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3-Part Webinar Series: Improving Workforce Retention in the Substance Misuse Prevention Field
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Part 3: The Soul of Prevention - Identifying and Communicating the Spirit of Your Work
June 1, 2023
Presented by: Jason Anderson, Senior Trainer @ The Montana Institute
The challenges that prevention professionals face can take their toll. Let’s sit down for a minute and gather ourselves. In this workshop, participants will be given the opportunity to reconnect to the underlying spirit of their work and discuss the impact of communicating who they are.
After this webinar, participants will be able to:
Define and understand the Science of the Positive and the Cycle of Transformation.
Discover the important distinction between honoring concerns vs. negativity.
Rediscover and reinforce the rewards of prevention work.
Webinar Resource:
PowerPoint slides LINK
Webinar Recording NO LONGER AVAILBLE
Your WHY Matters (Fillable PDF) LINK
#MyPreventionStory Fill-It-In Activity LINK
Published: June 1, 2023
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Nicole M Augustine is the Founder & CEO RIZE Consultants, Inc, a strategic consulting firm founded in January 2015. Nicole is an entrepreneur, public health professional and social justice advocate. Nicole gained the Prevention Specialist credential in 2014 and has worked at every level of prevention practice - from providing prevention education to providing training and technical assistance to communities, states, and federal agencies. In August 2022, Nicole published the Prevention Specialist Exam Study Guide to help readers understand the competencies and knowledge necessary to become a Prevention Specialist (PS) and adequately prepare prevention professionals to pass the Prevention Specialist certification exam. Nicole is a passionate prevention thought leader with a desire to be of greater impact and drive community change through innovative strategies.
Show Notes:
Email: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolemaugustine
Web: www.rizeconsultants.com
Book: Prevention Specialist Exam Study Guide
Articles: https://www.brainzmagazine.com/executive-contributor/Nicole-M.-Augustine
The funder of this project, along with all other products of the Mid-America PTTC is the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Although funded by SAMHSA, the content of this recording does not necessarily reflect the views of SAMHSA. The National Network to Eliminate Disparities in Behavioral Health (NNED) is a network of community-based organizations focused on the mental health and substance use issues of diverse racial and ethnic communities. Learn more at https://nned.net
The Prevention Core Competencies guide provides professional direction affecting staff development, career ladders and pipelines, and provides guidance for training programs and service delivery qualification. SAMHSA Prevention Core Competencies.
Published: May 31, 2023
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3-Part Webinar Series: Improving Workforce Retention in the Substance Misuse Prevention Field
Series Information
Part 2: What Makes Them Stay? Help Write the Playbook for Prevention Workforce Retention
May 25, 2023
Presented by: Jamie Comstock & Robin Carr @ Info Inspired, LLC
In this peer sharing session we’ll present a series of guided questions and facilitate a discussion to learn more about your ideas/thoughts concerning retention of prevention specialists with the goal of developing strategies to attract and keep a diverse, vibrant, strong and experienced workforce. This session is appropriate for the continuum of prevention professionals, ranging from new staff to seasoned supervisors. The discussion is designed to uncover needs of new employees in the field and strategies employed by experienced (and successful) supervisors - with the goal of supporting all in the prevention workforce.
Webinar Resource:
PowerPoint slides LINK
Retention Themes and Strategies Document LINK
Webinar Recording LINK
Published: May 25, 2023
eNewsletter or Blog
In this Issue:
Alignment and Synergy for Prevention Leadership
Epi Corner: Children's Mental Health: Protecting the Most Vulnerable
What's Happening Around the Region?
Other Opportunities
Published: May 25, 2023
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3-Part Webinar Series: Improving Workforce Retention in the Substance Misuse Prevention Field
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Part 1: Prevention Career Roadmap
May 18, 2023
Presented by: Erin Burnett (she/her), Co-Director @ New England PTTC, Senior Training & Technical Assistance Coordinator @ AdCare Educational Institute of Maine, and Chair @ Maine Prevention Certification Board
This webinar will provide an overview of the resources developed by the New England PTTC for the new and mid-level prevention specialist to aid them in their professional development and career growth in the substance misuse prevention field.
