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COURSE DESCRIPTION Data analysis is the process of working with data to gather useful information, which can then be used to make informed decisions. Part 4 of the Ditching the Discomfort with Data series explores several methods and techniques prevention professionals, and their partners need to perform to determine risks, consequences, and resources within a community. Select the View Resource button above to view the recording for this webinar. The PowerPoint and handout are in the links below. Powerpoint Handout   Begin Your Data Journey and Ditch the Discomfort   Are you curious about what you need to know as a prevention professional to participate in data-based decision-making? Have you been working with a prevention grant that requires you to conduct a needs assessment or an evaluation? If you are relatively new to prevention or new to using data, this series is for you! In this five-part series, Dr. Hayden Center will take you on a data journey, from providing an overview of the basic components of data literacy to then taking a deeper dive in parts two through four to learn more about data collection, data analysis and interpretation, and finally visualizing and communicating data to your partners. During this journey, there will be discussion and practical tips from Dr. Center; who has worked with local community prevention organizations to build capacity around working with data.   PRESENTER Dr. Hayden D. Center, Jr. was most recently on faculty at Auburn University at Montgomery in the Department of Psychology, where he taught for ten years. He has taught at several universities over the past thirty years.  He has also been a licensed professional counselor (LPC) specializing in addiction issues for over 30 years. Dr. Center has worked as a consultant in alcohol, tobacco, and other drug abuse prevention since 1987.  He has worked in the field of prevention for more than 30 years. He served as the director of a US Department of Education (USDOE) grant while at Auburn University.  He served the State of Alabama Department of Education as the coordinator of the state Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program. He was a consultant to the Alabama Governor’s Office of Drug Abuse Policy for ten years and has worked with numerous state and local agencies in the state of Alabama. He served as the evaluator for the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention’s (CSAP) Southeast Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (SECAPT) and the Border Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (BCAPT). He has provided over 300 trainings and workshops on the topics of “science-based prevention,” “evaluation,” “risk and protective factors”, and “sustainability.”  He has worked with numerous agencies and organizations at the national, state, and local levels as an evaluator, including three Drug-Free Community grants.  His experience includes working with several projects to develop data bases, collect and interpret data, and produce data dissemination products and materials. Most recently Dr. Center has conducted training on implementation science, the psychopharmacology of marijuana, opioid use disorder, the opioid epidemic, and prevention of opioid overdose death.  He is also working on the development of a sustainability toolkit that was released in the Fall of 2019.  He and three colleagues presented an overview of the toolkit at the National Prevention Network (NPN) Conference in Chicago in 2019.    

COURSE DESCRIPTION Ditching the Discomfort: Working with Data provides real-life experience on three key tasks that need to be achieved before you can start analyzing data: data collection, data preparation, and data cleaning. Just like when you are baking cookies, you have to get all the right ingredients collected, have your recipe handy, and make sure your baking area is clean before you can begin. Select the View Resource button above to view the recording for this webinar. The PowerPoint and handout are in the links below. PowerPoint Handout   Begin Your Data Journey and Ditch the Discomfort Are you curious about what you need to know as a prevention professional to participate in data-based decision-making? Have you been working with a prevention grant that requires you to conduct a needs assessment or an evaluation? If you are relatively new to prevention or new to using data, this series is for you! In this five-part series, Dr. Hayden Center will take you on a data journey, from providing an overview of the basic components of data literacy to then taking a deeper dive in parts two through four to learn more about data collection, data analysis and interpretation, and finally visualizing and communicating data to your partners. During this journey, there will be discussion and practical tips from Dr. Center; who has worked with local community prevention organizations to build capacity around working with data.   PRESENTER Dr. Hayden D. Center, Jr. was most recently on faculty at Auburn University at Montgomery in the Department of Psychology, where he taught for ten years. He has taught at several universities over the past thirty years.  He has also been a licensed professional counselor (LPC) specializing in addiction issues for over 30 years. Dr. Center has worked as a consultant in alcohol, tobacco, and other drug abuse prevention since 1987.  He has worked in the field of prevention for more than 30 years. He served as the director of a US Department of Education (USDOE) grant while at Auburn University.  He served the State of Alabama Department of Education as the coordinator of the state Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program. He was a consultant to the Alabama Governor’s Office of Drug Abuse Policy for ten years and has worked with numerous state and local agencies in the state of Alabama. He served as the evaluator for the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention’s (CSAP) Southeast Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (SECAPT) and the Border Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (BCAPT). He has provided over 300 trainings and workshops on the topics of “science-based prevention,” “evaluation,” “risk and protective factors”, and “sustainability.”  He has worked with numerous agencies and organizations at the national, state, and local levels as an evaluator, including three Drug-Free Community grants.  His experience includes working with several projects to develop data bases, collect and interpret data, and produce data dissemination products and materials. Most recently Dr. Center has conducted training on implementation science, the psychopharmacology of marijuana, opioid use disorder, the opioid epidemic, and prevention of opioid overdose death.  He is also working on the development of a sustainability toolkit that was released in the Fall of 2019.  He and three colleagues presented an overview of the toolkit at the National Prevention Network (NPN) Conference in Chicago in 2019.    

