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This series will address the need for ongoing prevention ethics training. In six interactive virtual sessions, participants will focus on taking a deep dive into the principles of the Code of Ethics for Prevention Specialists with special focus on how these principles apply when implementing the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF). Each session will focus on a different principle. After a short presentation, participants will work together in small groups to look at how that principle can be applied by our prevention workforce while implementing the SPF.

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

In order to receive a certificate of attendance for this training, participants are required to actively participate and be on camera. Participants will be allowed into trainings up to 10 minutes after the start of the session. After that time, no new attendees will be accepted into the session because the group will have moved into breakout rooms.

Schedule:

Deep dive into prevention ethics: Non-discrimination and the SPF
Thursday, January 4, 2024, 7:30-9 a.m. 

Deep dive into prevention ethics: Competency and the SPF
Thursday, February 1, 2024, 7:30-9 a.m.

Deep dive into prevention ethics: Integrity and the SPF
Thursday, March 7, 2024, 7:30-9 a.m.

Deep dive into prevention ethics: Nature of services and the SPF
Thursday, April 4, 2024, 7:30-9 a.m. 

Deep dive into prevention ethics: Confidentiality and the SPF
Thursday, May 2, 7:30-9 a.m.

Deep dive into prevention ethics: Ethical obligations and the SPF
Thursday, June 6, 7:30-9 a.m. 

Please join the Native Center for Behavioral Health for this six-part series featuring multiple indigenous storytellers sharing teachings, lessons, and oral knowledge passed down for thousands of years. The focus of this series is how native cultural storytelling supports children and adolescents' healing and resilience in times of grief, loss, and trauma. 

Note: This event will not be recorded to honor the culturally sensitive nature of these traditional stories and lessons.

In honor of Black History Month, SAMHSA's Office of Behavioral Health Equity is hosting the Behavioral Health Equity Best Practices for African Americans Webinar. Joined by leaders in the field, we will discuss strategies, programs, and activities that support behavioral health equity within Black communities, including:

• Success Strategies for Crisis Services
• Trauma-informed Approaches to Community Violence
• Training and Technical Assistance for Practitioners

The virtual event is presented in collaboration with the Division of Children and School Mental Health, Mental Health Promotion Branch, 988 & Behavioral Health Crisis Coordinating Office, and the Suicide Prevention Branch.

There will be a welcome by SAMHSA leadership, great presentations, and plenty of time for discussion.

Vaping has become a significant public health concern, and youth using on campus challenges schools and communities to create effective policies and response strategies. When intervention is warranted, the use of alternatives to suspension programs has been shown to have greater effect than removing students from school. This webinar will describe the frameworks of alternatives to suspension programs, demonstrate their effectiveness, and display Stanford REACH’s cannabis vaping alternatives to suspension program, Healthy Futures.

Dr. Bonnie Halpern-Felsher is the Marron and Mary Elizabeth Kendrick Professor in Pediatrics II in the Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University. Dr. Halpern-Felsher is a developmental psychologist with additional training in adolescent and young adult health. She is the founder and executive director of her REACH Lab, the Tobacco Prevention Toolkit, the Cannabis Awareness and Prevention Toolkit, the Vaping Information, Solutions, and Interventions Toolkit, and Safety First: Comprehensive Drug Prevention Program. She is also the President-Elect of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. Funded by the NIH and many foundations, her research has focused on understanding and reducing adolescent and young adult tobacco, marijuana, and other drug use. Her research, committee, and advocacy work have been instrumental in setting policy at the local, state, and national level. She has served as a consultant to several community-based adolescent health promotion programs, participated in three Surgeon General Reports, participated in six National Academies of Science committees, and has been a member on several national campaigns to understand and reduce adolescent tobacco/e-cigarette use.

Note: The time zone is not noted on the event registration page and the time of this event may not be 10-11 a.m. Pacific Time. 

Substance misuse prevention problems are adaptive challenges – that is, complex and evolving problems that require multifaceted and dynamic solutions. While the focus addressing substance misuse prevention problems is essential, it is by identifying and working through the risk and protective factors that influence those problems that prevention practitioners can most effectively bring about positive change. But, what are these factors and how do we leverage them to strengthen our prevention efforts? Join us for this interactive, three-part webinar series to explore everything you ever needed to know about risk and protective factors.