After this webinar, participants will be able to:
Identify the universal developmental training needs of the substance misuse prevention workforce.
Determine where they are at on the Prevention Specialist career lattice and where they might be headed depending on their professional development goals.
Establish their professional development goals for their career in the substance misuse prevention field.
Learn about the importance of Prevention Specialist certification and the requirements for certification in their state.
Webinar Resource:
PowerPoint slides with links to resources LINK
Webinar Recording LINK
Professional Development Grid Fillable LINK
Published: May 18, 2023
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Watch this video to see some of our alumni and fellows sharing their experience as participants of the National Hispanic and Latino Executive Leadership and Fellowship Program! The National Hispanic and Latino Executive Leadership and Fellowship Program is designed to help entry-level to mid-level career leaders/managers become great leaders in their field. The program focuses on leadership capacity building offering behavioral health leaders the opportunity to discover and expand their leadership strengths and be better prepared when new and greater opportunities come up.
Published: May 16, 2023
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This training will lead you to better understand what drives motivation to engage and commit time, energy and resources to any initiative. By learning to understand this core value you can help facilitate increased engagement and minimize frustration.
Unpack the concept of The Golden Circle from Start with WHY
Share tools and the process to discover your individual WHY
Work 1-on-1 to write your WHY statement
Learn how to maximize the capacity of collaborations
Identify the “Why” that brings people to the table and helps them engage
This session is led by Dave Closson from DJC Solutions and Kari Ter from Hue Life. Be sure to download the workbook discussed in this training <here>
Published: March 17, 2023
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Using Logic Models in Prevention
Part 2: Developing and Using Logic Models
Josh Esrick, MPP, and Emily Patton, MSc, PgDip
February 23, 2023, 1:00pm-2:30pm EST
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This webinar will build from part one of this series. It will first explain in more detail the process of creating a logic model and provide a practice exercise for participants to begin building their own logic models. The webinar will also walk through how to use a completed logic model, including the steps for turning a logic model into an implementation plan and evaluation plan. Lastly, the webinar will discuss other uses of logic models, such as being shared with funders and community partners. The webinar will provide a small group discussion opportunity for participants to share their experiences with logic models, barriers and challenges encountered when developing logic models, and success strategies.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Explain the process for developing a logic model
Begin planning the development of their own logic models
Understand how to incorporate logic models into implementation and evaluation plans
Describe the other uses of logic models for prevention professionals
PRESENTERS
Josh Esrick, MPP is a Senior Policy Analyst with Carnevale Associates. Josh has extensive experience in substance use prevention; researching, writing, and presenting on best practice and knowledge development publications, briefs, and reference guides; and developing and providing T/TA to numerous organizations. He developed numerous SAMHSA Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies’ (CAPT) products on strategies to prevent opioid misuse and overdose, risk and protective factors for substance use, youth substance use prevention strategies, youth substance use trends, emerging substance use trends, the potential regulations surrounding marijuana legalization, as well as numerous other topics.
Emily Patton, MSc, PgDip holds a Masters of Science in Abnormal and Clinical Psychology from Swansea University and a Postgraduate Degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Edinburgh. She offers significant professional experience in the fields of public policy development and analysis, criminal justice research, data collection and analysis, program development, and performance management.
Published: February 23, 2023
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Using Logic Models in Prevention
Part 1: What Are Logic Models?
Josh Esrick, MPP, and Emily Patton, MSc, PgDip
February 21, 2023, 1:00pm-2:30pm EST
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This webinar will provide an introduction of the importance of strategic planning and how and why logic models are a key tool of planning. It will first summarize the five steps of the Strategic Prevention Framework, SAMHSA’s strategic planning process for prevention, and explain how strategic planning improves the likelihood of positive prevention outcomes. Next, the webinar will explain what logic models are and how they support strategic planning efforts. It will walk through the components of a logic model and describe the steps to creating one. The webinar will also include a group practice exercise for identifying and assembling the components of a logic model.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Explain the core elements of strategic planning
Describe how a logic model supports strategic planning
Understand what information is needed to develop a logic model
Illustrate the relationships between the components of a logic model
PRESENTERS
Josh Esrick, MPP is a Senior Policy Analyst with Carnevale Associates. Josh has extensive experience in substance use prevention; researching, writing, and presenting on best practice and knowledge development publications, briefs, and reference guides; and developing and providing T/TA to numerous organizations. He developed numerous SAMHSA Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies’ (CAPT) products on strategies to prevent opioid misuse and overdose, risk and protective factors for substance use, youth substance use prevention strategies, youth substance use trends, emerging substance use trends, the potential regulations surrounding marijuana legalization, as well as numerous other topics.
