Announcements

Save the date for CADCA Bootcamp on September 11-14, 2023! 

This training will focus on enhancing participant skills required to build strong coalitions and implement the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF), including community assessment, logic models, comprehensive strategies, coalition evaluation and coalition capacity building. Participants will learn and gain skills critical for coalitions to plan, implement and evaluate their coalition’s community-change efforts to… read more

BIPoC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) Mental Health Awareness Month aims to increase awareness about the systemic inequities and social determinants of mental health that disproportionately affect BIPoC individuals.

According to Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), BIPoC individuals are less likely to receive mental health services and have higher rates of unmet substance use disorder treatment needs than non-Hispanic white Americans. These… read more

Registration is now open for the 2023 Coalition Leadership Institute! Please be sure to register by August 15, 2023.

Registration Link: 2023 CLI REGISTRATION

Dates: Tuesday, August 22 and Wednesday, August 23, 2023, with optional workshops on Thursday, August 24.

Location: The Olympia Hotel at Capitol Lake – 2300 Evergreen Park Drive SW, Olympia WA 98502

Considerations:

The Washington State Department of Commerce is releasing a notice of funding opportunity for its Child Care Partnership (CCPG) Program on Wednesday, July 6!

The agency is interested in funding collaborative coalition-like partnerships to conduct assessment and planning activities to increase the total number of child care slots, especially in "child care deserts," or areas with limited or no child care. To learn more about child care deserts in Washington State, view the Washington… read more

On May 9 and 10, HCA's Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery (DBHR) hosted its annual Spring Youth Forum (SYF). The SYF provides youth prevention teams the opportunity to be recognized and rewarded for the successful implementation of their prevention projects.

40 youth teams presented their projects at the SYF, including nine teams from Educational School District 112:

Jaspr Health is looking for participants in full randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in 2023 to test a new app for youth and caregivers that is focused on behavioral health and suicide prevention.

Some folks consider the conversations around expansive gender identity and the rights of trans individuals to be a modern phenomenon, but Harry Allen would disagree. Harry was considered something of a troublemaker and rabble rouser by officials in and around the young city of Seattle from the 1890s to the 1930s. He worked in many careers as a bartender, barber, and longshoreman. He got in fights, swore openly, and had a wife name Isabelle. By all accounts, Harry Allen was an active and… read more

We are happy to announce the launch of the Minerva 2.0 biennial data refresh training.

Who should attend? Tribal and Urban Indian Organization (UIO) prevention and support staff responsible for prevention data entry in Minerva.

During this training, we will discuss prevention data entry best practices for the goal to improve ease of data entry and data that is reported to federal and state funders.

Tribal and UIO prevention and data entry staff are invited to… read more

On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the enslaved people in the states currently engaged in rebellion against the Union. This paved the way for the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which abolished slavery in our nation on December 6, 1865.

Following the Emancipation Proclamation, slavery continued to remain deeply entrenched in the South. As the Union army advanced into the South, the Emancipation Proclamation was enforced… read more