Session three, Going Deeper on Protective Factors, will explore the importance of harnessing protective factors to advance our prevention aims and the rationale for taking a systems-level approach to promoting healthy development for all members of our communities as part of our substance misuse prevention efforts.

This seven week series offers a unique interactive experience that provides participants an opportunity to learn more about the key organizational elements that assist coalitions of all types to operate efficiently and effectively. This series will have a special focus on coalitions that promote healthy youth development to reduce substance misuse and other related problem behaviors. Participants will explore a variety of organizational principles that will assist them in the overall development of their coalition by learning more about how to engage and sustain involvement of key stakeholders and members over time, how to utilize dynamic group-development strategies, and how their efforts can connect with other coalition efforts in their area. The learning series is structured to provide online consultation, skill-based learning and practice, group and self-study activities, reading assignments, and discussion on topics essential to an effective community coalition structure when focusing on primary prevention. Participants will have the opportunity during the course to discuss specific "next steps" questions.

Up to 16.5 hours of continuing education hours can be earned in this series. Participants who complete the entire course will receive a certificate of attendance for 16.5 hours. Participants will need to confirm with their certification board to determine if these certification hours are accepted towards their specific certification requirements.

In this webinar, Roger D. Weiss, M.D. of McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, will speak about the role of behavioral therapy in the context of pharmacotherapy for substance use disorders. He will talk about the goals of behavioral therapy when combined with medication (including medication adherence). Dr. Weiss will review studies of combined pharmacotherapy and behavioral therapy with different medications and different behavioral interventions. This webinar is part of the ORN-sponsored Recovery Science Series hosted by the Recovery Research Institute.

This webinar will provide an overview of the seven vital conditions for well-being and illustrate how the framework can be useful for conceptualizing holistic individual and community well-being.  The presenters will demonstrate how the framework can help address issues related to a community response to mental health and well-being, substance use disorder, and substance misuse prevention in Skagit County, WA, with the North Star Initiative. The framework is used by multiple state and federal agencies, including The Federal Plan for Equitable Long-Term Recovery and Resilience as a guiding framework to organize and take action on social determinants of health.

Objectives:

• Identify the seven vital conditions (thriving natural world, basic needs for health and safety, humane housing, meaningful work and wealth, lifelong learning, reliable transportation, and belonging and civic muscle). 

​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).

Thank you for your interest in Minerva 2.0 at Washington Health Care Authority. This quarterly training is designed specifically for new users and will provide a comprehensive overview of Minerva 2.0’s functionalities, features, best practices, and supportive resources.

Registration is required using Zoom link below. 

To learn more about Minerva 2.0, visit the Minerva Knowledge Base. If you have any questions or need additional support, please contact your prevention manager.

Rural behavioral health practice has unique challenges, two of which are the high provider turnover rate and provider recruitment. Join us to learn how focusing on organizational wellness can bolster both the recruitment and retention of rural behavioral health providers. While this webinar will briefly discuss the reasons for high provider turnover, it will emphasize why workers stay in their jobs. We will then focus on practical suggestions for creating a workplace climate of wellness focused on care, respect, compassion, shared values as well as sustaining such a climate that benefits all healthcare providers and staff alike. 

Meetings, do we need them? How do we make them meaningful? In the field of prevention, we often have the responsibility of facilitating meetings. We use meetings to bring community partners together, to coordinate work, to create buy-in, and to facilitate community change, but most of us facilitate meetings without training on how to organize and run effective meetings. How do we get people to the table, and once there get (and keep) them engaged? How can we make the most of our time together and ensure everyone feels their time was honored and well-spent? In this workshop, prevention professionals will learn practical skills to plan and facilitate effective meetings.

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 4: The value of peer review gives real examples of the peer review process in prioritizing grants for funding. This session will also include interactive activities that allows organizations to bring segments of a grant application to be reviewed and discussed based on strengths and weaknesses.  

Please join the Native Center for Behavioral Health for this six-part series featuring multiple indigenous storytellers sharing teachings, lessons, and oral knowledge passed down for thousands of years. The focus of this series is how native cultural storytelling supports children and adolescents' healing and resilience in times of grief, loss, and trauma. 

Note: This event will not be recorded to honor the culturally sensitive nature of these traditional stories and lessons.

