The Cannabis Prevention Working Group (WG) exists to develop training and technical assistance tools, products, and service, related specifically to cannabis prevention education, that can be deployed across the PTTC Network.
Contact the PTTC Network for more Information: [email protected]
The Workforce Development Workgroup exists to identify and support the collective needs of the Prevention Workforce through the development and adaptation of cultural and linguistically appropriate training products and services that are foundational to the field of prevention across the U.S. These resources will be deployed across the PTTC Network and its stakeholders to increase the understanding of prevention science and the skills of the prevention workforce. Thus, practitioners and collaborators can deliver quality and effective prevention services to reduce substance misuse.
Contact the PTTC Network for more Information: [email protected]
The Introduction to the Prevention Core Competencies for Prevention Professionals, covers the foundations of substance use prevention science for early and mid-career prevention professionals. By taking this course, you'll be able to expand your knowledge and skills in the field of prevention and ultimately enhance your ability to make a positive impact in your community.
The curriculum utilizes evidence-based strategies for adult learning; and builds upon and complements existing workforce training curricula and resources (e.g., Substance Abuse Prevention Specialist Training (SAPST), Foundations of Prevention Science and Practice Curriculum, and Universal Prevention Curriculum).
For more information check the Prevention Core Competencies Homepage
Prevention Ethics
As substance use prevention professionals, we regularly face situations that require us to make ethical decisions. Often it is clear how to act ethically; sometimes it is not.
This two-week, asynchronous moderated course, adapted from the original SAMHSA Center for Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT) course, explores the six principles of the Prevention Code of Ethics, brought to life with realistic examples designed to enhance participant understanding. The course also introduces a decision-making process to help practitioners apply this code to a variety of ethical dilemmas, and an online discussion area to facilitate discussion with other course participants.
For more Information check Prevention Ethics Home Page
The goal of the SAPST is to develop the basic knowledge and skills needed by substance misuse prevention practitioners to plan, implement, and evaluate effective, data-driven programs and practices that reduce behavioral health disparities and improve wellness. The SAPST is intended as an introductory level course; throughout the course of their careers, prevention practitioners will need additional and more advanced workforce development opportunities beyond the SAPST.
For more information check out the various SAPST resources: Home Page, Additional Resources, Learning Community
The South Southwest Prevention Technology Transfer Center hosts a virtual five-part learning community for prevention professionals working in communities of color. The purpose of the learning community is to discuss strategies for creating outcomes-based change in communities of color. This series discusses best practices for delivering culturally competent services, prevention’s role in eliminating systemic and structural barriers to wellness, and much more.
The South Southwest Prevention Technology Transfer Center hosts a virtual five-part learning community for prevention professionals working in communities of color. The purpose of the learning community is to discuss strategies for creating outcomes-based change in communities of color. This series discusses best practices for delivering culturally competent services, prevention’s role in eliminating systemic and structural barriers to wellness, and much more.
| The first session introduces the purpose of the learning community and drafts a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis of providing high-impact prevention services in communities of color. |
This session focuses on involving communities of color in data collection decision-making. Participants use their SWOT analysis from session one to inform their work during this session.
The third session outlines why prevention advocacy matters in communities of color, the difference between education and lobbying, and examples of how to advocate for change.
Session 4 focuses on using the cultural competence continuum to gauge an organization's capacity to provide culturally inclusive services and to open dialogue with communities of color.
The fifth and final session discusses how organizational and institutional barriers to racial equity create community trauma and explores opportunities to build equity in your community. The moderator guides participants through the completion of the learning community's SWOT action plan for delivering culturally competent services.
In-person data collection has been complicated by the constraints of the global pandemic. This webinar mini-series will provide real-life examples of ways to adapt quantitative and qualitative data collection methods during the pandemic when in-person contact is discouraged. During the webinar series, participants will have the opportunity to discuss barriers, solutions, and lessons learned during this critical time.
In webinar 1, participants explore ways to adapt quantitative data collection methods during the pandemic. Participants will learn how to identify effective methods for adapting quantitative data collection during a pandemic, and ways to address confidentiality concerns with participants during online quantitative data collection.
In webinar 2, participants explore ways to adapt qualitative data collection methods during the pandemic. Specifically, participants learn to identify effective methods for adapting qualitative data collection during a pandemic, and describe ways to address confidentiality concerns during online qualitative data collection.
Capacity building, the second step of the SPF, involves how to engage diverse community stakeholders, develop and strengthen a prevention team, and identify opportunities to raise community awareness about the issues. Below are training resources to support your work. For more capacity resources, visit our tools and examples pages.
This primer provides clear guidelines to help your coalition build a coherent plan to support your coalition’s prevention strategies.
The Community Readiness Model, developed by researchers at the Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research, helps communities conduct a community readiness assessment and develop an action plan to increase community readiness.
The Collaboration Multiplier is an interactive framework and tool that guides an organization to a better understanding of which partners it needs and how to engage them.