The Great Lakes Current is the e-newsletter of the Great Lakes ATTC, MHTTC, and PTTC. The May 2022 issue features Mental Health Awareness month, the Counselor's Corner blog series, and a complete calendar of events. 

The Great Lakes Current is the e-newsletter of the Great Lakes ATTC, MHTTC, and PTTC. The April 2022 issue features Alcohol Awareness month, the Counselor's Corner blog series, and a complete calendar of events. 

Introduction to Grant Writing for Prevention Organizations Session 3: Using Data in Grant Applications Dan Webb, PhD February 10, 2022, 1-2:30 PM EST COURSE DESCRIPTION “In God we trust. All others must bring data.” – W. Edwards Deming A successful grant application hinges on your ability to provide data that support your stated needs and intentions. In this session, participants will learn how data should be used to support your grant application and where to find useful data for grant applications in the prevention field. This is the third session of a four-part series that will empower participants to find and appropriately respond to grant opportunities. LEARNING OBJECTIVES Explain how data are commonly used in grant applications Explore how to use state and federal data sources to support your grant applications Review best practices for presenting data in your grant application PRESENTERS Dan Webb, PhD is co-owner of Catalyst Research, LLC and Catalyst Insight, LLC. Dan has over eighteen years of experience writing and evaluating local, state, and national grants. In addition, he has over ten years of experience in business/organizational intelligence and analytics. His experience includes evaluation and research in education (elementary through post-secondary), youth substance use prevention, health and medicine, and housing and urban development. Dan holds a PhD in Sociology from the University at Buffalo.  

Introduction to Grant Writing for Prevention Organizations Session 2: Getting Your Grant Application Started Dan Webb, PhD February 3, 2022, 1-2:30 PM EST COURSE DESCRIPTION A successful grant application requires several foundational pieces that are common across grant opportunities. These elements include a history of the community being served, an assessment of the community’s strengths/needs, and proper writing management to meet length requirements. In this session, participants will learn how to read a grant announcement and create a plan for responding to a request for proposals (RFP). This is the second session of a four-part series that will empower participants to find and appropriately respond to grant opportunities. LEARNING OBJECTIVES Explain how to create a community overview and assessment Review practical approaches to satisfying response requirements within allotted space Explore techniques for making the grant writing process more manageable PRESENTERS Dan Webb, PhD is co-owner of Catalyst Research, LLC and Catalyst Insight, LLC. Dan has over eighteen years of experience writing and evaluating local, state, and national grants. In addition, he has over ten years of experience in business/organizational intelligence and analytics. His experience includes evaluation and research in education (elementary through post-secondary), youth substance use prevention, health and medicine, and housing and urban development. Dan holds a PhD in Sociology from the University at Buffalo.  