Presented by: Jason Burrow-Sanchez, Ph.D., Professor, Region 8 PTTC Director, University of Utah

The presenter will review current adolescent prevalence for vaping, what they are vaping, and potential reasons why they are vaping. The presentation will also include relevant information on risk/protective factors adolescent brain development in the context of vaping.

This seven week series offers a unique interactive experience that provides participants an opportunity to learn more about the key organizational elements that assist coalitions of all types to operate efficiently and effectively. This series will have a special focus on coalitions that promote healthy youth development to reduce substance misuse and other related problem behaviors. Participants will explore a variety of organizational principles that will assist them in the overall development of their coalition by learning more about how to engage and sustain involvement of key stakeholders and members over time, how to utilize dynamic group-development strategies, and how their efforts can connect with other coalition efforts in their area. The learning series is structured to provide online consultation, skill-based learning and practice, group and self-study activities, reading assignments, and discussion on topics essential to an effective community coalition structure when focusing on primary prevention. Participants will have the opportunity during the course to discuss specific "next steps" questions.

Up to 16.5 hours of continuing education hours can be earned in this series. Participants who complete the entire course will receive a certificate of attendance for 16.5 hours. Participants will need to confirm with their certification board to determine if these certification hours are accepted towards their specific certification requirements.

Youth overdose deaths continue to rise, despite a decline in youth substance use. This webinar will discuss Safety First, a comprehensive school-based curriculum created to educate youth about substance use that includes prevention and harm reduction messaging. Safety First was originally created by the Drug Policy Alliance and has since been substantially revised and is now led by the REACH Lab at Stanford, overseen by Dr. Bonnie Halpern-Felsher.
 
The purpose of Safety First is to encourage youth to abstain from use, but this curriculum also includes a clear harm-reduction message for youth who are experimenting or using, and provides students with scientifically accurate information to empower them to quit and/or reduce harm, should they choose to continue to use.

Join us for a Minerva 2.0 technical assistance/support call for Minerva 2.0 users (CPWI, CBO and project providers, and tribe and urban Indian organization partners).

Whether you have just started using the system, or are a seasoned user, this call is designed to support users through Minerva 2.0 functions, features, and answer any data entry-related questions. There is no registration, please join using the Microsoft Teams link below.

Questions will be answered in the order shared. If there are questions or topics you wish to have addressed during the call, consider sending you question(s) in advance to PrevMIS@hca.wa.gov, and include your prevention manager. Don't have a specific question? Feel free to join and listen.

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This learning series consists of three one-hour online facilitated sessions.

Participants will learn how the language that is commonly used in treatment and recovery has negatively shaped public perception and alternative terminology that the field could employ. This workshop offers strategies that can be used within their programs and in the community to encourage a more person-centered mindset about addiction and recovery.

Sessions are scheduled for:

• January 31, 2024 10:00 - 11:00 am
• February 14, 2024 10:00 - 11:00 am
• February 28, 2024 10:00 - 11:00 am

Note: The event registration page does not note the time zone; sessions may not be at 10-11 a.m. Pacific Time. 

The U.S. Alcohol Policy Alliance is excited to host its third interactive dialogue on emerging high-risk alcohol products. The discussion will center on the following question: What new alcohol products have you seen in your community?

Most of the session will be spent in facilitated breakout groups where participants will share their observations with other coalitions who are invested in this issue and discuss how and where these products are affecting the community. Those who join the session can expect to come away with valuable insights from what is happening in other communities around the U.S. While formal environmental scans are not required to attend, the U.S. Alcohol Policy Alliance is asking all participants to come prepared to talk about products they have seen in their community; simply jot some notes or take some photos the next time you run errands. 

This interactive session, hosted by Duke UNC in collaboration with Rede Group and the Washington State Department of Health, will guide participants through the development of a smoking cessation program in their setting. This webinar is intended for SOR contractors and others working in tobacco prevention and cessation. 

There has been a global surge in adolescents’ use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS)/vaping, cannabis (vaped, edible), and use of prescription opioids (POs) not-as-prescribed. The nature of these substances often renders them “difficult-to detect” due to limited physical and behavioral signs, along with subtle, but often, hazardous longer-term effects. 