The Marketing and Communications Workgroup created this website to improve prevention marketing and to build systems capacity through increased collaboration and integration among prevention professionals. This collection of resources meets these goals by providing a place for you to find prevention marketing materials which help communicate to interest groups what the work you do looks like, and by connecting you with others who are doing similar work. Please feel free to share the items you see on this webpage on your websites and social media, use in publications, or for trainings and meetings. You are welcome and encouraged to include your own contact information on any of these items so your community will know to contact you for more information.
For more information on including your contact information on materials other organizations created, check out our infographic on co-branding here.
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These links help communicate the goals and strategies of prevention to your community and interest groups. They provide a starting point and are good “basic” resources that will help any person get a 101 level understanding of what our substance misuse prevention work looks like.
When presenting to audiences who are new or unfamiliar with prevention, especially those lacking fundamental knowledge, consider offering introductory information. This slide deck is designed to help you quickly communicate what the work of prevention is about. Customize it to your organization's requirements or incorporate slides into existing presentations. Save time by sharing your community efforts with interest groups without starting from scratch.
Click here to download, edit, and customize this slide deck to match your organization and community.
These resources empower you to effectively advocate for your work. Whether engaging with policymakers on the significance of prevention, discussing school-based support with educators, or conversing with funders, advocacy is integral to your efforts. Utilize these resources as a solid foundation for your advocacy journey.
Courses:
Webinars:
Are you looking for social media graphics to post on your social media? The PTTC and ORN have created a library of social media graphics for you to use. The graphics include content to help your community grasp prevention basics. Tailored for Facebook and Instagram, these graphics are versatile for other platforms too. Click on the format that best fits your needs: gif | mp4
These videos highlight preventionists who are doing this work with success! Seeing other people talk about how prevention has worked well in their communities can be inspirational and help interested individuals to understand what this work can look like. These videos can be shared on social media, in presentations, or on websites.
View and share these videos of prevention specialists describing their successes:
These regional and national resources can be great resources for you to get to know to build your own prevention library and knowledge. They also provide great resources you can use and share with your community, as well as trainings and technical assistance.
Use this how-to, one-page document to map out the resources you can connect with in your community.
The Marketing and Communications Workgroup created this website to improve prevention marketing and to build systems capacity through increased collaboration and integration among prevention professionals. This collection of resources meets these goals by providing a place for you to find prevention marketing materials which help communicate to interest groups what the work you do looks like, and by connecting you with others who are doing similar work. Please feel free to share the items you see on this webpage on your websites and social media, use in publications, or for trainings and meetings. You are welcome and encouraged to include your own contact information on any of these items so your community will know to contact you for more information.
For more information on including your contact information on materials other organizations created, check out our infographic on co-branding here.
Table of Contents:
These links help communicate the goals and strategies of prevention to your community and interest groups. They provide a starting point and are good “basic” resources that will help any person get a 101 level understanding of what our substance misuse prevention work looks like.
When presenting to audiences who are new or unfamiliar with prevention, especially those lacking fundamental knowledge, consider offering introductory information. This slide deck is designed to help you quickly communicate what the work of prevention is about. Customize it to your organization's requirements or incorporate slides into existing presentations. Save time by sharing your community efforts with interest groups without starting from scratch.
Click here to download, edit, and customize this slide deck to match your organization and community.
These resources empower you to effectively advocate for your work. Whether engaging with policymakers on the significance of prevention, discussing school-based support with educators, or conversing with funders, advocacy is integral to your efforts. Utilize these resources as a solid foundation for your advocacy journey.
Courses:
Webinars:
Are you looking for social media graphics to post on your social media? The PTTC and ORN have created a library of social media graphics for you to use. The graphics include content to help your community grasp prevention basics. Tailored for Facebook and Instagram, these graphics are versatile for other platforms too. Click on the format that best fits your needs: gif | mp4
These videos highlight preventionists who are doing this work with success! Seeing other people talk about how prevention has worked well in their communities can be inspirational and help interested individuals to understand what this work can look like. These videos can be shared on social media, in presentations, or on websites.
View and share these videos of prevention specialists describing their successes:
These regional and national resources can be great resources for you to get to know to build your own prevention library and knowledge. They also provide great resources you can use and share with your community, as well as trainings and technical assistance.
Use this how-to, one-page document to map out the resources you can connect with in your community.
This webpage was created by the Marketing and Communications Workgroup of the ORN Prevention Strategic Plan. The ORN Prevention Strategic Plan was developed from the Prevention Thought Leaders Meeting Proceedings Report, created in January of 2020. The overall plan identifies needs and actions related to the prevention field, with four workgroups created to complete tasks that would meet the identified needs and actions.
Register for the COE Webinar: Telehealth Implementation of Trauma Focused Treatment on July 12, 2023 at 3:00 EST! In this Telehealth COE webinar, Dr. Regan Stewart and Dr. Rosaura Orengo-Aguayo will present on telehealth implementation of trauma focused treatment to increase equity in access to care for underserved youth in the US and Puerto Rico.
