Description:
Prevention is an essential part of the continuum in addressing mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders among young people, but it can be a challenge to define and implement. Understanding the robust and trusted field of prevention science can help guide our planning and efforts to make a tremendous impact, especially when working towards suicide prevention and substance use disorder prevention outcomes simultaneously. Participants will be introduced to evidence-based guiding principles in prevention, hear examples of effective community implementation, and learn how to collaborate for greater success.
Objectives:
- Defining proactive vs. reactive prevention.
- Focusing on shared risk and protective factors is the 'nexus' to produce shared substance misuse and suicide prevention outcomes.
- Implementation of effective prevention is guided by collaborative evidence-based frameworks, strategies, and policies.