Steve Miller joined the Mid-America PTTC in November 2021 assuming the role from Dave Closson, who has ventured into consulting, training and of course podcasting for himself. We wish him all the success and hope to have in back on a future episode here.  Steve has a long history of supporting the efforts of the Drug Endangered Children initiative in Southwest Missouri, which compliments our focus area here at Mid-America. In this episode we'll learn more about his media experience, involvement in the arts and of course his path into the prevention work he has been doing for over a decade now.

Introduction to Grant Writing for Prevention Organizations Session 1: Introduction to Grant Writing Dan Webb, PhD January 27, 2022, 1-2:30 PM EST COURSE DESCRIPTION Grant funding can provide systems-changing resources for agencies small and large. However, applying for a grant can be a time- and resource-intensive process, especially for those with little experience. In this session, participants will learn introductory elements of grant writing, including grant terminology, where to find grant opportunities, and how to read grant announcements. This is the first session of a four-part series that will empower participants to find and appropriately respond to grant opportunities. LEARNING OBJECTIVES Review commonly used grant terminology Discuss how and where to find grant opportunities appropriate for your organization Review how to determine your eligibility for grant opportunities PRESENTERS Dan Webb, PhD is co-owner of Catalyst Research, LLC and Catalyst Insight, LLC. Dan has over eighteen years of experience writing and evaluating local, state, and national grants. In addition, he has over ten years of experience in business/organizational intelligence and analytics. His experience includes evaluation and research in education (elementary through post-secondary), youth substance use prevention, health and medicine, and housing and urban development. Dan holds a PhD in Sociology from the University at Buffalo.  

Developed in conjunction with the virtual learning series A New Call to Action: Enhancing Prevention Efforts to Meet New Challenges, this resource provides an overview of the six principles that comprise prevention’s Code of Ethics. For each principle, we present considerations for applying the code within our current climate and questions you can use to reflect on your own professional behavior. At the end of the resource, we include an action planning tool designed to help you identify areas of your professional ethical practice that may need strengthening in light of these considerations. The virtual trainings and other resources development in support of the material are also available via our website. Click here for A New Call to Action: Enhancing Prevention Efforts to Meet New Challenges Session 1and here Session 2.   Download resource here.

Through the PreventionTechnology Transfer Center (PTTC) Network Coordinating Office (NCO) (FOA award SP-19-001), the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) serves SAMHSA, the 12 individual PTTCs, and the specialized prevention workforce that provides substance use disorder (SUD) services across America. The Network Coordinating Office is a program in residence of the Collaborative to Advance Health Services located at the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s School of Nursing and Health Studies.

  The Great Lakes PTTC offers this training for prevention professionals in HHS Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, and WI. This training is offered in response to a need identified by stakeholders in HHS Region 5.     Logic models provide valuable insight into a program's effectiveness and impact. In this two-part webinar series, speakers will demonstrate how to develop a logic model that describes a program effectively and guides its evaluation. The introductory webinar will provide an overview of logic models and how to create one for a prevention program.   Learning Objectives: Introductory Webinar Identify logic model benefits Define key components of logic models Describe how logic models inform program evaluation   Speaker Kyle Barrington, Ph.D., has over 30 years of experience in substance misuse prevention and treatment. His experiences include being a substance abuse counselor, counseling director for a juvenile prison, director of a dual-diagnosis hospital unit for adults and youth, director of an emergency shelter for runaway and homeless youth, and evaluator for local and statewide organizations. Dr. Barrington has five published, peer-reviewed articles, has been a technical writer for two books, has been quoted in several scholarly articles, and has conducted over 300 program evaluations. Since 2015, he has been the principal investigator on five SAMHSA-funded programs to reduce co-occurring disorders in rural communities. As of March 2021, Dr. Barrington and his team at Zajonc Corporation are actively working with 14 different school districts in six states to help them implement and evaluate the effectiveness of 12 various evidence-based programs and practices.  

