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Indicating interest in New Coordinator Basic Training Series for Spring 2022 has ended. The series is at class capacity! Thank you for your interest in expanding your knowledge about CPWI! We are tentatively planning another series for Summer 2022. Here are the tentative dates for you to review if you are interested in attending the next series:
The Tribal Opioid Solutions Campaign, developed in partnership with Tribes, urban Indian organizations and WA State agency partners, aims to address opioid misuse and prevention in tribal communities across the state. One of the campaign’s year 4 efforts includes an interview spotlighting Quileute’s Health and Human Services Department. The interview was conducted by Native-owned radio station, Daybreak Star Radio, with Miss...
read moreAs 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...
read moreThe 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...
read moreThe 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 moreSave 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...
read moreWho:
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...
CADCA has spaces available for their upcoming National Coalition Academies, and they are hosting it in-person in Bellevue. Attendance may be either in-person or virtual, and the first sessions start in March.
This comprehensive coalition training that teaches leaders ‘“what they need to know” (core competencies) and “what their team needs to do” (the essential processes) to establish or maintain a highly effective anti-drug coalition.” This academy is a year-long process where...
read moreSave 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,...
read moreThe 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 moreThe 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. ...
read moreThe 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...
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...
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