The Great Lakes PTTC offers this training for prevention practitioners in HHS Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, and WI

This is the second in a series of two webinars exploring the impact of trauma and adverse childhood experiences on the prevention of substance misuse and substance use disorders.  Prevention professionals will consider how to apply this understanding to prevention efforts from assessment to the implementation of prevention interventions.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the “dose-response” relationship between adverse childhood experiences and a number of poor outcomes including chronic disease, mental illness and substance use disorders.
• Explore how community level prevention professionals can integrate ACEs data into prevention planning and implementation.
• Identify at least one strategy for utilizing ACEs data to measure the impact of your prevention efforts.

Speaker

Dodi Swope is licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist in the state of Massachusetts. Dodi’s background includes teaching in regular and special education settings and a clinical practice serving children and families in the Boston area for over ten years. Most recently, Dodi has provided training and planning facilitation on a broad scope of community health initiatives.

This training is offered in response to a need identified by our stakeholders in HHS Region 5.