Many times, preventionists know the process of implementing prevention work in their communities, but often struggle to move beyond planning. Understanding how to work with communities to implement strategies is a necessary first step to being successful change agents in our communities. Utilizing a framework developed through the implementation of Hispanic and Latino community-led prevention in Massachusetts, this training will apply principles of community-led prevention to other diverse prevention settings, providing real life solutions to common barriers and next steps preventionists can take in their own communities.

The alcohol marketplace is changing quickly, from direct shipment and third-party delivery services to cocktails to-go and curbside pickup, requiring enforcement, prevention, and public health stakeholders to react with creative solutions and strategies to regulate and enforce this new environment. This webinar will review the current alcohol policy landscape and alcohol consumption trends and how both have changed during the Covid-19 pandemic and discuss effective strategies that work to prevent alcohol-related harm with a spotlight on one state’s efforts to track and monitor the alcohol home delivery environment. 

In this training, the first of a two-part series, participants will learn about risk and protective factors, including genetic, individual, and environmental domains. The more risk factors a person has, the greater the chance that alcohol, cannabis, and other drug use will lead to addiction. Protective factors, on the other hand, reduce an individuals risk for addiction.

The Central East MHTTC in collaboration with the National Center for School Mental Health is pleased to offer a school mental health webinar series with a focus on advancing high quality, sustainable school mental health from a multi-tiered system of support, trauma sensitive, and culturally responsive and equitable lens.

Series learning objectives: 

• Gain increased awareness of school well-being within a multi-tiered system of school mental health supports and services
• Support trauma-informed systems in schools
• Increase understanding of strength-based practices that promote student academic and social-emotional-behavioral success
• Learn to provide more culturally responsive and equitable services and supports
• Hear perspectives on school mental health from school, district and state levels
• Obtain insight into how youth, families, schools and communities can best work together to address student mental health needs

This six-week distance learning series offers an interactive experience for participants to explore the role of systems change in substance misuse prevention. Participants will examine capacities shown to enable evidence-based interventions to achieve and sustain expected results and learn how to incorporate these into their work. Trainers will share examples from their own systems change experiences and will highlight how leveraging leadership, communications, funding, and data can help participants to achieve their prevention goals. The distance learning series will include skill-based learning opportunities, individual and group activities, reading assignments, and group discussion. 

Session Dates: 
Session 1 – January 10, 2023
Session 2 – January 17, 2023
Session 3 – January 24, 2023
Session 4 – January 31, 2023
Session 5 – February 07, 2023
Session 6 – February 14, 2023

This winter, the Behavioral Health Institute (BHI) with the Washington Health Care Authority (HCA) is engaging behavioral health stakeholders from around Washington state in listening sessions to gather information and opinions regarding inequities in behavioral health care. The information gathered from the listening sessions will be used to inform state-level policy recommendations that address inequities in behavioral health care. 

BHI is seeking a diversity of identities, backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives from the behavioral health community representing the individuals we care for in behavioral health.

Please note that you are welcome to participate in any session that works for your schedule, even if the focus of the session does not align with the urban/rural setting you represent. We welcome all perspectives in all of the workshops. The sessions are as follows: 

• Wednesday, Jan. 4 – 12:00-1:00 PM – with a focus on rural and frontier communities 
• Thursday, Jan. 5 – 10:00-11:00 AM – with a focus on urban and suburban communities 
• Tuesday, Jan. 10 – 1:00-2:00 PM – with a focus on rural and frontier communities 
• Thursday, Jan. 12 – 12:00-1:00 PM – with a focus on urban and suburban communities 

Please feel free to reach out to Elizabeth Perry (Elizabeth.Perry@principleallies.com) with the Harborview Behavioral Health Institute with questions about the listening sessions or the overall project.  

The presenter, Dr. May, has been and is the principal investigator of clinical and epidemiologic studies funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to research the characteristics of the continuum of FASD in the general populations of South Africa, United States, and Italy. He and his colleagues have focused on refining the diagnostic criteria for the FASD continuum, defining maternal risk and protective factors for FASD, and uncovering and quantifying the wide variation of outcomes and phenotypic traits of children who have been exposed to alcohol in the prenatal period. He will present data on studies of first grade children in the United States overall, South Africa, and focus on findings on FASD among children and their mothers in a county in the Southeastern region of the USA. FASD are prevalent today in the United States and are pernicious health disparities that no individual should have to endure.