Here, Dr. Feldstein Ewing will address the nature of substance use presentation in the adolescent age group, including challenges in detection and related complications that impact screening and prevention. Further, in terms of intervention, many of the existing addiction treatments that we use with adolescents were originally designed for adults; however, the adolescent brain is increasingly being recognized as substantively different than the adult brain. And, likely for related reasons, adolescents engage with substances in different ways than adults.

In today's dynamic workplace, resilience plays a pivotal role in equipping employees to effectively manage stress, adapt to organizational changes, and navigate workplace conflicts. In this webinar, participants will explore the traits essential for cultivating resilience, empowering them to overcome obstacles and emerge even stronger.

In recognition of SAMHSA's 20th Annual National Prevention Day, the PTTC Network is proud to announce that along with National Prevention Week, they are hosting an upcoming webinar, Finding Power in Prevention Storytelling.  This webinar will showcase real-world, innovative initiatives in communities across the United States and highlight what motivates “preventioneers” to do such amazing work. Tune in to hear these stories and to learn more about National Prevention Week and the broadening of their new, year-round approach to prevention. 

This 6-session distance learning series offers an interactive forum for participants to explore how to build protection in communities, schools, and families using the Social Development Strategy (SDS). This learning series will build participants’ understanding of shared protective factors and how the Social Development Strategy organizes protection into a strategy for action.  Participants will learn and practice using the SDS and its components to design activities that will build protection in families, schools, coalitions and communities.
 

This EPLS provides online consultation, skill-based learning and practice, group and individual activities, reading assignments, and discussion on topics essential to building protection using key learnings from prevention science.

Please join the Native Center for Behavioral Health for this six-part series featuring multiple indigenous storytellers sharing teachings, lessons, and oral knowledge passed down for thousands of years. The focus of this series is how native cultural storytelling supports children and adolescents' healing and resilience in times of grief, loss, and trauma. 

Note: This event will not be recorded to honor the culturally sensitive nature of these traditional stories and lessons.

This webinar will be facilitated by Joshua Horwitz and Silvia Villarreal from the Center for Gun Violence Solutions at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Consortium for Risk-Based Firearm Policy. Alcohol use and gun violence are leading causes of preventable injury and death in the United States. These issues are most deadly when they intersect with one another. This webinar will discuss research and policy recommendations from the report, Alcohol Misuse and Gun Violence: An Evidence-Based Approach, pointing to alcohol misuse as a risk factor for all forms of gun violence, including homicides and suicides, confirming the urgent need to adopt evidence-based policies that address this troubling link. 

This seven week series offers a unique interactive experience that provides participants an opportunity to learn more about the key organizational elements that assist coalitions of all types to operate efficiently and effectively. This series will have a special focus on coalitions that promote healthy youth development to reduce substance misuse and other related problem behaviors. Participants will explore a variety of organizational principles that will assist them in the overall development of their coalition by learning more about how to engage and sustain involvement of key stakeholders and members over time, how to utilize dynamic group-development strategies, and how their efforts can connect with other coalition efforts in their area. The learning series is structured to provide online consultation, skill-based learning and practice, group and self-study activities, reading assignments, and discussion on topics essential to an effective community coalition structure when focusing on primary prevention. Participants will have the opportunity during the course to discuss specific "next steps" questions.

Up to 16.5 hours of continuing education hours can be earned in this series. Participants who complete the entire course will receive a certificate of attendance for 16.5 hours. Participants will need to confirm with their certification board to determine if these certification hours are accepted towards their specific certification requirements.

Join the Rede Group and the Washington State Department of Health to learn about policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) basics and talk about the S (systems) and the E (environmental) in PSE. What can you do in your community?

This training is intended for YCCTPP contractors, subcontractors, and partners. 

Join the National American Indian and Alaska Native Childhood Trauma TSA Center in learning from native author, artist, and speaker Tanaya Winder!

Indigenous people have undergone much historical, ancestral, and personal trauma. At times it can be difficult to process these traumas or soul wounds, but one way to cope and help make sense of these events is through presence and mindfulness. A grounded mindset can be accessed through asking powerful questions and exploring new perspectives through reflective and expressive writing. Learning how to render your emotions on the page is a form of “heartspeak.” Heartspeak can be one of the most helpful skills because it is a means of processing joys, hurts, and everything in between.

