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In this Issue:
Wellness Begins with Self-Care
More Resources on Self-Care and Wellness
Epi Corner: Understanding and Capturing the Impact of COVID-19 on Children
Share and Participate
National Impaired Driving Prevention Month
Knowledge to Action: Culturally Humble Leadership in Prevention
What's Happening Around the Region?
Prevention Coalition Affinity Group Series
Ditching the Discomfort with Data Series: Part One Overview Recording Available
Self-Regulation and Grounding Practices
HealtheKnowledge Online Course Spotlight
Published: January 4, 2022
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Pacific Southwest PTTC's Unraveling the Mystery of U.S. Alcohol Regulations
Webinar Date: December 15, 2021
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Webinar Slides for Unraveling the Mystery of U.S. Alcohol Regulations
*This presentation and the information contained in it is proprietary information of Pam Erickson, and may not be adapted, modified, or disseminated without the prior written permission of Pam Erickson. This presentation is intended to be used by prevention professionals for learning purposes only. This presentation is not 508 compliant.
Webinar Overview and Objectives
This presentation aims to "demystify" alcohol regulation. Alcohol regulation is confusing to a lot of people—even regulators! A review of its history helps explain why we regulate the way we do including: why every state is a little different; “control" v. "license" systems; and a three-tier system. Also, the session will indicate how our systems control alcohol problems and point to credible research which confirms the efficacy of system measures.
By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:
Describe the history of alcohol in the United States before Prohibition and the problems which led to the 18th Amendment (Prohibition).
Explain the Post-Prohibition history including the importance of Toward Liquor Control (a research study) in developing state systems of alcohol regulation.
Describe the various systems states use to control alcohol problems: how they work and why they are important.
Identify research from credible sources which confirms the efficacy of our systems.
Audience
Community, tribal, jurisdiction, and state-level prevention practitioners and allied health partners and community members located in the Pacific Southwest states and jurisdictions of American Samoa, Arizona, California, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.
Presenter
Pam Erickson, President and CEO of Public Action Management, is a passionate leader on alcohol policy issues. Currently, she owns Public Action Management which operates an education campaign for a “Healthy Alcohol Marketplace.” From 1996 to 2003, she directed the Oregon Liquor Control Commission which included licensing, regulatory enforcement and operating Oregon’s distilled spirits business as a "control state". From 2003 to 2007, she worked at Oregon Partnership to direct statewide leadership and media campaigns to reduce underage drinking. Beginning in 2005, she developed the Campaign for a Healthy Alcohol Market, which is an education campaign designed to explain the purpose and objectives of alcohol regulation in simple terms. She has written several reports on deregulation in the United Kingdom and the US and produces a periodic report for policy makers called, “Issue Briefs.” These reports explain how deregulation can lead to increased social problems such as high rates of underage drinking, public order offenses and alcohol related disease. Pam has also served as an expert witness in key alcohol regulation cases in Kentucky, California, Indiana, and Michigan. Her educational materials and legal expert reports/affidavits are available free of charge at www.healthyalcoholmarket.com.
Webinar Recording
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Published: December 29, 2021
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While COVID-19 pandemic has caused restrictions on many options for face-to-face meetings, events, and workshops, community engagement in substance misuse prevention efforts remains essential. This interactive webinar will provide substance misuse prevention practitioners with tools and strategies to increase community engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Both digital and nondigital strategies will be presented as options for increasing community engagement.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:
Define community engagement
Describe the spectrum of community engagement
List at least three non-digital strategies to engage your community in prevention under COVID-19 restrictions
List at least three digital strategies to engage your community in prevention under COVID-19 restrictions
PRESENTER:
KRIS GABRIELSEN, MPH
Kristen Gabrielsen has worked in substance misuse prevention for over 30 years. She was the associate director of the Western CAPT, co-author of the SAPST, and co-author of the Substance Abuse Prevention textbook. Kris delivers trainings across the United States, focusing on bridging the gap between research and practice. She recently started an online course school to provide prevention practitioners and others with more flexible options to gain the knowledge and skills they need to be successful.
The Great Lakes PTTC offered this training for individuals working in HHS Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI. This training is being provided in response to a need identified by Region 5 stakeholders.
Published: November 4, 2021
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The Great Lakes PTTC offers this training to prevention practitioners in HHS Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, and WI. This training is offered in response to a need identified by Region 5 stakeholders.