Being intentional about practicing healthy mental health habits regularly is a part of staying well. But caring for your mental health doesn’t have to be a big task – it can be in small daily practices. This session will cover how to start becoming more intentional about caring for your mental well-being and simple ways you can integrate mental health self-care into your daily routine.

This training will be the second of a two-part series on risk and protective factors. Participants will learn about the risks associated with adverse childhood events (ACEs) and family history of addiction/genetic factors. Participants will also learn how to utilize protective factors to change how their genes are expressed.

This 2-part virtual learning series is designed to enhance education and training related to the pre and post migration risk factors that contribute to substance use disorders (SUD) among Hispanic/Latino immigrant youth and provides screening, intervention, and referral to treatment tools to non-clinical professionals working with this population.

Session 1: December 1, 2022
Session 2: January 12, 2023 

This winter, the Behavioral Health Institute (BHI) with the Washington Health Care Authority (HCA) is engaging behavioral health stakeholders from around Washington state in listening sessions to gather information and opinions regarding inequities in behavioral health care. The information gathered from the listening sessions will be used to inform state-level policy recommendations that address inequities in behavioral health care. 

BHI is seeking a diversity of identities, backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives from the behavioral health community representing the individuals we care for in behavioral health.

Please note that you are welcome to participate in any session that works for your schedule, even if the focus of the session does not align with the urban/rural setting you represent. We welcome all perspectives in all of the workshops. The sessions are as follows: 

• Wednesday, Jan. 4 – 12:00-1:00 PM – with a focus on rural and frontier communities 
• Thursday, Jan. 5 – 10:00-11:00 AM – with a focus on urban and suburban communities 
• Tuesday, Jan. 10 – 1:00-2:00 PM – with a focus on rural and frontier communities 
• Thursday, Jan. 12 – 12:00-1:00 PM – with a focus on urban and suburban communities 

Please feel free to reach out to Elizabeth Perry (Elizabeth.Perry@principleallies.com) with the Harborview Behavioral Health Institute with questions about the listening sessions or the overall project.  

Drs. Bailey and Epstein will present research findings from the past several decades that show changes in adolescent substance use, introduce developmental and risk and protective factors approaches to the study of adolescent substance use, introduce consequences, and sum up best practices approaches to preventing heavy substance use among adolescents.

Event Objectives:

• To understand the role of development in substance use trajectories.
• To gain an understanding of the risk and protective factor framework in predicting substance use initiation, escalation, and dependence.
• To expand knowledge about the consequences of heavy adolescent substance use.
• To become familiar with prevention and intervention approaches to reduce adolescent substance use initiation.

Join us for a PTTC for a "Prevention in Action" webinar to learn about how the Pathways to Recovery Consortium in Somerset County, ME is working across their community to increase understanding of substance use disorder, decrease stigma, and work towards becoming a recovery-ready community.

This six-week distance learning series offers an interactive experience for participants to explore the role of systems change in substance misuse prevention. Participants will examine capacities shown to enable evidence-based interventions to achieve and sustain expected results and learn how to incorporate these into their work. Trainers will share examples from their own systems change experiences and will highlight how leveraging leadership, communications, funding, and data can help participants to achieve their prevention goals. The distance learning series will include skill-based learning opportunities, individual and group activities, reading assignments, and group discussion. 

Session Dates: 
Session 1 – January 10, 2023
Session 2 – January 17, 2023
Session 3 – January 24, 2023
Session 4 – January 31, 2023
Session 5 – February 07, 2023
Session 6 – February 14, 2023

In this session, participants will learn introductory elements of grant writing. This session will introduce participants to grant terminology, where to find grant opportunities, and how to read grant announcements.

This four-session synchronistic distance learning course will take an in-depth look at what it takes to increase organizational preparations needed to successfully apply for grant funding, how to write a highly competitive proposal, incorporate best practices in program design, and develop compelling budget narratives. In addition, the course will explore the major steps needed to go from initial idea to grant writing and submission. The course is hands-on and process-oriented. Those taking the course will have the tools and preparation to apply for a number of different types of grants.

