Products and Resources Catalog

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

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

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

COURSE DESCRIPTION This session focuses on why prevention advocacy matters in communities of color, the difference between education and lobbying, and examples of how to advocate for change. Select the View Resource button above to watch the recording. Below are the supplemental materials for session 3. PowerPoint Advocating for Change Handout SWOT Handout   PRESENTERS Bailey Perkins is an experienced public policy advocate. She currently serves as the State Advocacy and Public Policy Director for Oklahoma Food Banks. Before working there she worked at Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, the Oklahoma Policy Institute, and for the U.S. House of Representatives leading healthcare, education, nutrition, science, space, and technology policy initiatives for Congresswoman Kendra Horn in Washington, D.C. OKC Friday has ranked Bailey as the 16th most powerful young professionals in the Oklahoma City metro and selected her one of seven “Next Generation Most Powerful Oklahomans.” The Oklahoman featured her in its “21st Century Women” series as a woman making significant contributions and driving change in Oklahoma City.  She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and history from Oklahoma City University She earned a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Oklahoma.       Cyndi Munson graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and was awarded the Presidential Gold Medal for Leadership and Public Service. She used a semester of her undergraduate career to study non-profit and voluntary services at Georgetown University and then attended the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, where she earned a Master of Science in Leadership Education.   Cyndi has spent over a decade working in the non-profit community. Passionate about public education and criminal justice reform, she most recently served OK Messages Project, a non-profit working to improve children’s lives through shared reading with their incarcerated parent, as the Development and Community Engagement Coordinator. Prior to joining OK Messages Project, she served in a variety of professional roles in her five years with Girl Scouts of Western Oklahoma. Her insight helped to provide leadership programs for thousands of girls in low-income schools, juvenile detention centers, and public housing.  Elected in September of 2015, Cyndi became the first Asian-American woman elected to the Oklahoma Legislature. In December of 2018, she was elected by her Democratic colleagues as the House Democratic Caucus Chair for the 57th Legislature. She primarily focuses on issues pertaining to children, women, working families, public education, criminal and juvenile justice reform, election and voter reform, and Alzheimer’s.    

  COURSE DESCRIPTION This session introduces the purpose of the learning community and drafts a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis of providing high-impact prevention services in communities of color. Below is the PowerPoint for session one. A recording of this session will not be available due to the interactive nature of the delivery. PowerPoint   PRESENTER Albert Gay is a national trainer and consultant in the field of substance use prevention. He has worked with governmental agencies, as well as with Indiana University’s School of Public Health as an Education and Training Specialist and Research Associate with the Prevention Insights.  In this position, he coordinates substance use and HIV prevention strategies and training. Nationally, he has trained the behavioral health workforce, the United States military, and diverse population groups and community coalitions in the Strategic Prevention Framework. Locally, Albert was the coordinator for a Communities That Care coalition; and currently, he is the chair of a county council and a key stakeholder for a city-wide coalition (both of which are Drug-Free Communities Coalitions). Besides prevention, his other areas of interest include youth work, faith-based initiatives, mental health promotion, social justice, cultural competence, historical trauma, organizational development, and strategic planning.   

  COURSE DESCRIPTION This session focuses on involving communities of color in data collection decision making. Participants use their SWOT analysis from session one to inform their work during this session. Select the View Resource button above to watch the recording. Below are the supplemental materials for session 2. PowerPoint Tools for Telling a Statistical Story Handout SWOT Handout PRESENTER Steven Magallan holds a Master of Science in Developmental Psychology and an expert in community-based youth development with more than 18 years of experience working directly with the leading experts in prevention science and coalition management.  He specializes in promoting research-based, data-driven, and outcomes-focused behavior change strategies. His experience also includes bi-national work between the United States and Mexico on improving border relations and prevention efforts through community coalitions. Over 1,000 community coalitions have directly benefited from Mr. Magallan’s extensive experience in developing and implementing problem behavior prevention strategies.     

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

This webinar demonstrates to the preventionist how to systematically integrate cultural competency while implementing each step of the Strategic Prevention Framework.