This workshop offers writing prompts to help you tap into parts of your journey that you want to reexamine with compassion and kindness. You will also learn writing prompts and techniques that you can implement in your own talking/healing circles, workshops, or client sessions. Facilitation techniques and what it means for you to create and maintain space to find light and a sense of belonging and acceptance in yourself and your communities will also be covered. The goal is to help you discover how writing can be used as a healing tool to develop a better understanding of the human condition regarding loving others and yourself.

Note: Writing to heal sessions are being offered every other week on Wednesdays and Fridays. The same material will be covered in both sessions each week. 

Wednesday sessions: 

• 2/21, 2-3 p.m.
• 3/6, 2-3 p.m.
• 3/20, 2-3 p.m.
• 4/3, 2-3 p.m.
• 4/17, 2-3 p.m.

The Drug-Free Communities [DFC] program is aimed at mobilizing community leaders to identify and respond to the drug problems unique to their community and change local community environmental conditions tied to substance use. The DFC Program’s Notice of Funding Opportunity [NOFO] is forecasted to be released on Grants.gov in mid-February. Community coalitions interested in applying to the program are strongly encouraged to participate in this webinar. It will also be recorded and posted on:  https://dfc.cmpinc.net/.

For additional information about the DFC program, visit: https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/drug-free-communities/index.html

If you are a substance misuse prevention coalition in Washington state that is looking to apply for this grant, some assistance with your application is available. Visit this page for details:  www.theAthenaForum.org/DFC.

People with SMI are disproportionately arrested and detained in carceral settings and face civil and criminal legal processes that can impact care. Clinicians, family members, and others supporting their recovery often have limited knowledge and experience navigating complicated clinical and legal worlds in a way that leads to productive outcomes that do not compromise public and personal interests. This webinar will review some of the common areas of intersecting issues- arrest decisions, what bail and detention laws mean, how courts may process cases, what diversion may include and what this might all mean for individuals with SMI. The idea of cross-fertilization and collaboration between systems will be emphasized, while learning more about how systems may prioritize different missions. Participants will gain greater familiarity with these issues to help people with SMI and their support systems. 

Join the National American Indian and Alaska Native Childhood Trauma TSA Center in learning from native author, artist, and speaker Tanaya Winder!

Indigenous people have undergone much historical, ancestral, and personal trauma. At times it can be difficult to process these traumas or soul wounds, but one way to cope and help make sense of these events is through presence and mindfulness. A grounded mindset can be accessed through asking powerful questions and exploring new perspectives through reflective and expressive writing. Learning how to render your emotions on the page is a form of “heartspeak.” Heartspeak can be one of the most helpful skills because it is a means of processing joys, hurts, and everything in between.

This workshop offers writing prompts to help you tap into parts of your journey that you want to reexamine with compassion and kindness. You will also learn writing prompts and techniques that you can implement in your own talking/healing circles, workshops, or client sessions. Facilitation techniques and what it means for you to create and maintain space to find light and a sense of belonging and acceptance in yourself and your communities will also be covered. The goal is to help you discover how writing can be used as a healing tool to develop a better understanding of the human condition regarding loving others and yourself.

Note: Writing to heal sessions are being offered every other week on Wednesdays and Fridays. The same material will be covered in both sessions each week. 

Friday sessions: 

• 2/23, 10-11 a.m. 
• 3/8, 10-11 a.m. 
• 3/22, 10-11 a.m. 
• 4/5, 10-11 a.m. 
• 4/19, 10-11 a.m. 

With the rapid changes to our drug landscape and culture, today’s college students need harm reduction now more than ever. Last spring, Madeleine Bentley (University of Washington, Department of Health Systems & Population Health and the webinar presenter) interviewed 25 campus staff from across the country to hear their perspectives. From that thematic analysis, their team created a framework for adapting harm reduction strategies to the college campus. It covers eight domains: Campus Policy, Crisis Response, Student Conduct, Brief Intervention, Social Environment, Campus Environment, and Community Partnership.

This training from the Boston Medical Center, an ORN partner organization, will provide knowledge regarding Xylazine, a CNS depressant, which has been linked to an increasing number of overdose deaths in the US. This training will discuss the physiologic effects of Xylazine, manifestations of Xylazine intoxication, overdose, communicable infections associated with Xylazine use, and wound care for persons injecting Xylazine. Funded by ORN.

