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Date: March 4, 2021 Description:  Determining how to maintain your effective prevention efforts and positive outcomes are critical activities for substance misuse prevention professionals. But, it is not always clear what should be sustained and it can be even more challenging to figure out how to go about doing it.  Research on sustainability has identified securing resources, implementing effective processes, and building organizational and community capacity as necessary conditions for affecting positive and lasting community change. And, meaningful engagement of a variety of partners, through strategic relationship building that includes efforts beyond the ‘usual suspects’, is the connective tissue enabling us to carry out our work in increasingly equitable and sustainable ways.  This two-part, virtual learning series will provide practitioners with an approach for sustainability that includes focusing on maintaining positive outcomes, effective processes and interventions that work. Webinar Features: Part 1 -  This webinar reviews a sustainability model for prevention that focuses on sustaining positive outcomes, effective processes and successful interventions. We describe methods of identifying partner engagement strategies in support of sustainability planning, and look at understanding the role of partnerships in sustaining prevention efforts. 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. Supplemental Materials: Session Slides Transcript

Capacity Building and Planning – SPF    Dates  Part 1 (Capacity Building): May 21, 2019  Part 2 (Planning): May 28, 2019    Description  Capacity building and planning are important steps in the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF). This two-part webinar covers each step in detail and provides information on how to successfully implement these steps.    Key Webinar Features  Part 1 highlights opportunities and strategies for strengthening local-level capacity to participate in prevention efforts by increasing the buy-in and support of a diverse range of community stakeholders.  Part 2 prepares participants to develop a comprehensive strategic plan to address identified needs with meaningful involvement from the cultural groups that will be served by our efforts.    Presenters  Jessica Goldberg – is a training and technical assistance specialist with nearly a decade of supporting prevention efforts at the national, state, regional and local levels, as well as an accomplished designer and deliverer of in-person and virtual trainings that address topics ranging from collaboration across health sectors to identifying and addressing health disparities. Her past experience includes serving as a community health specialist with the Massachusetts state technical assistance system, supporting communities in needs assessment, strategic planning and creating logic models to guide change efforts, and then with the Center for the Application for Prevention Technologies or CAPT, and now with the PTTC, where she works closely with states and community coalitions to adopt and apply data-driven prevention planning processes and implement evidence-based and promising prevention practices.  Shai Fuxman, EdD – is a senior research scientist at EDC. Shai has extensive experience in social and emotional learning, youth development, school-based trauma-informed care, and substance misuse prevention. He also has expertise in program evaluation, cultural competence, and quantitative and qualitative research. Shai holds an M.Ed. and Ed.D. in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard University.   Part 1:   Part 2:   Supplemental Materials: Transcript Part 1 Transcript Part 2 Session Slides Part 1 Session Slides Part 2  

Needs Assessment Parts 1 & 2    Dates  Part 1: February 19, 2020  Part 2: February 26, 2020    Description  Conducting a needs assessment is a crucial element of the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) and an integral part of a successful prevention planning process. This two-part webinar series explores Community Needs Assessments in the context of prevention planning, discuss challenges inherent to conducting a community assessment, and strategies for maximizing impact.    Key Webinar Features  Part 1 explores strategies for determining which substance use problems and related behaviors are having the greatest impact on a community, including how to find and use data to identify those risk and protective factors that may be influencing or contributing to these problems, and how to ensure that the data you collect reflects diverse cultural perspectives.  Part 2 explores the value of assessing community capacity to assure a good fit between potential strategies and local conditions and how to use tools such as geo-spatial mapping to share your assessment findings.    Presenters  Jessica Goldberg – is a training and technical assistance specialist with nearly a decade of supporting prevention efforts at the national, state, regional and local levels, as well as an accomplished designer and deliverer of in-person and virtual trainings that address topics ranging from collaboration across health sectors to identifying and addressing health disparities. Her past experience includes serving as a community health specialist with the Massachusetts state technical assistance system, supporting communities in needs assessment, strategic planning and creating logic models to guide change efforts, and then with the Center for the Application for Prevention Technologies or CAPT, and now with the PTTC, where she works closely with states and community coalitions to adopt and apply data-driven prevention planning processes and implement evidence-based and promising prevention practices.  Shai Fuxman, EdD – is a senior research scientist at EDC. Shai has extensive experience in social and emotional learning, youth development, school-based trauma-informed care, and substance misuse prevention. He also has expertise in program evaluation, cultural competence, and quantitative and qualitative research. Shai holds an M.Ed. and Ed.D. in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard University.  Cory Morton – is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at the University of New Hampshire. His research investigates the community context of substance use—whether structural features of neighborhoods, such as access to substance use services lessen substance related harms. Cory’s role on the PTTC is to coordinate the special focus on geospatial applications, providing webinars and technical assistance on using mapping to determine community need or to evidence change.   Part 1:   Part 2:   Supplemental Materials: Transcript Part 1 Transcript Part 2 Session Slides Part 1 Session Slides Part 2

