Announcements

Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) provides free one-hour webinars for prevention and health specialists on most Wednesdays at noon eastern (9:00am pacific time).

These webinars address research and practice on integrating substance use prevention with wellness, evidence-based screening and brief interventions, and more.

Live PPW webinars come with a certificate for one-hour CEU credit and typically include a pdf of webinar slides and/or a link to the recorded webinar.

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Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) has updated their free program Pretest and Posttest Surveys and Fidelity Checklist for use by prevention providers to ensure their programs are being implement reliably and result in positive outcomes for participating youth. 

In addition, the PPW Pretest and Posttest Surveys are available both online and in paper format.

Also online are the popular self-administered PPW Instructor’s Survey and the PPW Fidelity...

Objectives:

1. Explore the need for addressing both chronic disease risks and substance use risks in single prevention programs for youth and young adults.
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, theory and practice supporting PPW programs as practical, evidence-based multiple risk behavior...

What

The state personal protective equipment (PPE) backstop has been available to help support state agencies, counties, tribes and other partners through the COVID-19 pandemic. As the state transitions into this next phase of the response to COVID-19, we are working to get PPE staged at the local level, where it is most useful.

When

The state backstop will be available to meet COVID-19 PPE requests through Oct. 31, 2021.

Now...

Objectives:

1. Explore connections between wellness behaviors (i.e., breakfast eating, sleep duration & physical activity) and risk behaviors of US adolescents, including substance use, mental health, violence, automotive safety, and other health problems and behaviors.
2. Review research examining wellness and risk behavior associations.
3. Identify practice implications for prevention, health and fitness professionals and parents.
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Objectives:

1. List Prevention Plus Wellness Parent Program components and options.
2. Identify why parents’ communications with youth/young adults should address both preventing substance use and promoting wellness behaviors to improve their physical and mental health.
3. Explore a 3-step evidence-based model for providing brief messages and goal planning experiences with youth/young adults that integrates prevention with wellness.
4. Review...