Emily Patton, MSc, PgDip holds a Masters of Science in Abnormal and Clinical Psychology from Swansea University and a Postgraduate Degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Edinburgh. She offers significant professional experience in the fields of public policy development and analysis, criminal justice research, data collection and analysis, program development, and performance management.
Published: February 21, 2023
eNewsletter or Blog
In this Issue:
Overcoming Testing Anxiety
Building Organizational Capacity to Face a Changing Public Health Landscape
What's Happening Around the Region?
Webinar: Ditching the Discomfort with Data, Part 5, Communicating and Visualizing Data
Video: Coalition Cohesion
Recordings: Alcohol Policy Series
Need an Ethics Course?
October National Awareness Resources
Published: October 19, 2022
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RECORDING: Harnessing Community Organizing to Enact Alcohol Policies
Dr. Toomey will discuss the key components of community organizing to achieve changes in the community to address a range of public health problems, including excessive alcohol use and related harms. These components include community assessments, one-on-one discussions, building action teams and leadership skills, creating an action plan, and implementing the action plan. The webinar will emphasize using community organizing to be strategic and move towards action.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
Following this webinar, participants will be able to:
describe the key components of community organizing and—
consider the application of community organizing to their work.
PRESENTER:
Traci L. Toomey, PhD
Traci L. Toomey, PhD is a professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. She serves as the director of the Alcohol Epidemiology Program at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on the prevention of problems related to use of substances, including alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana. Much of her research has addressed underage alcohol use and over service of alcohol. She has a PhD in epidemiology from the University of Minnesota.
Published: October 5, 2022
eNewsletter or Blog
The latest edition of our bi-monthly newsletter is available. This month’s edition features updates on our teams recent travel, training, and networking experience, a toolkit for Parks & Recreation Departments, a guide to Restorative Prevention, honoring and embracing Black history month in February, Awareness + Action: March is Problem Gambling Awareness Month, announcing the most recent Leadership Development Program, and regionally and nationally developed events and tools to support and grow the prevention workforce in New England. View the newsletter.
Published: February 11, 2022
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Northwest PTTC's Learning Lab: Using Liberating Structures to Navigate the "In Between" Time
August 11, 2021
Learning Lab Description
Many of us are reflecting on how to reform, re-norm, and create new pathways as the COVID-19 pandemic loosens its hold on our day-to-day lives. Liberating Structures (LS) can be referred to as a menu, repertoire, or curated collection of facilitation methods that are designed to be versatile and adaptable in many different situations and local contexts. All of the methods share a set of core principles, purposes, and organizing elements meant to more widely distribute participation - engaging a fuller range of people's intelligence while tapping into the creative promise of difference. Join us for this interactive Learning Lab, using virtual breakout rooms, and discover how LS can help team members, collaborators, and coalition members rebuild trust and a shared commitment to prevent substance misuse during a time of shifting norms. Learning Lab presenters will facilitate a deep-dive into LS during the 2021 Northwest PTTC Prevention Leadership Virtual Academy scheduled this fall.
Objectives
• Name Liberating Structure Principles
• Share background on how LS emerged
• Identify one use for LS in strengthening teams, collaborations, and coalitions
• Discuss how LS can be useful in both in-person and online settings
Presenters
Fisher S. Qua brings eclectic skills to his consulting work with a background in history, modern dance, community health improvement, learning & development, and higher education management. He is primarily interested in taking obscure ideas and making them seriously playful. He is intrigued by the potential for organizing and structuring interactions that invite people to contribute more of their imagination, creativity, and intelligence to the challenges-at-hand. Fisher appreciates being lovingly provoked, so bring your most skeptical-selves, your strangest hunches, or your most oblique ideas to the workshop.
