Past Events

In this interactive workshop, we'll help you understand what these changes look like and work with you to develop communication and collaboration skills. You'll learn how to activate recovery in your family and communities and start changing the dynamics in your relationships. Session 1 (May 6): Creating safe spaces and living out your values Session 2 (May 13): Behaviors make sense: What's behind the why? Session 3 (May 20): Harnessing our superpowers: Responding with kindness Session 4 (May 27): Escaping the victim mindset This series is hosted by the Great Lakes PTTC in collaboration with Thrive Family Support and Minnesota Recovery Connection.  There is a $15.00 charge for the 4-part series. Intended audience: Family members and/or loved ones of individuals with substance use and misuse issues; Peer Recovery Support, SUD and/or MH Providers who work to engage family and loved ones in the recovery process.

Suicide Prevention and Intervention for Transition Age Youth on College Campuses Presenters: Andy McLane, MD, MPH & Sarah Nielsen, PhD, OTR/L May 13th, 2020 @ 11:00 am MT (10:00 PT/12:00 CT/1:00 ET) Higher education settings are increasingly tasked with responding to the mental health needs of students and transition age youth on campuses. This session will focus on increasing faculty and staff understanding of suicidality and best practices for supporting students and transition age youth experiencing thoughts of suicide. Particular attention will be given to identifying warning signs for suicidality, best practices for screening and referring individuals to campus based care and best practices for suicide interventions for college and transition age youth.  

Join Us on May 12th at 2pm ET Strategic Discussion 5: Wrap-up Session Racial equity and health disparities in the age of COVID-19: What new strategies are needed.   About the Listening and Discussion Series: Emerging Issues Around Covid-19 and Social Determinants of Health for the Substance Use Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Workforces   The Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) Network, and the Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) Network are facilitating a FREE, national online discussion and resource sharing opportunity for the substance use (SU) prevention, treatment, and recovery workforces focused on emerging issues around social determinants of health (SDH) and COVID-19.  Overview Join us to huddle with other SU prevention, treatment, and recovery workforce professionals and engage around key emerging issues related to SDH, strategize and share ways to address these issues, and identify key tools and resources useful to the field. We will host one initial open Listening Session (90 minutes) to frame the upcoming Strategic Discussions and share key resources. This Listening Session will be followed by a series of Strategic Discussions (60 minutes) where invited speakers from the field will discuss emerging issues, strategize and share ways to address these issues, and identify key tools and resources useful to the field. The Listening Session will not be recorded, but we will capture key themes from the conversation to share. The five Strategic Discussions will be recorded and uploaded to the SDH & COVID Discussion Series web-pages, along with other tools and resources, on the ATTC Network site and the PTTC Network site.   The series will feature:    Live, 90-minute Listening Session via Zoom video conferencing to frame emerging issues and use discussion as a tool to empower the SU prevention, treatment, and recovery workforces to identify strategies and emerging best practices.  Live 45-60-minute strategic discussions twice a week focused on data and strategies to address the emerging issues of specific population groups.  Each Listening Session will include at least 45 minutes of structured conversation and information exchange and share key resources and lessons learned.  Each Strategic Discussion will engage people actively addressing issues of SDH in the field, along with a panel of experienced providers and others addressing SDH.   Key themes and resources will be collected from each session to support the work of the SU prevention, treatment and recovery workforces.  Training tools, checklists, and other relevant resources       

Brian Williams, MD, is an assistant professor of internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He works as an adult and pediatric hospitalist. His academic interests include helping protect children from second and thirdhand smoke exposure as well as reducing adolescent vaping.               Jake Levinson joined Prevention First in 2019. Jake’s areas of expertise include planning and implementing youth prevention education, school-based communication campaigns, coordinating community coalitions, engaging stakeholders in community assessment and data analysis, and grants management. Jake earned his B.A. in education from the University of Illinois at Chicago.      This webinar is a collaboration of Prevention First and the Great Lakes Prevention Technology Transfer Center.  Intended Audience: ATOD prevention specialists; education administrators; teachers; community stakeholders    

This event has been postponed. Please check back soon or email [email protected] for more information. Thank you.