         Pacific Southwest PTTC's Catching the Wind: How Substance Misuse Prevention Practitioners Can Engage Traditional Media and Leverage Social Media   Webinar Date: October 20, 2021   Webinar Slides Webinar Slides for Catching the Wind: How Substance Misuse Prevention Practitioners Can Engage Traditional Media and Leverage Social Media   Webinar Support Materials: Fentanyl Poster Example from Live Well San Diego Example Press Release for International Overdose Awareness Day Example of a Graphic Organizer Pamphlet: Meth 101 by the San Diego County Meth Strike Force High Truths Podcast by Dr. Roneet Lev   Overview Your work as a substance misuse prevention practitioner is important and timely. Your data and information are valuable and needed. Your programs are necessary and effective. However, you may have a small budget for outreach. The traditional media has undergone a paradigm shift in the past 20 years. Social media has created a second-by-second news cycle. The result is short attention spans and ultra-competitive platforms for eyes and ears. So, what do we do to get our stories out there? Join this webinar to learn strategies for enhancing your media visibility!   Objectives By the end of the webinar, participants will: Describe what media advocacy is and is not Identify strategies for establishing, maintaining, and growing your media relationships Identify tools and resources available to enhance media outreach   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 Bernard Gonzales possesses extensive experience in broadcast journalism, public relations, government relations, and education. Currently, he operates a small business, GComm Consulting. He is the Media Specialist consultant for The Center for Community Research(CCR). CCR oversees the San Diego County Meth Strike Force, Prescription Drug Abuse Task Force, and Marijuana Prevention Initiative. Prior to that, he was the Senior Council Aide to Chula Vista City Councilmember, now Mayor, Mary Casillas Salas.         Webinar Recording View Recording of Catching the Wind: How Substance Misuse Prevention Practitioners Can Engage Traditional Media and Leverage Social Media

COURSE DESCRIPTION Coalition member recruitment, retention, and engagement requires intentional efforts to mobilize members to move the community’s prevention work forward. The South Southwest PTTC delivered this two-part workshop on coalition building. During part two, Sarah Davis and guests explore how to structure a coalition that aligns with your community’s capacity to address problems and to actively engage members.  Select the View Resource button above to watch the recording. Below is the PowerPoint for this webinar. PowerPoint Meeting Planning Worksheet   PRESENTER Sarah Davis is the associate director for the Rocky Mountain Public Health Training Center, housed within the Center for Public Health Practice at the Colorado School of Public Health. The Rocky Mountain Public Health Training Center is one of 10 HRSA-designated regional public health training centers. Mrs. Davis leads a team of instructional design, evaluation, and training implementation specialists to provide high-quality, primarily distance-based training to professionals addressing public health issues throughout the Region VIII states of Colorado, Montana, North and South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming. She also supports national workforce development efforts as part of the Public Health Learning Network and through previous collaborations with the Centers for Disease Control, the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors, and the National Network of Public Health Institutes.   Sarah holds a Masters in Nonprofit Management and has spent the past 20 years in the public health field working as a project and team leader, a facilitator and trainer, and a grant writer and manager. Her background includes program planning and implementation, integrating program and policy initiatives, and working with coalitions. Sarah lives in Denver with her husband, high school daughter, and two dogs. In her free time, Sarah is a TRX Trainer and fitness dance instructor, avid reader, fair-weather skier, and craft beer enjoyer.  