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These additional resources have been compiled to support the SPF: Application for Prevention Success Training (SAPST). Adapted from a product created by the Great Lakes Prevention Technology Transfer Center, these resources enable a deep-dive on each facet of the Strategic Prevention Framework and more. The list is updated as new resources become available, and may differ from print versions of the SAPST.
SPF: Application for Prevention Success Training changed its name because the PTTC Network understands that words have power. You may find events or references across the PTTC site that utilize the old name for SAPST that does not align with our current commitment to using affirming, person-first language.
What is Prevention Science?
Prevention science seeks to identify what issues affect communities, best practices to address those issues, and the most effective ways of disseminating that knowledge.
Prevention Domain Video Series: What Do Prevention Specialists Do?
In these videos, you will learn what each prevention domain is and how all the domains function together for effective prevention. If you are new to the prevention field or are starting a new role within the field, these videos will help you understand the science and practice of prevention specialists.
Higher Education Prevention Professional Competencies Initiative
This guide provides a broad understanding of the range of skills necessary for orchestrating comprehensive substance misuse prevention efforts on higher education campuses.
Prevention Specialist Credentialing Interactive Map
This interactive map of the United States allows users to select their state and find details about IC&RC certification requirements for Certified Prevention Specialist fields.
A Guide to SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework
This resource provides an overview of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA’s) SPF. Prevention professionals use the SPF as a comprehensive guide for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating prevention practices and programs.
An Introduction to SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework
This collection of documents provides an overview of each step and the guiding principles of SAMHSA’s SPF.
Collaboration Across SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework
This tool offers opportunities for collaboration at each step of the SPF.
Applying the Strategic Prevention Framework and HHS Disparity Impact Measurement Framework to Address Behavioral Health Disparities
This infographic explores ways to address behavioral health disparities at each step of the SPF.
Action Steps for Prevention Practitioners – SPF Step 1: Assessment
This job aid includes a checklist to guide prevention practitioners through the assessment phase of the SPF.
Demystifying Data: Gathering and Using Local Risk and Protective Factor Data for Prevention – Part 1
During this self-paced online course, participants learn about the importance of gathering data for assessment and evaluation, and learn about the types of data to gather. Key risk and protective factors associated with substance use and mental health are discussed. The course explores existing sources of data, the assessment of data gaps, and options for collecting primary data at the local level. (Please note that creating a free account is required to access this source.)
Demystifying Data: Gathering and Using Local Risk and Protective Factor Data for Prevention – Part 2
During this second course in the two-part self-paced online course series, participants learn about data quality and quantity, including having enough data and having the right data. Processes for prioritizing risk and protective factors are explored, to help in determining which to address with prevention efforts, and examples are shared. This course concludes with recommendations for ongoing monitoring to inform evaluation efforts. (Please note that creating a free account is required to access this source.)
PTTC Needs Assessment Part 1 & 2
This two-part webinar series explores the Community Needs Assessment. Part 1 presents strategies for determining which substance use problems and related behaviors are having the greatest impact on a community; it then explains how to find and use data to identify the risk and protective factors that might influence or contribute to these problems, and how to ensure that the data you collect reflects diverse cultural perspectives. Part 2 explores the value of assessing community capacity to ensure a good fit between potential strategies and local conditions, and it outlines how to use tools such as geo-spatial mapping to share your assessment findings.
Examining Data for Disparities
This webinar explores the power of data—its power for good and its power to amplify bias. Data is the foundation of everything we do, so it is important that we learn to read and understand it correctly. With this skill set, you will be able to identify structural inequities in your community and garner support for innovative strategies.
Action Steps for Prevention Practitioners – SPF Step 2: Capacity Building
This job aid includes a checklist to guide prevention practitioners through the capacity phase of the SPF.
Ethics and Equity in Capacity Building
This webinar focuses on the importance of community engagement in capacity building. It emphasizes the importance of holding partners and systems accountable to those experiencing inequity while using tools to measure and raise the current standing of key partners in our prevention efforts.
Six Elements of Effective Coalitions Resource Toolkit
This toolkit was designed to strengthen prevention practitioners’ capacity to organize, facilitate, and sustain effective prevention coalitions and collaborations that prevent substance misuse and its related consequences.
Managing Coalition Dynamics
This tool offers an overview of the four stages of group development, accompanied by tips for maximizing productivity and cohesion, reducing conflict, and steering group members toward long-term success to support leaders in managing group dynamics.
Coalitions and Partnerships Worksheets
This page provides worksheets that coalitions can use to develop an effective recruitment plan by analyzing existing partnerships through a health equity lens.
Coalition Affinity Group Booster Videos
This video series outlines the Six Elements of Effective Coalitions Resource Toolkit. The six elements work together to support a coalition’s capacity to achieve desired outcomes in a community.
What is Prevention Science?
