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 a SPF 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 critical prevention skills in real-world scenarios.
WEBINAR 1: January 7: Understanding Your Community’s Needs and Building Capacity for Your Prevention Efforts
LAB 1: January 9: Prioritizing Data and Making an Elevator Pitch
WEBINAR 2: January 14: Incorporating Data-Driven Strategies to Take Action and Build Effectiveness
LAB 2: January 16: Building a Logic Model and Action Plan to Enhance Prevention Efforts
WEBINAR 1: Understanding Your Community’s Needs and Building Capacity for Your Prevention Efforts
The first webinar in this learning collaborative will provide an overview of the first two steps of SAMHSA's SPF — Assessment and Capacity. It will emphasize the importance of using an evidence-based approach to prevention and explore the core principles that prevention professionals should uphold at all times: sustainability, cultural competence, and ethical behavior. Among other topics, it will review the steps to identify the specific needs and risks facing a community, the available resources to address these issues, how to prioritize issues and ensure that prevention efforts are targeted and relevant, and how to build capacity to address priorities.
WEBINAR 1 LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
Recognize the importance of an evidence-based approach to prevention
Describe the core principles of strategic planning
Explain the purpose of a needs assessment and identify data prioritization techniques
Define methods used for capacity building
LAB 1: Prioritizing Data and Making an Elevator Pitch
This first learning lab in our SPF learning collaborative focuses on the first two steps of the framework, Assessment and Capacity. Through guided exercises, participants will start with the Assessment step, where they will work with mock data to identify and prioritize key substance use trends in the provided scenario. For the Capacity step, participants will practice developing an elevator pitch that can be used to initiate or strengthen community partnerships.
LAB 1 LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this lab, participants will be able to:
Reproduce data prioritization techniques
Assemble an effective elevator pitch
WEBINAR 2: Incorporating Data-Driven Strategies to Take Action and Build Effectiveness
The second webinar in this learning collaborative will examine the remaining three steps of SAMHSA's SPF — Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation. It will discuss opportunities and best practices for ensuring prevention initiatives develop, follow, and evaluate a comprehensive plan. The webinar will define and summarize the importance of a logic model to developing a comprehensive plan, as well as walk through the steps to creating one. Among other topics, it will describe how to put a logic model into action by creating an accompanying action plan, mobilizing resources, delivering interventions with fidelity, and engaging key stakeholders to ensure broad community involvement and support. Lastly, the presentation will explore how evaluations support prevention efforts by providing a feedback loop that can improve strategy development and implementation.
WEBINAR 2 LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
Recognize the importance of developing a comprehensive plan
Define the key elements of a logic model
Describe the process of action planning
Explain the principles of effective evaluation and the importance of a feedback loop
LAB 2: Building a Logic Model and Action Plan to Enhance Prevention Efforts
This second learning lab in our SPF learning collaborative focuses on the final three steps of the framework: Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation. Through guided exercises, participants will start with the Planning step, where they will practice assembling the components of a logic model. For the Implementation step, participants will review a sample action plan and identify potential errors and issues within it. Lastly, for the Evaluation step, the lab will review some practical steps non-evaluators can take to support evaluation efforts.
LAB 2 LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this lab, participants will be able to:
Assemble the core elements of a logic model to create a plan
Detect potential errors in action plans
List practical steps for non-evaluators to support evaluation
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 LGBTQ+ 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].