July 12, 2021, 1-2:30pm Course Description The Prevention Think Tank Code of Ethics outlines six principles that govern the professional behavior of substance misuse prevention practitioners: Non-Discrimination, Competence, Integrity, Nature of Services, Confidentiality and Ethical Obligations for Community and Society. Ethical considerations underpin every aspect of our work - from how we select which substance misuse-related issues to address, to how we partner with and engage members of our focus communities, and beyond – and the code of ethics expresses the responsibilities we have and values we hold as preventionists to our colleagues, the people we serve and the general public.   This two-part series explores how our prevention priorities and efforts have changed (and will continue to change) amid the challenges brought on by our country’s recent reckoning with racial inequity and its pandemic experience. Part 1 of this series will focus on principles 1 through 3. We discuss the role of the Prevention Code of Ethics as a touchstone for our field, and introduce an approach for critically evaluating its principles to determine how to better align them with current and emerging needs within the prevention landscape. Learning Objectives explore the relationship between the prevention code of ethics and emerging issues in prevention, with focus on principles 1 through 3.  describe how prevention practitioners can use the code of ethics to guide their professional responses to changing cultures and contexts.  develop a personal action plan for enhancing the ethical performance of their professional responsibilities  Presenters Ivy Jones-Turner – Is a training and technical assistance specialist with Education Development Center. For over 20 years, Ivy has provided organizational capacity assistance on health promotion and prevention in substance abuse, suicide, violence, injury, and mental health with nonprofit and community-based organizations, state and faith-based agencies, and school districts. Her capacity building skills include program evaluation, training and technical assistance in program design and implementation, organizational development, partnerships/collaborations, and sustainability. Ms. Jones-Turner is a Certified Prevention Specialist and holds an MPA from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.   Jessica Goldberg - Is a training and technical assistance specialist with Education Development Center. For over a decade, Jess has specialized in building capacity to improve behavioral health at the national, state, regional and local levels. Her areas of expertise include preventing youth substance use; promoting cross-sector collaborations; addressing health disparities; strategic planning, logic model development, and sustainability planning. Jess holds an MSW and MPH from Boston University, and is a Certified Prevention Specialist.  Sandra Del Sesto, M.ED, ACPS – Is a co-author of SAHMSA’s Center for Applied Prevention Technology’s Substance Abuse Prevention Training and many prevention ethicscourses. For over 35 years, she has provided training, community and strategic planning, support program development, and capacity building in all areas of prevention practice. Sandra sits on the board of both the International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium (IC&RC), as well as CODCA, a statewide treatment program specializing in opioid treatment services.     Supplemental Material Session Transcript Session Slides Enhancing Prevention Ethics to Meet New Challenges Handout CAPT Advanced Ethics: Ethics for Policies for Agencies CAPT Advanced Ethics: Ethics for Social Media SAPST Wellness Handout Enhanced National CLASS Standards

July 14, 1-2:30pm Course Description The Prevention Think Tank Code of Ethics outlines six principles that govern the professional behavior of substance misuse prevention practitioners: Non-Discrimination, Competence, Integrity, Nature of Services, Confidentiality and Ethical Obligations for Community and Society. Ethical considerations underpin every aspect of our work - from how we select which substance misuse-related issues to address, to how we partner with and engage members of our focus communities, and beyond – and the code of ethics expresses the responsibilities we have and values we hold as preventionists to our colleagues, the people we serve and the general public.   This two-part series explores how our prevention priorities and efforts have changed (and will continue to change) amid the challenges brought on by our country’s recent reckoning with racial inequity and its pandemic experience. Session 2 focuses on principles 4 through 6. We discuss the role of the Prevention Code of Ethics as a touchstone for our field, and introduce an approach for critically evaluating its principles to determine how to better align them with current and emerging needs within the prevention landscape. Learning Objective explore the relationship between the prevention code of ethics and emerging issues in prevention, with focus on 4 through 6.  describe how prevention practitioners can use the code of ethics to guide their professional responses to changing cultures and contexts.  develop a personal action plan for enhancing the ethical performance of their professional responsibilities  Presenters Ivy Jones-Turner – Is a training and technical assistance specialist with Education Development Center. For over 20 years, Ivy has provided organizational capacity assistance on health promotion and prevention in substance abuse, suicide, violence, injury, and mental health with nonprofit and community-based organizations, state and faith-based agencies, and school districts. Her capacity building skills include program evaluation, training and technical assistance in program design and implementation, organizational development, partnerships/collaborations, and sustainability. Ms. Jones-Turner is a Certified Prevention Specialist and holds an MPA from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.   Jessica Goldberg - Is a training and technical assistance specialist with Education Development Center. For over a decade, Jess has specialized in building capacity to improve behavioral health at the national, state, regional and local levels. Her areas of expertise include preventing youth substance use; promoting cross-sector collaborations; addressing health disparities; strategic planning, logic model development, and sustainability planning. Jess holds an MSW and MPH from Boston University, and is a Certified Prevention Specialist.  Sandra Del Sesto, M.ED, ACPS – Is a co-author of SAHMSA’s Center for Applied Prevention Technology’s Substance Abuse Prevention Training and many prevention ethicscourses. For over 35 years, she has provided training, community and strategic planning, support program development, and capacity building in all areas of prevention practice. Sandra sits on the board of both the International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium (IC&RC), as well as CODCA, a statewide treatment program specializing in opioid treatment services.   Supplemental Materials Session Transcript Session Slides Enhancing Prevention Ethics to Meet New Challenges Handout CAPT Advanced Ethics: Ethics for Policies for Agencies CAPT Advanced Ethics: Ethics for Social Media SAPST Wellness Handout Enhanced National CLASS Standards