Adaptation in Substance Misuse Prevention: Improving Effectiveness and Achieving Better Outcomes: Peer Sharing Call    Date  November 9, 2020    Description  Adaptation is often an inevitable factor in implementing a prevention program. This peer sharing call further discusses adaptation and its crucial role in effective prevention and how adaptations can help overcome unforeseen challenges, like those introduced by COVID-19.    Key Discussion Points  Define key adaptation-related concepts  List steps in the process of implementing “best fit” adaptations  Examine real world examples of adaptations to distill elements of success  Identify considerations for adapting interventions in response to changing community contexts  Share experiences, pose questions, and discuss challenges relating to adaptation    Presenters  Ivy Jones-Turner, MPA - 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 grant management. 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. Jess, a certified prevention specialist and highly skilled trainer, designs and delivers impactful learning events, consultation, and coaching support. For over a decade, she has specialized in building capacity to improve behavioral health at the national, state, regional and local levels. She brings a deep commitment to health equity and mental health equity to her leadership of in-person and virtual training and technical assistance (TTA). Her areas of expertise include preventing youth substance use; promoting cross-sector collaborations; addressing health disparities; and supporting needs assessment, strategic planning, logic model development, and sustainability planning. Jess holds an MSW and MPH from Boston University.  Samantha Harries – Is currently the Director of Operations at the New Jersey Prevention Network, a public health agency working to create healthier communities by reducing the burden of substance abuse, addiction and other chronic disease. Previously the director of a County based prevention agency, she has been in the field of prevention for over 20 years and deeply involved with evidence-based programming at the local community, regional and statewide level     Supplemental Materials: Session Slides Transcript

Adaptation in Substance Misuse Prevention: Improving Effectiveness and Achieving Better Outcomes: Webinar  Date  November 2, 2020    Description  Adaptation is often an inevitable factor in implementing a prevention program. This webinar introduces adaptation and its crucial role in effective prevention and how adaptations can help overcome unforeseen challenges, like those introduced by COVID-19.    Key Discussion Points  Define key adaptation-related concepts  List steps in the process of implementing “best fit” adaptations  Examine real world examples of adaptations to distill elements of success  Identify considerations for adapting interventions in response to changing community contexts    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 grant management. 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. Jess, a certified prevention specialist and highly skilled trainer, designs and delivers impactful learning events, consultation, and coaching support. For over a decade, she has specialized in building capacity to improve behavioral health at the national, state, regional and local levels. She brings a deep commitment to health equity and mental health equity to her leadership of in-person and virtual training and technical assistance (TTA). Her areas of expertise include preventing youth substance use; promoting cross-sector collaborations; addressing health disparities; and supporting needs assessment, strategic planning, logic model development, and sustainability planning. Jess holds an MSW and MPH from Boston University.  Kim Dash – Kim Dash is a senior research scientist with Education Development Center. Kim develops, evaluates, and promotes the use of evidence-informed public health interventions. An expert in evaluation, she uses qualitative and quantitative methods to assess public health program and policy implementation and effectiveness. She specializes in evaluation capacity building and directed a national initiative that helped 500 community-based organizations design and evaluate innovative prevention programs for underserved populations. Kim holds an MPH from the University of North Carolina and a PhD in Child, Youth, and Family Policy from Brandeis University.      Supplemental Materials  Handout 1: Continuum of Adaptation and Fidelity  Handout 2: Finding the “Best Fit” Adaptations  Handout 3: Adaptation Planning Form Session Slides Session Transcript Webinar Flyer