Anna Jackson brings an artistic sensibility to her practice with Liberating Structures (LS) and other participatory approaches that aim to affirm people’s rights and personhood. She started out using LS in the mental health recovery movement, peer-based learning and support networks, and facilitating in complex policy, community, and clinical contexts. Since then has worked with LS in a diverse range of domains & settings. Anna has a Master of Science in Social Work from The University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor of Arts in Social Anthropology from the University of California, Davis.
Webinar Recording and Slides
View Webinar
Learning Lab Slide-deck
Additional Resources
Liberating Structures Principles
The 7 Types of Rest That Every Person Needs, TED Talk, Saundra Dalton-Smith, MD
Questions?
Contact Fisher S. Qua (
[email protected]) or Anna Jackson (
[email protected]) if you have additional questions about the content related to this webinar.
Published: August 16, 2021
Online Course
This 1.5 hours course provides an overview of a policy framework adopted and modified by the Southeast PTTC - The Policy Adoption Model. Prevention providers will follow the path of a fictitious prevention coalition as they develop and implement a local policy campaign. Certificate of Completion
Published: August 9, 2021
eNewsletter or Blog
The tenth edition of our bi-monthly newsletter is available. This month’s edition features the Leadership Development Program, research by RAND on Protective Behavioral Strategies for Marijuana Scale, the (NCSACW) recently developed Working with Adolescents: Practice Tips and Resource Guide, August is National Wellness Month, regionally and nationally developed events and tools to support and grow the prevention workforce in New England. View the newsletter.
Published: August 9, 2021
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A wonderful conversation with Priscila Giamassi from the National Hispanic and Latino Prevention Technology Transfer Center. This episode dives into a powerful leadership academy, special video project, family bonds, a speakers debut, and one very special event coming up.
National Hispanic and Latino Prevention Technology Transfer Center
National Latino Behavioral Health Virtual Conference: Envisioning Latino Behavioral Health Equity in the Next Decade, September 16-17, 2021
https://www.linkedin.com/company/nhlpttc
https://twitter.com/NHLPTTC
https://www.facebook.com/NHLPTTC
Published: August 4, 2021
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Are you asking yourself "how do I lead in the situation when there is no one specifically in charge, multiple stakeholders are involved in the decision making process, and there is no way you can force people to do what needs to be done?"
Leadership is not about the job, the title, or the position … it's not about you at all! It is about the purpose, the group of people who are charged with producing something related to that purpose in partnership and collaboration with others. Leadership today requires a paradigm shift in order to be more effective and deliver results.
Learning Objectives
Explore different point of view on leadership
Discover levels and dimensions of leadership in loosely coupled, multi-stakeholder system
Understand what competencies are necessary to lead effectively in this new way
Download the slides here:
Irina Fursman, Ed.D.
Irina Fursman is the Co-Founder and CEO of HueLife, a training, facilitation and consulting company on a mission to educate, facilitate and inspire engagement in meaningful action for the greater good of communities and organizations. She designs and facilitates experiences including strategic thinking and planning retreats; learning programs for personal and professional development; and conflict resolution. She also manages business development activities, partnership and community engagement programs, conceptualizing new products and services, and developing learning experiences and programs. She does this all while challenging the conventions required for innovation.
Born in the USSR, Irina spent the first half of her life in Russia, Crimea, and Ukraine and moved to the USA in 2002. She has co-founded a number of organizations and is currently a member of Rotary, Minnesota Change Management Network, International Society of Organization Development and Change (ISODC), and Technology of Participation (ToP) Network.
Irina completed her doctoral research on “Leadership in loosely coupled, multi-stakeholder systems” at University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis. Her passion for social justice and love for learning is what drives her to create organizations that will continue to provide learning opportunities and experiences in the arena of systems change at all levels.
Irina is a survivor, entrepreneur, fighter for justice and freedom. Her personal mission is to inspire action for the greater good for two reasons: she cares about the impact she can personally make on the world, and it is fun!