COURSE DESCRIPTION This learning lab discusses the rationale for writing a communications plan after administration and analysis of the Caring Communities Youth Survey (CCYS). With a special focus placed on how to design the communications plan so that it can be used to educate stakeholders on the importance and use of the data from the CCYS. Select the View Resource button above to watch the recording. Below are the materials for the webinar. PowerPoint Handout 1 Communications Template Handout 2 Ensuring Data Accuracy Handout 3 Infographics Handout 4 Wilder Reporting Research Findings Handout 5 Infographic Tower Survey Outreach and FAQ Example Handout 6 Infographic Poverty and Substance Use Handout 7 Communication Plan Sample Handout 8 Jeopardy Questions and Answers   PRESENTERS   Melissa Adolfson, MS, has over a decade of research and evaluation experience. She has worked on projects addressing substance use, mental health, suicide, juvenile justice, maternal and child health, and adverse childhood experiences.   Dr. Kristin Dillon has provided leadership on several statewide demonstration projects in the areas of substance abuse prevention and recovery. She also leads assessments and evaluations of the adult mental health system in Minnesota and beyond to identify opportunities for strengthening services and supports for individuals with serious mental illness.           

COURSE DESCRIPTION This webinar focuses on increasing response rates for the Louisiana's Communities that Care Youth Survey and why its completion by students is important to the state of Louisiana. A particular focus is on presenting strategies for increasing the survey's response rate with students in charter, public, and faith-based schools. This training presents strategies on how to articulate the survey's use by stakeholders in their own organizations and use data with low-response rates.   Select the View Resource button above to watch the recording. Below are the materials for the webinar. PowerPoint Response Rates Handout Innovative Dissemination Approaches Handout   PRESENTERS   Melissa Adolfson, MS, has over a decade of research and evaluation experience. She has worked on projects addressing substance use, mental health, suicide, juvenile justice, maternal and child health, and adverse childhood experiences.           Dr. Kristin Dillon has provided leadership on several statewide demonstration projects in the areas of substance abuse prevention and recovery. She also leads assessments and evaluations of the adult mental health system in Minnesota and beyond to identify opportunities for strengthening services and supports for individuals with serious mental illness.         

  Ripple Effects Mapping   Webinar Date: May 12, 2021   Webinar Description Identifying the impacts of complex community work is often challenging due to the time lag between the work and the ultimate affects to the clients. Ripple Effects Mapping gives you the ability to tell your stories of the direct and indirect impacts of your work, while simultaneously being engaging and fun. It starts with appreciative inquiry interviews in small group settings, before leading a mapping process that involves storytelling in an online group setting. As participants share their experiences with the facilitator, their stories about the accomplishments, partnerships, and contributions are virtually mapped on the screen. At the conclusion, the participants will have a digital map that contains the learning, actions, and condition changes that happened as a result of a program, workshop series, or event.   Objectives Introduce members to the benefits of using Ripple Effects Mapping to identify the intended and unintended outcomes. Demonstrate how it captures impacts of complex or evolving work. Show how it is useful when outcomes are difficult to conceptualize & measure with other methods.   Presenters Debra Hansen M.Ed., is a professor and county Extension Director with Washington State University, focusing on community and economic development in rural Stevens County. Debra was one of the original architects of Ripple Effects Mapping, developed in 2008 to discover poverty reduction outcomes in individual communities that participated in the Washington’s Horizons Program. She continues to map programs and train others to use this engaging tool. Hansen has a master’s degree in Adult Education from Penn State.         Rebecca Sero, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Evaluation Specialist for Washington State University Extension, responsible for increasing the organization’s capacity to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of its programs and services. Rebecca helps conduct and train on “in-depth” Ripple Effects Mapping and is most often engaged with determining how to best analyze the rich data that is produced from REM evaluations. Sero has a Ph.D. from Purdue University and a M.S. from Miami University.       Webinar Recording View Webinar   Webinar Slides Download Slides - Ripple Effects Mapping   Other Resources Ripple Effects Mapping: Peninsula Food Coalition (YouTube Video) Ripple Effects Mapping Simplified Steps Ripple Effects Mapping - Resources  

