Home > Social Norms Webinar Series: Using the Science of the Positive to Increase Your Community Impact
Prevention Professionals located in HHS Region 5 - Great Lakes PTTC (IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI) and in HHS Region 8 - Mountain Plains PTTC (CO, MT, ND, SD, UT, WY), are invited to attend this free 3-Part training series
Founded by Dr. Jeff Linkenbach at The Montana Institute
Registration is required for this free 3-part webinar series for prevention professionals. Each session is 90-minutes.
4.5 continuing education hours (CEHs) are available. *Please visit our Continuing Education page for more information.
The Science of the Positive is the study of how positive factors impact culture and experience. Those of us who work as health and safety professionals can sometimes become so focused on the problems we are trying to reduce that we forget to identify and cultivate the strengths and protective factors that keep our communities strong. The Science of the Positive reverses this problem-centered frame, and focuses on growing the healthy, positive, protective factors that already exist in our communities.
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Learn the essential seven steps for planning, building, and evaluating a Positive Community Norms intervention. Participants will be provided seven 10-minute videos to watch as "homework" before attending this 90-minute interactive discussion that will provide plenty of time for real time questions and answers.
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This webinar will help prevention practitioners improve communications around substance misuse prevention in their communities with the Science of the Positive, a framework that promotes protective factors, increases healthy norms, and positively transforms community cultures. This webinar will provide attendees with new communication skills that can be used immediately to harness positivity and hope in their work and messaging.
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PCN Communications Expert @ The Montana Institute
Sara Thompson is a Senior Trainer with The Montana Institute who specializes in training and technical assistane with Positive Community Norms communications. Sara was introduced to Dr. Jeff Linkenbach's work with the science of the Positive and Positive Community Norms (PCN) frameworks in 2006; these transformative new approaches challenged her perceptions, reignited her passion for prevention leadership, and renewed her energy for her work. Bio continued on registration pages...