New England PTTC

Join us for three days of a curated series of interactive sessions that aim to amplify your experience as an advanced prevention professional. This series is designed for each individual to learn and reflect on your own experiences and how they have shaped your leadership style, as well as the motivations that drive you and the impact you have on others. You will have a chance to discuss protecting the "self" as you use your interpersonal superpowers to contribute to a safe, inclusive, and equitable workplace. Not only will you learn from our expert trainers, but your voice, expertise, and experience will be honored among other advanced prevention professionals in the New England region. While you can choose to attend only the sessions you find most fitting to your work, we hope you'll engage with each of the six sessions to contribute to the peer learning style series, to improve your own work, and bolster the workforce development experience for others.

Date: August 6, 2024 Format: Webinar Time: 10:00 AM—2:00 PM EST; each day Cost: FREE ABOUT THE LEARNING SESSION Join the New England PTTC and the 2024 Fellows to learn about the six new research-based tools and resources created for the New England substance misuse prevention workforce to support Workforce Development: Recruiting, Training, Retaining Diverse Professionals across the Career Lattice in New England.   This webinar will take place on Day 1 - Monday, August 6th of the Advanced Prevention Institute: Amplifying Expertise & Connection of the New England Prevention Workforce. The RAD Fellowship Symposium is for all newer and advanced prevention professionals. The remainder of the Advanced Prevention Institute sessions are designed for the Advanced Professionals.   Resources include: The development of a training curriculum on trauma, mental health, and substance misuse for Hispanic and Latino residents interested in entering the field of behavioral health. An orientation checklist and materials to support early learning/training and connection to organizations and resources in the field for those entering the substance use prevention field in Vermont.  The intimate connection between personal growth and professional development, merging the two to create a blueprint for organizational environments that more meaningfully fosters the growth and diversity of our prevention workforce. A handbook on equitable, inclusive, and collaborative meetings designed for practical use by prevention organizations. A guide that will help start the conversation among employers on ways that they could be more inclusive, but also that they could be welcoming to members of the LGBTQIA+ community. A product that will focus on supporting prevention organizations and coalitions to a) identify how micro and macroaggressions commonly occur in prevention work; b) increase personal insight into micro and macroaggressions that might be perpetuated within their prevention communities, c) identify areas for implementation and improvement of various prevention workforce diversity strategies in leadership, recruitment, onboarding, retention, communication, and partnership, and d) provide prevention professionals with micro and macrointervention strategies for addressing implicit bias in their individual- and systems-level practices.   About the program: The New England Prevention Technology Transfer Center Research and Design (RAD) Fellowship program is an opportunity for professionals who have been in the field of prevention for five or more years to work both independently and as part of a collaborative team to develop an innovative piece of research and accompanying tool for the benefit of the workforce at large. This program will support a seven-month term, during which the Fellows will each create a tool or product around a central, priority subject area. At the end of the program, the Fellows will present their products to the workforce in a symposium meant to demonstrate how the products should and can be used. Priority Subject Area for 2024: Workforce Development: Recruiting, Training, Retaining Diverse Professionals across the Career Lattice To view and learn more about 2021-2023 Fellowship Product click below: 2021: New research-based substance misuse prevention tools supporting Diversity & Intentional Inclusion in Prevention, in New England 2022: Changing Landscape of Cannabis with a Focus on the IC&RC Prevention Domains. Prevention Product Development for the New England Region 2023:  Practical Resources to Address The Root Causes of Substance Misuse with a Focus on the IC&RC Prevention Domains To read about the 2024 Fellows and their work, CLICK HERE.

