Announcements

The following is excerpted from the CounterTobacco.org website:

On April 29, 2021 the FDA announced their intention to issue proposed product standards this year eliminating menthol in cigarettes and all flavors in cigars. This action is huge, historic, and overdue. It will save lives, especially Black lives. It is thanks to tireless advocates who have been working towards this for decades, and a result of a recent lawsuit led by the African-American Tobacco Control Leadership Council (AATCLC) and Action on Smoking and Health to compel the FDA to respond to a citizen petition submitted by the Public Health Law Center, the Center for Black Health and Equity, and AATCLC originally in 2013 after menthol was excluded from the ban on all other flavored in cigarettes in the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act and after the FDA’s own studies concluded based overwhelming scientific evidence that removing menthol would benefit public health.

This is perhaps the biggest action the FDA could take to reduce health disparities. For nearly 100 years, commercial mentholated tobacco products have escalated the harm caused by tobacco products. The tobacco industry has extensively targeted its marketing for menthol to African American communities, causing disproportionate harm to Black Americans. Menthol cigarettes alone have likely been responsible for more than 10 million extra smokers and 378,000 premature deaths.

It is important to note that the product standards would be enforced at the manufacturing and retail level – they will not involve a ban on possession or use.

Learn more about menthol here and read the FDA’s full press release here.

The full online post can be found at this location:
https://countertobacco.org/fda-moves-to-ban-menthol-cigarettes-and-flavored-cigars/

One-Session Youth & Parent Substance Use Prevention Plus Wellness Programs: Free Webinar

Session Objectives:

1. Describe substance use Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) screening & brief interventions for youth and parents.
2. Identify unique characteristics of PPW programs allowing them to broadly prevent substance use while improving the mental and physical health of youth and young adults.
3. Review research and theory supporting brief interventions that integrate SU prevention with wellness promotion.
4. List new adaptations to PPW programs increasing their flexibility and practicality for use in-person and online.

Register:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O8TueengRVyL9vHavWg47g

Length: 60 minutes 

Date: Wednesday May 5^th                     

Time: 12:00pm ET/9:00am PT 

CEU Certificate: CEU certificate available upon completing webinar

Learn more about PPW: https://preventionpluswellness.com

 

Opioid Prevention Plus Wellness Online Program Implementer Training

Objectives: Participants will be able to:

1. Describe the critical need for multiple health risk behavior interventions that integrate substance use prevention with wellness promotion (i.e., Prevention Plus Wellness programs), as well as their components, underpinning models, research findings, and steps for implementation and evaluation.
2. Identify and practice correctly implementing the Opioid Prevention Plus Wellness program to individuals (one-on-one) and groups of youth with fidelity using the program scripts and instructor’s survey. 
3. Identify pre-posttest surveys and other tools for assessing program fidelity and efficacy. 
4. Explore strategies and resources for tailoring your program, promoting your program, providing follow up lessons, and implementing your program online. 

Cost: $199/person

Length: 2-hours 

Date & Time: 

• Tuesday May 4^th 12:00pm ET/9:00am PT            

CEU Certificate: CEU certificate available upon completing workshop

Order workshop: https://preventionpluswellness.com/products/live-online-certified-program-implementer-training

 

Prevention Plus Wellness Program Online Training of Trainer Session

Objectives: Participants will be able to:

1. Identify the goal, objectives and steps for providing PPW Program Implementer Training using the PPW Program Implementer Workshop Agenda.    
2. Discuss, practice and rate self-efficacy of each training skill, including ensuring pre-workshop training requirements, demonstrating program implementation scripts, overseeing participant’s practicing (role playing), describing implementation resources and strategies, identifying pre-posttest surveys and other evaluation tools and assigning participants a post-training assignment.
3. Describe and agree to the rights and responsibilities of TOTs. 

Cost: $349/person

Length: 2-hours 

Date & Time: 

• Thursday May 6^th 12:00pm ET/9:00am PT             

CEU Certificate: CEU certificate available upon completing workshop

Order workshop: https://preventionpluswellness.com/products/live-online-certified-training-of-trainer-workshop

 

Submit a workshop proposal for the 2021 NPN Conference by Friday, April 30 

The NPN Conference Planning Committee invites you to submit a workshop proposal to present at the 2021 NPN Conference. Workshop proposals should fit into one of six (6) possible topics, and address the conference theme, Resilience in Prevention: Opportunities to Adapt and Build for a Stronger Tomorrow

HIGHLIGHTED TOPICS

• Evidence-based and Evidence-informed Programs and Strategies to Prevent or Reduce Substance Use
• Prevention Workforce Development
• Health Equity and Cultural Relevance in Substance Use Prevention
• Community Empowerment, Resiliency, and Capacity Building
• Drug Trends and Emerging Issues
• Intersectional Issues with Substance Use Prevention

Visit the NPN Conference website for more information and to submit your workshop proposal.

The Prevention Awards of Excellence are an opportunity to recognize individuals and organizations for their dedication and contributions to the Prevention field.

Please take the time to nominate a colleague, young person, program or organization in the following award categories:

• Tribal Prevention
• Youth Leadership
• Young Adult Leadership
• Professional and/or Exemplary Community Prevention Leader
• Community Coalition and/or Community Prevention Group
• Contributions to Prevention by an Organization, Business, or Agency
• Outreach or Implementation of a Prevention Program

We will celebrate awardees and their successes at the award ceremony during the Prevention Summit in November.

Nominations are due Monday, August 9, 2021, by 5:00 PM. Late submissions will not be accepted.  Please review the nomination packet overview and form thoroughly; if you have any questions contact Martha Williams at Martha.Williams@hca.wa.gov or at (360) 628-3671.