Since the onset of COVID-19, many states and communities have dramatically loosened restrictions on alcohol and marijuana use and access, including restrictions on delivery, internet sales, takeout, and outdoor consumption. Justification for these changes includes economic relief for small businesses, COVID safety, and the accepted norm that substance use is a reasonable coping strategy. The nature of alcohol and marijuana use has also changed since the start of COVID. More people are drinking or using marijuana in isolation or as a means of coping for depression, anxiety, or boredom. This webinar will offer strategies for monitoring and mitigating the effects of these changes to ensure that they are temporary.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Understand what policies have changed during the pandemic
Identify the implications of lessened restrictions on risk factors for alcohol and marijuana use
List strategies for monitoring and mitigating the potential negative impact of policy change on community norms
Speaker:
Chuck Klevgaard delivers training and technical assistance to support substance misuse prevention throughout the Midwest. He has supported communities and health agencies as they adopt evidence-based alcohol, opioid, and other substance misuse programs or policies. Chuck also serves as a prevention manager to the Great Lakes Prevention Technology Transfer Center.
Published: July 19, 2021
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The Great Lakes PTTC offers this training for prevention providers in HHS Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN,OH, and WI. This training is offered in response to a need identified by Region 5 stakeholders.
This webinar will present a panel of prevention providers from across the Great Lakes Region who have been working in school-based settings throughout COVID-19. They will share their success and challenges throughout the initial crisis and as they have worked through the 2020–2021 school year.
Participants will have an opportunity to ask questions of about how the presenters navigated the challenges and ever-changing landscape of school-based prevention this year, while looking forward to the school year ahead.
Learning Objectives:
Learn how prevention providers navigated the changes brought on by school closures.
Understand approaches to working with schools during challenging and changing periods, such as COVID-19.
Provide opportunity to learn from peers providing school-based prevention programs.
Published: April 2, 2021
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The pandemic has brought challenges and disruption to substance use disorder services along with opportunities. The presentation will examine these new opportunities and “how to get there.”
Learning Objectives
Participants will:
Recognize some of the opportunities that have resulted from the pandemic.
Explore the role of resilience in responding to service needs during the pandemic, and as a path to opportunities.
Speaker
Sheila Weix, MSN, RN, CARN
During her tenure as a leader in SUD treatment, Sheila Weix has been involved with emergencies related to the HIV epidemic, 9/11, and the 2008 economic collapse. She is currently applying this experience in an outpatient treatment service that includes medication-assisted treatment in rural Wisconsin during the COVID19 pandemic.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT...
Video: Substance Use Disorder Services in the Days of a Pandemic (Part 1)
Video: Substance Use Disorder Services in the Days of a Pandemic (Part 2)
Published: February 19, 2021
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A downloadable one-page (PDF document) that highlights tips to help you adapt your prevention practices during the pandemic.
This handout was created using responses collected during the New England PTTC Prevention in Action Webinar, "Adapting Prevention Programs to COVID-19". The webinar is available on-demand on our YouTube Channel.
Published: February 4, 2021
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This webinar is one of the New England PTTC's prevention trainings. In this webinar (recorded January 12, 2021), participants will receive a detailed overview of each of the four products in the toolkit. No continuing education is available. Contact us if you have any questions.
Course Summary: In this New England PTTC Prevention in Action webinar, we will hear how two prevention organizations have adapted their programs to accommodate the need for social distancing and reduced face-to-face programming due to the pandemic. This session will also include an opportunity to discuss and share other strategies for adapting prevention programs as well as live Q & A.
Link to view the recorded webinar (recorded on January 12, 2021).
No continuing education is available.
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Published: February 4, 2021
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The Great Lakes MHTTC and PTTC present this webinar for prevention practitioners and mental health professionals in HHS Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, and WI
For many of us, the accumulated stress, grief, fatigue, and despair of the Covid-19 crisis pose a significant challenge to our coping resources. While this perfect storm of stressors may be unprecedented, there is much we know about how to cope with and manage stress, even at these levels.
In this talk, Dr. Kanter will describe new research on predictors of coping with the crisis and effective interventions for reducing depression and loneliness during the crisis. Dr. Kanter integrates these new findings with established science and offers strategies for managing the psychological consequences of the crisis in our everyday lives.