Published: July 14, 2021
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This is part 3 of a three-part Virtual Learning Session titled: El Hombre Noble: How to Engage, Embrace and Heal Chicano, Latino Males.
How do we assist, guide and support men to be the best fathers, grandfathers, tios that they can be. The session will explore the importance of healthy positive Rites of passage and healthy extended kinship as an essential step towards Sacred Fatherhood. It will also address the importance of developing “ bienvenidos, welcome home” programs and processes for reingrating men who were formally incarcerated, recovering from addiction, absent due to deportation and wanting to rebuild their relationship with their children and family.
Session 3 Learning Objectives:
Recognize the importance of fathers, father figures and their role in the lives of their children and their families.
How to welcome and reintegrate fathers back into their homes and communities due to incarceration and deportation and woundedness.
Presenters
Jerry Tello - Director of Training @National Compadres Network
Jerry Tello over the last 40 years has dedicated himself to the prevention and healing of individuals, families, communities and systems by speaking to over half a million people and training 1000’s of facilitators across the nation. Born from a family of Mexican, Texan and Coahuiltecan roots and raised in the south central/Compton areas of Los Angeles. Mr. Tello is an international expert in the areas of trauma, healing, men and boys of color, fatherhood, family strengthening, racial justice, racial healing, community peace and mobilization and culturally based violence prevention/intervention issues. He is co-founder of the National Compadres Network (established in 1988) and presently is Director of Training and Capacity Building. He has authored numerous articles, videos and curricula addressing the issues of Fatherhood, Male "Rites of Passage,” relationship and gang violence prevention, racial justice, and pregnancy prevention.
Jaime Molina, MSW - Senior Trainer @National Compadres Network
Jaime Molina graduated from Cabrillo College with an A.S. degree, graduated from UCSC with a bachelor’s in Psychology and Sociology. He received his Master’s degree from San Jose State University in Clinical Social Work. He has worked for over 30 years in non-profit agencies, county and state and National efforts in the areas of Family dynamics, youth leadership development, Mental Health, substance abuse, gang involvement, family strengthening, juvenile justice reform, Supporting Father Involvement Study, and Cultural competence. He is well known and respected in the School system and recovery community. Currently he is a Master trainer with National Compadres Network around the country in the areas of family strengthening and Transformational Healing practices.
Mario Ozuna-Sanchez
Born and raised in East Los Angeles, Mario Ozuna-Sanchez grew up in a family impacted by alcoholism, domestic violence, gangs, and drug addicted family members. As a result of decisions he made during his adolescence, Mario became a father at the age of 15. With many barriers and obstacles set before him, and with the help of his mother, Mario was able to accomplish his goals of finishing high school and going to college. Mario Ozuna-Sánchez has over 25 years of experience developing and implementing healing informed services; cultural rites of passage, teen pregnancy prevention, gang intervention, and community violence prevention, in Santa Clara County, specializing in East San Jose. He is nationally recognized for his skills at developing and delivering culturally relevant services to reach and welcome the most marginalized young and adult men in the community.
Published: June 25, 2021
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Are you asking yourself "how do I lead in the situation when there is no one specifically in charge, multiple stakeholders are involved in the decision making process, and there is no way you can force people to do what needs to be done?"
Leadership is not about the job, the title, or the position … it's not about you at all! It is about the purpose, the group of people who are charged with producing something related to that purpose in partnership and collaboration with others. Leadership today requires paradigm shift in order to be more effective and deliver results.
This episode will shift your mindset and approach to coalition leadership!
Register for the July 14th webinar here. REGISTER
Published: June 21, 2021
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This was part 2 of a three-part Virtual Learning Session titled: El Hombre Noble: How to Engage, Embrace and Heal Chicano, Latino Males.
This session will explore the dimentions and dynamics of wounded men. It will provide an overview of how racism, colonization, racial inequity and generational trauma impacts Chicano, Latino Men and the resultant aspects of substance abuse, mental health, gang and domestic violence. It will further share culturally based, trauma informed, healing centered approaches that have proven to be successful.
