roles, from keeping the group focused to exploring ways to promote the application of new knowledge. But how do you learn to do this? This workshop will explore what makes the "perfect" facilitator and the impact the facilitator has on the training and participants. Many of you may have found yourself in a situation where you are ready to deliver an outstanding presentation, only to encounter a distraction. Distractions, whether intentional or not, happen. As facilitators, how we respond to distractions is a good indicator of how successful the presentation will be. It's best to be prepared for potential distractions so that we are ready just in case they occur. This workshop will discuss the importance of setting group norms and expectations to create presentations that will benefit all learning styles. There will be a discussion of the different types of participants. Finally, there will be a discussion of strategies for working with all participants and situations that could arise during your presentation.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify instructional design theories, seat placement practices, and speaking styles that can help create the "perfect" presentation.
• Demonstrate skills needed to engage all audiences to accommodate different learning styles and develop capacity for managing difficult people and situations in a program setting.
• Recognize the types of different participants, the effects of disruptive audience members on others and the behavior of the perfect participant.

About the Presenter:

Jordon Hillhouse is a Certified Prevention Specialist with over ten years of experience in substance use prevention. In the past, he has worked with state agencies targeting the opioid crisis, underage drinking, and mental health awareness efforts. His passion is with alcohol and drug prevention education. He has developed many prevention-related trainings and has had the opportunity to speak to thousands of people across the country. He holds a master’s degree in business administration from Alcorn State University and is a published author. He currently works at the Mississippi Public Health Institute as the Workforce Development Manager, where he oversees the Mississippi Behavioral Health Learning Network, providing relevant trainings to state and national mental health professionals.

CONTACT HOUR ELIGIBILITY
In order to be eligible for the stated contact hours/certificate of attendance, you must join the live webinar on the video platform.
Certificates must be requested within one week of the event and will be processed within 30 days.
If you are having issues accessing the room/application at the time of the event: Please email southeast@pttcnetwork.org at the start of the webinar so that we can assist you.

Program Spotlight: Engaging Families through Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors

Webinar Description

In this presentation, participants will be introduced to the Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors (AP/OD) program. They will also learn from an implementing partner and their experience implementing AP/OD to their community. AP/OD is the nation's first evidence-based parent leadership program designed by and for Latino parents with children ages 0-5 and adopted by diverse communities across the country. The bilingual 10-session curriculum promotes school readiness, family well-being, and advocacy by addressing best practices in brain development, key aspects of early childhood development, early literacy, early math, positive use of technology, transition to school, civic engagement, parent leadership, goal-setting, and planning for family success.

Objectives

• Learn about the Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors training program and its impact on families nationwide.
• Hear from an implementing partner and their experience implementing the program with families
• Learn about upcoming Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors training and how to become a certified 3rd Edition facilitator

Date and Time

Wednesday, February 15, 2023
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Alaska
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Pacific
01:00 p.m. – 02:00 p.m. Mountain

(View in your time zone)

Audience

Prevention practitioners, allied health partners and community members working to prevent substance misuse in tribes, communities, and states in HHS Region 10 (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington).

Presenter

Daisy Castañeda, MS., serves as the National Director of Training and is located at the national office. She is responsible for the design, planning, and implementation of AP/OD Program Acquisition Institutes which include in-person and virtual Institutes. She helps support AP/OD’s partnerships and community relationships by supporting special projects. Daisy is a native Angeleno and a first-generation college graduate. She holds a B.A. in Political Science with a focus on Public Administration and a master’s degree in Public Administration with an emphasis in leadership.

Registration

Register for the Webinar - Program Spotlight: Engaging Families through Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors

 

Certificates

Certificates will not be provided for this event

Questions

Please contact Isis Mack (imack@casat.org) for any questions related to registration. For any other questions, please contact Michelle Frye-Spray (mfryespray@casat.org).

Date: Febraury 13-16, 2023		Format: Webinar 4 days, 2 hours daily, Participation certificates and up to 8 CE credits available
Time: 11:00 AM—1:00 PM EST Daily		Cost: FREE

ABOUT THE LEARNING SESSION

Learn more about innovative approaches to supporting better outcomes for those who provide care as well as those seeking and receiving behavioral health care in communities of color in New England!