Take Your Break With Us - Virtual Series:  Challenges and Opportunities of the COVID-19 Work Environment Overview Are you feeling a lack of connection and support with colleagues? Missing your break time with co-workers? Bring your morning coffee or tea to this series of 30-minute coffee breaks with colleagues. This is a time to connect and share challenges we’re experiencing and explore strategies for being well and productive while working in this new COVID-19 reality.   Dates May 4, 2020 - June 26, 2020 Mondays and Fridays   Times 8:00 am – 8:30 am Alaska 9:00 am – 9:30 am Pacific 10:00 am – 10:30 am Mountain    Series Facilitator Pam Tindall has dedicated more than twenty years to working in the field of substance use and misuse prevention, consulting in all 50 U.S. states and across urban, rural, frontier, Alaska Native, American Indian, and Pacific Island communities.   Weekly Topics Include Self-Care in a Time of Crisis – If you’re feeling the stresses, uncertainties and anxieties of these times, you’re in good company! Coping with stress through self-care will make you, the people you care about, and your community stronger. During this virtual coffee break, we’ll explore ways to integrate seven strategies for self-care into your daily life. Part 1: Monday, May 4 Part 2: Friday, May 8 Facilitate Virtual Meetings Like a Pro! – Virtual meetings have huge potential to energize an organization’s mission. Really! This virtual coffee hour will explore unique opportunities virtual meetings offer and best practices that will help you achieve dynamic and creative results from your virtual meetings. Part 1: Monday, May 11 Part 2: Friday, May 15 Create Awesome Webinars! – Awesome webinars? Yes! Awful webinars? Unfortunately, yes. During this virtual coffee break, we’ll explore ways to design and facilitate webinars toward the awesome end of the spectrum. Ready. Set. Go! Part 1: Monday, May 18 Part 2: Friday, May 22 Working From Home & Keeping Your Sanity! – Are you finding that working from home is greater than you ever dreamed and harder than you ever thought? During this virtual coffee break, we’ll share ideas on setting up a workspace at home and working from home – complete with a virtual tour of one home office!  Friday, May 29. How to Create Training People Love to Attend – and Learn! – Workshop participants prefer highly interactive training experiences. So do trainers and facilitators! During this virtual coffee break, we’ll address three main topics – smart training design; the difference between teaching and facilitating; and 8 ways to make your training more interactive. Part 1: Monday, June 1 Part 2: Friday, June 5  Bringing Your Work Online – Prevention practitioners know how to engage youth, collaborate with community members, and implement programs in schools and communities. Now we are learning how to take this work online. During this virtual coffee break, we'll share tips for moving prevention fundaments online. Part 1: Monday, June 8 Part 2: Friday, June 12 What’s Next: Transitioning Back to the Office Environment – So you have been working from home for a while and you finally get the call from your employer to come back to the workplace. How will you prepare yourself, your family, and your co-workers to make a healthy and smooth transition? During this virtual coffee break, we will share tips for safely returning to your workplace. Part 1: Monday, June 15 Part 2; Friday, June 19  The Post-COVID-19 Workplace – What Will Work Look Like? – Many of us made a forced transition to working at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, we have experienced a higher level of work-life integration – the good, the bad, and the ugly! As we think about transitioning back to the office, how might we want to work differently? What will we need in order to transition smoothly? How might the workplace be different? Share your thoughts, concerns, and innovative ideas for rethinking the post-COVID-19 workplace. Part 1: Monday, June 22 Part 2: Friday, June 26   Register Today! Virtual Series: Challenges and Opportunities of the COVID-19 Work Environment Registration Form   Series Marketing Flyer   Cost is Free! Questions?   Contact Clarissa Lam Yuen ([email protected]) for any questions related to registration. For all other questions, please contact Michelle Frye-Spray ([email protected]).