  Resource Summary: The Northeast & Caribbean PTTC developed this User Guide for substance misuse prevention professionals working in agencies and coalitions as a set of practical tools to support the implementation of three foundational environmental prevention strategies—policy, enforcement, and media. Working together, these strategies have been shown to be effective in reducing substance misuse by changing the conditions of a community—that it, by creating an environment that makes it easier for individuals to make healthy lifestyle choices. Because effective implementation begins with planning, this resource contains a collection of worksheets, brainstorming questions, and checklists practitioners can use to guide their planning efforts.   Click here to download resource

Resource Summary: This resource was developed for prevention practitioners and community coalition members by the Northeast and Caribbean Prevention Technology Transfer Center to accompany the webinar series Addressing Emerging Prevention Priorities with a Health Equity Lens. This worksheet will help prevention practitioners cultivate a broader way to assess the experiences and characteristics of potential partners that will build coalition capacity to meet the needs of populations most at risk.   Click here to download resource

Resource Summary: This tip sheet, designed for prevention practitioners and coalition members, reviews key strategies and questions that can be used to learn about and develop a meaningful relationship and practical and important roles for individuals or organizations to recruit as potential coalition members or partners. This resource was developed for prevention practitioners and community coalition members by the Northeast and Caribbean Prevention Technology Transfer Center to accompany the webinar series Addressing Emerging Prevention Priorities with a Health Equity Lens.   Click here to download resource

Resource Summary: This worksheet was developed for prevention practitioners and community coalition members by the Northeast and Caribbean Prevention Technology Transfer Center to accompany the webinar series Addressing Emerging Prevention Priorities with a Health Equity Lens. This worksheet is designed to help prevention staff to effectively assess their strategies to engage community partners, as well as to develop a plan for increasing community engagement, in a way that will help the coalition increase their reach and impact on substance use by beginning with a focus on health equity. Click here to download resource

Resource Summary: This worksheet was developed for prevention practitioners and community coalition members by the Northeast and Caribbean Prevention Technology Transfer Center to accompany the webinar series Addressing Emerging Prevention Priorities with a Health Equity Lens. This resource includes survey questions which prevention practitioners can use to solicit member feedback on their experiences and how well coalition processes and procedures create a culturally welcoming, engaging, and responsive environment for members to work together.   Click here to download resource

Addressing Emerging Prevention Issues: Building Strategic Partnerships to Improve Health Equity: Peer Sharing  Date  August 13, 2020    Description  An integral part of prevention work is ensuring behavioral health equity, meaning that all members of a community have access to the same opportunities. Engaging partners who have relationships with under-represented groups is key to understanding and addressing prevention needs of these marginalized groups and therefore promoting health equity. This peer sharing call explores how to cultivate and sustain strategic partnerships and the overall role of partnership development in health equity.    Key Webinar Features   Participants will have the opportunity to share challenges and strategies for retaining diverse partners and building partner capacity to address emerging issues with a health equity approach.    Presenters  Ivy Jones Turner - 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 grant management. Ms. Jones Turner is a Certified Prevention Specialist and holds an MPA from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.  Debra Morris – Debra Gardner Morris, an expert in advanced training and technical assistance, is a lead training and technical assistance specialist for Prevention Solutions@EDC. She brings extensive experience in evidence-based prevention strategies, effective methods to address health promotion through an equity lens, school-based prevention, management of large national public health centers, and systems change. Nationwide, she provides coaching to engage and mobilize communities to implement environmental prevention strategies. Morris holds an MPH from Emory University focused on Behavioral Sciences and Health Education. She is a Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES).      Supplemental Materials  Tips for Ensuring a Culturally Competent Collaboration? Worksheet: Taking a Health Equity Approach to Identifying New Partners? Are Members Satisfied? Tips for Successful Recruitment?  Worksheet: Analyzing Existing Partnerships through a Health Equity Lens? Session Slides Session Transcript Webinar Flyer

Resource Summary: This tip sheet is designed to help prevention practitioners incorporate culturally competent practices, policies, and strategies that increase the effectiveness of their coalition’s interventions and collaborative efforts. This resource was developed for prevention practitioners and community coalition members by the Northeast and Caribbean Prevention Technology Transfer Center to accompany the webinar series Addressing Emerging Prevention Priorities with a Health Equity Lens. Click here to download resource