Presenters, including clinicians, researchers, faith and community leaders, and people with lived expertise, will explore strategies for:

• Delivering culturally competent care
• Creating recovery-ready workplaces
• Integrating peer support in the workforce
• Building career ladders for existing staff and retaining early career staff

EVENT COVENER 

EVENT COLLABORATORS

Date: February 17, 2023		Format: Webinar
Time: 11:00 AM—12:30 PM EST		Cost: FREE

Planning for Program Sustainability Part 2: Navigating the Funding Landscape

ABOUT THE LEARNING SESSION

This two-part series will provide an introduction to program sustainability followed by a more advanced look at how prevention agencies can navigate the current funding landscape while planning for the future. Part 1 will address foundational concepts of program sustainability and how to consider sustainability in your planning. Part 2 will take a deeper dive into unique considerations for program sustainability and how to navigate the current funding landscape. Participants may choose to register for either or both webinars.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Dodi Swope, M.Ed., LMFT, has over 35 years of experience across the continuum of behavioral health prevention, intervention and treatment. Her background includes teaching in regular and special education settings and a clinical practice serving children and families for over ten years, before moving towards the prevention end of the spectrum. For twenty plus years she has supported prevention strategies at community, region, state and national levels through her work as a training and technical assistance specialist with Education Development Center. Dodi coordinates two community coalitions in her local community, one focused on helping middle school aged girls thrive and the other on early childhood development and wellbeing. Dodi also teaches a graduate level course at Clark University on Grant Writing for Community Developers. She maintains an independent community public health consulting practice from her home in Worcester, Massachusetts.

About the webinar: This series is hosted by the New England PTTC, a program funded through SAMHSA, in response to an identified need for additional training on sustainability planning within the New England prevention workforce. Participants will receive a participation certificate for 1.5 contact hours for each webinar.

REGISTER - Part 1: Foundations of Sustainability - February 10, 2023, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Preventing Underage Drinking and Excessive Drinking among Adults through Alcohol Policy

Webinar 2: The What - Evidence-based Alcohol Policies to Reduce Community Level Harms

Dates & Times

States and American Samoa
February 22, 2023
04:00 p.m. - 06:00 p.m. Arizona
03:00 p.m. - 05:00 p.m. Pacific 
01:00 p.m. - 03:00 p.m. Hawaii
12:00 p.m. - 02:00 p.m. American Samoa              

Pacific Jurisdictions
February 23, 2023
11:00 a.m. - 01:00 p.m. Republic of the Marshall Islands
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Pohnpei and Kosrae
09:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Chuuk, and Yap
08:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Republic of Palau
(view in your time zone)

Webinar Description

In collaboration with the Southeast PTTC, Center for Advancing Alcohol Science to Practice, and the US Alcohol Policy Alliance, interactive webinar #2 details alcohol policy strategies that can be effective in reducing excessive and underage drinking, and their associated community-level harms. This webinar will cover a range of strategies and their levels of effectiveness.

In this webinar, participants will explore:

• How alcohol policy strategies can address excessive and underage drinking at the community level
• Which alcohol policy strategies are being used in communities across the country
• How these policy strategies complement the prevention work already happening in local communities

Audience

Community, tribal, jurisdiction, and state-level substance misuse prevention practitioners and allied health partners located in the Pacific Southwest region, including American Samoa, Arizona, California, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada, Republic of Marshall Islands, and Republic of Palau. 

Presenters

Michael Sparks is an Alcohol Policy Specialist and President of SparksInitiatives. His primary interest is in assisting communities to implement evidence-based environmental strategies to reduce alcohol and other drug problems. Among others, Michael is currently working with Wake Forest University, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Foundation and Health Foundation of South Florida on a range of public health issues. He currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the US Alcohol Policy Alliance.

Sara Cooley Broschart leads the newly established Center for Advancing Alcohol Science to Practice. Sara is a public health leader with over a decade of experience in substance use prevention at local, regional and state levels. Contribution to community has been a driving value, and she is thrilled to work with communities nationwide in her new role. Her experience includes advising alcohol and marijuana regulators on policy and best practices, developing innovative methods to engage community voices in policy making activities, building a statewide alcohol policy allia

Description
Medications for Opioid Use Disorders (MOUD) are recommended for individuals with an opioid use disorder, including pregnant women. While facilitating pathways to recovery for the person with an opioid use disorder (OUD) is appropriate, it is important to consider and address the severe effects OUD has on family relationships and functioning. Children are especially vulnerable and are at an increased risk of trauma, academic challenges, or child neglect, which can disrupt healthy development.
This interactive webinar will define opioid use disorder (OUD), review adverse effects of opioid use on family dynamics, and review behavioral and developmental concerns for children, including neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). The content will also discuss medications recommended to treat OUD and inform on approaches to support healthy recovery for children and family wellness.

Trainer
Diana Padilla, MCPC, CARC, CASAC-T, is a Research Project Manager at New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Medical Center. She is a senior staff trainer for the Northeast & Caribbean Addiction Transfer Technology Center Network (NeC-ATTC), and a member of the ASAP-NYCB Trainer Registry. As a cultural agent, Ms. Padilla promotes an equity lens in trainings for engaging diverse communities in need, aligning with evidence and strength-based strategies within behavioral health, addiction, prevention, and recovery supports fields and professional capacities.