Prevention science seeks to identify what issues affect communities, best practices to address those issues, and the most effective ways of disseminating that knowledge.
Prevention Domain Video Series: What Do Prevention Specialists Do?
In these videos, you will learn what each prevention domain is and how all the domains function together for effective prevention. If you are new to the prevention field or are starting a new role within the field, these videos will help you understand the science and practice of prevention specialists.
Higher Education Prevention Professional Competencies Initiative
This guide provides a broad understanding of the range of skills necessary for orchestrating comprehensive substance misuse prevention efforts on higher education campuses.
Prevention Specialist Credentialing Interactive Map
This interactive map of the United States allows users to select their state and find details about IC&RC certification requirements for Certified Prevention Specialist fields.
Action Steps for Prevention Practitioners – SPF Step 4: Implementation
This job aid includes a checklist to guide prevention practitioners through the implementation phase of the SPF.
Environmental Strategies Toolkit
This guide was designed for substance misuse prevention professionals working in agencies and coalitions as a set of practical tools to support the implementation of three foundational environmental prevention strategies: policy, enforcement, and media.
Implementing Community-Level Policies to Prevent Alcohol Misuse
This guide from SAMHSA provides a compendium of key policies for the prevention of alcohol misuse that have been identified by robust scientific literature as being evidence based.
Selecting and Implementing Evidence-Based Practices to Address Substance Misuse Among Young Adults
This webinar reviews the process of developing an evidence-based guide to substance misuse prevention among young adults
Action Steps for Prevention Practitioners – SPF Step 3: Planning
This job aid includes a checklist to guide prevention practitioners through the planning phase of the SPF.
Selecting Evidence-Based Interventions: Finding the Best Fit
Perhaps the most critical decision that prevention staff consider is what set of interventions to implement, often with limited resources. This webinar provides an introduction to the best processes and resources available to use when making these critical decisions.
Guide to Online Registries for Substance Misuse Prevention Evidence-Based Programs and Practices
This document summarizes many available federal registries and online databases where prevention practitioners can begin their search for the “best fit” evidence-based prevention program, policy, or practice.
What Does NOT Work in Prevention
Webinar | Self-paced course
This webinar and HealtheKnowledge self-paced course focus on effective and ineffective strategies for preventing substance misuse. (Please note that creating a free account is required to access the self-paced course.)
Planning Primer: Developing a Theory of Change, Logic Models and Strategic and Action Plans
This primer from the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) provides clear guidelines for assisting your coalition to develop the documents you need to carry out a comprehensive community plan to reduce substance misuse rates. It also helps you understand the dynamic planning process needed for coalition work.
Selecting Best-Fit Programs and Practices: Guidance for Substance Misuse Prevention Practitioners
This guide from SAMHSA walks you through the steps of identifying and selecting programs that will best fit your community’s unique needs.
Introduction to Evaluation
This interactive resource from the Community Tool Box provides in-depth information on the evaluation of prevention programs.
How to Create a Logic Model for Substance Misuse Prevention Curricula
This document aids preventionists as they work through the process of creating an effective logic model. Effective logic models act as a roadmap that tells your prevention workgroup or coalition where it is starting from, where it is going, how it will get where it is going, and if it is going in the right direction.
Logic Models: Mapping Your Prevention Efforts
This self-paced online course aims to help prevention practitioners understand logic models; it further provides guidance for building a logic model for their prevention program. (Please note that creating a free account is required to access this source.)
Evaluation Primer: Setting the Context for a Community Coalition Evaluation
This primer from CADCA provides the basic tools each coalition needs to develop a comprehensive evaluation plan. In addition, it will help your coalition create and implement a local evaluation.
Evaluating Prevention Programs: A Tip Sheet for Measuring What Doesn’t Happen
This fact sheet provides an overview of the evaluation step of the SPF and includes a brief look at data collection, evaluation types, and logic models.
Equity in Data and Evaluation
This webinar discusses and reviews the ethical standards and the values related to prevention data-related activities, including needs assessment and evaluation.
How to Create a Pseudocode – Protecting Participant Anonymity
Pseudocodes are used by evaluators to protect a participant’s anonymity. “Pseudocodes” are fake codes that sever the link between the data and the provider. This document explains pseudocodes and how to create them.
Sustainability Planning Toolkit
This toolkit guides professionals in evaluating their strategic planning processes and interventions to determine what needs to be sustained and the best way to do so. The toolkit offers a five-step sustainability planning process to help communities move from understanding to action by identifying and securing the resources needed to maintain positive prevention outcomes beyond current funding.
Crosswalk of SPF Steps with Sustainability Milestones and Skills
This crosswalk identifies tasks commonly associated with each step of SAMHSA’s SPF. These steps align with sustainability milestones and the practitioner skills needed to meet these milestones.
Sustainability: Don’t Leave Your Change to Chance
This interactive virtual workshop focuses on the art of sustainability and how we maintain the human, social, and material resources needed to achieve long-term goals for community change.