This training is designed to provide healthcare teams with information on all the available FDA-approved monthly/weekly injectable buprenorphine formulations used to treat opioid use disorder, as well as how to incorporate them into clinical practice. Topics include the pharmacology and side effects of injectable buprenorphine formulations, storage, administration and patient selection processes, dosage, initiation and maintenance for patients using weekly and monthly injectable doses, and the workflows and administrative tasks involved in implementing injectable buprenorphine in healthcare settings.

Please join the Native Center for Behavioral Health for this six-part series featuring multiple indigenous storytellers sharing teachings, lessons, and oral knowledge passed down for thousands of years. The focus of this series is how native cultural storytelling supports children and adolescents' healing and resilience in times of grief, loss, and trauma. 

Note: This event will not be recorded to honor the culturally sensitive nature of these traditional stories and lessons.

This webinar will discuss the ways in which health centers and other community-based organizations can expand harm reduction services by offering syringe access to participants through direct service delivery and partnership. Participants will hear from the Cherokee Nation Harm Reduction Program in Oklahoma and Migrant Health Center, Inc. in Puerto Rico, who will discuss programmatic development and implementation across a variety of strategies and settings. Participants will also have the opportunity to hear directly from consumers of syringe access programs to improve attendees' understanding of the impact of these life-saving services.

This activity is developed to meet the needs of physicians and inter-professional healthcare providers. Discussion is designed to promote interactivity through an informal “round table” conversation. Attendees will be given the opportunity to speak directly with the presenter to ask questions and discuss issues.

The Prevention Specialist Certification Board of Washington (PSCBW) is now offering monthly office hours to take questions from potential candidates about the CPP application and renewal process. PSCBW will have open office hours every month, on the 4th Monday of the month at 4 pm for 45 minutes.

Pre-registration to participate in office hours is required: https://bit.ly/PSCBW_Office_Hours

Presented by: Dr. Michael Chaiton

The presenter will provide current research on the links between vaping and adolescent behavioral health, including depression and anxiety, and how these can adversely affect adolescent sleep, academics, and extra curricular activities.

This training will explore the development of disparities in the U.S. and their impacts on marginalized and racialized communities. Utilizing a social justice framework the participants will learn about building health equity, cultural humility, and community engagement. This training will center the Enhanced CLAS Standards, cultural self-assessments, and other tools designed to improve services and eliminate health disparities.

In this hour-long webinar, Paula Kett, PhD, MPH, RN, a research scientist at the University of Washington’s Center for Health Workforce Studies, and Dany Zemmel, MPH, the Training and Engagement Manager at the Region V Public Health Training Center, will focus on the components of public health practice that are important for health equity competencies. They will also discuss recommendations to improve workforce development and training, such as explicit naming of the effects of structural racism, application of new concepts, and skill development. These skill areas include identifying, influencing, and implementing policies, community engagement, and cross-sector partnership building. 

IMPORTANT NOTES:
Speaker slides are posted on our website the morning of the webinar. Each session is recorded and made available by the next day. Audio is available through computer or by phone. Closed captioning will also be available during the webinar.

This webinar will draw from both historical perspectives and recent events, along with research findings, to unveil the alcohol industry's role in creating and perpetuating social, economic, and health inequities. Additionally, it will examine evidence-based alcohol policies aimed at alleviating inequities and addressing social justice issues. The session is designed for community coalition coordinators and members who are prepared to engage in policy and social change, ultimately transforming the community's relationship with alcohol and those who profit from its production and sale.
 
Dr. David Jernigan will facilitate this webinar. He is best known for his action-research approach to the issue of alcohol advertising, marketing, and promotion and its influence on young people. His work has led to better advertising regulations and a clearer understanding of the evolving structure of the alcohol industry. His work is policy relevant and scientifically rigorous. Dr. Jernigan has been very active in translating research findings into policy and practice. He testifies regularly at city, state, and national levels around alcohol advertising and youth, alcohol availability, and taxation. He also trains advocates around the world to use the best evidence-based practices.