The purpose of this webinar is to present what is known about risk of suicide in Latino adolescents and how culturally informed and family-based prevention programs and practices can prevent adolescent suicide. Learning Objectives Attendees will be able to: Identify the risk factors associated with self-harm and suicide attempts Describe the interaction between cultural factors and risk and protection.  Summarize the best individual and family interventions to reduce suicide behaviors.    Additional Resources Webinar Handouts    Translations   Presenters Dr. Daniel Santisteban Dr. Daniel Santisteban is a Clinical Psychologist who received training at Rutgers University (B.S.), University of Miami (Ph.D.), and Bellevue Hospital/NYU (Internship). He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Miami School of Education and Human Development.  Dr. Santisteban’s research focuses on adolescent and family therapy, culturally informed treatments, and family therapy training. Dr. Santisteban is the developer of an adaptive evidence-based family therapy called Culturally Informed and Flexible Family Treatment for Adolescents (CIFFTA). CIFFTA is one of the few evidence based treatments originally designed for Latino families, and is being utilized in community agencies around the country. Dr. Santisteban has a long track record of NIH, SAMHSA, and foundation grants. These grants have led to the development and testing of evidence based treatments for Latinos, the training of over 1000 students and community service providers, and his current work continues to focus on training, coaching and implementation work in communities around the country. Santisteban has published extensively in the areas of family therapy outcomes, substance use and co-occurring disorders, technology-assisted treatment, and culturally informed treatment. He is currently working on a book on “Family Therapy for Latino Adolescents”. Awards received include the 2004 American Family Therapy Academy award for Distinguished Contribution to Family Systems Research, the 2012 University of Miami Civic Engagement Award, the 2020 University of Miami Provost Award, and the 2020 American Psychological Association’s Division 45 (Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race) award for Distinguished Career in Research. Dr. Maite P. Mena Dr. Maite P. Mena is a Research Assistant Professor and a licensed Clinical Psychologist at the University of Miami School of Education and Human Development. She has extensive experience in working with minority populations experiencing health disparities and in implementing programs and evaluating their outcomes. Over the past 15 years, Dr. Mena has focused on identifying the unique needs of the Latino community and has specialized in developing and testing a culturally informed family therapy for minority populations (CIFFTA) focusing on families affected by substance abuse, co-occurring psychiatric disorders, self-harm, and cultural stressors. Dr. Mena has collaborated on writing grants which have resulted in roles such as, co-principal investigator, co-investigator, and project director on several National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and NIMHD funded randomized clinical trials. This work has led to publications on the theory and development of a family treatment for drug abusing Hispanic youth, cultural issues impacting this population, and the treatment of co-occurring disorders in adolescents. Grants from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Health Foundation of South Florida have led Dr. Mena to acquire expertise in the training and dissemination of Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) and Motivational Interviewing, both evidence-based practices.

Health Equity in Prevention Part 1: A Definition in Rural and Remote Communities   September 3, 2020   Webinar Description Health equity is a prominent topic in the field of public health, but what is it, really, and how does it relate to and intersect with prevention in rural and remote communities? This session will define health equity and explore it as it relates to racial inequity and justice in rural and remote communities. Note that we will be utilizing breakout sessions in this webinar! The webinar will highlight how prevention practitioners can integrate these concepts into the shared risk and protective factors theory and the social determinants of health to understand how health equity relates to the field of prevention.    Objectives Define health equity, and understand it as a layer of racial equity. Integrate the concept of equity into the shared risk and protective factors theory and social determinants of health model. Identify the key components of an embodied health equity practice to impact health equity positively.   Presenters Ona Crow, MSW, CPSII, serves primarily on OMNI’s Statewide Training and Technical Assistance Project, which provides customized training and technical assistance in needs assessment, capacity building, planning, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based prevention programs, policies, and practices to organizations and communities in Western Colorado. Ona also supports additional projects related to equity, food access, organizational development and planning, and more. Prior to joining OMNI, Ms. Crow facilitated the development of an organizational Inclusivity Blueprint, a strategy for organizational development to increase inclusivity. Lately, Ms. Crow has been engaging in continued learning around the Othering and Belonging Model.  Overall, Ms. Crow brings an equity lens to all her work.       Ailala Kay, MA, is the Learning and Development Director at OMNI where she has worked since 2004. Ms. Kay brings over 15 of experience developing, leading and managing statewide capacity building projects with a team of regionally based, remote staff to implement consistent high-quality services while allowing for the flexibility needed to be responsive to areas of health equity, culture, and other needs of each community. For over ten years she has served as lead and oversight for Colorado's Statewide Substance Use Prevention Technical Assistance and Training Project, administered by OMNI Institute. Ms. Kay has extensive expertise working with organizations and coalitions, broadly focused on community health, substance use prevention and behavioral health. Ms. Kay is a certified Substance Use Prevention Specialist (SAPST), Trainer.         Panel of Community Practitioners: Prevention practitioners representing rural and remote communities in the Northwest Region will join the presenters to share their insights on how health equity and rurality intersect in prevention and how these concepts are operationalized at the community level.   Webinar Recording View Webinar   Webinar Slides & Handout Packet Webinar Slides - Health Equity in Prevention Part 1: A Definition in Rural and Remote Communities Webinar Handout Packet - Health Equity in Prevention Part 1   Additional Resources OMNI Institute Website The myth of race, debunked in 3 minutes - Youtube Video   Questions? Contact Ona Crow, MSW, CPSII ([email protected]) or Ailala Kay, MA, ([email protected]) if you have additional questions about the content related to this webinar.  