Strategies for Prevention Sustainability: Advancing Sustainability Through Strategic Partnerships Webinar
This webinar provides practitioners with an approach to sustainability that focuses on maintaining positive outcomes, effective processes, and interventions that work.
Introduction to Evaluation
This interactive resource from the Community Tool Box provides in-depth information on the evaluation of prevention programs.
How to Create a Logic Model for Substance Misuse Prevention Curricula
This document aids preventionists as they work through the process of creating an effective logic model. Effective logic models act as a roadmap that tells your prevention workgroup or coalition where it is starting from, where it is going, how it will get where it is going, and if it is going in the right direction.
Logic Models: Mapping Your Prevention Efforts
This self-paced online course aims to help prevention practitioners understand logic models; it further provides guidance for building a logic model for their prevention program. (Please note that creating a free account is required to access this source.)
Evaluation Primer: Setting the Context for a Community Coalition Evaluation
This primer from CADCA provides the basic tools each coalition needs to develop a comprehensive evaluation plan. In addition, it will help your coalition create and implement a local evaluation.
Evaluating Prevention Programs: A Tip Sheet for Measuring What Doesn’t Happen
This fact sheet provides an overview of the evaluation step of the SPF and includes a brief look at data collection, evaluation types, and logic models.
Equity in Data and Evaluation
This webinar discusses and reviews the ethical standards and the values related to prevention data-related activities, including needs assessment and evaluation.
How to Create a Pseudocode – Protecting Participant Anonymity
Pseudocodes are used by evaluators to protect a participant’s anonymity. “Pseudocodes” are fake codes that sever the link between the data and the provider. This document explains pseudocodes and how to create them.
National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health and Health Care
The National CLAS Standards are a set of 15 action steps intended to advance health equity, improve quality, and help eliminate healthcare disparities by providing a blueprint for individuals and health and healthcare organizations to implement culturally and linguistically appropriate services.
Cultural Competence Continuum
This document outlines the cultural competence continuum, which includes the following six stages: cultural destructiveness, cultural incapacity, cultural blindness, and cultural pre-competence, cultural competence, and cultural proficiency.
A Guide to Infusing Cultural and Linguistic Competence in Health Promotion Training
This guide can be used to facilitate discussions about problems with culturally destructive practices.
The Role of Preventionists in Accelerating Health Equity and Communities of Wellbeing
This webinar outlines the skills needed for a prevention workforce prepared to accelerate equity, justice, and community trauma–informed approaches within vulnerable populations.
Cultural Competence vs. Cultural Humility – Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Infographic
This infographic focuses on how to approach others with humility.
Building a Habit of Cultural Humility in Prevention
The terms “cultural humility” and “cultural competency” are often used interchangeably when, in fact, they are very different. This webinar recording provides a solid foundation for understanding the difference between the two.
Social Determinants of Health
This three-part, three-hour, self-paced course provides a comprehensive overview of the SDOH and examines the influence they have on substance use. It also discusses the impact that the public health approach can have on them, reviews how to turn prevention knowledge into actionable processes, and provides recommendations about how to address them through the principles of prevention science and the use of environmental and other strategies. (Please note that creating a free account is required to access this source.)
Why Health Equity Matters in Prevention
This webinar focuses on why health equity matters in substance misuse prevention.
Preventing and Addressing Behavioral Health Disparities Among LGBTQI2-S Youth and Adults
This session focuses on addressing and preventing behavioral health disparities among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex, and two-spirit (LGBTQI2-S) youth and adult populations in southeast (HHS Region 4) communities.
Community Engagement: An Essential Component of an Effective and Equitable Substance Use Prevention System
This guide focuses on how community engagement can play a critical role in the equitable scaling up of evidence-based programs and policies within the substance use prevention system.
Culture As Medicine: Healing Through Connection
This webinar focuses on how research shows that cultural connections are important to one’s well-being, especially in indigenous populations, and how integrating culture is a key component in health promotion and disease prevention programs.
Connecting Prevention Specialists to Native Communities
This product is designed for prevention specialists working with Native communities. The topics it covers include cultural connectedness, spiritual activity, traditional activity, cultural identity, and cultural humility.
Harm Reduction
This video reviews the importance of harm reduction and breaking down some of the stigma often associated with this topic.
Understanding the Role of Prevention in Harm Reduction Efforts
This brief provides an overview of harm reduction and the specific actions preventionists can take to augment harm reduction efforts in their local communities.
Action Steps for Prevention Practitioners to Enhance Harm Reduction Efforts
This succinct job aid provides a checklist of action steps that prevention practitioners can take to enhance their harm reduction efforts.
Understanding Harm Reduction as Prevention
In this podcast, SAMHSA Regional Administrator Kimberly Nelson discusses recent data trends and how the future of harm reduction fits into the prevention of tomorrow.
