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This webinar is the first dialogue of the U.S. Alcohol Policy Alliance’s new three-part Interactive Dialogue series. Dialogue 1 will define the problem by discussing new and novel high-risk products that are increasingly present in communities. Dialogue 2 will provide training on how to collect information on these products in your community. Dialogue 3 will include time for reporting out on findings from community scans and discuss policy solutions to reduce the sale and advertising of high-risk alcoholic beverages. The dates and times of Dialogues 2 and 3 will be announced at a later time. 

Please refer to the Athena calendar listing on day one of this 6-part series - Wednesday, 10/19/22 - for full information, including schedule, costs, and scholarships. 

Using technology to facilitate clinical or recovery support sessions requires clinicians and peer support specialists to simulate real-time experiences that promote a therapeutic alliance (treatment) or connection (peer support). However, virtual service delivery requires some careful modification of the clinicians’ or peer support specialists’ skills to ensure engagement occurs and positive working relationships are developed. This webinar, presented by Nancy A. Roget, MS, MFT, LADC and Maryellen Evers, LCSW, CAADAC, CMFSW, will include a review of telebehavioral health research and its efficacy, strategies that promote skill development, how to create a virtual presence, resources related to guidelines and tips, and comments regarding hybrid service delivery.

1.5 CME & CE available. 

Sponsored by the Northwest and Pacific Southwest ATTCs and the Western States Node of the NIDA Clinical Trials Network. 

This webinar is part of Northwest PTTC's Emerging Topics in Prevention Science Media Series. 

Community prevention practitioners are cultural brokers who understand the values and norms of their community. Current research demonstrates that when communities effectively implement evidence-based interventions to prevent youth access to substances, communities also benefit from a reduction in firearm-related violence. This presentation will explore how five core values (Safety, Protection, Responsibility, Freedom, and Community) expressed by owners of firearms can act as a bridging tool to strengthen and expand substance misuse prevention efforts, prevent suicide by firearms, and promote safer communities. 

If you have completed the Minerva training and have a Minerva user login, you may join the Minerva TA Calls. No registration is needed - join using the link below. Questions will be taken in the order submitted and you are welcome to listen in on the call to learn from others.​ These online calls are intended for CBOs, CPWIs, and projects.

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Employees who experience feelings of inclusion in the workplace are associated with a positive workplace culture and increased employee engagement. Developing a meaningful mental health strategy with diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) in mind affects the culture, employees’ feelings of confidence and inclusion, and opportunities available to employees with diverse backgrounds. This panel-style webinar will discuss ways to approach your organization’s mental health strategy with DEIB at its core.

Join MHA and guests for a free 60-minute webinar where we will:

• Review how to create the initial framework for a mental health strategy.
• Discuss the importance of building a diverse workforce.
• Explore how to create an inclusive workplace culture.
• Identify best practices to ensure a workplace where all feel welcome and have a voice.

This hybrid workshop will review strategies, techniques, and resources to help decrease tobacco dependence and increase cessation efforts for veterans and military families in Washington State. Through a trauma informed care lens, we will explore the role of smoking with post-traumatic stress and other co-occurring mental health disorders, issues of health equity and social justice, community disparities, and factors affecting older veteran tobacco users. About 34 million American adults still smoke cigarettes, and smoking remains the single largest preventable cause of death and illness in the world.

After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Use best practice guidelines and evidence-based tobacco intervention strategies with veteran clients
• Explain the role of smoking and PTSD as well as other co-occurring mental health disorders
• Explain why Tobacco use is a health disparity and social justice issue
• Address challenges with older smokers
• Know where to refer clients (veterans) for support

This two-week, four-session series offers an interactive experience that explores the six principles of the Prevention Code of Ethics using realistic examples designed to strengthen participants’ abilities to manage challenging situations in their work. The learning series is structured to provide online consultation, skill-based learning and practice, group and individual activities, reading assignments, and discussion on topics essential to the application of an ethical decision-making process.

• Defined ethics and related terms
• Described the six principles in the Prevention Code of Ethics
• Practiced using an ethical decision-making process to apply the Prevention Code of Ethics

Dates: November 8, 10, 15, and 17, 2022

This course is an Enhanced Prevention Learning Series (EPLS) delivered by Northwest PTTC. An EPLS is a sequenced, synchronous online learning event, commonly delivered over several weeks to increase participants’ knowledge and skills application on specific topics.

Rural communities are rich in social and economic assets that can be used to support health equity. Join County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, November 15, to learn about a new tool, the Thrive Rural Health Framework, which was created by Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group (CSG) in partnership with the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. The tool helps leaders identify these assets, implement strategies, and measure progress to advance rural prosperity, health, and well-being. This webinar will be structured as a workshop and community leaders and residents are encouraged to participate together for collective learning.

This is the second in a two-part series, Rural America’s Opportunity for Equity.

More than half of the US population now live in states where medical or adult-use of cannabis is allowed. As the legal landscape evolves in our own states, prevention practitioners have a role to play in addressing youth cannabis use. The presenter, Gisela Rots, will provide an overview of risk and protective factors, and key considerations for policy and communication strategies to prevent youth use. 

In this session, how risk and protective factors are evolving in a changing cannabis landscape will be discussed. Participants will also hear about key considerations for strategies related to preventing youth cannabis use. 