Learning Objectives
Review results of national research on effective coping tips during the pandemic (helpful in non-pandemic times as well)
Understand and practice evidence-based mindfulness strategies for effective coping
Understand and practice evidence-based strategies for improving well being and closeness with others
Presenter
Dr. Jonathan Kanter is Director of the University of Washington’s Center for the Science of Social Connection. Over the course of his career, Dr. Kanter has investigated psychosocial interventions for depression, including how to disseminate culturally appropriate, easy-to-train, evidence-based approaches, with emphasis on evidence-based treatments such as behavioral activation for groups who lack resources and access to care.
Dr. Kanter has published over 100 scientific papers and 9 books on these topics and his work has been funded by NIH, SAMHSA, state governmental organizations, foundations, and private donors. He is regularly invited to give talks and workshops nationally and internationally. When the COVID-19 crisis hit Seattle, the Center pivoted its resources to understand and mitigate the relational and mental health consequences of the crisis, to assist with public health efforts, and to inform the public dialogue with scientifically informed advice. Dr. Kanter has been asked to comment on the relational and mental health consequences of the crisis by, and the Center’s response to the crisis has been featured on, NPR, the BBC, the New York Times, the Huffington Post, National Geographic, and other local and national news outlets.
Published: December 23, 2020
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This issue explores "Prevention in the Midst of Crisis," and how Native American communities are responding during the current pandemic.
Published: December 18, 2020
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The Great Lakes PTTC is providing this training to prevention practitioners in HHS Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, and WI.
This interactive virtual learning event helps participants discover the unique leadership needs of coalitions. Besides exploring their leadership style, participants learn how to develop shared leadership throughout the coalition. Through interactive virtual activities, participants will examine common challenges and solutions to building coalition leadership.
Learning Objectives
List two common leadership styles
Define shared leadership
Explain how coalition leadership needs change over time
Identify one engagement challenge and solution
Presenter:
Carol Oliver is a nationally-recognized leader and trainer in substance misuse prevention. She has expertise in evidence-based methods, stigma reduction, instructional design, and in-person and virtual learning. She specializes in developing systems to solve complex health-related problems and create effective behavioral health workforces.
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Published: November 11, 2020
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Offered by the Great Lakes PTTC for prevention practitioners in HHS Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, and WI
Building on coalition leadership Part 1, this virtual learning event focuses on building skills that facilitate leadership in the coalition and the community. This webinar highlights effective virtual engagement techniques for existing and new coalition members and stakeholders in the age of COVID-19. Participants will receive hands-on tools they can use with their coalitions. A successful engagement technique is effective messaging. Participants will learn the critical components of communication for working with coalition members and community-level stakeholders.
Learning Objectives
List two techniques for engaging people in a virtual meeting.
Explain the connection between adult learning and practical engagement.
Describe one approach for selecting new coalition members.
List two critical components of a communication message.
Presenter:
Carol Oliver is a nationally-recognized leader and trainer in substance misuse prevention. She has expertise in evidence-based methods, stigma reduction, instructional design, and in-person and virtual learning. She specializes in developing systems to solve complex health-related problems and create effective behavioral health workforces.
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Published: November 11, 2020
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In this Issue
Sustaining Prevention Programming During a Pandemic
Additional Resources
What's Happening Around the Region?
Epi Corner: Sustainability: A Data-Driven Dynamic Process
Published: August 24, 2020
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Download the webinar presentation
Download the webinar workbook
Co-Hosted By: Southeast Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) Network
Presented by: Maureen Underwood & Associates, LCC.
Description:
The world climate of uncertainty, fear and worry enveloping the COVID pandemic has created new challenges for many people. Prevention professionals are concerned about the rise in negative mental health outcomes and projected increases in suicide risk, domestic violence, and substance use. While that risk appears to be escalating, COVID19 has made prevention both more relatable and more relevant. This webinar takes a look at some of the challenges caused by the uncertainty of COVID19, including chronic stress, emotional distress, and loss through the lens of prevention. It will provide strategies and solutions for health promotion, with practical tips that translate theory into workable practice. It will also provide guidelines for implementing prevention strategies and educating clients on prevention. A workbook via a downloadable PDF will accompany the training to reinforce the concepts provided in the webinar and for use as an ongoing resource.