The Role of Prevention in Harm Reduction Efforts
This webpage features a collection of resources and tools that can assist preventionists in understanding harm reduction and how prevention can enhance harm reduction efforts in their local communities.
Prevention’s Role in Harm Reduction
This webinar recording focuses on steps prevention practitioners can take to support harm reduction efforts, including promoting community readiness to support harm reduction approaches, addressing substance use disorder–related stigma, and linking harm reduction efforts to more “upstream” efforts.
Ethics in Prevention Foundations: A Guide for Substance Misuse Prevention Practitioners
This three-hour self-paced course is based on the moderated Ethics in Prevention: A Guide for Substance Misuse Prevention Practitioners. This course is appropriate for anyone working in the field of substance abuse prevention. It covers key terminology, the six principles in the Prevention Code of Ethics, and a decision-making process to use when faced with an ethical dilemma. (Please note that creating a free account is required to access this source.)
Adverse Childhood Experiences
This page on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website includes a video overview of ACEs as well as links to other resources on ACEs.
Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences: Leveraging the Best Available Evidence
This is a resource to help states and communities leverage the best available evidence to prevent ACEs from happening in the first place as well as to lessen the harm when ACEs do occur. It features six strategies drawn from the CDC Technical Packages for Violence Prevention.
Vital Signs: Adverse Childhood Experiences
This CDC Vital Signs fact sheet features ACEs and their negative impacts on health as well as education and employment opportunities later in life.
Creating Positive Childhood Experiences
This page on the CDC website describes how relationships and environments are essential to creating PCEs and preventing ACEs.
Positive Childhood Experiences and Adult Mental Health
This brief reviews the research and findings related to PCEs.
Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and Possibilities (2009)
This report updates a 1994 Institute of Medicine (IOM) book, Reducing Risks for Mental Disorders, and pays particular attention to the research base and program experience with younger populations that have emerged since that time.
Fostering Healthy Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Development in Children and Youth: A National Agenda (2019)
This report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine updates the 2009 report from the IOM, Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and Possibilities.
The PTTC Network joins SAMHSA in recognizing February as Black History Month. Explore resources and events from the Network below and through the month of February.
PTTC Region 2
As a BOLD Fellow, Veronica has the privilege of supporting the prevention work of the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS) and the North East and Caribbean Prevention Technology Transfer Center.
In this role she is advancing the work of prevention science and supports targeting underserved Black and African American communities.
The work entails the understanding of the NY State prevention provider network to identify ways to support, assist and train under-resourced communities and prevention provider stakeholders. She will be assisting in projects that center community dialogue and needs assessments that will shape the toolkits of prevention scientists and include vulnerable but incredibly valuable voices.
PTTC Region 3
Tenisha Jones, M.Ed, is a third-year doctoral student in School Psychology at Howard University. Prior to attending Howard, she obtained a Master of Educational Policy & Leadership from the University of Michigan.
Her primary research interests include the mental health, well-being, and education of Black Girls. At the same time, her current research projects address issues of diversity embedded in the practice of school psychology under the direction of Dr. Celeste Malone and Black Autistics under the leadership of Dr. Shanter Alexander. Additionally, she has research experience investigating Youth Participatory Action Research Programs in Michigan and Preschool Quality Assessments at the High Scope Educational Research Foundation.
In tandem with her research, she has also given national conference presentations and training on her work. Tenisha has extensive professional experiences in education, ranging from a Middle School Behavioral Interventionist, High School Director of College & Career to a Collegiate level Success Coach.
Tenisha is paired with the Maryland Department of Health, Office of Population Health Improvement, Local Prevention Unit to advance her understanding of prevention work. She is currently working on a project to employ SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework Guiding Principles of Cultural Competence to increase positive outcomes for targeted populations within Maryland. During her time with the Local Prevention Unit, she is evaluating each individual Maryland jurisdictional FY23/F24 Local Prevention Grants Application based on SAMHSA's five opportunities to integrate cultural competence: assessment, capacity, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Each grant application will be assessed according to their adherence to recommended opportunities to incorporate cultural competence outlined in their grant.
Additional activities to integrate cultural competence will be advised if the plan lacks the outlined aspect of cultural competence. The information from this evaluation will be used to improve culturally responsive programming, provide feedback to jurisdictions and inform grant writing for the next cycle.
PTTC Region 3
Hernitte Altidor is a current student at Howard University. She is in her 2nd year of the MSW/MPH dual degree program. Her goal is to bring change and educate communities and others with both degrees of knowledge once received.
She has worked as a program manager and lead educator for a nonprofit that provides equitable health education for students in school, pregnant parents, and those in the juvenile justice system.
She has a passion for service and is committed to serving in roles that uplift marginalized communities. In addition, she enjoys traveling, dancing, fitness, and having fun in her spare time.
As a prevention fellow, She is actively working with the District of Columbia Department of Behavioral Health. Her duties include researching best practices within populations focusing on community health and the Medicaid 1115 waiver.