In this Issue: Trauma-Informed Care Principles and Self-Care for Prevention Professionals Additional Resources on Trauma-Informed Care and Self-Care What's Happening Around the Region? Session Three of the Five-Session Webinar Series on Trauma, May 27, 1:30 CT New Online Courses: Ethics in Prevention Foundations: A Guide for Substance Misuse Prevention Practitioners Epi Corner: The Impact of History on the Experience of Contemporary Trauma

Assessing and Sharpening Advanced Skills:  A Tool for Prevention Workforce Assessment Accurate and consistent workforce capacity assessment is critical to the success of prevention systems. This toolkit measures the skills expected of advanced prevention practitioners using a behaviorally-based and fully operationalized rating scale. The toolkit can be used to identify the gaps in workforce capacity that are barriers to achieving desired prevention outcomes. It aims to empower prevention system leadership to better target training and technical assistance offerings and to fine-tune the types and amount of guidance and feedback provided to the field. Workforce Assessment Toolkit Technical Assistance Request Substance use and misuse prevention organizations located in the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas are eligible to receive intensive virtual technical assistance (TA) on how to utilize the Advanced Prevention Workforce Assessment Toolkit from a South Southwest PTTC associate. Please follow the link below to complete the TA request form. A South Southwest PTTC staff member will respond to your request within 10 business days. TA Request Form

Register and participate in this FREE self-paced course on Cannabis Policies: Cannabis laws and policies are rapidly changing in states. Various decriminalization, medical marijuana, and adult-use marijuana policies are being debated and moving through state legislatures and ballot boxes. Amid all of this change, where does prevention fit in? This course shows participants how these policies can evolve, the implications for public health and safety, and how and where prevention fits in. Participants will learn from a presenter with hands-on experience both in prevention and shaping marijuana policies. Additionally, participants will learn about the marijuana prevention training and technical assistance services from the New England PTTC. Learning Objectives: Participants will learn about the current state of marijuana policies across the six New England States Participants will learn about the importance of public policy that is data driven and informed by public health and prevention science. Participants will learn about the importance of training community sectors in marijuana science and how it can be a powerful environmental strategy for prevention. Note: This New England PTTC self-paced course is hosted on the PTTC Network online learning platform Healtheknowledge.org. You will need to create a free Healtheknowledge.org account to register and participate in the course. After you have created your free account you will be able to register and participate in this free, self-paced course. You will then also be set up to access in participate in all future New England PTTC self-paced courses and webinars.

  Watch the recording of the virtual Southeast Regional Summit on Prevention and Equity to hear from peers, prevention & public health professionals, researchers, and government officials. This summit was developed in response to a need identified in Region 4 to provide professionals in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee the opportunity to examine the implications and challenges of advancing both equity and substance misuse prevention and share best practices and lessons learned. The summit featured panelists and presenters with expertise in Appalachian and rural communities, Native American, LGBTQ and African American communities.    Supplemental Resources: Setting the Stage for an Equity Focus: 5 Step Leadership Checklist - Downloadable Presentation Southeast Regional Summit on Prevention and Equity - Presentation Slides Go here to read Presenter Biosketches Special Thanks to our Collaborating Partners! Drug Free America Foundation Georgia School of Addiction Studies Kentucky Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental & Intellectual Disabilities Mississippi Department of Mental Health South Carolina Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services Tennessee Coalition for Healthy & Safe Campus Communities Tennessee Certification Board