Today's Topic Facilitate Virtual Meetings Like a Pro! – Part 1 Monday, May 11, 2020 9:00 am - 9:30 am Pacific Time Virtual meetings have huge potential to energize an organization’s mission. Really! This virtual coffee hour will explore unique opportunities virtual meetings offer and best practices that will help you achieve dynamic and creative results from your virtual meetings. (Part 2: Friday, May 15, 2020, 9:00 am - 9:30 am) Register Today: https://casatunr.wufoo.com/forms/northwest-pttc-take-your-break-with-us-series/    Series Facilitator Pam Tindall has dedicated more than twenty years to working in the field of substance use and misuse prevention, consulting in all 50 U.S. states and across urban, rural, frontier, Alaska Native, American Indian, and Pacific Island communities.   Cost is Free! More about this series... Take Your Break With Us - Virtual Series:  Challenges and Opportunities of the COVID-19 Work Environment   Overview Are you feeling a lack of connection and support with colleagues? Missing your break time with co-workers? Bring your morning coffee or tea to this series of 30-minute coffee breaks with colleagues. This is a time to connect and share challenges we’re experiencing and explore strategies for being well and productive while working in this new COVID-19 reality.   Dates May 4, 2020 - June 26, 2020 Mondays and Fridays   Times 8:00 am – 8:30 am Alaska 9:00 am – 9:30 am Pacific 10:00 am – 10:30 am Mountain    View All Events in this Series   Upcoming Topics in this Series Facilitate Virtual Meetings Like a Pro! – Virtual meetings have huge potential to energize an organization’s mission. Really! This virtual coffee hour will explore unique opportunities virtual meetings offer and best practices that will help you achieve dynamic and creative results from your virtual meetings. Part 1: Monday, May 11 Part 2: Friday, May 15 Create Awesome Webinars! – Awesome webinars? Yes! Awful webinars? Unfortunately, yes. During this virtual coffee break, we’ll explore ways to design and facilitate webinars toward the awesome end of the spectrum. Ready. Set. Go! Part 1: Monday, May 18 Part 2: Friday, May 22 Working From Home & Keeping Your Sanity! – Are you finding that working from home is greater than you ever dreamed and harder than you ever thought? During this virtual coffee break, we’ll share ideas on setting up a workspace at home and working from home – complete with a virtual tour of one home office!  Friday, May 29. How to Create Training People Love to Attend – and Learn! – Workshop participants prefer highly interactive training experiences. So do trainers and facilitators! During this virtual coffee break, we’ll address three main topics – smart training design; the difference between teaching and facilitating; and 8 ways to make your training more interactive. Part 1: Monday, June 1 Part 2: Friday, June 5  Bringing Your Work Online – Prevention practitioners know how to engage youth, collaborate with community members, and implement programs in schools and communities. Now we are learning how to take this work online. During this virtual coffee break, we'll share tips for moving prevention fundaments online. Part 1: Monday, June 8 Part 2: Friday, June 12 What’s Next: Transitioning Back to the Office Environment – So you have been working from home for a while and you finally get the call from your employer to come back to the workplace. How will you prepare yourself, your family, and your co-workers to make a healthy and smooth transition? During this virtual coffee break, we will share tips for safely returning to your workplace. Part 1: Monday, June 15 Part 2; Friday, June 19  The Post-COVID-19 Workplace – What Will Work Look Like? – Many of us made a forced transition to working at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, we have experienced a higher level of work-life integration – the good, the bad, and the ugly! As we think about transitioning back to the office, how might we want to work differently? What will we need in order to transition smoothly? How might the workplace be different? Share your thoughts, concerns, and innovative ideas for rethinking the post-COVID-19 workplace. Part 1: Monday, June 22 Part 2: Friday, June 26   Register Today! Virtual Series: Challenges and Opportunities of the COVID-19 Work Environment Registration Form Series Marketing Flyer   Cost is Free!   Questions?   Contact Clarissa Lam Yuen ([email protected]) for any questions related to registration. For all other questions, please contact Michelle Frye-Spray ([email protected]).

  The National American Indian & Alaska Native PTTC will be holding virtual sessions to support our Native communities in these challenging times. Our first session will include a time of listening when you can share thoughts and concerns about the current needs and challenges that your communities and programs are facing, as well as bringing up topics you would like us to cover in future sessions. We hope these meetings will be supportive and helpful, and that we can help connect you with the resources you need. Also feel free to reach out to Cindy Sagoe in advance to let her know if there are any topics you specifically want us to be prepared to address. We hope each and every one of you are staying safe and we look forward to connecting with you soon! - Your National American Indian & Alaska Native PTTC team in collaboration with tribal leaders

  Download the webinar announcement flyer! Join us on Friday, May 8 at 11:00 a.m. for a collaborative webinar hosted by Southeast TTC and Southeast ORN representatives.