Look, Listen and Learn: Advancing Early Achievement in Young Children of Color   Date: August 27, 2020   Webinar Description The achievement gap in Washington State continues to be “led” by children of color. Meanwhile, children of color also lead in television and media consumption. By showcasing Black and Indigenous people and people of color learning, teaching, and exploring, television becomes a tool to provide positive media representation of diversity as well as greater access to early learning principles in more homes. As substance misuse prevention professionals, our role is to address health disparities and improve health outcomes in our communities. This webinar will explore the research behind what works best to promote school readiness and success and will highlight the Look, Listen and Learn (LL+L) program. LL+L is a new concept in public access television. As an early listening educational program, LL+L helps bridge the achievement gap by featuring local enrichment venues and applying brain development knowledge to foster learning and enhance caregiver-child relationships.   Presenter Val Thomas-Matson is the Founder/Producer of Look, Listen, and Learn. Val is a community organizer/activist with deep experience in media. In addition to early work at KING TV, she created, produced, and hosted the daily community affairs talk show Communities in Action for King County Government TV for three years. She has also worked extensively with the multi-award winning production company North by Northwest, serving as co-host of Washington Grown, and managing video production elements for educational, nonprofit and government video campaigns. Hattie McDaniel and Fred Rogers serve as primary sources of inspiration.     Webinar Recording View Webinar   Webinar Slides Download Slides - Look, Listen and Learn: Advancing Early Achievement in Young Children of Color   Additional Resources Look, Listen and Learn Website Watch the Look, Listen and Learn award-winning show on Youtube! Equitable Production Checklist Community Centric Fundraising - Aligned Actions List  

Use this slide in your presentations and visuals to affirm the use of intentional and destigmatizing language associated with having, treating, or being in recovery from a substance use or mental health disorder. Check out the supporting research here.         

The prevention coalition has a specialized role in helping a community to achieve health equity. This handout is designed to assist both newly formed and seasoned coalitions to determine the who, what, and how to reduce health disparities as they implement substance misuse prevention programs. This handout can be used as an organizing and/or training resource for coalitions. Also available in Spanish

La coalición de prevención tiene un rol especializado en que puede ayudar a la comunidad con la equidad de salud. Esta hoja está diseñada para asistir a nuevas coaliciones y coaliciones maduras en determinar el quien, que y como reducir desigualdades de salud a la hora de implementar programas de prevención de sustancias. Esta hoja se puede usar como un recurso para organizar y/o entrenar a coaliciones. También esta disponible en inglés.

Monthly newsletter of the Great Lakes ATTC, MHTTC, and PTTC.  June 2020 issue includes resources for addressing health equity available from across the Great Lakes programs and the TTC networks. 

Monthly e-newsletter of the Great Lakes ATTC, MHTTC, and PTTC. 

The National Hispanic and Latino Prevention Technology Transfer Center, and the National American Indian and Alaskan Native Prevention Technology Transfer Center are happy to invite you to a series of Virtual Learning Sessions: CULTURE IS PREVENTION. Culture is fundamental to develop a successful career or a successful organization, and building that culture is everyone's responsibility. Despite recent progress, health disparities continue a challenge among Latino/Hispanic, Native Americans, and Alaska Natives, compared with the US population as a whole. National data show the need to enhance services and access to services for culturally and linguistically diverse communities. Providing culturally and linguistically appropriate prevention services requires an understanding of cultural competence/Humility. This session is the last of 4 sessions. Session 1: Different Cultures; One Vision (Click for Slides) Session Co-hosted by the National Hispanic and Latino Prevention Technology Transfer Center (NHL PTTC) and the National American Indian & Alaska Native Prevention Technology Transfer Center (NAI/AN PTTC). Session 2: Spirituality In The Native American culture And Its Role In Prevention And Healing (Click for Slides) Session Hosted by the National American Indian & Alaska Native Prevention Technology Transfer Center (NAI/AN PTTC). Session 3: Spirituality in the Hispanic and Latino Culture And Its Role In Prevention And Healing (Click for Slides) Session Hosted by the National Hispanic and Latino Prevention Technology Transfer Center (NHL PTTC). Session 4: How We Can Culturally Navigate Between The Two Communities (Click for Slides) Session Co-hosted by the National Hispanic and Latino Prevention Technology Transfer Center (NHL PTTC) and the National American Indian & Alaska Native Prevention Technology Transfer Center (NAI/AN PTTC).

