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If you celebrate Halloween, you’re probably already into pumpkin carving, candy and costumes! Halloween falls on a Tuesday this year, which is a work day. Please consider the following tips to make Halloween a fun and safe experience at work and home:

Health & Wellness

In an effort to support workforce development, DBHR has identified funding to provide financial support for prevention partners to attend specified conferences on a range of prevention-related topics. Scholarship applications are open to all interested individuals.

Requests will be reviewed with your prevention manager (if applicable) for alignment with other trainings and activities in your approved budgets. Please note, scholarships cover the cost of conference registration only… read more

Check out our newly-launched Focus On Instagram page and the Start Talking Now Facebook page, and give us a follow or like to stay in the loop with the latest prevention social! The Focus On toolkit (password: FocusOnYou) and Start Talking Now toolkit (password: StartTheConversation) will also be updated regularly with new monthly social content, with Start Talking Now assets available in English and Spanish.

In September 2020, HCA launched the statewide Focus On campaign to prevent… read more

The following is excerpted from the CNN.com and other sources:

The US Food and Drug Administration took a “momentous” step Monday toward banning menthol in cigarettes and banning flavored cigars, proposing a rule that public health experts say could save hundreds of thousands of lives.

The FDA has been talking about banning menthol and flavored cigars for years and has said the issue is important for the agency.

In April of 2022, it announced it would move ahead with… read more

Session Objectives:

Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vrdjeUSsQmifqg0v6WWmOg

Length: 30 minutes

Date: Thursday October 19th… read more

National Red Ribbon Week takes place annually, October 23-31, and is the largest and longest running drug-use prevention campaign in the United States. It is an opportunity to encourage communities to educate local youth and to participate in drug prevention activities. The first National Red Ribbon Celebration was held in 1988, and sponsored by the National Family Partnership, formerly the National Federation of Parents for Drug Free Youth. Learn more about the history of Red Ribbon Week… read more

The University of Washington is facilitating focus groups with parents, caregivers, and trusted adults of young people, ages 15-25, who received care for opioid misuse starting at least one year ago. The purpose of these focus groups is to understand participants' experiences with care and learn how the way we talk about these services with youth and their caregivers can be improved. Participants will be compensated and may participate in up to three focus groups in October and November 2023… read more

"Ethics in prevention: A guide for American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) substance use disorder prevention professionals and individuals working primarily with AI/AN communities" will be offered after the close of the 2023 Prevention Summit, on Thursday, October 26, at the Davenport Grand Hotel in Spokane, WA. The training will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

This facilitated course will address the role and application of ethics in substance use disorder prevention. Using case… read more