  Link to view the recorded webinar (recorded on February 16, 2021). No continuing education is available.    There are many destabilizing aspects of social adaptation in the United States for Latinos including discovering their career path.   Prevention is not a very well known field in the Hispanic/Latino community although many protective factors used in prevention are inherent to the Latino family.  The journey toward building the Latinx Prevention Workforce must pay careful attention to issues of ethnic and cultural sensitivity and overall cultural competence. We know that culture and language pose significant barriers to providing the appropriate workforce for some populations.   This webinar will examine the challenges and opportunities to build a Latinx prevention workforce.   Learning Objectives: Identify the Latinx Community Understand Language as a barrier and as a benefit Discuss workforce Issues affecting Latinx individuals Define workforce challenges and barriers Provide Actionable Solutions   About the Presenter: Pierluigi Mancini, PhD, MAC is the Project Director for the National Hispanic and Latino Addiction Technology Transfer Center and the National Hispanic and Latino Prevention Technology Transfer Center. Both SAMHSA funded centers are housed at the National Latino Behavioral Health Association (www.NLBHA.org) located in New Mexico. With over 30 years of experience in culturally and linguistically appropriate behavioral health treatment and prevention, Dr. Mancini is one of the most sought after national and international consultants and speakers on mental health and addiction, his areas of expertise is immigrant behavioral health and health disparities. Dr. Mancini founded Georgia’s first Latino behavioral health program in 1999 to serve the immigrant population by providing cultural and linguistically appropriate prevention, intervention and clinical services in English, Spanish and Portuguese.   El Dr. Pierluigi Mancini, PhD, MAC es el Director del Centro Hispano Latino de Capacitación y Asistencia Técnica en Adicción (NHL-ATTC) y del Centro Hispano Latino de Capacitación y Asistencia Técnica en Prevención (NHL-PTTC). Ambos centros financiados por la agencia federal SAMHSA son parte de La Asociación Nacional Latina de Salud Mental y Adicciones (NLBHA por sus siglas en inglés www.NLBHA.org) ubicada en Nuevo México. Con más de 30 años de experiencia en el campo de tratamiento y prevención de la adicción y la salud mental con sensibilidad cultural y lingüísticamente apropiadas, el Doctor Mancini es uno de los consultores y oradores nacionales e internacionales más solicitados. Sus áreas de especialización son la salud mental del inmigrante y las disparidades de salud. El Doctor Mancini fundó el primer programa de salud mental y adicciones para latinos en el estado de Georgia en el año 1999 para brindar servicios de prevención, intervención y servicios clínicos en inglés, español y portugués.

This onboarding toolkit, created by the New England PTTC in partnership with the Maine Prevention Workforce Development Workgroup, aims to meet the universal developmental training needs of the substance misuse prevention workforce in Maine. While this is not a comprehensive document, it provides a strong overview of the field for new substance misuse prevention professionals in Maine to assist them in getting through the orientation phase and into the work of prevention more quickly and with a shared perspective throughout the state. This resource is not specific to any one funding source or program. This resource can be used by those working under Drug Free Community Grants, Maine Prevention Services, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as other substance misuse prevention-focused organizations, to support new preventionists as they enter the field. Specific substance use prevention initiatives likely have their own onboarding process and tools that are program-specific, and this resource is offered to supplement these program-specific trainings and give a scope of the prevention field statewide. This resource may also be helpful to prevention specialists who are the only person within their organization with a focus on prevention.    This toolkit is a living document that will change as the field of substance use prevention changes within the state, regionally, and nationally. The most current document can be found at the New England PTTC website. This document is interactive in that almost every graphic is clickable to bring you to an in-depth and reliable resource to learn more about the discussed topic. Many underlined words are links to help break complex topics down into more details, as well. These links will be updated as this document is updated if more timely research or data becomes available.    This resource is intended for Maine professionals in HHS Region 1.