Today's Topic Self-Care in a Time of Crisis – Part 2 Friday, May 8, 2020 9:00 am - 9:30 am Pacific Time If you’re feeling the stresses, uncertainties and anxieties of these times, you’re in good company! Coping with stress through self-care will make you, the people you care about, and your community stronger. During this virtual coffee break, we’ll explore ways to integrate seven strategies for self-care into your daily life. Register Today: https://casatunr.wufoo.com/forms/northwest-pttc-take-your-break-with-us-series/    Series Facilitator Pam Tindall has dedicated more than twenty years to working in the field of substance use and misuse prevention, consulting in all 50 U.S. states and across urban, rural, frontier, Alaska Native, American Indian, and Pacific Island communities.   Cost is Free! More about this series... Take Your Break With Us - Virtual Series:  Challenges and Opportunities of the COVID-19 Work Environment   Overview Are you feeling a lack of connection and support with colleagues? Missing your break time with co-workers? Bring your morning coffee or tea to this series of 30-minute coffee breaks with colleagues. This is a time to connect and share challenges we’re experiencing and explore strategies for being well and productive while working in this new COVID-19 reality.   Dates May 4, 2020 - June 26, 2020 Mondays and Fridays   Times 8:00 am – 8:30 am Alaska 9:00 am – 9:30 am Pacific 10:00 am – 10:30 am Mountain    View All Events in this Series   Upcoming Topics in this Series Self-Care in a Time of Crisis – If you’re feeling the stresses, uncertainties and anxieties of these times, you’re in good company! Coping with stress through self-care will make you, the people you care about, and your community stronger. During this virtual coffee break, we’ll explore ways to integrate seven strategies for self-care into your daily life. Part 1: Monday, May 4 Part 2: Friday, May 8 Facilitate Virtual Meetings Like a Pro! – Virtual meetings have huge potential to energize an organization’s mission. Really! This virtual coffee hour will explore unique opportunities virtual meetings offer and best practices that will help you achieve dynamic and creative results from your virtual meetings. Part 1: Monday, May 11 Part 2: Friday, May 15 Create Awesome Webinars! – Awesome webinars? Yes! Awful webinars? Unfortunately, yes. During this virtual coffee break, we’ll explore ways to design and facilitate webinars toward the awesome end of the spectrum. Ready. Set. Go! Part 1: Monday, May 18 Part 2: Friday, May 22 Working From Home & Keeping Your Sanity! – Are you finding that working from home is greater than you ever dreamed and harder than you ever thought? During this virtual coffee break, we’ll share ideas on setting up a workspace at home and working from home – complete with a virtual tour of one home office!  Friday, May 29. How to Create Training People Love to Attend – and Learn! – Workshop participants prefer highly interactive training experiences. So do trainers and facilitators! During this virtual coffee break, we’ll address three main topics – smart training design; the difference between teaching and facilitating; and 8 ways to make your training more interactive. Part 1: Monday, June 1 Part 2: Friday, June 5  Bringing Your Work Online – Prevention practitioners know how to engage youth, collaborate with community members, and implement programs in schools and communities. Now we are learning how to take this work online. During this virtual coffee break, we'll share tips for moving prevention fundaments online. Part 1: Monday, June 8 Part 2: Friday, June 12 What’s Next: Transitioning Back to the Office Environment – So you have been working from home for a while and you finally get the call from your employer to come back to the workplace. How will you prepare yourself, your family, and your co-workers to make a healthy and smooth transition? During this virtual coffee break, we will share tips for safely returning to your workplace. Part 1: Monday, June 15 Part 2; Friday, June 19  The Post-COVID-19 Workplace – What Will Work Look Like? – Many of us made a forced transition to working at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, we have experienced a higher level of work-life integration – the good, the bad, and the ugly! As we think about transitioning back to the office, how might we want to work differently? What will we need in order to transition smoothly? How might the workplace be different? Share your thoughts, concerns, and innovative ideas for rethinking the post-COVID-19 workplace. Part 1: Monday, June 22 Part 2: Friday, June 26   Register Today! Virtual Series: Challenges and Opportunities of the COVID-19 Work Environment Registration Form Series Marketing Flyer   Cost is Free!   Questions?   Contact Clarissa Lam Yuen ([email protected]) for any questions related to registration. For all other questions, please contact Michelle Frye-Spray ([email protected]).

Join Us on May 7th at 2pm ET Strategic Discussion 4: Asian-American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities and Addressing Stigma.   About the Listening and Discussion Series: Emerging Issues Around Covid-19 and Social Determinants of Health for the Substance Use Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Workforces   The Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) Network, and the Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) Network are facilitating a FREE, national online discussion and resource sharing opportunity for the substance use (SU) prevention, treatment, and recovery workforces focused on emerging issues around social determinants of health (SDH) and COVID-19.  Overview Join us to huddle with other SU prevention, treatment, and recovery workforce professionals and engage around key emerging issues related to SDH, strategize and share ways to address these issues, and identify key tools and resources useful to the field. We will host one initial open Listening Session (90 minutes) to frame the upcoming Strategic Discussions and share key resources. This Listening Session will be followed by a series of Strategic Discussions (60 minutes) where invited speakers from the field will discuss emerging issues, strategize and share ways to address these issues, and identify key tools and resources useful to the field. The Listening Session will not be recorded, but we will capture key themes from the conversation to share. The five Strategic Discussions will be recorded and uploaded to the SDH & COVID Discussion Series web-pages, along with other tools and resources, on the ATTC Network site and the PTTC Network site.   The series will feature:    Live, 90-minute Listening Session via Zoom video conferencing to frame emerging issues and use discussion as a tool to empower the SU prevention, treatment, and recovery workforces to identify strategies and emerging best practices.  Live 45-60-minute strategic discussions twice a week focused on data and strategies to address the emerging issues of specific population groups.  Each Listening Session will include at least 45 minutes of structured conversation and information exchange and share key resources and lessons learned.  Each Strategic Discussion will engage people actively addressing issues of SDH in the field, along with a panel of experienced providers and others addressing SDH.   Key themes and resources will be collected from each session to support the work of the SU prevention, treatment and recovery workforces.  Training tools, checklists, and other relevant resources       

  Parks and Recreation Departments (P&R Depts) across New England provide various programs and services for young people, such as before and after school childcare, sports programming, and summer camps. They also offer employment to older teens and young adults.  While P&R Depts can be one of the largest childcare providers in a community, they often receive little support and training on positive youth development, trauma-sensitive approaches to working with young people, and substance use prevention strategies. P&R Dept directors recently received a toolkit and attended workshops on preventing youth substance use and addressing substance misuse.    In this webinar, participants will become familiar with the toolkit and explore ways to create relationships, provide technical assistance, and support P&R Depts to improve programs, staff training, and parent engagement. Participants will also receive a P&R staff training slide bank on brain development, childhood trauma, youth substance use and strategies for implementing a positive youth development framework.     Dates: May 7 & 8, 2020 Times: 9am-11am, each day Location: Zoom Webinar   Download the toolkit.