Understanding the Role of Policy in Preventing Substance Misuse Webinar  Dates  Part 1: September 19, 2019  Part 2: September 26, 2019  Description  Policy strategies can produce widespread adoption of behaviors and attitudes that promote health and reduce substance misuse. Yet, policy is one of the prevention strategies least utilized in the field. This two-part webinar series will help you get past barriers and misconceptions relative to policy by presenting clear steps for selecting and implementing policies that produce lasting change.  Key Webinar Features  Part 1 will examine specific policies to prevent youth alcohol use and prescription drug misuse.  Part 2 will examine policies to prevent youth tobacco and marijuana use, with a focus on preventing vaping.  Outline a process for identifying and enhancing the community conditions that promote policy adoption  Review best practices for supporting policy implementation.  Presenters  Tracy Desovich, MPH, CPS - Tracy has over 25 years of experience in substance abuse prevention and public health. Her experience includes developing, implementing, and evaluating prevention services for students at the University of Connecticut and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her expertise includes community health assessment, planning, organizing and evaluation, leadership development, utilizing data to mobilize change, social norms marketing and healthy communities’ principles.  Ivy Jones-Turner, MPA - 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 grant management. Ms. Jones Turner is a Certified Prevention Specialist and holds an MPA from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.  Noreen Burke, MPP - Noreen M. Burke is a training and technical assistance specialist in substance misuse prevention with EDC and has extensive local public health and human rights leadership experience in strategic planning, budgeting, grant writing, project management, program operations, program and product development, event organizing, advocacy, and community education. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from Tufts University.  Part 1 Sept 19 2019: Part 2 9 26 2019: Supplemental Materials  Knowing what Policies are in Place  Surveying the Landscape Session Slides Part 1 Session Slides Part 2 Session Transcript Part 1 Session Transcript Part 2 Webinar Flyer

Date  May 22, 2020    Description  Data collection is an integral part of identifying patterns of substance misuse in communities and informing prevention priorities. In this peer sharing session our experts work directly with prevention fieldworkers to identify and address challenges with data collection and provide more in-depth information on how to use GIS for prevention purposes.    Key Features  Workshop data-related challenges to identifying emerging prevention priorities  Explore ways to use geographic information systems (GIS) to organize data and reveal local substance use “hotspots”  Ask experts to address common challenges to collecting data and using GIS    Presenters  Cory Morton – Cory is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at the University of New Hampshire. His research investigates the community context of substance use—whether structural features of neighborhoods, such as access to substance use services lessen substance related harms. Cory’s role on the PTTC is to coordinate the special focus on geospatial applications, providing webinars and technical assistance on using mapping to determine community need or to evidence change.  Clare Neary – Clare is with the Rutgers University School of Social Work Center for Prevention Science and is the current project coordinator for the Northeast and Caribbean Prevention Technology Transfer Center. She has worked in the substance misuse prevention field for close to a decade, with a special focus on outcomes-based prevention and environmental strategies. Her work in the field of prevention includes focus on public health models include the Strategic Prevention Framework, coalition building, prevention training and technical assistance, and program evaluation.  Kristen Gilmore Powell - Dr. Powell is an Assistant Research Professor with the Rutgers University School of Social Work and Associate Director of the Center for Prevention Science. She is also the Director of the Northeast and Caribbean Prevention Technology Transfer Center. Dr. Powell earned her Ph.D. from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, School of Social Work, in 2013. She has been conducting research and evaluation on topics relevant to prevention science, environmental strategies, empowerment theory, sustainability, and health disparities for more than 12 years. Dr. Powell currently serves as Principal Investigator and Investigator on multiple externally funded research projects. Much of this work focuses on how individual and environmental strategies can prevent the harmful consequences of substance misuse and abuse, particularly in communities identified with high need and existing health disparities.  Carol Oliver - Carol is the director of Prevention Solutions at EDC, a training and resource hub that is strengthening the substance misuse prevention workforce in communities across the United States. Drawing on her experience leading large-scale initiatives, she heads up a multidisciplinary team providing award-winning online courses and customized consultation focused on topics such as reducing health disparities, strategic planning, program design, sustainability, and evaluation.     Supplemental Materials Session slides Session transcript

