Identifying and addressing substance use trends: building epidemiological surveillance

Cost: FREE

Contact Hours:  Up to 5 for attending Parts 1-4 (Certificate of Attendance)

Target Audience: Professionals or organizations; Community members (members of a community or consumers); Students or educators (including faculty, administrators, supervisors, etc.)

Developed for: SAMHSA Region 3

Join us for our Identifying and Addressing Substance Use Trends in the United States and the Central East Region Learning Collaborative comprised of 2 webinars, each with an accompanying learning lab. The learning labs will offer an immersive, hands-on environment where participants can actively practice and refine skills in real-world scenarios.

• WEBINAR 1: September 9: Trend Updates and the Latest Emerging Substances of Concern
• LAB 1: September 11: Building Epidemiological Surveillance
• WEBINAR 2: September 16: Using Strategic Planning to Address Emerging Trends
• LAB 2: September 18: Addressing Emerging Trends Through the Strategic Prevention Framework

WEBINAR 1: Trend Updates and the Latest Emerging Substances of Concern

The first webinar of this learning collaborative will discuss the importance of identifying emerging trends and the need to address priority trends through strategic planning. The webinar will provide an overview of the most recent data on emerging substance use trends in the Central East region and around the United States. It will cover the current status of the opioid epidemic, changes in cocaine and methamphetamine use and consequences, vaping product trends, and others. It will also identify and examine five novel substances: xylazine, medetomidine, nitazenes, bromazolam, and tianeptine. This presentation will provide information on what these substances are, their health impacts, and available data on use and consequences.

WEBINAR 1 LEARNING OBJECTIVES

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

1. Explain the importance of incorporating emerging trends into strategic planning
2. Describe the scope and impacts of key substance use trends in the region and the United States
3. Identify the latest novel substances and their available data
4. Describe the known consequences of novel substances

LAB 1: Building Epidemiological Surveillance

This first learning lab in our emerging trends learning collaborative focuses on the emerging trends in attendees’ own communities. Here, through facilitated discussion, participants will share their experiences identifying and addressing the emerging trends impacting their areas. Participants will also practice identifying discrepancies between data sources and developing questions to guide epidemiological surveillance efforts.

LAB 1 LEARNING OBJECTIVES

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

1. Describe how to identify emerging trends
2. Recognize methodological differences across data sources
3. Identify opportunities to expand epidemiological surveillance

WEBINAR 2: Using Strategic Planning to Address Emerging Trends

The second webinar in this learning collaborative will explore the causes behind emerging trends and opportunities for prevention to address them. It will examine the broad causes behind the emergence of novel substances as well as the risk and protective factors relevant to specific substances. It will identify where and how to find data on risk and protective factors and emerging trends. The webinar will provide a step-by-step walkthrough of how to address emerging trends through the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF). In addition, it will summarize health promotion strategies that may be helpful in addressing these emerging substances of concern. Finally, it will describe how to pilot or adapt interventions to be responsive to emerging trends.

WEBINAR 2 LEARNING OBJECTIVES

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

1. Identify the risk and protective factors on emerging trends and how to find data on them
2. Explain the steps to addressing emerging trends through the SPF
3. Identify health promotion strategies related to emerging substances of concern
4. Recognize how to pilot or adapt interventions to address emerging trends

LAB 2: Addressing Emerging Trends Through the Strategic Prevention Framework

This second learning lab in our emerging trends learning collaborative focuses on using the SPF to address emerging trends. Here, through guided exercises, participants will walk through how each step of the SPF supports addressing emerging trends. Participants will spend time understanding how to identify partners, build a logic model, adapt an evidence-based program, and evaluate their program.

LAB 2 LEARNING OBJECTIVES

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

1. Explain how each step of the SPF can be used to address emerging trends
2. Describe best practices for planning, adapting, and evaluating interventions to address emerging trends

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 (T/TA) in substance use, having overseen the development of hundreds of T/TA products for numerous clients, including six of SAMHSA’s ten regional Prevention Technology Transfer Centers (PTTCs) the PTTC Network Coordinating Office, and the Central East Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC). He also provided T/TA for the former 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 T/TA, 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.

Olivia Stuart, LMSW is a research assistant at Carnevale Associates, LLC. She supports the training & technical assistance (T/TA) team in the development and delivery of knowledge translation products across multiple projects on a range of behavioral health topics. Olivia has several years of experience supporting research and evaluations focusing on emerging adults and criminal justice issues. Olivia also served as a Graduate Research Supervisor at George Mason University and worked for several years in community engagement and fundraising. Olivia holds a Master of Social Work from George Mason University.

*CONTACT HOUR ELIGIBILITY

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

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.