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June 27, 2020

Session Objectives:

  1. Describe step-by-step methods for providing Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) programs live online to youth individually and in groups.
  2. List step-by-step methods for providing PPW programs by recorded video & telephone.
  3. Explore tools for monitoring and evaluating online PPW program quality and effectiveness.
  4. Identify PPW program online training and resources.

Register: ...

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June 27, 2020

Session Objectives:

  1. Explore the contents in the Vaping and Marijuana Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) program manuals for high school, middle school and elementary school-aged youth.
  2. Compare scripts for providing Vaping and Marijuana PPW to youth individually and in group settings as well as online.
  3. Review PowerPoint slides and reproducible materials found in the program digital downloads.
  4. Identify online program implementation and...
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June 24, 2020

Dear Friends,

You are invited to a free 30-minute personalized online training workshop on “Creating a Public Health Substance Use Prevention Plus Wellness Plan.”

This session is designed to help you create a customized plan to significantly increase the public health reach of youth or young adults in your region who receive evidence-based and evidence-informed Prevention Plus Wellness programs. 

The training objectives include:

  1. Examine public...
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June 24, 2020

Dear Friends,

You are invited to a free 30-minute personalized online training workshop on “Creating a Public Health Substance Use Prevention Plus Wellness Plan.”

This session is designed to help you create a customized plan to significantly increase the public health reach of youth or young adults in your region who receive evidence-based and evidence-informed Prevention Plus Wellness programs. 

The training objectives include:

  1. Examine public...
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June 24, 2020

The number of locations that students can receive free meals from has grown, thanks to new locations offering meals through the annual Summer Food Service Program (SFSP).

SFSP provides children with nutritious meals during the summer. The USDA recently released a...

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June 8, 2020

For the first time ever, we’ll be providing a FREE two-hour training workshop on implementing the evidence-based one-session SPORT Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) program. 

The SPORT PPW program is being provided across all 50 US states and abroad to high school, middle school and elementary school-aged youth in nearly all settings where youth are found, including school, community, medical, recreational, sports, home and more. 

This training will consist of two one-...

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June 5, 2020

Session Objectives:

  1. Examine alcohol, vaping (e-cigarettes), marijuana & opioid use Prevention Plus Wellness screening & brief interventions
  2. List differences between typical substance use prevention and Prevention Plus Wellness programs
  3. Explore theory and research supporting brief and multi-health risk behavior interventions
  4. Describe options, settings, steps and adaptations for implementing and evaluating PPW programs....
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June 5, 2020

Session Objectives:

  1. List three steps for providing Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) screening and brief interventions.
  2. Demonstrate how youth can implement the SPORT (alcohol use) PPW program to their peers.
  3. Review strategies trained youth leaders can use to provide quality PPW programs to peers.

Register:  https://us02web.zoom.us/...

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June 4, 2020

Prevention advocates: There's a good news step forward in your many years of work advocating for more community drug take-back options as part of a comprehensive approach to addressing the opioid epidemic and medicine abuse!  A statewide drug take-back program will launch in late November under the WA Secure Drug Take-Back Act.
A pharmaceutical industry drug take-back proposal was approved by the WA State Department of Health on May 25th as compliant with the state law...

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June 2, 2020

Our first-time-ever all virtual WA State Liquor and Cannabis Board-Prevention Roundtable is THIS UPCOMING MONDAY (June 8from 10a-12p via WebEx. Register in advance here: https://tinyurl.com/LCBJune8th. See flyer for additional information.

We hope you will join LCB Chair, Jane Rushford, Director Rick Garza, and other key staff to hear from you...

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May 29, 2020

Session Objectives:

  1. Explain the need for and benefits of integrating wellness promotion into substance use prevention.
  2. Describe a marketing-related conceptual model for creating integrated prevention with wellness content, programs and campaigns.
  3. Explore evidence-based resources for providing prevention with wellness programs.

Register: ...

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May 29, 2020

Session Objectives:

  1. Describe steps for implementing youth substance use Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) programs
  2. Explore PPW program and training options
  3. List tips for providing screening, feedback and goal setting strategies in PPW programs
  4. Identify new applications of PPW program content and implementation and evaluation approaches and resources

Register: ...

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May 25, 2020

Hidden In Plain Sight Tri-Cities has been available around the state in person for 2 years now!!  As we celebrate our 2 year anniversary, we know we must adapt and grow our program!! As times have changed over the past few months, so have delivery methods for getting information to our communities.  HIPS TC is now being offered with virtual options, including teacher training (with clock hours).  

This presentation is designed to expand your knowledge of youth...

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May 20, 2020

Thank you to everyone who has already responded to this query! I want to be sure not to miss anyone in this round of stakeholder input to WA DOH's Tobacco Program (there will be future opportunities). Please review my post and respond via the link below by Tuesday May 26th, end of day. Thank you!

All interested CPWI and DFC program leaders in WA are invited to participate in one-hour Zoom meeting interviews in May or early June about your organization’s priorities,...

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May 20, 2020

Session Objectives:

  1. Examine alcohol, vaping & marijuana use Prevention Plus Wellness screening & brief interventions
  2. List differences between typical substance use prevention and Prevention Plus Wellness programs
  3. Explore theory and research supporting brief and multi-health risk behavior interventions
  4. Describe options, settings, steps and adaptations for implementing and evaluating PPW programs.

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