Session 2 Learning Objectives:
Acknowledge the struggles men face because of racial inequity, colonization and generational trauma.
Identify practices and processes that allow for men to move beyond just treatment but to actual healing.
Presenters
Jerry Tello - Director of Training @National Compadres Network
Jerry Tello over the last 40 years has dedicated himself to the prevention and healing of individuals, families, communities and systems by speaking to over half a million people and training 1000’s of facilitators across the nation. Born from a family of Mexican, Texan and Coahuiltecan roots and raised in the south central/Compton areas of Los Angeles. Mr. Tello is an international expert in the areas of trauma, healing, men and boys of color, fatherhood, family strengthening, racial justice, racial healing, community peace and mobilization and culturally based violence prevention/intervention issues. He is co-founder of the National Compadres Network (established in 1988) and presently is Director of Training and Capacity Building. He has authored numerous articles, videos and curricula addressing the issues of Fatherhood, Male "Rites of Passage,” relationship and gang violence prevention, racial justice, and pregnancy prevention.
Dr. Ricardo Carrillo - Director of Psychology Training @Comprehensive Crisis Services
Ricardo Carrillo Ph.D., is Director of psychology training for Comprehensive Crisis Services in San Francisco, CA. He is recognized as an expert witness and international consultant in the areas of family therapy, domestic violence, cross cultural psychology, forensic psychology, and cultural competence. He has provided leadership in the areas of program development with domestic violence offenders, Latino mental health, and chemical dependency populations. He attended the California School of Professional Psychology in Fresno, CA. He has taught for ten years in professional psychology schools in the Bay area. He maintains a private practice in Berkeley CA and continues to provide professional consultation to a variety of agencies. He is the Crisis Intervention psychologist for San Francisco Police Department. He is the co-founder of the Latino Men’s Circle that is dedicated to living as a noble man and an advisory board member of the National Compadres network.
Armando Lawrence - Coordinator @East Los Angeles Men Talking Circles/ National Compadres Network
Mr. Armando Lawrence has been involved as a community advocate and practitioner for healing, cultural integrity, human and civil rights and is an active member of the Board of Directors for Via Health Care Clinic in East Los Angeles. He is a coordinator and participant of the East Los Angeles Men Talking Circles/ National Compadres Network, a founding member of the Los Angeles Indigenous Peoples Alliance and since 2016 has been working with incarcerated men in the State of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) with programs that teach positive personal development and understanding the impact of Childhood Trauma, and in a method to assist them in beginning the healing process.
Published: June 18, 2021
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In this 1.5 - hour video course, we discuss engaging youth prevention leaders in the virtual setting to address substance misuse prevention. By the end of this course, participants will gain an understanding of tools for communicating safely and effectively with youth, virtual project planning tools and techniques to build youth buy-in and ways to foster youth development virtually. Certificate of Completion Available
Published: June 12, 2021
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This was part 1 of a three-part Virtual Learning Session titled: El Hombre Noble: How to Engage, Embrace and Heal Chicano, Latino Males.
This session will explore the multilayed dimentions of identity of the Chicano, Latino Male. It will answer the question of what does it mean to be Une Hombre Noble and the counter narrative of men with toxic masculinity. It will further share the importance of understanding Chicano, Latino men and boys in order to be able to respectfully recruit, engage, and provide services and treatment.
Session 1 Learning Objectives:
Create a greater awareness and understanding of the intercultural struggle for Chicano. Latino men on how to balance the competing expectations they receive in their development from their family, culture and society.
Identify healthy cultural values that define healthy culturally manhood based on honorable principles.
Create and improved understanding of essential elements to consider in working with Chicano, Latino Boys and Men.
Presenters
Jerry Tello - Director of Training @National Compadres Network
Jerry Tello over the last 40 years has dedicated himself to the prevention and healing of individuals, families, communities and systems by speaking to over half a million people and training 1000’s of facilitators across the nation. Born from a family of Mexican, Texan and Coahuiltecan roots and raised in the south central/Compton areas of Los Angeles. Mr. Tello is an international expert in the areas of trauma, healing, men and boys of color, fatherhood, family strengthening, racial justice, racial healing, community peace and mobilization and culturally based violence prevention/intervention issues. He is co-founder of the National Compadres Network (established in 1988) and presently is Director of Training and Capacity Building. He has authored numerous articles, videos and curricula addressing the issues of Fatherhood, Male "Rites of Passage,” relationship and gang violence prevention, racial justice, and pregnancy prevention.