• Session 1 (January 18): Grant Writing 101
• Session 2 (January 25): Grant Writing Tips and Strategies
• Session 3 (February 1): Grant Writing Strategies in Action 
• Session 4 (February 8): The Value of Peer Review

Northwest High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) is excited to launch its new, competitive prevention and treatment request for proposals (RFP) on January 18, 2023! A launch webinar will be hosted that day from 11:00-12:00 p.m. The proposal template will be released immediately following the webinar. Applications will be due on March 15, 2023, and the funding period for those selected will run from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024. The eligibility criteria are fairly broad and applications will be selected from organizations working in substance use disorder treatment (or linkage to treatment), harm reduction, or substance use prevention in Northwest HIDTA counties (Benton, Clark, Cowlitz, Franklin, Grant, King, Kitsap, Lewis, Pierce, Skagit, Snohomish, Spokane, Thurston, Whatcom, and Yakima). Though not required, the organizations of best fit will have demonstrated collaboration across sectors, particularly in relation to public safety or the criminal justice system.

Created by Congress in 1988, the HIDTA program is a grant program out of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), designed to coordinate and assist federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement as well as prevention and treatment organizations. As such, HIDTA funding must support ONDCP drug policy priorities. Further information regarding HIDTA can be found on the program website. Northwest HIDTA prevention funding is designed to address gaps in substance use prevention in the state of Washington that cannot be funded through other existing resources. It is not designed to serve as an organization’s sole source of funding; rather, it exists to elevate existing efforts. Some examples of the kinds of things we have funded in the past are community coalition projects, fentanyl test strips, and drug court services, but we are by no means limited to those.

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. 

• The data associated with harms from excessive drinking and underage drinking in the US
• How local conditions affect alcohol-related harms at the community level
• The power of evidence-based, population-level strategies to address the community harms associated with excessive and underage drinking

Introduction to Qigong & Tai Chi for Self Care for professionals working in addictions counseling. A brief overview of these ancient practices of moving meditation as another option for help in prevention of compassion fatigue.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

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

1. Define the history of Qigong & Tai Chi
2. Learn about the varied Schools & Practices of Qigong & Tai Chi
3. Understand why Qigong & Tai Chi are helpful for professionals in preventing compassion fatigue
4. Participate in an active practice / demonstration of Qigong & Tai Chi to experience & discover how these moving meditations affect them

PRESENTER

Mary Pinkard, M. Ed., NQA Professional Level II, has expertise in multiple wellness domains, with her primary areas of focus being the practices of qigong and feng shui. She places a particular emphasis on the energy within us and all around us, helping to teach how we can maximize it for our individual health and wellness.

Mrs. Pinkard has studied qigong under several masters and experts, including Kevin Chen at the University of Maryland, as well as Daisy Lee, Robert Peng, David Dorian Ross, and Lee Holden, all of whom are advanced certified qigong instructors. She is a Level II Certified Qigong instructor as conferred by the National Qigong Association (NQA). In addition, she has done extensive study in the field of feng shui. Mrs. Pinkard holds a BA from Skidmore College and a M.Ed. from Towson University. Music and education are fundamental to her work in both feng shui and qigong. Mrs. Pinkard maintains her professional affiliations with the American Aerobics and Fitness Association, the National Qigong Association, and the American Dowser Association.

Mrs. Pinkard currently teaches a regular qigong curriculum in person at several locations as well online classes via Zoom. She has done numerous presentations of the wellness benefits qigong and feng shui to a variety of organizations, including McDaniel College, University of Maryland Medical School, GBMC, the Tuerk Conference on Addiction, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Anne Arundel County Social Services, Hopewell Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, Walter Reed Hospital, Irvine Nature Center, the Association of Nature Center Administrators, and The NOVA Institute.

Mrs. Pinkard is married with two adult daughters, and can often be found spending time enjoying the outdoors on their small farm with their menagerie of dogs and cats.
 

*CONTACT HOUR ELIGIBILITY

In order to be eligible for the 1.75 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.