In this interactive workshop, we'll help you understand what these changes look like and work with you to develop communication and collaboration skills. You'll learn how to activate recovery in your family and communities and start changing the dynamics in your relationships. Session 1 (May 6): Creating safe spaces and living out your values Session 2 (May 13): Behaviors make sense: What's behind the why? Session 3 (May 20): Harnessing our superpowers: Responding with kindness Session 4 (May 27): Escaping the victim mindset   This series is hosted by the Great Lakes PTTC in collaboration with Thrive Family Support and Minnesota Recovery Connection.  There is a $15.00 charge for the 4-part series. Intended Audience: Family members and/or loved ones of individuals with substance use and misuse issues; Peer Recovery Support, SUD and/or MH Providers who work to engage family and loved ones in the recovery process.

Join Us on May 5th at 2pm ET Strategic Discussion 3: Strategic Discussion 3: American-Indian/Alaska Native communities: Trauma-Responsive Approaches to Support the Communities.   About the Listening and Discussion Series: Emerging Issues Around Covid-19 and Social Determinants of Health for the Substance Use Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Workforces   The Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) Network, and the Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) Network are facilitating a FREE, national online discussion and resource sharing opportunity for the substance use (SU) prevention, treatment, and recovery workforces focused on emerging issues around social determinants of health (SDH) and COVID-19.  Overview Join us to huddle with other SU prevention, treatment, and recovery workforce professionals and engage around key emerging issues related to SDH, strategize and share ways to address these issues, and identify key tools and resources useful to the field. We will host one initial open Listening Session (90 minutes) to frame the upcoming Strategic Discussions and share key resources. This Listening Session will be followed by a series of Strategic Discussions (60 minutes) where invited speakers from the field will discuss emerging issues, strategize and share ways to address these issues, and identify key tools and resources useful to the field. The Listening Session will not be recorded, but we will capture key themes from the conversation to share. The five Strategic Discussions will be recorded and uploaded to the SDH & COVID Discussion Series web-pages, along with other tools and resources, on the ATTC Network site and the PTTC Network site.   The series will feature:    Live, 90-minute Listening Session via Zoom video conferencing to frame emerging issues and use discussion as a tool to empower the SU prevention, treatment, and recovery workforces to identify strategies and emerging best practices.  Live 45-60-minute strategic discussions twice a week focused on data and strategies to address the emerging issues of specific population groups.  Each Listening Session will include at least 45 minutes of structured conversation and information exchange and share key resources and lessons learned.  Each Strategic Discussion will engage people actively addressing issues of SDH in the field, along with a panel of experienced providers and others addressing SDH.   Key themes and resources will be collected from each session to support the work of the SU prevention, treatment and recovery workforces.  Training tools, checklists, and other relevant resources       

Suicide Interventions and Response for Youth Experiencing Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED) Presenter: JP Legerski, PhD May 5th, 2020 @ 11:00 am MT (10:00 PT/12:00 CT/1:00 ET) *Please make note that this webinar takes place on a Tuesday, instead of a Wednesday   Special consideration must be given to engaging in suicide intervention and response for youth and adolescents. This session will provide participants with an overview of best practices for addressing suicidal behaviors and thoughts for youth and adolescents experiencing Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED). Focus will be placed on understanding the definition of SED, engaging in interdisciplinary care for SED youth, best practices for working with youth experiencing SED and their families, and implications for suicide intervention and prevention with this population.  

