Announcements

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

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 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:

We are happy to announce the launch of the Minerva 2.0 Biennial Data Refresh Training.

Who should attend? Tribal and 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 to improve data that is reported to federal and state funders.

Tribal and UIO prevention and data entry staff are invited to participate in one of the… 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