Date: August 13, 2024 Format: Webinar Time: 1:00 PM—3:00 PM EST; each day Cost: FREE ABOUT THE LEARNING SESSION As prevention professionals, part of our role is advocating for healthy communities and environments, and how we communicate with the public plays a large role in how effective we can be. This webinar, presented by the Berkeley Media Studies Group, will focus on understanding the role of the Layers of Strategy in carrying out effective communications campaigns and identifying and communicating an overall strategy to advance specific policy goals. Learn how to shape your communication practices to advocate for community health and wellbeing. About the presenters: Shaddai Martinez Cuestas, MPH, Head of Training, leads trainings at BMSG, where she supports advocates in enhancing their media and communication strategies to advance their policy goals. Shaddai holds a master’s degree of public health from U.C. Berkeley, with an emphasis on health and social behavior. Before joining BMSG, Shaddai was the HIV services director at Mission Neighborhood Health Center (MNHC), overseeing the HIV care, psychosocial support, and prevention programs serving low-income and Latino communities in San Francisco. Prior to this role, Shaddai filled various direct service and managerial positions at MNHC. Shaddai is originally from Tijuana, Mexico, and is fully bilingual in English and Spanish. Ingrid Daffner Krasnow, MPH provides media advocacy training and strategic consultation at BMSG. She bridges her media advocacy expertise with 15 years of experience in reproductive justice policy change, grassroots communications and marketing strategy, fund development, and nonprofit management. Ingrid earned her Bachelor of Arts in political science from U.C. Berkeley and her Masters of Public Health from UCLA.   About the webinar: This webinar is planned and hosted by the New England Prevention Technology Transfer Center, a program funded through cooperative agreement from SAMHSA. This webinar has been pre-approved by the Maine Prevention Certification Board, an IC&RC member board, for 2 contact hours. Participants who complete this webinar will receive a certificate of completion for 2 contact hours. For questions about this webinar, please contact Kristen Erickson, [email protected].

The latest edition of our bi-monthly newsletter is available. This month’s edition features Our Leaders, the Advanced Prevention Institute, awareness campaigns for June, and regionally and nationally developed events and tools to support and grow the prevention workforce in New England. View the newsletter.

  DIAPOSITIVAS PPT (PPT SLIDES) GRABACIÓN DEL SEMINARIO WEB (WEBINAR RECORDING)   Entrenamiento muy importante que estará disponible en español!   Se llevará a cabo el día 21 de Mayo a las 11am.   Muchas veces, la comunidad Hispana y Latina no tiene tantas oportunidades como otros grupos para involucrarse en la prevención del uso de sustancias debido a las barreras culturales y lingüísticas en toda Nueva Inglaterra. Este webinar en español brindará una introducción a la prevención del uso de sustancias, analizará cómo se puede aplicar los principios del Marco de Prevención Estratégico a las comunidades Hispanas y Latinas, y revisará formas de aumentar la confianza e implementar estrategias comprobadas en estas comunidades. Este webinar se basará en las experiencias de implementar programas de la prevención de salud mental y el uso de sustancias en comunidades Hispanas y Latinas en Massachusetts.   Al final de este webinar, los participantes podrán: Definir la prevención Explicar cómo el trauma y la salud mental se relacionan con la prevención del uso de sustancias Aplicar los principios del Marco de Prevención Estratégico a las comunidades Hispanas y Latinas Identificar estrategias para aumentar la participación con las comunidades Hispanas y Latinas Identificar las estrategias de prevención cultural y lingüísticamente apropiadas que pueden ser usadas en las comunidades Hispanas y Latinas   Christina Mancebo-Torres es la Co-fundadora y Subdirectora del Centro de Avuda y Esperanza Latina, una organización sin fines de lucro que está al servicio de los Latinos ubicada en New Bedford, Massachusetts. Ella también es la Co-Directora de Blooming Consulting Agency, una compañía de consultoría enfocada en ayudar a organizaciones a aumentar su impacto en comunidades afectadas desproporcionadamente por problemas de salud, salud mental, y adicción. Christina actualmente está cursando su Doctorado en Ciencias de Salud con un enfoque en Sistemas Informado por el Trauma, y tiene más de diez años de experiencia trabajando con comunidades Hispanas y Latinas para reducir los resultados negativos asociados con salud mental y el uso de sustancias en los Estados Unidos y la República Dominicana.   Para registrarse para este entrenamiento virtual, haz clic aqui: https://forms.office.com/r/DE2M66d80n   Para mas información, comuniquese con Christina a: [email protected]   SHARE THIS WITH EVERYONE WHO MAY BE INTERESTED IN LEARNING SOMETHING NEW WITH New England Prevention Technology Transfer Center AND Blooming Consulting Agency !   This presentation will be provided entirely in Spanish.

The latest edition of our bi-monthly newsletter is available. This month’s edition features a PTTC network event "Climate Change from a Prevention Perspective", Exploring Root Causes of Substance Misuse through Stories, Alcohol Awareness Month and awareness campaigns for April, and regionally and nationally developed events and tools to support and grow the prevention workforce in New England. View the newsletter.