Credits
This training meets the requirements for two renewal hours (CASAC, CPP, CPS) and two initial hours (CPP, CPS) through New York State’s Office of Addiction Services and Supports (NYS OASAS). As an IC & RC member board, OASAS accredited courses are granted reciprocal approval by the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, Alcohol and Drug Counselor Committee. Many other states offer reciprocity - please check with your accrediting agency.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Date: February 23, 2023		Format: Webinar		Contact Hours: 1.25 NAADAC (pending)
Time: 1 PM—2:30 PM ET		Cost: FREE		Target Audience: Prevention Professionals

SERIES DESCRIPTION

Logic models are a visual planning tool that are a core element of strategic planning. Prevention professionals can use logic models to facilitate the development of a strategic plan, check the plan for issues or errors, explain the plan to others, and provide a baseline for the development of implementation and evaluation plans. This two-part webinar series will explain what logic models are and why they are important, teach skills for developing logic models, and provide participants opportunities to practice those skills.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This webinar will build from part one of this series. It will first explain in more detail the process of creating a logic model and provide a practice exercise for participants to begin building their own logic models. The webinar will also walk through how to use a completed logic model, including the steps for turning a logic model into an implementation plan and evaluation plan. Lastly, the webinar will discuss other uses of logic models, such as being shared with funders and community partners. The webinar will provide a small group discussion opportunity for participants to share their experiences with logic models, barriers and challenges encountered when developing logic models, and success strategies.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Explain the process for developing a logic model
2. Begin planning the development of their own logic models
3. Understand how to incorporate logic models into implementation and evaluation plans
4. Describe the other uses of logic models for prevention professionals

PRESENTERS

Josh Esrick, MPP is the Chief of Training and Technical Assistance at Carnevale Associates, LLC. Mr. Esrick has over ten years of experience researching, writing, evaluating, and presenting on substance use prevention and other behavioral health topics. He is an expert in providing training and technical assistance (TTA) in substance use, having overseen the development of hundreds of TTA products for numerous clients, including six of SAMHSA’s ten regional Prevention Technology Transfer Centers (PTTCs), the PTTC Network Coordinating Office, the Central East Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) and Mental Health Technology Transfer Centers (MHTTC), and SAMHSA’s Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT). These trainings and products have covered a wide range of topics, including strategic planning, data collection and analysis, and identifying evidence-based prevention interventions for youth. In addition to TTA, Mr. Esrick has directly provided many of these services to behavioral health agencies and other entities. He has published several academic journal articles. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a Master of Public Policy from George Washington University.

Emily Patton, MSc, PgDip holds a Masters of Science in Abnormal and Clinical Psychology from Swansea University and a Postgraduate Degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Edinburgh. She offers significant professional experience in the fields of public policy development and analysis, criminal justice research, data collection and analysis, program development, and performance management.

*CONTACT HOUR ELIGIBILITY

In order to be eligible for the 1.25 NAADAC contact hours/certificate of attendance, you must join the live webinar in the Zoom platform.

Certificates must be requested within one week of the event and will be processed within 30 days.

If you are having issues accessing the room/application at the time of the event: Please email webinars@danyainstitute.org at the start of the webinar so that we can assist you.

ACCOMMODATIONS

If you are in need of any special accommodations, please notify the Central East PTTC Webinar Team three weeks in advance of the event, or as soon as possible, by emailing webinars@danyainstitute.org.

The PTTC Cannabis Prevention Working Group developed a two-module, 2.5 hour webinar course on how to address youth cannabis use. The course presented new information about how perception of harm and related factors impact youth cannabis use are emerging, the research behind those factors, as well as evidence-informed strategies for addressing them. Now, we are pleased to offer you a live session about the course with the developer, Gisela Rots. Gisela will provide with a quick overview and recap of the course and be available to clarify questions you may have about the content.

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About the Presenter:

Gisela Rots, a public health expert and highly skilled trainer, leads programs that improve outcomes for vulnerable populations through the use of evidence-based strategies. She specializes in substance misuse prevention, youth risk prevention, and building resilience. For over 15 years, she has managed award-winning training programs, integrated trauma-informed approaches into prevention, designed successful social marketing campaigns, advised state agencies and community coalitions, and developed cross-sector partnerships to improve services. Rots translates research into practice to address implementation hurdles across community, social, demographic, and environmental contexts. She is the director of the Center for Strategic Prevention Support (CSPS) and consults for Prevention Solutions@EDC.

Session 1: Overview of Substance use and Substance Use Disorders (1/24)

Session 2: Prevention (2/7)

Session 3: Treating Substance Use Disorders (2/14)

Session 4: Case Illustrations (2/21)

Session 5: Reflections Upon Important Substance Use Topics – Q/A (2/28)

Join us to focus on healthy aspects of traditional living during the winter months. Being well and making healthy choices during this time is a topic for consideration in the areas of making connections, taking care of ourselves while caring for others, getting active together, and building healthy relationships with our families. We have strengths in our culture and traditions. Let us look for ways to build up ourselves with healthy habits through our Indigenous ways of knowledge.

2-3:30 ET / 1-2:30 CT / 12-1:30 MT / 11-12:30 PT / 10-11:30 AKT