This is a recording of the fourth session in our Wellness for Providers series

Handouts for the Wellness Series Part 4: Resilience and Review event

The National Hispanic and Latino Prevention Technology Transfer Center, and the National American Indian and Alaskan Native Prevention Technology Transfer Center are happy to invite you to a series of Virtual Learning Sessions: CULTURE IS PREVENTION. Culture is fundamental to develop a successful career or a successful organization, and building that culture is everyone's responsibility. Despite recent progress, health disparities continue a challenge among Latino/Hispanic, Native Americans, and Alaska Natives, compared with the US population as a whole. National data show the need to enhance services and access to services for culturally and linguistically diverse communities. Providing culturally and linguistically appropriate prevention services requires an understanding of cultural competence/Humility. This session is the 3rd of 4 sessions. Session 1: Different Cultures; One Vision (Click for Slides) Session Co-hosted by the National Hispanic and Latino Prevention Technology Transfer Center (NHL PTTC) and the National American Indian & Alaska Native Prevention Technology Transfer Center (NAI/AN PTTC). Session 2: Spirituality In The Native American culture And Its Role In Prevention And Healing (Click for Slides) Session Hosted by the National American Indian & Alaska Native Prevention Technology Transfer Center (NAI/AN PTTC). Session 3: Spirituality in the Hispanic and Latino Culture And Its Role In Prevention And Healing (Click for Slides) Session Hosted by the National Hispanic and Latino Prevention Technology Transfer Center (NHL PTTC). Session 4: How We Can Culturally Navigate Between The Two Communities (Click for Slides) Session Co-hosted by the National Hispanic and Latino Prevention Technology Transfer Center (NHL PTTC) and the National American Indian & Alaska Native Prevention Technology Transfer Center (NAI/AN PTTC).

The National Hispanic and Latino Prevention Technology Transfer Center, and the National American Indian and Alaskan Native Prevention Technology Transfer Center are happy to invite you to a series of Virtual Learning Sessions: CULTURE IS PREVENTION. Culture is fundamental to develop a successful career or a successful organization, and building that culture is everyone's responsibility. Despite recent progress, health disparities continue a challenge among Latino/Hispanic, Native Americans, and Alaska Natives, compared with the US population as a whole. National data show the need to enhance services and access to services for culturally and linguistically diverse communities. Providing culturally and linguistically appropriate prevention services requires an understanding of cultural competence/Humility. This session is the 2nd of 4 sessions. Session 1: Different Cultures; One Vision (Click for Slides) Session Co-hosted by the National Hispanic and Latino Prevention Technology Transfer Center (NHL PTTC) and the National American Indian & Alaska Native Prevention Technology Transfer Center (NAI/AN PTTC). Session 2: Spirituality In The Native American culture And Its Role In Prevention And Healing (Click for Slides) Session Hosted by the National American Indian & Alaska Native Prevention Technology Transfer Center (NAI/AN PTTC). Session 3: Spirituality in the Hispanic and Latino Culture And Its Role In Prevention And Healing (Click for Slides) Session Hosted by the National Hispanic and Latino Prevention Technology Transfer Center (NHL PTTC). Session 4: How We Can Culturally Navigate Between The Two Communities (Click for Slides) Session Co-hosted by the National Hispanic and Latino Prevention Technology Transfer Center (NHL PTTC) and the National American Indian & Alaska Native Prevention Technology Transfer Center (NAI/AN PTTC).

The National Hispanic and Latino Prevention Technology Transfer Center, and the National American Indian and Alaskan Native Prevention Technology Transfer Center are happy to invite you to a series of Virtual Learning Sessions: CULTURE IS PREVENTION. Culture is fundamental to develop a successful career or a successful organization, and building that culture is everyone's responsibility. Despite recent progress, health disparities continue a challenge among Latino/Hispanic, Native Americans, and Alaska Natives, compared with the US population as a whole. National data show the need to enhance services and access to services for culturally and linguistically diverse communities. Providing culturally and linguistically appropriate prevention services requires an understanding of cultural competence/Humility. This session is the 1st of 4 sessions. Session 1: Different Cultures; One Vision (Click for Slides) Session Co-hosted by the National Hispanic and Latino Prevention Technology Transfer Center (NHL PTTC) and the National American Indian & Alaska Native Prevention Technology Transfer Center (NAI/AN PTTC). Session 2: Spirituality In The Native American culture And Its Role In Prevention And Healing (Click for Slides) Session Hosted by the National American Indian & Alaska Native Prevention Technology Transfer Center (NAI/AN PTTC). Session 3: Spirituality in the Hispanic and Latino Culture And Its Role In Prevention And Healing (Click for Slides) Session Hosted by the National Hispanic and Latino Prevention Technology Transfer Center (NHL PTTC). Session 4: How We Can Culturally Navigate Between The Two Communities (Click for Slides) Session Co-hosted by the National Hispanic and Latino Prevention Technology Transfer Center (NHL PTTC) and the National American Indian & Alaska Native Prevention Technology Transfer Center (NAI/AN PTTC).