Announcements

The NFF surveyed families last year in an effort to understand the challenges they were facing during COVID. Their answers provided critical information about how the pandemic was affecting them and their children in terms of academic progress, mental and behavioral health, and more and spawned a two-part webinar series by SAMHSA.

The survey is being offered again this year to continue these vital dialogues and advocate for families at the federal level.

The survey7 is… read more

We have some more exciting and critical updates on Minerva 2.0 around Account set up!

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 notice 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… read more

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

On February 11, President Biden proclaimed February as National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month.

The proclamation highlighted new resources and programs for communities to prevent and address teen dating violence. The President also cited Title IX protections for students based on gender identity and sexual orientation to support transgender students who experience higher rates of violence.

Read the proclamation. Learn more.

The Washington State Department of Veteran's Affairs (WDVA) is holding a branding competition. Entrants are asked to design a brand/logo to represent the Washington State Governor’s Challenge to end Suicide among Service Members, Veterans, and their Families, and the Suicide Prevention Program within the WDVA. 

Logos MUST include:

Designs are due… read more

We have some exciting and critical updates on Minerva 2.0!

Who:

CPWI and CBO Providers who will be using Minerva 2.0

What:

We have created a timeline that includes key upcoming dates for the Minerva 1.0 to Minerva 2.0 transition including the training schedule. See attached for details.

Action needed:

Free registration for the 2022 Say It Out Loud (SIOL) Conference opens in early March. The conference will be held virtually on Thursday, May 26.

SIOL "focuses on information sharing and networking to improve behavioral health services and decrease disparities faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ+) individuals." This year's theme is We ARE Family: Honoring and recognizing the many structures and diverse experiences of families, biological and chosen… read more