Cost: FREE
Contact Hours: Up to 5 for attending Parts 1-4 (Certificate of Attendance)
Target Audience: Professionals or organizations; Community members (members of a community or consumers); Students or educators (including faculty, administrators, supervisors, etc.)
Developed for: SAMHSA Region 3
Join us for our Collecting Data to Inform Environmental Scans Learning Collaborative comprised of 2 webinars, each with an accompanying learning lab. The learning labs will offer an immersive, hands-on environment where participants can actively practice and refine skills in real-world scenarios.
WEBINAR 1: March 25: What Is Data and How Do We Obtain It?
LAB 1: March 27: Developing Data Collection Opportunities
WEBINAR 2: April 1: Overcoming Data Collection Challenges and Managing Your Data
LAB 2: April 3: Overcoming Data Collection Challenges
WEBINAR 1: What Is Data and How Do We Obtain It?
The first webinar in this learning collaborative will introduce and discuss data concepts relevant to environmental scans for substance use prevention. Through the lens of SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF), it will introduce the different ways prevention professionals can use data. The webinar will also summarize the different types of data relevant to environmental scan efforts and explain why data is critical to building the prevention field’s evidence base. Lastly, the webinar will identify data collection methods and sources, as well as important strengths and potential challenges for prevention professionals.
WEBINAR 1 LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
Explain how data supports prevention planning and programming
Recognize the different types of data relevant to environmental scans in prevention
Identify common secondary data sources
Identify common primary data collection techniques
LAB 1: Developing Data Collection Opportunities
This first learning lab in our environmental scan learning collaborative focuses on how participants can develop the necessary skills to begin evidence-based methods of data collection in order to begin implementation of an environmental scan. Here, through guided exercises, participants will gain an understanding of the data resources needed to build an environmental scan and what are the best ways to go about data collection to practically inform their strategic planning process.
LAB 1 LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this lab, participants will be able to:
Utilize evidence-based and practical skills for data collection
Identify data resources for prevention
WEBINAR 2: Overcoming Data Collection Challenges and Managing Your Data
The second webinar in this learning collaborative will describe how to obtain and begin using data. It will identify important strengths and potential challenges to data collection efforts. The webinar will also provide recommendations for overcoming these challenges, including explaining the importance of ethics in data collection and when building new data collection instruments and tools. Additionally, the webinar will provide strategies for analyzing data and tips for working with imperfect data. Lastly, the webinar will describe how to build or strengthen partnerships to support and enhance data collection efforts for an environmental scan.
WEBINAR 2 LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
Recognize common barriers to data collection and strategies to overcome those challenges
Identify the importance of ethics for data collection and when developing instruments
Describe and contrast data analysis strategies and tips for working with imperfect data
Identify how to build partnerships around data collection and gathering
LAB 2: Overcoming Data Collection Challenges
This second learning lab in our environmental scan learning collaborative focuses on preparing for an environmental scan and using findings to support strategic planning. Here, through guided exercises that build off the content provided in the webinars, participants will gain a deeper understanding of the practical skills required to fully utilize environmental scans.
LAB 2 LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this lab, participants will be able to:
Identify common data challenges and tips for overcoming them
Recognize ethical considerations for successful data collection
PRESENTERS
Josh Esrick, MPP is the Chief of Training and Technical Assistance at Carnevale Associates, LLC. Mr. Esrick has over ten years of experience researching, writing, evaluating, and presenting on substance use prevention and other behavioral health topics. He is an expert in providing training and technical assistance (T/TA) in substance use, having overseen the development of hundreds of T/TA products for numerous clients, including six of SAMHSA’s ten regional Prevention Technology Transfer Centers (PTTCs), the PTTC Network Coordinating Office, the Central East Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) and Mental Health Technology Transfer Centers (MHTTC), and SAMHSA’s Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT). These trainings and products have covered a wide range of topics, including strategic planning, data collection and analysis, and identifying evidence-based prevention interventions for youth. In addition to T/TA, Mr. Esrick has directly provided many of these services to behavioral health agencies and other entities. He has published several academic journal articles. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a Master of Public Policy from George Washington University.
Emily Patton, MSc, PgDip holds a Masters of Science in Abnormal and Clinical Psychology from Swansea University and a Postgraduate Degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Edinburgh. She offers significant professional experience in the fields of public policy development and analysis, criminal justice research, data collection and analysis, program development, and performance management.
Olivia Stuart, MSW supports the training & technical assistance (T/TA) team in the development and delivery of knowledge translation products across multiple projects. In this capacity, she assists with webinars, literature reviews, and infographics on a range of behavioral health topics. Prior to joining Carnevale Associates, Olivia interned with the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center where she supported projects to reduce inequities in the criminal justice system. Olivia also served as a Graduate Research Supervisor at George Mason University and worked for several years in advocacy and fundraising. She holds a Master of Social Work degree from George Mason University.
*CONTACT HOUR ELIGIBILITY
In order to be eligible for the contact hours/certificate of attendance, you must join the live webinar in the Zoom platform.
If you are having issues accessing the room/application at the time of the event: Please email
[email protected] at the start of the webinar so that we can assist you.
ACCOMMODATIONS
If you are in need of any special accommodations, please notify the Central East PTTC Webinar Team three weeks in advance of the event, or as soon as possible, by emailing
[email protected].