Announcements

Calling all Prevention and Public Health partners across WA:

Please join WA State Liquor and Cannabis Board leaders for our second virtual Statewide Prevention Roundtable on Thursday, June 3, from 2-4p. 

We want to hear from you about how LCB's regulations and the products we regulate are impacting you and the communities your serve. This will be a roundtable discussion and Q&A session. Please submit possible topics to discuss here.

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Session Objectives:

1. Describe substance use Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) screening & brief interventions & their components.
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...

Implementers of PAX Good Behavior Game or PAX Tools will benefit from an assortment of supports and resources available online.  These include:

• PAX Chats
• PAXIS Website
• PAX Newsletter

See below for a brief description of each.

PAX Chats
PAX Chats are a great way providers can ask a PAX question, discuss resources, or share ideas with others implementing PAX...

Session Objectives:

1. Compare the contents in the new 2021 Marijuana, Vaping (E-Cigarette) & Opioid Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) programs for high school, middle school and elementary school-aged youth.
2. Examine the scripts and PowerPoint slides used in providing these PPW programs to participants individually and in group settings both in-person as well as online.
3. Review built-in evaluation tools and training opportunities for...

The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) is seeking sponsors for the 2021 Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). The program, operated by local organizations around the state, provides meals to students over the summer when they do not have access to school meals. Eligible sponsors will operate a nonprofit meal program during the summer for youth aged 18 and younger. Once approved, all children—regardless of family income level—can receive a free meal at a meal site.

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The newly launching WA Tobacco Coalition & Partnership Initiative is seeking a consultant with expertise helping organizations design structures and processes that center and support diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Experience developing or working with diverse coalitions is desirable.

Our diversity and inclusion goals are to engage tobacco prevention stakeholders in creating or expanding statewide partnerships that are multidisciplinary and...