Date May 18, 2020   Description  Data collection is an integral part of identifying patterns of substance misuse in communities and informing prevention priorities. This webinar explores tools and strategies for collecting community level data and includes information on the benefits of implementing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as a tool for visually depicting “hot spots” to inform prevention activities and stakeholder engagement.    Key Topics  Explore tools and strategies for data collection and identification  Using GIS technology for data collection   Presenters Ivy Jones Turner - 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 grant management.  Ms. Jones Turner is a Certified Prevention Specialist and holds an MPA from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Cory Morton – Cory is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at the University of New Hampshire. His research investigates the community context of substance use—whether structural features of neighborhoods, such as access to substance use services lessen substance related harms. Cory’s role on the PTTC is to coordinate the special focus on geospatial applications, providing webinars and technical assistance on using mapping to determine community need or to evidence change. Clare Neary – Clare is with the Rutgers University School of Social Work Center for Prevention Science and is the current project coordinator for the Northeast and Caribbean Prevention Technology Transfer Center.  She has worked in the substance misuse prevention field for close to a decade, with a special focus on outcomes-based prevention and environmental strategies. Her work in the field of prevention includes focus on public health models include the Strategic Prevention Framework, coalition building, prevention training and technical assistance, and program evaluation.     Supplemental Materials Session slides Session transcript

May 1, 2020    Description  Maintaining social interactions and relationships are essential for youth and young adults’ mental health and resiliency during COVID-19 quarantine. This online event provides prevention practitioners with an opportunity to discuss and share strategies for how to effectively promote youth engagement and wellness in a virtual setting. The event concludes with suggestions for how prevention staff can improve self-care and wellness during remote work.    Key Discussion Questions  What strategies are you using to engage youth?  What prevention activities are you using to promote wellness?  How can interventions such as social media campaigns support wellness?  How can prevention staff practice wellness for ourselves?    Presenters  Jessica Goldberg - Jess is a training and technical assistance specialist with nearly a decade of supporting prevention efforts at the national, state, regional and local levels, as well as an accomplished designer and deliverer of in-person and virtual trainings that address topics ranging from collaboration across health sectors to identifying and addressing health disparities. Her past experience includes serving as a community health specialist with the Massachusetts state technical assistance system, supporting communities in needs assessment, strategic planning and creating logic models to guide change efforts, and then with the Center for the Application for Prevention Technologies or CAPT, and now with the PTTC, where she works closely with states and community coalitions to adopt and apply data-driven prevention planning processes and implement evidence-based and promising prevention practices  Ivy Jones Turner - 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 grant management. Ms. Jones Turner is a Certified Prevention Specialist and holds an MPA from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.          Supplemental Materials Presentation Slides Summary Notes: Promoting Youth Engagement & Connectedness in a COVID-19 World  Promoting Youth Engagement & Connectedness in a COVID-19 World Selected Resource List Session Transcript */ /*-->*/ /*-->*/ /*-->*/ /*-->*/ /*-->*/ /*-->*/ /*-->*/ /*-->

Date  April 1, 2020    Description  Understanding and evaluating past prevention efforts is integral to ensuring the success of future prevention. This webinar explores how to apply insights from past prevention efforts to current and emerging substance use trends. Co-presenters share real world experiences regarding addressing substance misuse and explore strategies for applying successful prevention practices to other urgent prevention areas within the community.    Key Webinar Features  Participants have an opportunity to pose questions, discuss challenges, and connect with other prevention professionals.    Presenters  Jessica Goldberg MWS, MPH, CPS - Jess is a training and technical assistance specialist with the Education Development Center (EDC).  Ivy Jones Turner MPA, CPS - Ms. Jones Turner is a training and technical assistance specialist with the Education Development Center (EDC).  Katiana Perez – Katiana serves as the Executive Director for the Alliance for a Drug Free Puerto Rico.  Alyssa Evans, LMHC – Alyssa serves as a Student Assistance Counselor (SAC) for Columbia High School/Goff Middle School under Rensselaer County Mental Health.  Kim Favro, MA – Kim is a Student Assistance Counselor (SAC) for Averill Park High School through Rensselaer County Mental Health.     Supplemental Materials: Session slides Session transcript

Evaluation is one area where it often makes sense to bring in outside expertise. It will save you considerable time and effort, as well as increase your probability of success. In fact, the assistance of an evaluator attuned to and practiced in the art and science of theory-based evaluation is often the key to getting evaluation results that are useful and credible. This toolkit is designed to help you select an evaluator whose skills match your programmatic needs—assuming, of course, that you don’t already have an evaluator on staff.