PTTC Region 4
Paige Salters is an ardent public health and community mental health professional with special interests in trauma psychology.
She is an associate project manager for the Wake Forest School of Medicine's Public Health Sciences department in North Carolina where she's developing an opioid education curriculum for counties in the state with demonstrated need.
Paige is a graduate of Smith College, where they obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and the Study of Women and Gender.
Paige is passionate about developing tangible resources and infrastructure to support youth's psychosocial development, and the achievement of public health equity for historically marginalized populations.
PTTC Region 5
My name is Ty Trina, and I'm the new BOLD (Building Our Leadership and Diversity) Fellow for Great Lakes PTTC- Region 5.
My educational background consists of a B.S. in Public Health with an emphasis on Health Promotion from Northern Illinois University. Upon graduating, I’ve focused my career towards bettering underserved communities. Previously, I worked at Chicago Housing Authority (CHA), in which I assisted diverse individuals and/or families by connecting clients to programs and services to overcome barriers that would eventually lead to self-sufficiency.
More recently, I worked with Kenneth Young Center and managed a grant (for Des Plaines, IL) that provided one-on-one mentorship services to students the schools identified as exhibiting escalated behaviors. Through providing academic support (tutoring), social-emotional development, and referrals for community resources, we saw a tremendous impact. We observed and recorded those escalated behaviors later minimized due to the positive interactions between mentor and student.
Helping others is a great passion of mine, which made me a strong candidate for the BOLD Prevention Fellowship Program. The goal of this program is to reduce substance misuse risk factors and promote mental health and protective factors in Black/African American communities. Therefore, through organized efforts, community members can be given an opportunity to live healthier lifestyles.
PTTC Region 6
Jalynn Stubbs is a native of Chicago, IL. After graduating from high school, she went on to pursue a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology at The Illustrious Clark Atlanta University.
During her matriculation, she developed an interest in mental health disparities in the Black/African American communities. Clark Atlanta University afforded her the opportunity to study abroad in Ghana, West Africa, where she conducted research on family dynamics. She presented this research at various symposiums, and it was published in 2016.
After her many successes at her beloved institution, Jalynn was accepted into Louisiana State University’s Graduate School to pursue a Master of Social Work degree (MSW) with a specialization in Policy/Macro. She is currently in her second year and will graduate in May 2023.
While at LSU, Jalynn interned at Obrien House, a substance abuse recovery center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, under the direction and supervision of Mrs. Emily Tilley. She spent one year as a research mentor with the Baton Rouge Youth Coalition. She is also a member of the Association of Black Social Workers (ABSW), where she serves as President. Before accepting the opportunity to become a BOLD Fellow, Jalynn interned with Dr. Dana Hunter and the Office of Human Trafficking Prevention.
Much of Jalynn’s success can be attributed to the support and nurture of Black women. After all, this Building our Leadership and Diversity (BOLD) Fellowship would not be possible without the work and initiative set forth by a Black woman, Lashonda Williamson-Jennings. Jalynn is currently working as a BOLD fellow with the South Southwest PTTC (Region 6) in Louisiana’s Office of Behavioral Health under the supervision of Amber Slater and Shelley Lee. Jalynn’s focus as a BOLD fellow is providing prevention and mental health resources to Black/African American communities by curating a resource inventory that will assist this community in locating services that they need. Being a BOLD fellow, to Jalynn, is not only about developing skills to become a prevention scientist, but it is also for brilliant Black minds with a heart for service to come together to help OUR people receive the resources they deserve. She hopes to pave the way for other black girls and women to do the same.
NAIAN PTTC
Looking to help with Prevention and Treatment of Addictions across the lifespan.
Also, (Caddo/ Kiowa) Currently working as a Certified Peer Recovery Support Specialist in Oklahoma.
PTTC Region 4
Candace is a Building Our Leadership in Diversity (BOLD) Fellow with the Southeast Prevention Technology Transfer Center housed at Wake Forest School of Medicine's Public Health Sciences Department. She is working with the Alabama National Prevention Network (NPN) and the OMNI Institute on a substance misuse prevention needs assessment in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Black communities in Alabama.
Candace worked as an anesthesia technician for 16 years. In 2018, she went back to school at North Carolina Central University to work on a degree in Psychology. While working and attending school, Candace adopted two children that she fostered as a foster parent. In 2020, she became a member of the North Carolina Child Welfare Family Advisory Council, where she serves as an adoptive parent.
PTTC Region 7
Shanelle Moore is currently pursuing a dual master’s degree in Public Health and Social Work from University of Missouri. She graduated with her bachelor’s degree in Human Development and Family Sciences with emphasis in Family and Lifespan Development and a minor in Social Justice. After graduating, she began working in the community to help meet the needs of the people.
She has over 10 years of trauma-informed social service experience that allowed her to be exposed to the issues communities face regarding substance use and health & wellness. While serving the community, she discovered her purpose in life, which is being the voice for the underserved populations in the face of adversity. Shanelle strives to bring equity, cohesiveness, and stability in communities to enhance the quality of them. was born and raised in Chicago, IL.