Virtual Series:  Challenges and Opportunities of the COVID-19 Work Environment Overview Are you feeling a lack of connection and support with colleagues? Missing your break time with co-workers? Bring your morning coffee or tea to this series of 30-minute coffee breaks with colleagues. This is a time to connect and share challenges we’re experiencing and explore strategies for being well and productive while working in this new COVID-19 reality.   Dates May 4, 2020 - June 26, 2020 Mondays and Fridays   Times 8:00 am – 8:30 am Alaska 9:00 am – 9:30 am Pacific 10:00 am – 10:30 am Mountain    Series Facilitator Pam Tindall has dedicated more than twenty years to working in the field of substance use and misuse prevention, consulting in all 50 U.S. states and across urban, rural, frontier, Alaska Native, American Indian, and Pacific Island communities.   Weekly Topics Include Self-Care in a Time of Crisis – If you’re feeling the stresses, uncertainties and anxieties of these times, you’re in good company! Coping with stress through self-care will make you, the people you care about, and your community stronger. During this virtual coffee break, we’ll explore ways to integrate seven strategies for self-care into your daily life. Part 1: Monday, May 4 Part 2: Friday, May 8 Facilitate Virtual Meetings Like a Pro! – Virtual meetings have huge potential to energize an organization’s mission. Really! This virtual coffee hour will explore unique opportunities virtual meetings offer and best practices that will help you achieve dynamic and creative results from your virtual meetings. Part 1: Monday, May 11 Part 2: Friday, May 15 Create Awesome Webinars! – Awesome webinars? Yes! Awful webinars? Unfortunately, yes. During this virtual coffee break, we’ll explore ways to design and facilitate webinars toward the awesome end of the spectrum. Ready. Set. Go! Part 1: Monday, May 18 Part 2: Friday, May 22 Working From Home & Keeping Your Sanity! – Are you finding that working from home is greater than you ever dreamed and harder than you ever thought? During this virtual coffee break, we’ll share ideas on setting up a workspace at home and working from home – complete with a virtual tour of one home office!  Friday, May 29. How to Create Training People Love to Attend – and Learn! – Workshop participants prefer highly interactive training experiences. So do trainers and facilitators! During this virtual coffee break, we’ll address three main topics – smart training design; the difference between teaching and facilitating; and 8 ways to make your training more interactive. Part 1: Monday, June 1 Part 2: Friday, June 5  Bringing Your Work Online – Prevention practitioners know how to engage youth, collaborate with community members, and implement programs in schools and communities. Now we are learning how to take this work online. During this virtual coffee break, we'll share tips for moving prevention fundaments online. Part 1: Monday, June 8 Part 2: Friday, June 12 What’s Next: Transitioning Back to the Office Environment – So you have been working from home for a while and you finally get the call from your employer to come back to the workplace. How will you prepare yourself, your family, and your co-workers to make a healthy and smooth transition? During this virtual coffee break, we will share tips for safely returning to your workplace. Part 1: Monday, June 15 Part 2; Friday, June 19  The Post-COVID-19 Workplace – What Will Work Look Like? – Many of us made a forced transition to working at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, we have experienced a higher level of work-life integration – the good, the bad, and the ugly! As we think about transitioning back to the office, how might we want to work differently? What will we need in order to transition smoothly? How might the workplace be different? Share your thoughts, concerns, and innovative ideas for rethinking the post-COVID-19 workplace. Part 1: Monday, June 22 Part 2: Friday, June 26   Register Today! Virtual Series: Challenges and Opportunities of the COVID-19 Work Environment Registration Form   Series Marketing Flyer   Cost is Free! Questions?   Contact Clarissa Lam Yuen ([email protected]) for any questions related to registration. For all other questions, please contact Michelle Frye-Spray ([email protected]).