This seven week series offers a unique interactive experience that provides participants an opportunity to learn more about the key organizational elements that assist coalitions of all types to operate efficiently and effectively. This series will have a special focus on coalitions that promote healthy youth development to reduce substance misuse and other related problem behaviors. Participants will explore a variety of organizational principles that will assist them in the overall development of their coalition by learning more about how to engage and sustain involvement of key stakeholders and members over time, how to utilize dynamic group-development strategies, and how their efforts can connect with other coalition efforts in their area. The learning series is structured to provide online consultation, skill-based learning and practice, group and self-study activities, reading assignments, and discussion on topics essential to an effective community coalition structure when focusing on primary prevention. Participants will have the opportunity during the course to discuss specific "next steps" questions.

Up to 16.5 hours of continuing education hours can be earned in this series. Participants who complete the entire course will receive a certificate of attendance for 16.5 hours. Participants will need to confirm with their certification board to determine if these certification hours are accepted towards their specific certification requirements.

Join us for a Minerva 2.0 technical assistance/support call for Minerva 2.0 users (CPWI, CBO and project providers, and tribe and urban Indian organization partners).

Whether you have just started using the system, or are a seasoned user, this call is designed to support users through Minerva 2.0 functions, features, and answer any data entry-related questions. There is no registration, please join using the Microsoft Teams link below.

Questions will be answered in the order shared. If there are questions or topics you wish to have addressed during the call, consider sending you question(s) in advance to PrevMIS@hca.wa.gov, and include your prevention manager. Don't have a specific question? Feel free to join and listen.

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Attendance is optional for this meeting.

Pre-registration is required for attendees. 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. 

PLEASE NOTE that the confirmation says the meeting starts at 9 a.m., although the actual start time is 9:05.

This learning series consists of three one-hour online facilitated sessions.

Participants will learn how the language that is commonly used in treatment and recovery has negatively shaped public perception and alternative terminology that the field could employ. This workshop offers strategies that can be used within their programs and in the community to encourage a more person-centered mindset about addiction and recovery.

Sessions are scheduled for:

• January 31, 2024 10:00 - 11:00 am
• February 14, 2024 10:00 - 11:00 am
• February 28, 2024 10:00 - 11:00 am

Note: The event registration page does not note the time zone; sessions may not be at 10-11 a.m. Pacific Time. 

This workshop will provide participants with an overview of eating disorders (ED), including eating disorder definitions, medical complications associated with ED, eating disorder statistics and prevalence, athletes and eating disorders, causes according to the biopsychosocial model,  signs/symptoms/red flags that school workers need to be aware of, communicating with students and their families about a suspected ED, and an overview of treatment that works (Family Based Treatment). The workshop will also emphasize the schools’ involvement in ED treatment and crucial points to keep in mind when developing education plans for students in ED treatment.

"Facilitated by Nia Clark, participants will review and practice using Existential Helping an evidence-based framework that has proven effective with marginalized  communities, including LGBTQIA+ youth. Through interactive activities, learn how to demonstrate empathy instead of sympathy, how to "hold space" for youth who have experienced anti-LGBTQ discrimination and other forms of trauma, along with interventions that empower youth to have ownership of their own healing as they transition to adulthood."

• The use of technology within teen dating and related impacts on behavioral health.
• The most urgent challenges presented by technology-facilitated abuse of teens, with a focus on non-consensual image-sharing.
• Promising practices to address these challenges at the community level.

Join Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration's (SAMHSA) Office on Women’s Health on Thursday, February 29, from 10 a.m. to noon for the 2024 National Eating Disorders Awareness Week webinar highlighting the latest data, disparities for underserved and underrepresented populations, and best practices in providing quality care for diverse communities. Attendees will hear from subject matter experts in the field and individuals with lived experience as they dive into the latest eating disorder considerations for individuals, loved ones, and healthcare professionals. This webinar is free and open to the public.

SAMHSA is committed to reducing burden related to grant performance data collection and reporting. To achieve this goal, SAMHSA is working to significantly redesign client-level performance management tools currently in use. SAMHSA specifically plans to develop a single, brief, client-level tool for use in all client-level grant programs. SAMHSA is also committed to incorporating partner input as much as possible and recognizes that some changes might take longer to implement.

SAMHSA therefore seeks to hear from Tribes, Tribal organizations, and evaluators to better understand areas for burden reduction while ensuring equity and accuracy in the final tool.

Respondents may also submit written comments or questions to the SAMHSA Office of Tribal Affairs and Policy (OTAP) email mailbox through March 15, 2024 at otap@samhsa.hhs.gov.