Osvaldo Cruz
For more than 20 years, Osvaldo Cruz, Sr. has worked with Latino male youth and young adults in the greater Los Angeles area to address issues of male responsibility, Latino male rites of passage, teen-pregnancy prevention, fatherhood, domestic violence, sexual assault, and youth leadership development. Through these efforts and many more, Ozzie is privileged and honored to realize the work necessary to enhance the quality of life of young men, fathers and their families.
Published: June 11, 2021
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This episode of our podcast series features Southeast PTTC project coordinator Nicole Augustine as we cover the specialist certification process and what prevention specialists need to know to get the credentials they need.
Check out our other podcast episodes:
Ep. 1: Advancing Prevention Science —An Introduction to the Southeast PTTC and Interactive Forum
Ep. 2: Reducing Prevalence of Addiction Begins with Youth Prevention: One Choice for Health
Ep. 3: Prevention in a Changing Marijuana Landscape
Ep. 5: Innovative Strategies for Engaging Underserved Populations
Ep. 6: Youth Opioid Addiction: What Preventionists Need to Know
Ep. 7: Best Practices for Prevention Media Campaigns
Ep. 8: The Benefits of Engaging Youth in Communities: Insights and Evidence from Developmental Science
Ep. 9: The Brain Science of Substance Misuse
Ep. 10: Leveraging a Health Equity Approach to Improve Prevention Efforts
Ep. 11: Community Engagement Strategies —Best Practices for Preventing Substance Misuse at the Grassroots Level
Ep. 12: TTC+ORN Collaborative Brown Bag Webinar
Ep. 13: Keeping Kids Safe in Schools —Associations between School Safety and Behavioral Health
Ep. 14: Leading From the Head and the Heart —The Pyramid of Success
Ep. 15: Managing the Impact of COVID-19 in Children, Families, and Communities through Prevention Strategies
Published: February 26, 2021
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This program is intended for professionals in HHS Region 1 (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont).
The New England Prevention Technology Transfer Center Fellowship program is an opportunity for professionals who have been in the field of prevention for 5 or more years to work both independently and as part of a collaborative team to develop an innovative piece of research and accompanying tool for the benefit of the workforce at large. This program will support a seven-month term, during which the fellows will each create a tool or product around a central, priority subject area, and at the end of the program, the fellows will present their products to the workforce in a symposium meant to demonstrate how the products should and can be used.
The goal of the program is twofold: First, it supports the advanced development of skills for prevention professionals who have experience in the field so that they can continue to grow professionally. Fellows can expect to be credited with the creation of their product by the New England PTTC, where the products will be housed, and each Fellow may use the product as they see fit within their own career advancement. Second, the program creates new and original research and products which are specific to the New England region to support prevention professionals at all levels of experience. Each fellow will create their own product or tool using their research, and all six fellows will work together to be sure that their products complement one another and can be used in concert.
The program will optimally have one fellow from each of the six New England states and will provide each fellow with a total working stipend of $10,000. The term will begin in May of 2021 and will complete after the symposium, scheduled for November 2021. Each Fellow is expected to attend three collaborative meetings, a technical meeting prior to the symposium, and the symposium itself. Fellows will then remain active alumni of the program after completion of the term and may reapply for future terms of the program if desired.
Ideal candidates for the program have some experience with research and development and will be in contact with another professional who can offer them additional research and development guidance if necessary. Candidates will have the ability to work over the course of several months on the production of a tool or resource and will be able to work with a team on the presentation of the final products. Candidates can apply for the New England Fellowship Program from January 12, 2021, to March 12, 2021.
Learn more and apply at (you'll need a google account to view the form): https://bit.ly/38YysEI
Need more information? Contact us at
[email protected]
Published: December 22, 2020