Announcements

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) Division of Grant Review is recruiting reviewers who have academic qualifications and professional work experience in mental health services, preventing substance misuse, and/or treating substance use disorder.

The 2023 Region 10 Opioid Summit will be held in Vancouver, WA, July 19-20, 2023. This year, the conference theme is The Road to Healthier Communities: Creating Equitable and Responsible Systems to Address the Evolving Opioid Epidemic.

Registration and a call for proposals are coming soon! Visit the conference website or The Athena Forum Announcements page for the most up to date information.

The Eastern Washington Area Health Education Center (EWAHEC) at EWU plans to host a high school prevention internship opportunity for high school students, tentatively named Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Prevention, and we need your help.

This program is focused on high school students ages 16 and up who live in rural areas and are low-income or black, indigenous, or people of color (BIPOC). Interns would be placed at a CPWI location near their home and would be working 10… read more

The scholarship application is open! The deadline to submit a scholarship application is Wednesday, March 15.

The 2023 Washington State Spring Youth Forum (SYF) is scheduled to be hybrid on May 10, 2023, at the Great Wolf Lodge, in Ground Mound, WA, with the option to participate and compete virtually!

The goal of the Spring Youth Forum is to recognize and reward youth prevention teams that have implemented a successful prevention project within their communities. The… read more

Youth in rural communities are making positive choices when it comes to taking care of themselves. The Rural Network recognizes this and wants to celebrate it!

You can help the Rural Network by having youth complete the survey and share what their "good" is. Their good can be anything that they're good at, like doing, or that motivates them to stay substance-free.

To access the survey, open the attachment and scan or click the QR code!

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recently released five new supplemental resources to Prevention with Purpose: A Strategic Planning Guide to Preventing Drug Misuse Among College Students. These new resources focus on campus health centers and counseling centers, working with community coalitions, considering culture throughout the Strategic Prevention Framework, engaging student-led organizations, and promoting shared responsibility in prevention.

Visit the DEA's Campus Drug… read more

Why Black History Month?

Established in 1926, by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), “Negro History Week” encouraged teachings of Black history in America’s public schools. Negro History Week was celebrated the second week of February to coincide with the birthdays of Fredrick Douglas, once a slave turned activist and author, and Abraham Lincoln who issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The Civil Rights Movement… read more

The Washington State Department of Health’s (DOH) Washington Tracking Network (WTN) is excited to launch its second annual WTN Youth Science Contest. The contest provides a unique opportunity for high school students across Washington to develop their science and communication skills while working with health and environmental data from their own communities.

Participants can choose from three tracks:

WA Breathes invites you to join in signing on to this educational policy statement to demonstrate broad support for restoring adequate state investment in evidence-based, equity-focused strategies to reduce the use of addictive and harmful commercial tobacco products.

We request that interested organizations sign on to this statement by Friday February 17th. Additional signers will be accepted after Feb. 17th and added to the statement.

Professionals working in prevention… read more

Purpose:

Gain an understanding of wellness and its essential role in holistic substance use prevention practice for enhancing the mental and physical wellbeing of youth and young adults.

Part I Objectives: