In the June 2024 edition of The Inbox there is a profile on each guest for our podcast series during Pride Month along with links for supporting resources, save-the-dates for our summer Media Literacy Conference and a Leadership Development Workshop, and information about a medicare.gov update, and a link to SAMHSA's Strategic Prevention Technical Assistance Center.
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Join us for a multi-part podcast series during Pride Month 2024. Starting June 6th our conversation is "Why Focus on LGBTQ+ People", with Angela Weeks, Project Director for SAMHSA’s Center of Excellence on LGBTQ+ Behavioral Health Equity. Angela brings extensive national experience creating, implementing, and evaluating programs and initiatives that improve the lives of LGBTQ+ people and communities, and extensive experience supporting LGBTQ+ populations experiencing homelessness and the juvenile justice system. This project is a collaboration with SAMHSA's Center of Excellence on LGBTQ+ Behavioral Health Equity and the Mid-America PTTC. Learn more about each episode and view supporting resources <here>.
In the May 2024 edition of The Inbox there is a profile on each guest for our series during Pride Month, updates to our Community of Practice series, and resources about using Humor as a Protective Factor, and the The Art of Focused Conversation. Plus, two new episodes of the Prevention Perk, Laughter is the Best Prevention Medicine a conversation with Nathan Wray, and Leadership Comes from Within with guest Karie Terhark.
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Join us for a multi-part podcast series during Pride Month 2024. Starting June 6th our conversation is "Why Focus on LGBTQ+ People", with Angela Weeks, Project Director for SAMHSA’s Center of Excellence on LGBTQ+ Behavioral Health Equity. Angela brings extensive national experience creating, implementing, and evaluating programs and initiatives that improve the lives of LGBTQ+ people and communities, and extensive experience supporting LGBTQ+ populations experiencing homelessness and the juvenile justice system. This project is a collaboration with SAMHSA's Center of Excellence on LGBTQ+ Behavioral Health Equity and the Mid-America PTTC. We hope you'll tune in for a new episode each Thursday during June.
Community of Practice
In the April 2024 edition of The Inbox find registration for the 2024 Community of Practice series, save the date for our Pride Month podcasts, and links to our series on Why Language Matters. Plus, two upcoming episodes of the Prevention Perk, A Community Needs to Assess the Impact of Alcohol a conversation with Rodney Wambeam, and Rediscovering Joy - Why Prevention Works with guest Monte Stiles.
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Prevention Perk
This toolkit describes the current status of HHS Region 10 state retail cannabis regulatory frameworks and specific policies, highlighting their relevance for prevention.
State legalization of cannabis use and sales for nonmedical purposes is relatively new. Regulatory design has relied heavily on examples from alcohol and tobacco, but cannabis is a different product with unique characteristics. In the absence of specific knowledge, Prevention stakeholders should work toward the most appropriate regulatory approaches for prevention, including in each of the 5 P areas: Places for Access, Products, Promotion, Public Health and Safety, and Price, which act as an organizing framework in this document.
While assuring that high-quality information on cannabis use and harms is essential to know whether or how much public health and safety has been affected, policy work is a critical component of prevention with long term and lasting effects. This toolkit is intended to supports capacity development within the prevention workforce by increasing understanding of cannabis regulatory frameworks and policies that can affect the prevention of youth cannabis use and associated harms and adult cannabis misuse. The documents within the toolkit can stand alone or work in tandem to:
This toolkit is not meant to be exhaustive. Instead, it serves as a starting place for prevention practitioners and community coalition members interested in building their capacity to support the implementation and enforcement of cannabis policies and regulations to promote public health and safety.
A Prevention Practitioners' Toolkit to Understanding R10 State Cannabis Policies and Regulations includes a suite of six documents. A Guidance Document for Northwest Substance Misuse Prevention Practitioners provides in-depth information on the purpose, background on cannabis legalization in the Pacific Northwest, key definitions, and basic principles underlying the toolkit. A Multi-State Comparison Across Three Northwestern States provides a snapshot of cannabis-related policies in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington categorized under the 5 P's for Prevention. The State Cannabis Policies and Regulations documents summarize each state's rules and laws to regulate cannabis, as of June 30, 2020.
Evaluation, the fifth step of the SPF, focuses on the systematic collection and analysis of information about the prevention activities to reduce uncertainty, improve effectiveness, and facilitate decision making. Below are training resources to support your work. For more evaluation resources, visit our tools and examples pages.
This webinar focuses on how the systematic collection and analysis of information about prevention activities can be used to reduce uncertainty, improve effectiveness, and facilitate decision making.
This webinar by the Central East PTTC will discuss evaluation strategies, data surveillance efforts, and developing and maintaining an evaluation feedback loop.