She relocated to Columbia, MO in 2012 to begin her undergraduate career at the University of Missouri - Columbia. During that time, she developed a love for helping people and found that to be her area of passion.
PTTC Region 8
I am in my first year of my Master's of Public Health program at Utah State University. I am a first generation, Navajo student. During my undergraduate degree, I majored in human biology at Utah State University.
It was during my undergraduate degree journey that my love for public health grew. In August 2022, I applied to the Mountain Plains PTTC fellowship program. I got accepted in October 2022.
My mentor is Heidi Dutson from the Utah Department of Health and Human Services. I am excited to learn more skills and strengthen my career and preparation in prevention.
PTTC Region 8
I am currently a student at Montana State University working on my Ph.D. in Psychological Science.
My research is on substance use disorders in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
My ultimate career goal is to bring culturally adapted mental health resources to underserved communities in rural Alaska.
This prevention fellowship will aid me in attaining the education necessary to do so. I am excited to be working with Youth Connections on creating content to educate policymakers on how current legislation affects substance use in Montana communities.
PTTC Region 8
Steve Otero is a Certified Workplace Mindfulness Facilitator, National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) outdoor educator, and holds bachelor's degrees in Exercise Science, Experimental Psychology, and Recreation and Outdoor education from Western Colorado University.
His passion is connecting others with the power of the natural world. He serves as a Veteran Services Officer in Gunnison County, CO and as part of the federal "Task Force on Outdoor Recreation for Veterans", which is investigating the use of outdoor recreation for the health and wellness of veterans.
Steve is also a US Air Force military veteran with combat deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan as a combat cameraman and forensic investigator.
PTTC Region 9
To say the very least, I have always wanted to help others in one way or another. I quickly realized that I wanted a career in a field that was not only important and relevant but a career that will allow me the opportunity to keep learning.
The career goal I came up with was to become a professional in addiction counseling with an emphasis in prevention and relapse prevention.
I am fairly new to prevention but have experience in addiction counseling. I hope to gain experience through the BOLD fellowship and be able to make the necessary contributions to my communities and career.
PTTC Region NAIAN
(Haudenosaunee/ Anishnaabe) Currently works as a Training and Technical Assistance Coordinator to a Grantee Technical Assistant, aiding SAMHSA grantees with their Native Connections, Circles of Care grants.
This work in prevention, mental well-being, healing is of great passion of mine. I have been drug and alcohol free raising our children with this intention.
I look forward to this opportunity to further my credentials making it possible to have more AI/AN people serving within our communities the efforts of healing, one community at a time.
PTTC Region NAIAN
(Ojibwe-Red Lake Band) Currently an undergraduate student at Bemidji State University in Psychology. With plans to continue on to graduate school.
I am currently in the planning process of site placement to begin prevention work in the Bemidji Area. Bemidji is uniquely located between three different tribal communities in northern Minnesota (Red Lake, Leech Lake, and White Earth tribal nations). My hope is that this opportunity will allow me to reach all three nations respectively.
I am excited to begin, knowing that my prevention work will assist me in representing the principles and employing the best practices of substance use prevention across the lifespan.
Talofa! (Greetings in Samoan)
My name is Lorna-lei L. Sua’ava!
I was born in Long Beach, California and raised in Palmer, Alaska. Though thousands of miles from the island of Samoa, much of the values and standards that I have been taught keep me grounded. The values of tautua (service), fa’aaloalo (respect) and alofa (love) are what have allowed me to stand proud as a Pacific Islander on many platforms.
It has been quite an honor to have been selected for this program, I am so grateful! Working with Washington State University and the Department of Health in Alaska, as a Fellow is a stepping stool in my career that I look forward to being a representative of Alaska, while learning and dedicating my time and service toward this program. I have developed much passion and willingness to learn and grow in this field for the benefit of Alaska, the indigenous people as well as my own people, Pacific Islanders who are a large part of the population in Alaska.
The PTTC Network has received one-time funding to recruit and train a small cohort of early-career or students committed to pursuing a career in substance use prevention. Each of the 12 PTTC Centers will hire one or more fellows for a one year career development and practicum in partnership with a state prevention agency. Fellows will accomplish many of the requirements for the Prevention Specialist certification.
Anticipated timeline:
View Prevention Fellows 2022-2023 Bios
This curated bibliography will meet the need for high-quality resources about racism, anti-racism and advancing health equity for Black, Indigenous, Latinx and other communities of color affected by unhealthy substance use and SUD treatment.
The bibliography brings together new and landmark papers, books, and multimedia resources into one place to help advance knowledge and improve health outcomes. This will include resources related to health disparities, SDOH, and DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) in the provision of substance use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery.
This project is a collaboration between the Prevention Technology Transfer Center Network Coordinating Office, the Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance use and Addiction, and the Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network Coordinating Office.