Today's Topic Self-Care in a Time of Crisis – Part 1 Monday, May 4, 2020 9:00 am - 9:30 am Pacific Time If you’re feeling the stresses, uncertainties and anxieties of these times, you’re in good company! Coping with stress through self-care will make you, the people you care about, and your community stronger. During this virtual coffee break, we’ll explore ways to integrate seven strategies for self-care into your daily life. (Part 2: Friday, May 8, 2020, 9:00 am - 9:30 am) Register Today: https://casatunr.wufoo.com/forms/northwest-pttc-take-your-break-with-us-series/    Series Facilitator Pam Tindall has dedicated more than twenty years to working in the field of substance use and misuse prevention, consulting in all 50 U.S. states and across urban, rural, frontier, Alaska Native, American Indian, and Pacific Island communities.   Cost is Free! More about this series... Take Your Break With Us - Virtual Series:  Challenges and Opportunities of the COVID-19 Work Environment   Overview Are you feeling a lack of connection and support with colleagues? Missing your break time with co-workers? Bring your morning coffee or tea to this series of 30-minute coffee breaks with colleagues. This is a time to connect and share challenges we’re experiencing and explore strategies for being well and productive while working in this new COVID-19 reality.   Dates May 4, 2020 - June 26, 2020 Mondays and Fridays   Times 8:00 am – 8:30 am Alaska 9:00 am – 9:30 am Pacific 10:00 am – 10:30 am Mountain    View All Events in this Series   Upcoming Topics in this Series Self-Care in a Time of Crisis – If you’re feeling the stresses, uncertainties and anxieties of these times, you’re in good company! Coping with stress through self-care will make you, the people you care about, and your community stronger. During this virtual coffee break, we’ll explore ways to integrate seven strategies for self-care into your daily life. Part 1: Monday, May 4 Part 2: Friday, May 8 Facilitate Virtual Meetings Like a Pro! – Virtual meetings have huge potential to energize an organization’s mission. Really! This virtual coffee hour will explore unique opportunities virtual meetings offer and best practices that will help you achieve dynamic and creative results from your virtual meetings. Part 1: Monday, May 11 Part 2: Friday, May 15 Create Awesome Webinars! – Awesome webinars? Yes! Awful webinars? Unfortunately, yes. During this virtual coffee break, we’ll explore ways to design and facilitate webinars toward the awesome end of the spectrum. Ready. Set. Go! Part 1: Monday, May 18 Part 2: Friday, May 22 Working From Home & Keeping Your Sanity! – Are you finding that working from home is greater than you ever dreamed and harder than you ever thought? During this virtual coffee break, we’ll share ideas on setting up a workspace at home and working from home – complete with a virtual tour of one home office!  Friday, May 29. How to Create Training People Love to Attend – and Learn! – Workshop participants prefer highly interactive training experiences. So do trainers and facilitators! During this virtual coffee break, we’ll address three main topics – smart training design; the difference between teaching and facilitating; and 8 ways to make your training more interactive. Part 1: Monday, June 1 Part 2: Friday, June 5  Bringing Your Work Online – Prevention practitioners know how to engage youth, collaborate with community members, and implement programs in schools and communities. Now we are learning how to take this work online. During this virtual coffee break, we'll share tips for moving prevention fundaments online. Part 1: Monday, June 8 Part 2: Friday, June 12 What’s Next: Transitioning Back to the Office Environment – So you have been working from home for a while and you finally get the call from your employer to come back to the workplace. How will you prepare yourself, your family, and your co-workers to make a healthy and smooth transition? During this virtual coffee break, we will share tips for safely returning to your workplace. Part 1: Monday, June 15 Part 2; Friday, June 19  The Post-COVID-19 Workplace – What Will Work Look Like? – Many of us made a forced transition to working at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, we have experienced a higher level of work-life integration – the good, the bad, and the ugly! As we think about transitioning back to the office, how might we want to work differently? What will we need in order to transition smoothly? How might the workplace be different? Share your thoughts, concerns, and innovative ideas for rethinking the post-COVID-19 workplace. Part 1: Monday, June 22 Part 2: Friday, June 26   Register Today! Virtual Series: Challenges and Opportunities of the COVID-19 Work Environment Registration Form Series Marketing Flyer   Cost is Free!   Questions?   Contact Clarissa Lam Yuen ([email protected]) for any questions related to registration. For all other questions, please contact Michelle Frye-Spray ([email protected]).

Native American Summit on Spirituality: Cultural Inclusion into Mental Health Assessments for Native Americans Please note: This is a series of virtual meetings that have been announced in place of our original face-to-face event, which will be rescheduled. Click the registration button above to register for our fourth virtual session on May 1 from 2-4pm EDT, 1-3pm CDT, 12-2pm MDT, 11am-1pm PDT, 10am-12pm ADT.  The American Indian and Alaska Native ATTC, MHTTC, and PTTC have invited spiritual leaders from American Indian and Alaska Native communities to come together to discuss the importance of spirituality in the treatment of behavioral health and mental health disorders. Spirituality is often left out of counseling and therapeutic relationships, but is an essential part of healing and change for many clients.  Behavioral health, mental health, and addiction treatment professionals, spiritual leaders, social workers, and other health service professionals are welcome to attend this important discussion on methods for integrating spirituality into their work with clients.

Native American Summit on Spirituality: Cultural Inclusion into Mental Health Assessments for Native Americans Please note: This is a series of virtual meetings that have been announced in place of our original face-to-face event, which will be rescheduled. Click the registration button above to register for our fourth virtual session on May 1 from 2-4pm EDT, 1-3pm CDT, 12-2pm MDT, 11am-1pm PDT, 10am-12pm ADT.  The American Indian and Alaska Native ATTC, MHTTC, and PTTC have invited spiritual leaders from American Indian and Alaska Native communities to come together to discuss the importance of spirituality in the treatment of behavioral health and mental health disorders. Spirituality is often left out of counseling and therapeutic relationships, but is an essential part of healing and change for many clients.  Behavioral health, mental health, and addiction treatment professionals, spiritual leaders, social workers, and other health service professionals are welcome to attend this important discussion on methods for integrating spirituality into their work with clients.