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify at least 3 ways people are coping with the uncertainty of COVID
2. Name 2 ways in which prevention strategies can be used to address emerging COVID concerns
3. Distinguish between emotional distress and trauma
4. Name 3 ways that post traumatic growth manifests itself
5. Identify their personal style of resilience
About Maureen Underwood
Maureen Underwood, LCSW was named Social Worker of the Year by the New Jersey chapter of the NASW for her work in the aftermath of 9/11. She has a practice specialty in grief and trauma and has been working with children and families impacted by trauma since the 1980s. She has just completed a May, 2020 webinar series, Trauma Informed Clinical Care During COVID19, for Monmouth County, NJ, which received an average rating of 4.79 on a 5 point Likert scale.
Published: August 9, 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing the longstanding structures, policies and systems that have produced unfair differences in how long and well people live. This conversation will offer strategies for conducting a community assessment as part of the response to this public health emergency. Understanding how COVID-19 has impacted the social and economic factors in your community can assist leaders in prioritizing strategies critical for a customized response. This webinar will introduce resources that can help participants understand how social determinants of health affect the health of their community and evidence- based programs and policies for addressing identified priorities.
Speaker: Aliana Havrilla
Ali is an Action Learning Coach at County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. She is part of a team that develops online tools to connect communities to evidence-informed strategies and community change resources, fosters peer learning and connections, delivers knowledge and skill building sessions, and recognizes and celebrates health improvement.
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Published: July 10, 2020
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Mental health professionals are bracing for what may be an epidemic of clinical depression related to COVID-19. In this webinar, Dr. Jonathan Kanter will:
1. Review the science on risk factors for depression that cause this grave warning,
2. Share the latest information on how individuals are responding to the current crisis, and
3. Propose best practices for depression prevention and treatment moving forward.
Although actual rates of future depression are hard to predict, organizations will need innovative and scalable solutions, given that our mental health services delivery systems are underpowered to meet demands before this crisis.
The presentation will highlight online strategies that include disseminating evidence-based mental health tips, identifying and targeting risk groups, and conducting stepped-care treatment groups, stepping to individual treatment as needed.
Presenter
Dr. Jonathan Kanter is Director of the University of Washington’s Center for the Science of Social Connection. Over the course of his career, Dr. Kanter has investigated psychosocial interventions for depression, including how to disseminate culturally appropriate, easy-to-train, evidence-based approaches, with emphasis on evidence-based treatments such as Behavioral Activation for groups who lack resources and access to care.
More recently, the Center has produced research on how to improve relationships and social connectedness and on relational processes that predict relational well-being and quality of life. Dr. Kanter has published over 100 scientific papers and 9 books on these topics and his work has been funded by NIH, SAMHSA, state governmental organizations, foundations, and private donors. He is regularly invited to give talks and workshops nationally and internationally. When the COVID-19 crisis hit Seattle, the Center pivoted its resources to understand and mitigate the relational and mental health consequences of the crisis, to assist with public health efforts, and to inform the public dialogue with scientifically informed advice. Dr. Kanter has been asked to comment on the relational and mental health consequences of the crisis by, and the Center’s response to the crisis has been featured on, NPR, the BBC, the New York Times, the Huffington Post, National Geographic, and other local and national news outlets.
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Published: June 29, 2020
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This webinar is one of the New England PTTC's prevention trainings. In this webinar (recorded May 26, 2020), participants will receive a detailed overview of each of the four products in the toolkit. No continuing education is available. Contact us if you have any questions.
Prevention in Action: Connecting with youth before, during and after COVID-19
Course Summary: As part of the Prevention in Action webinar series featuring successful prevention programs around New England, this webinar will feature a panel of prevention practitioners to discuss their strategies for keeping youth engaged and connected in prevention while schools are closed and meetings are not possible. They will also discuss how these strategies can be adapted to continue to be helpful in the future.
Panelists will include Marissa Carlson, Executive Director of the New Hampshire Teen Institute, Deborah Lake, Prevention Program Manager, Governor's Prevention Partnership (CT), Jessica Summer, Youth Project and Fundraising Coordinator, Burlington Partnership for a Healthy Community.
Link to view the recorded webinar (recorded on May 26, 2020).
No continuing education is available.