March 27, 2020   About the Presentation: Closures resulting from COVID-19 have created a need for adaptation and innovation among the prevention workforce. Quickly shifting your entire practice to a virtual setting is not a simple task, and this online event provides an opportunity for prevention workers to share insights and suggestions regarding how to continue delivering effective and engaging prevention efforts to stakeholders, community members, and youth. Webinar participants also acknowledge and address challenges inherent to remote interactions and highlight topics of interest for prevention workers during the COVID-19 crisis.     Key Discussion Questions:  What prevention activities can and should continue under the current circumstances?  How can you use social media to get your prevention messages out?  What are best practices for working in the virtual space?  What innovative steps are you taking to move your prevention work online?    Presenters:  Jessica Goldberg - is a training and technical assistance specialist with nearly a decade of supporting prevention efforts at the national, state, regional and local levels, as well as an accomplished designer and deliverer of in-person and virtual trainings that address topics ranging from collaboration across health sectors to identifying and addressing health disparities. Her past experience includes serving as a community health specialist with the Massachusetts state technical assistance system, supporting communities in needs assessment, strategic planning and creating logic models to guide change efforts, and then with the Center for the Application for Prevention Technologies or CAPT.  Ivy Jones Turner - 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 grant management. Ms. Jones Turner is a Certified Prevention Specialist and holds an MPA from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.   Resources: Summary notes Presentation slides Session transcript

Date  March 25, 2020    Description  Understanding and evaluating past prevention efforts is integral to ensuring the success of future prevention. This webinar explores how to apply insights from past prevention efforts to current and emerging substance use trends. The webinar examines how to use current and emerging substance use trends to locate data sources, identify an approach to preventing misuse, and effectively implement prevention strategies in priority areas.    Key Webinar Features  · Participants will have an opportunity to pose questions, discuss challenges, and connect with other prevention professionals.    Presenters  Diane Litterer - Diane Litterer, MPA, CPS, has been in the field of public health for over 30 years addressing substance misuse and addiction. Diane has worked on local and state level efforts to increase smoke free environments and reduce tobacco use in NJ for over 20 years. NJPN has mobilized advocates including youth leaders and prevention coalitions across the state to educate policy makers on issues that impact the health of our youth and adults. New Jersey was an early adopter of the New Jersey Smokefree Air Act of 2006, which now includes e-cigarettes and was the 3rd state to pass Tobacco 21 in 2017 and most recently, was the first in the country to have all parks and beaches be smoke free in 2018. The Tobacco Free for a Healthy NJ Initiatives is now New Jersey’s comprehensive tobacco control program which is led by NJPN on behalf of the NJ Department of Health. This project includes a youth engagement project, tobacco free college project and worksite project and continues the work for tobacco free multi-unit housing and point of sale initiatives. Diane works to foster collaboration, maximize resources and create healthier communities across NJ.  Jessica Goldberg - Jess is a training and technical assistance specialist with nearly a decade of supporting prevention efforts at the national, state, regional and local levels, as well as an accomplished designer and deliverer of in-person and virtual trainings that address topics ranging from collaboration across health sectors to identifying and addressing health disparities. Her past experience includes serving as a community health specialist with the Massachusetts state technical assistance system, supporting communities in needs assessment, strategic planning and creating logic models to guide change efforts, and then with the Center for the Application for Prevention Technologies or CAPT, and now with the PTTC, where she works closely with states and community coalitions to adopt and apply data-driven prevention planning processes and implement evidence-based and promising prevention practices  Ivy Jones Turner - 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 grant management. Ms. Jones Turner is a Certified Prevention Specialist and holds an MPA from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.     Accompanying Materials Session slides Session transcript

This resource is the first installment in a series, Key Elements of Effective Coalitions, which has been developed for prevention practitioners and community coalition members by the Prevention Technology Transfer Center Network. The goal of this series is to provide information on key elements that research suggests are critical for coalitions to operate effectively and increase their impact on substance misuse and its consequences for individuals and communities. Collaborating TTCs: SAMSHA’s Prevention Technology Transfer Center Network's Community Coalitions and Collaborations Workgroup created this document. Contributing Network workgroup members represented the Northwest, Central East, Southeast, Northeast & Caribbean, New England and the National American Indian & Alaska Native Prevention Technology Transfer Centers.