  The National American Indian & Alaska Native PTTC will be holding virtual sessions to support our Native communities in these challenging times. Our first session will include a time of listening when you can share thoughts and concerns about the current needs and challenges that your communities and programs are facing, as well as bringing up topics you would like us to cover in future sessions. We hope these meetings will be supportive and helpful, and that we can help connect you with the resources you need. Also feel free to reach out to Cindy Sagoe in advance to let her know if there are any topics you specifically want us to be prepared to address. We hope each and every one of you are staying safe and we look forward to connecting with you soon! - Your National American Indian & Alaska Native PTTC team in collaboration with tribal leaders

Exploring HOPE - Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences   Description The Science of the Positive framework is based upon the realization that ‘The Positive’ exists in ourselves, our communities and our cultures. The new language of HOPE – Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences, utilizes The Cycle of Transformation which includes domains of Spirit – Science – Action -Return. In this webinar, we begin by honoring the Spirit that motivates all of us in all of our work. Through science, we will explore the powerful lifelong effects of positive childhood experiences even in the midst of adversity. We will also explain how the building blocks of HOPE emerged through careful review of evidence. This session will conclude by providing attendees with flexible building blocks to apply HOPE at individual, family, community and societal levels to prevent adversity, support resilience and promote healing and health equity based upon positive childhood experiences (PCEs).   Date April 29, 2020   Times 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Alaska 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Pacific 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Mountain   Presenters Robert Sege, MD, PhD is a pediatrician at the Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center and a Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, where he directs the new Center for Community-engaged Medicine. Dr. Sege is a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Social Policy in Washington, is part of the Leadership Action Team for Massachusetts Essentials for Childhood Team, and serves on the boards of the Massachusetts Children’s Trust and Prevent Child Abuse America. He received the 2019 Ray E. Helfer award from the Alliance of Children’s Trusts and the American Academy of Pediatrics. He has served on national committees for the American Academy of Pediatrics and has been lead author on several important AAP policies. His extensive speaking and publication list include contributions to the prevention and treatment of child maltreatment and youth violence. Dina Burstein, MD, MPH, FAAP is the Healthy Outcomes for Positive Experiences (HOPE) Project Director at the Center for Community-Engaged Medicine. Dr. Burstein is an experienced physician, healthcare project designer, and leader with over twenty years of success in scientific research, grant writing, analysis, training, and clinical practice. Previously, Dr. Burstein was an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, directing injury prevention focused community outreach programming and community-based research projects, as well as teaching and mentoring undergraduate, graduate, and medical students. Her aim is to enhance the well-being of individuals and the community by presenting and promoting programs while leveraging proficiency in research, care management, injury prevention and clinical effectiveness. Jeffrey Linkenbach, EdD, MA is the Founding Director & Research Scientist at The Montana Institute, who has developed national award-winning science-based programs to change norms. He is one of the co-developers of HOPE – Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences, and serves as a Co-Investigator at the HOPE Center in the Tufts University Medical School. He is recognized for his pioneering development of the Science of the Positive Framework and the Positive Community Norms Approach which are being utilized by tribal, federal, state and local organizations to achieve positive change and transformation around challenging issues such as child maltreatment, substance abuse, suicide, traffic safety and community-engaged leadership.    Continuing Education Participants will receive a continuing education certificate of 1.5 hours for this live webinar event.   Register Here https://casatunr.wufoo.com/forms/northwest-pttc-webinar-april-2020/    Cost is Free!   Questions? Please contact Clarissa Lam Yuen ([email protected]) for any questions related to registration. For any other questions, please contact Janet Porter ([email protected]).

  Increases in the non-medical use of prescription drugs (NMUPD) and opioid misuse overall, have many New England communities increasingly focusing on these problems as a prevention priority. In order to address these problems, prevention practitioners must understand the factors that contribute to the problems and the strategies that have been effective in addressing those factors. This webinar will look at where to go to learn about risk and protective factors associated with prescription drug misuse, provide an overview of evidence-based strategies that address these factors, and begin to explore opportunities for forging the new partnerships needed to implement these strategies in New England.   Webinar Recording

Part 2: Legal and Ethical Considerations for Telehealth Prevention Presenter: Aaron Fischer, PhD, BCBA-D Wednesday, April 29, 2020 @ 2:00 pm MT (1:00 pm PT/3:00 pm CT/4:00 pm ET) This webinar will review the legal and ethical considerations for prevention practice through a virtual setting. Participants will learn which requirements must be in place as well as current changes due to COVID-19. The following are the objectives for the webinar: Participants will be able to describe legal and ethical considerations for virtual prevention practice  Participants will be able to identify if a virtual platform is HIPAA and FERPA compliant Participants will learn how to safeguard their clients through responsible technology use We are closely collaborating across the Technology Transfer Center (TTC) Network in response to COVID-19.  There are a number of telehealth related products, webinars, virtual discussion sessions, and web resource pages being developed across the three Technology Transfer Centers (TTCs).  We are all doing our best to ensure we avoid duplication, and we recognize that some overlap in activities and resources related to this topic is understandable.  We realize the need for information and training across the workforce that provides prevention, treatment and recovery support services for substance use disorder (SUD) and mental illness is vast. You can access the events calendar and the products calendar through the Technology Transfer Center (TTC) landing page and see a listing of all events and products across the three networks. https://techtransfercenters.org/landing