Announcements

Watch this page for announcements from other Athena Forum users.

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

The Washington State Department of Health’s (DOH) Washington Tracking Network (WTN) is launching the inaugural Washington Tracking Network Youth Science Contest. The WTN Youth Science Contest provides an 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:

Health Science Community Engagement Science Communication… read more

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:

Account set up,… 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

The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) has released the JANUARY 2022 Community Risk Profiles, a comprehensive collection of social indicators relevant to a broad range of problem behaviors among adolescents and adults, such as substance abuse among youth.

A product of the Research and Development Analysis (RDA) Community Outcome and Risk Evaluation geographic information system (CORE), nearly 50 indicators are presented in graphs, maps and tables which… read more

The Office of the Attorney General is issuing a Request for Information for a vendor to operate the Washington Tipline. The attached document has a list of questions the AGO is requesting interested vendors to answer. This is an effort to gather information that may be included in a future solicitation document.

You are welcome to share this request with any partners you know who might be interested in providing a response to this RFI. 

Responses are due by 5:00 p.m… read more