PowerPoint Presentation
Published: June 5, 2020
eNewsletter or Blog
The Role of Prevention During and Following a Disaster
What's Happening Around the Region?
Epi Corner: Data Collection Considerations During Disasters, Pandemics, and Other Crises
Published: June 5, 2020
eNewsletter or Blog
Prevention Across the Lifespan: Infancy and Early Childhood
Additional Resources
Responding to COVID-19
What's Happening Around the Region?
Epi Corner: Reducing Substance Misuse Risk Factors in Early Childhood
Published: June 5, 2020
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This webinar is one of the New England PTTC's prevention trainings. In this webinar (recorded April 28, 2020), participants will receive a detailed overview of each of the four products in the toolkit. No continuing education is available. Contact us if you have any questions.
Prevention in Action: Positive Ripple Effect of Restorative School Policy
Course Summary: The New England PTTC Prevention in Action webinar series features successful prevention programs throughout New England. In this webinar, So-Po Unite will describe their efforts to create a restorative substance use policy. The South Portland School Department revised the substance use policy from out of school suspension to restorative response in May 2018. The ripple effect has been outstanding! Students are held accountable and underlying causes of substance use are addressed. Students complete an assessment and meet with the social worker, staff and parents to create a response plan: academic support, prevention education and community service. At the re-entry meeting, students have the opportunity to repair the harm they may have caused and plan for moving forward. Over 40 school staff took a 37.5 hour course in restorative mindset and a full-time coordinator works with students. An alcohol and drug counselor provides clinical assessments. Our athletic code is now restorative; athletes are not kicked off the team and can still attend practices. Our policy has informed Maine’s Department of Education and is now the model policy for all schools!
Link to view the recorded webinar (recorded on April 28, 2020).
No continuing education is available.
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Published: June 3, 2020
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Electronic newsletter for the Great Lakes ATTC, MHTTC, and PTTC, May 2020 edition
Published: May 27, 2020
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This webinar is one of the New England PTTC's prevention trainings. In this webinar (recorded April 23, 2020), participants will receive a detailed overview of each of the four products in the toolkit. No continuing education is available. Contact us if you have any questions.
Laughing Matters, A Conversation about Natural Highs and Coping with Stress
Presenter: Matt Bellace, PhD, Comedian & Psychologist
Course Summary: This engaging hour-long discussion will involve comedy and inspiring stories, in addition to demonstrating Matt’s style when presenting to and communicating with youth, especially during a time of social distancing and self-isolation. Dr. Bellace will respond to questions that participants submitted during the registration process for this event. Since 1995, Matt Bellace has been traveling the country as a professional speaker and stand-up comedian. He has spoken in 47 states to a wide range of audiences, including SEAL Team Six and survivors of Sandy Hook. Dr. Bellace has a PhD in clinical neuropsychology and trained at both the National Institutes of Mental Health and the traumatic brain and spinal cord injury units of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. He is the author of the book, “A Better High,” contributing author for National Geographic Kids, and was a regular on truTV’s, “World’s Dumbest.”
Link to view the recorded webinar (recorded on April 23, 2020).
No continuing education is available.
Published: May 19, 2020
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Between April 6, 2020 and April 20, 2020, the Northwest PTTC supplemented the one-hour listening sessions with each of the four states in HHS Region 10: Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington with an online emergency workforce assessment.
The online assessment offered an alternative format for prevention professionals to inform the Northwest PTTC about emerging issues related to changes in their work environment due to the Covid-19 stay-at-home orders. The goal of the brief 12 question assessment was to identify barriers faced by the prevention workforce and how the Northwest PTTC can continue to support the workforce. 104 prevention professionals from the four states in HHS Region 10 responded to the anonymous online survey.
Responses and emerging themes from the responses are summarized in the attached document.
Published: May 8, 2020
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Between April 1, 2020 and April 3, 2020, the Northwest PTTC convened one-hour listening sessions with each of the four states in HHS Region 10: Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Sixty-one state and community-level prevention practitioners participated in the listening sessions. Each listening session included 5 open-ended questions:
1) What is a concern and hope that you bring with you today?
2) What are you doing to keep prevention moving forward?
3) What is working right now?
4) How can the Northwest PTTC support you?
5) What training would be useful?
The emerging themes from the state responses are summarized in the attached document.
Published: May 8, 2020