Announcements

It’s that time: The 2023 community survey will begin on Saturday, July 15, and run until Wednesday, November 15. Please review the email you received with your online survey links.

The 2023 core survey (for printing hard copies) and the data entry manual can be found on The Athena Forum Community Surveys page. On this page, you will find other helpful information and resources, such as your community's minimum target response requirements based on population size.

If you… read more

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

This year's Prevention Summit and Provider Meeting will be held in Spokane, WA, at the Davenport Grand. The annual Provider Meeting will be held on Monday, October 23, and the Prevention Summit on Tuesday, October 24 and Wednesday, October 25.

The Division of Behavioral and Recovery (DBHR) is seeking your help! A hybrid format is being considered to allow virtual participation. However, this is contingent based upon need and availability of funding. Please complete the short poll to… read more

In May, seven Latinx youth leaders from Friday Harbor Middle School's La Chispa attended the North Sound Youth Cannabis and Commerical Tobacco Prevention Program (YCCTPP) YOUth Got This! Summit. Watch the video clip to learn about their experience at the summit!

La Chispa is supported by the Community Wellness and Prevention Initiative (CPWI) San Juan Island Prevention Coalition. The coalition was founded in 2004 to strengthen community collaboration to reduce substance abuse among… 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

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