This two-week, four-session series offers an interactive experience that explores the six principles of the Prevention Code of Ethics using realistic examples designed to strengthen participants’ abilities to manage challenging situations in their work. The learning series is structured to provide online consultation, skill-based learning and practice, group and individual activities, reading assignments, and discussion on topics essential to the application of an ethical decision-making process.

• Defined ethics and related terms
• Described the six principles in the Prevention Code of Ethics
• Practiced using an ethical decision-making process to apply the Prevention Code of Ethics

Dates: November 8, 10, 15, and 17, 2022

This course is an Enhanced Prevention Learning Series (EPLS) delivered by Northwest PTTC. An EPLS is a sequenced, synchronous online learning event, commonly delivered over several weeks to increase participants’ knowledge and skills application on specific topics.

This lecture is part of the 2022 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid AIAN Lecture Series. 

For more information, view the series flyer. Please note, the time zone for the lecture is not noted.

This talk introduces the Invitation to Change (ITC), a model built to provide accessible and impactful practices to anyone in a helping role––be that a family member, peer support, or professional. Blending principles and practices found in three evidence-based approaches for supporting change, the ITC offers guidance on how to use them in a common language: not only to make helpers more effective but also to increase their capacity and willingness to support a person struggling with substance use.

Please refer to the Athena calendar listing on day one of this 6-part series - Wednesday, 10/19/22 - for full information, including schedule, costs, and scholarships. 

This is part of a monthly 3-session series that will host a diverse panel of Native Americans to address both personal and collective barriers to living heathier. The panel will explore ways to navigate a linear colonial system, in a good way, while maintaining balance, and share teachings on helping both ourselves and the Native people. 

This is an expanded version of the popular TOR Care & Share sessions that began in early 2020, now open to all prevention, treatment, and recovery professionals working with Native populations. This session is a guided discussion for participants to share their expertise, unique tribal and community practices, and offer peer-to-peer support for others serving Native people and tribal communities. Discussion topics are determined by registration responses.

This session is held on the third Wednesday of every month. 

PAX Chats offer an opportunity for ANYONE trained in PAX seeking assistance/guidance in implementing, sustaining, or expanding PAX in the classroom or school-wide. This is your chance to ask a PAX question, discuss resources, or share ideas. Pre-registration is not required. Click "Event registration website" below to access the Zoom meeting. 

PAX Chats offer an opportunity for ANYONE trained in PAX seeking assistance/guidance in implementing, sustaining, or expanding PAX in the classroom or school-wide. This is your chance to ask a PAX question, discuss resources, or share ideas. Pre-registration is not required. Click "Event registration website" below to access the Zoom meeting. 

The pandemic has spared no one. But the impact on some groups has received less attention. An estimated 10.9% of adults 50 and older have a substance use disorder (SUD), but older adults are less likely to seek treatment, even when the evidence shows that they are just as likely to benefit from it.

Join the National Council for Mental Wellbeing's Substance Use and Older Adult Interest Groups, as they team-up for a deep dive into the emerging SUD treatment and recovery landscape for older adults.

This two-week, four-session series offers an interactive experience that explores the six principles of the Prevention Code of Ethics using realistic examples designed to strengthen participants’ abilities to manage challenging situations in their work. The learning series is structured to provide online consultation, skill-based learning and practice, group and individual activities, reading assignments, and discussion on topics essential to the application of an ethical decision-making process.

• Defined ethics and related terms
• Described the six principles in the Prevention Code of Ethics
• Practiced using an ethical decision-making process to apply the Prevention Code of Ethics

Dates: November 8, 10, 15, and 17, 2022

This course is an Enhanced Prevention Learning Series (EPLS) delivered by Northwest PTTC. An EPLS is a sequenced, synchronous online learning event, commonly delivered over several weeks to increase participants’ knowledge and skills application on specific topics.

If you have completed the Minerva training and have a Minerva user login, you may join the Minerva TA Calls. No registration is needed - join using the link below. Questions will be taken in the order submitted and you are welcome to listen in on the call to learn from others.​ These online calls are intended for CBOs, CPWIs, and projects.

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The Washington State Legislature created Mental health assessment for young children to support infant and early childhood providers in using best practices with very young children, including training in the Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood (DC: 0–5).

The DC: 0-5 uses a developmentally-appropriate and contextually-grounded approach to consider how relationships and environmental factors contribute to the child’s social and emotional well-being and developmental progress. The Overview DC: 0-5 training will provide participants with an overview of the approach and is particularly helpful for perinatal, infant, and early childhood professionals in understanding the importance of developmentally appropriate diagnostic practices.  

Please refer to the Athena calendar listing on day one of this 6-part series - Wednesday, 10/19/22 - for full information, including schedule, costs, and scholarships.

Today's topic is an open forum discussion on the theme of Reclaiming Native Psychological Brilliance.

This is the final, monthly, session of the year about the intelligence, strengths, balance, innate resources, and resilience of Native people.

Please be sure to register in advance for this session. 

For questions, please contact: BHendrix@USETINC.ORG.

This lecture is part of the 2022 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid AIAN Lecture Series. 

For more information, view the series flyer. Please note, the time zone for the lecture is not noted.