Northeast & Caribbean PTTC

Description: For substance misuse prevention practitioners who are nearer to the field, or who have worked predominantly with individual or family-based prevention programs, environmental change can be a daunting proposition.  It can be challenging both to understand the myriad ways that the environment influences behavior, as well as the many ways prevention professionals can shape those environments to better support health. Join us for this session to dive into environmental approaches to prevention.  We will explore the importance of environmental strategies in a comprehensive substance misuse prevention plan, core components of commonly implemented environmental strategies, and key considerations for effective implementation.   Learning Objectives: Describe the value of including environmental strategies in a comprehensive substance misuse prevention plan Distinguish between individual-focused and environmental prevention approaches Identify core components of select environmental strategies Discuss key considerations of effective implementation of environmental strategies   Presenter bios:  Jess Goldberg – Jess Goldberg is a training and technical assistance specialist with Education Development Center. For over a decade, Jess has specialized in building capacity to improve behavioral health at the national, state, regional and local levels. Her areas of expertise include preventing youth substance use; promoting cross-sector collaborations; addressing health disparities; strategic planning, logic model development, and sustainability planning. Jess holds an MSW and MPH from Boston University and is a Certified Prevention Specialist.

Description: Conflict is ever-present in our professional and personal lives. Our knee-jerk reaction is to avoid it at all costs. However, healthy disagreement is in fact essential in our work. How can we encourage different viewpoints and use conflict as an opportunity for growth? In this 90-minute peer sharing session, a series of guided questions will be used to gain a deeper understanding of our collective relationship with conflict, discuss ways to reframe it and strategies to embrace it.   Learning Objectives:   Describe the benefits of conflict and how to use it as a force for good Create the conditions for healthy disagreement among groups List potential causes of difficult conflict situations Apply a five-step process to resolving conflict Take this content back to their work teams Presented by: Jamie Comstock & Robin Carr @ Info Inspired, LLC

Building off of the Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) session, the PTTC is introducing a three-session virtual series Unpacking the SBIRT Model in Substance Use Prevention, designed to provide additional support to increase the provider’s capacity to deliver SBIRT in practice. Each session will take a closer look at a core component of the SBIRT model to help providers build on what was already learned and feel confident that they can integrate the concepts and skills sets of SBIRT in their prevention services. Discerning Between Substance Use, Misuse, and Substance Use Disorders to Provide Appropriate Care and Support is the first of the three sessions in this series. Session Description: Prevention services are key to identifying and addressing risky levels of substance use to offer the appropriate level of support. The spectrum of effective prevention strategies helps to identify and address different levels of substance use and the negative health effects that tend to result from risky behaviors. This interactive learning event will inform on varying degrees of substance use and substance use terms, effects on health, and importance of transparency in language. Trainer: Diana Padilla, MCPC, CTSS, CARC has worked in the behavioral health field for more than 26 years. Using a person-centered, recovery-oriented perspective, Ms. Padilla instructs on how to enhance and tailor strategies and interventions to effectively address the substance use and behavioral problems of communities in need. Ms. Padilla is also an SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment) Technical Assistance and Implementation Specialist, helping agencies to build their capacity to effectively intervene with communities at risk of substance use and mental health related conditions and behaviors. Credits: Each of the trainings meets the requirements for two renewal hours (CASAC, CPP, CPS) and two initial hours (CPP, CPS) through New York State’s Office of Addiction Services and Supports (NYS OASAS). As an IC & RC member board, OASAS accredited courses are granted reciprocal approval by the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, Alcohol and Drug Counselor Committee. Many other states offer reciprocity - please check with your accrediting agency. Certificates for two contact hours for LCSWs and LMSWs are also available. Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc., Training Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0694. Participants are required to attend the session in its entirety, turn on their video cameras, and actively participate in order to receive credit.

El NeCPTTC ha creado un conjunto de herramientas de planificación de la sostenibilidad para ayudar a los especialistas en prevención a producir y mantener resultados positivos en el uso indebido de sustancias. Este conjunto de herramientas guía a los profesionales en la evaluación de sus procesos e intervenciones de planificación estratégica para determinar qué es necesario sostener y la mejor manera de hacerlo. El conjunto de herramientas ofrece un proceso de planificación de la sostenibilidad de cinco pasos para ayudar a las comunidades a pasar de la comprensión a la acción y a identificar y asegurar los recursos necesarios para mantener resultados positivos de prevención más allá de la financiación actual. Los pasos incluyen establecer objetivos de sostenibilidad, seleccionar su enfoque de sostenibilidad, identificar los recursos necesarios, identificar colaboraciones y asociaciones y desarrollar su enfoque de alcance de sostenibilidad. Para cada uno de estos cinco pasos, el kit de herramientas proporciona una hoja de trabajo complementaria para ayudar a guiar de manera práctica a las personas y organizaciones a través de este proceso de planificación. El kit de herramientas ya está disponible para su uso. Puedes acceder a todas las piezas a continuación:

Webinar Description: As prevention professionals, facilitation in both virtual and face-to-face spaces is an integral part of our work. The ability to convene partners -- whether in meetings, trainings or events – and lead them through collaborative decision-making and other processes is essential to the success of community-based change efforts. This session looked at the art and science of facilitation, the skills needed for successful facilitation and discussed real-world tips and techniques for consensus-building with groups and managing group dynamics. Session Learning Objectives included: Describing the facilitation skills prevention practitioners need Identifying techniques for managing group processes and dynamics Identifying strategies for handling challenging situations as a facilitation   Presenter Info: Sandra Puerini Del Sesto, M.Ed, ACPS is a consultant and master trainer in behavioral health and strategic planning for states and non-profits. For over thirty-five years, Ms. Del Sesto has provided training throughout the United States in all areas of prevention practice.   Jess Goldberg, MSW, MPH, CPS, is a Training and Technical Assistance Specialist with Education Development Center. She specializes in building capacity to improve behavioral health at the national, state, regional and local levels.

Webinar Description This 1.5 hour interactive session looked at cultivating community support for prevention coalitions and explored how to transform local leaders to prevention champions. As managing a coalition effectively is an art, it requires excellent communication skills and the ability to build both individual and organizational prevention capacity. It also involves establishing and maintaining close working relationships with community members and collaborating with them to select and implement community and culturally appropriate substance misuse prevention interventions. In a post-Covid world, the ways in which we work and communicate have shifted in meaningful ways, but the fundamental principles informing that work remain the same. Learning Objectives: Identify key organizational functions and resources necessary to support effective coalitions Discuss strategies to build organizational capacity Describe key strategies for a plan to continually monitor organizational capacity   Presenter Information Charlotte Carlton brings over 30 years of experience leading and implementing substance use prevention programs at the community, state, regional, and national levels. She is currently working with multiple Education Development Center (EDC) teams to provide support for prevention efforts in Health & Human Services Regions 1 and 2. Previously, she served as the Director of the Southeast Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT) and as a Senior Program Director for the Pacific Institute of Research and Evaluation (PIRE). She has done extensive research on the subject of program sustainability, most recently applying that research to the sustainability of community coalitions. She is the co-recipient of the 2002 Science to Practice award presented by the Society for Prevention Research and the 2001 Award of Excellence for outstanding contributions to the prevention field from the National Prevention Network.   Additional Documents PowerPoint Flyer Extra Resource - NeC-PTTC Resources Coalitions Post Covid Extra Resource - NeC-PTTC Coalitions Post Covid - Tips for Engagement