Announcements

This year's Prevention Summit and Provider Meeting will be held in Spokane, WA, at the Davenport Grand. The annual Provider Meeting will be held on Monday, October 23, and the Prevention Summit on Tuesday, October 24 and Wednesday, October 25.

The Division of Behavioral and Recovery (DBHR) is seeking your help! A hybrid...

BIPoC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) Mental Health Awareness Month aims to increase awareness about the systemic inequities and social determinants of mental health that disproportionately affect BIPoC individuals.

According to Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services...

Save the date for CADCA Bootcamp on September 11-14, 2023! 

This training will focus on enhancing participant skills required to build strong coalitions and implement the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF), including community assessment, logic models, comprehensive strategies, coalition evaluation and coalition capacity building. Participants will learn and gain skills critical for coalitions to plan, implement and evaluate their coalition’s community-change efforts to...

The Washington State Department of Commerce is releasing a notice of funding opportunity for its Child Care Partnership (CCPG) Program on Wednesday, July 6!

The agency is interested in funding collaborative coalition-like partnerships to conduct assessment and planning activities to increase the total number of child care slots, especially in "child care deserts," or areas with limited or no child care. To learn more about child care deserts in Washington State, view the...

We are happy to announce the launch of the Minerva 2.0 biennial data refresh training.

Who should attend? Tribal and Urban Indian Organization (UIO) prevention and support staff responsible for prevention data entry in Minerva.

During this training, we will discuss prevention data entry best practices for the goal to improve ease of data entry and data that is reported to federal and state funders.

Tribal and UIO prevention...

Some folks consider the conversations around expansive gender identity and the rights of trans individuals to be a modern phenomenon, but Harry Allen would disagree. Harry was considered something of a troublemaker and rabble rouser by officials in and around the young city of Seattle from the 1890s to the 1930s. He worked in many careers as a bartender, barber, and longshoreman. He got in fights, swore openly, and had a wife name Isabelle. By all accounts, Harry Allen was an active and...

On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the enslaved people in the states currently engaged in rebellion against the Union. This paved the way for the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which abolished slavery in our nation on December 6, 1865.

Following the Emancipation Proclamation, slavery continued to remain deeply entrenched in the South. As the Union army advanced into the South, the Emancipation Proclamation was enforced...