As we continue to move forward with the transition from Minerva 1.0 to 2.0, we have some updates to share.

Indian Health Service (IHS): IHS recently launched the National Health Coach Pilot Project to deliver health coach training to community and health professionals in Indian Country. The pilot project includes two cohorts of 50 participants.

The IHS will use the results and feedback from participants in this pilot project to assess the feasibility of establishing a health and wellness coach and behavior change approach at the clinical and community levels. The pilot project will also… read more

The Starts with One campaign needs your help promoting a new National Take Back Day media asset for providers.

We are asking CPWI & CBO Prevention System Managers to send the attached email content to each CPWI & CBO provider you support as soon as possible.  

The email allows providers to order a localizable video to promote their communities' April 30 National Take-Back Day efforts if they return the request by April 1, 2022, and includes links to… read more

Participants can choose from three tracks:

The Tribal Wellness and Resilience Gathering by the Cowlitz Tribe Healing of the Canoe will be held May 16-18 at the Heathman Lodge in Vancouver, Washington. They are partnering with Molina Healthcare, Department of Health (DOH), and Healthcare Authority (HCA), and collaborating with other tribes to discuss community wellness and what it means to heal during this season we are in. By attending, you will get the opportunity to hear about what others are and what you can be doing to balance… read more

Save the Dates!

DBHR is planning another series of New Coordinator Basic Training (NCBT) in April 2022.  All new CPWI coalition coordinators, who have not attended a previous NCBT series are strongly encouraged to attend.  New CPWI coalition coordinators are the priority audience for the series. Please email your request to attend to your Prevention Manager.  The series will not be posted on the Athena Training calendar; session invitations will be sent to approved… read more

Who: CPWI and CBO Providers who will be using Minerva 2.0.

What: We are providing instructions around account set up for the new system. This email is for CPWI and CBO Providers who do not currently have a SecureAccess Washington (SAW) account and for those who do. We will be relying on the emails associated with your Minerva 1.0 account to link your SAW account to Minerva 2.0. User’s SAW account email must match their Minerva 1.0 email.

Action Needed:

Save the date: Tuesday, May 17

The 2022 Spring Youth Forum Planning Committee is committed to finding meaningful ways to best support youth interested or actively engaged in prevention projects or other collaborative efforts to prevent substance use, and make sure there is recognition for those efforts. We are interested in getting feedback from both youth and Prevention Providers (including Tribes, CPWI, CBO, ESDs, School Districts, and Schools) regarding programming options under… read more

The Healthy Youth Survey Planning Committee (HYSPC) is collecting proposals for new questions and survey question revisions to include in HYS 2023. Each proposal should cover a single question, a single scale, or a group of related questions. Proposals are due April 15, 2022. The HYSPC will use the following criteria in consideration of the proposals:

Relevance of Measures The information the question generates fits with the survey’s topical scope, will be useful to multiple… read more

The King County Department of Community and Human Services’ Behavioral Health and Recovery Services (DCHS/ BHRD) used a Washington State Opioid Response (SOR) Grant for project designed to ensure language access to opioid prevention materials. The end result was the translation of the Stop Opioid Overdose brochure and Starts With One campaign materials into 22 different languages. An overview of this project is attached.

The English materials and 22 translations are available… read more