Alcohol consumption and related harms were increasing in the United States prior the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly for women. During 2020, the first year of the pandemic, alcohol consumption increased more than at any time in the past 50 years. Deaths from alcohol jumped 25%, more than during the prior 10 years combined. Many people who drank more during the pandemic did so in an effort to cope with stress. Unfortunately, drinking to cope with stress is a maladaptive strategy that increases the likelihood of developing alcohol use disorder (AUD) and contributes to worsening mental and physical health over time. In this presentation, we will explore our rapidly evolving understanding of the relationship between alcohol and mental wellbeing, examine effective options for helping people avoid developing an unhealthy relationship with alcohol, and discuss strategies for promoting long-term sustainable recovery for people who develop AUD.

It is estimated that 2.6 million children are raised by grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, other extended family, and close family friends who step forward to care for them when parents are unable. With the rise in heroin and other opioid use, more relatives are raising children because the parents have died, are incarcerated, are using drugs, are in treatment or are otherwise unable to take care of their children. We understand that these children experience physical and cognitive health challenges as their caregiver’s face hurdles with housing, school enrollment, health, and legal issues as they struggle with their own grief.  This webinar will present evidence-based interventions designed to strengthen the resilience of these children along with tested approaches for supporting grandparents in this role.

After attending this webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Explain how cultural-based treatment approaches may help Native Americans seeking recovery.
2. Understand the potential benefits of drumming on health and wellness for Native Americans seeking recovery.
3. Recognize how community-based research can help in the development of cultural based interventions for Native Americans with substance use disorders. 

The Public Health Workforce Interest and Needs Survey (PHWINS) provides data for examining differences in competencies, training needs, and turnover risk between rural and urban public health practitioners. Understanding these differences provides insight into steps that can be taken to strengthen the capacities of our rural public health workforce. 

This session of Hot Topics in Practice will examine findings from the 2021 Public Health Workforce Interest and Needs Survey. This study took place during a time of great challenge for public health, as rural health departments struggled to support high needs populations with inadequate resources. These existing challenges were compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has had lasting and severe impacts on both rural and urban public health practitioners.

During this hour-long webinar, Paula Kett and Betty Bekemeier will present an overview of research findings from this survey. Paula, a research scientist at the University of Washington’s Center for Health Workforce Studies, and Betty, Director of the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice, will discuss the implications of their study findings for the public health workforce and policy makers. The presentation will examine how training, education and support may need to be tailored differently for rural practitioners, and consider policies that could help build and strengthen the workforce. 

Trauma Informed De-escalation moves beyond typical de-escalation content by acknowledging the role of biological responses, trauma histories, and neurobiology when engaging with individuals who have triggered and presenting challenging survival behavior. From identifying the provider's contributions to the conflict to empowering practitioners to better navigate the needs and reactions of those they serve, Trauma Informed De-escalation offers tools and strategies that can be offered universally in any heightened emotional conflict.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

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

• Explain the definition of trauma and principles of Trauma Informed Care as they relate to De-escalation considerations.
• Examine the common causes of conflict and the opportunities they offer for engaging the principles of Trauma Informed Care in our responses.
• Provide strategies, tips, and language to actualize Trauma Informed De-escalation in various settings with different populations.

PRESENTER

Laura Hinds, MSW, LCSW, is a clinical social worker with experience in medical, behavioral and mental health settings.  Laura has had the pleasure of working with high acuity special needs populations and their providers for over 22 years.  An alumna and instructor at Penn’s School of Social Policy and Practice for 13 years, and Bryn Mawr’s School of Social Work and Social Research’s for the past 4 years, Laura has supported the learning and education of new social workers, veterans in the field, and their interdisciplinary partners.  With a focus on trauma, human and gender development, racial equity, and crisis intervention Laura supports special needs populations and those who serve them.

*CONTACT HOUR ELIGIBILITY

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

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.

This six-week distance learning series offers an interactive experience for participants to explore the role of systems change in substance misuse prevention. Participants will examine capacities shown to enable evidence-based interventions to achieve and sustain expected results and learn how to incorporate these into their work. Trainers will share examples from their own systems change experiences and will highlight how leveraging leadership, communications, funding, and data can help participants to achieve their prevention goals. The distance learning series will include skill-based learning opportunities, individual and group activities, reading assignments, and group discussion. 

Session Dates: 
Session 1 – January 10, 2023
Session 2 – January 17, 2023
Session 3 – January 24, 2023
Session 4 – January 31, 2023
Session 5 – February 07, 2023
Session 6 – February 14, 2023

The meeting will be hosted on ZOOM from 9-11 a.m. with a 3rd-hour training from 11 a.m.-noon. 

Pre-registration for this no-cost meeting is required. 

Click on the Zoom link below to go to the registration page.

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Youth engagement (YE) is an approach to prevention in which prevention organizations effectively engage youth as leaders or partners in planning, tailoring, implementing, or evaluating prevention programming. In this webinar, Dr. Ballard will describe different models of YE for prevention, share tips for YE, and provide tools to guide members of the substance misuse prevention workforce through decisions about whether, and how, to incorporate YE into their prevention work.

In this session, participants will learn how to read a grant announcement and create a plan for responding to a request for proposals (RFP).

Learning objectives:

• Explain how to create a community overview and assessment
• Review practical approaches to satisfying response requirements within allotted space
• Explore techniques for making the grant writing process more manageable

This four-session synchronistic distance learning course will take an in-depth look at what it takes to increase organizational preparations needed to successfully apply for grant funding, how to write a highly competitive proposal, incorporate best practices in program design, and develop compelling budget narratives. In addition, the course will explore the major steps needed to go from initial idea to grant writing and submission. The course is hands-on and process-oriented. Those taking the course will have the tools and preparation to apply for a number of different types of grants.

• Session 1 (January 18): Grant Writing 101
• Session 2 (January 25): Grant Writing Tips and Strategies
• Session 3 (February 1): Grant Writing Strategies in Action
• ​Session 4 (February 8): The Value of Peer Review

At 1pm (pacific) on Wednesday, January 25, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids will be hosting a kickoff webinar for this year's Take Down Tobacco National Day of Action.

They will reveal new resources, materials and event toolkits to help you make a huge impact on this annual day of youth action.

Take Down Tobacco National Day of Action will be on March 31.  

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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Excel is a practical and accessible tool for creating data visualizations for prevention professionals who may not have access to expensive software packages. In this session, we will explore the power of Excel to create meaningful data visualizations for prevention professionals. Participants will be guided through real-life examples of applying the 4-step visualization process using Excel to create a meaningful data story for a prevention audience. 

This will be a beginner's guide to using Excel for visualization.

For more training and resources, check out the Ditching the Discomfort to Data Series. Part 5, Communicating and Visualizing Data, explores methods for prevention professionals to effectively disseminate data-related information.

This webinar will consider new and emerging science related to cannabis and the relevance of these findings from a public health and prevention standpoint. The role of prevention professionals in communicating findings to community members will be discussed, as will opportunities to bridge the gap between science and practice. Time for questions and discussion will be provided.

The adoption of an effective substance use prevention program is only the first step toward achieving the positive youth and family outcomes community-based organizations aim to achieve. Research has demonstrated time and time again that high-quality implementation of evidence-based programs is critical to attaining reductions in youth substance use. However, there continues to be some debate about whether programs should be flexibly adapted to fit local contexts or delivered with strict fidelity to the original program model. Increasingly, evidence from research and practice indicates that there must be a balance between the two to achieve positive and sustained program outcomes. This webinar will provide an overview of the latest research on the fidelity vs. adaptation debate and will share best practice tools and strategies for community organizations aiming to successfully walk the fidelity-adaptation tightrope to meet the needs of their local communities.

• Purpose Area 8: Juvenile Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts
• Purpose Area 9: Tribal Youth Program

During safety demonstrations, flight attendants will remind you to put on your safety mask before helping others. The same applies to individuals in the substance use disorder (SUD) field. Working in the addiction field can expose professionals to additional stress and trauma, which can often lead to burnout. This session will cover key elements of self-care and action steps to take. 

This six-week distance learning series offers an interactive experience for participants to explore the role of systems change in substance misuse prevention. Participants will examine capacities shown to enable evidence-based interventions to achieve and sustain expected results and learn how to incorporate these into their work. Trainers will share examples from their own systems change experiences and will highlight how leveraging leadership, communications, funding, and data can help participants to achieve their prevention goals. The distance learning series will include skill-based learning opportunities, individual and group activities, reading assignments, and group discussion. 

Session Dates: 
Session 1 – January 10, 2023
Session 2 – January 17, 2023
Session 3 – January 24, 2023
Session 4 – January 31, 2023
Session 5 – February 07, 2023
Session 6 – February 14, 2023