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Registration Open Now! Presented by: Scott M. Gagnon, MPP, PS-C, Director, New England PTTC The New England PTTC serves as the Chair of the nationwide PTTC Network Marijuana Risk Work Group.  For the past several months, the work group has been hard at work developing marijuana prevention technical assistance products to assist the nation's workforce in their very important and urgent marijuana prevention work.  This past October, the Work Group was pleased to release the first set of resources in the Marijuana Prevention & Education Toolkit.     This webinar on Monday, December 9th at 12:00 EST will be the "launch party" for the toolkit.    In this webinar, participants will receive a detailed overview of each of the four products in the toolkit.  The following will be covered in the webinar: Description of each of the four tools, Goals and intended uses for each product, Tips and pointers for implementation,   Questions or comments from webinar participants.    At the conclusion of the toolkit overview, the remainder of the webinar will serve as a listening session where participants will have a chance to share with the New England PTTC staff, other issues or challenges related to marijuana prevention. This feedback and input will help to inform the development of future marijuana prevention tools, trainings, and technical assistance services. All participants will receive the link to download the tools showcased in the webinar. Mark the date in your calendar so you don't miss this webinar event!  We look forward to seeing you there!  

Naloxone Training: Learn How to Respond to an Overdose Emergency On April 5,2018,U.S. Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams released a public health advisory urging Americans to carry naloxone, a potentially lifesaving medication that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose within minutes. Attend this 90-minute training to learn about naloxone and how to administer it. The Minnesota Department of Health encourages Minnesotans to have naloxone on hand for themselves, family members or anyone else at risk of an opioid overdose. A limited number of free Naloxone kits will be available to take home at the end of the session. Anyone in Minnesota may get naloxone at a pharmacy without a prescription. When: Two training dates available! Thursday, October 10, 2019, 1:00–2:30 p.m. or Thursday, December 5, 2019, 1:00–2:30 p.m. Cost: Free, No registration required Who Should Attend: Community members, first responders, and providers interested in overdose prevention are invited to attend. If you are concerned that you, a loved one, or someone in your community is at risk for overdosing on heroin or prescription pain medication, this training is for you. Learning Objectives: What naloxone (Narcan) is How it works How to recognize the signs of an opioid overdose When to give naloxone to a person who has overdosed For more information, contact: Kris Kelly at [email protected]    Phone: 612-986-4906 Download Flyer Here

Join us for a discussion of the health effects of vaping and strategies to combat it in this two-part webinar.   In 2018, one in five high school students and one in 20 middle school students reported that they had “vaped” in the past 30 days, a substantial increase from the previous year. In this webinar, we outline exactly what E-cigarettes are, explore the youth vaping epidemic, and introduce CATCH My Breath as one possible solution. CATCH My Breath is a youth E-cigarette and Juul prevention program developed by the University of Texas Health Science Center. The program provides up-to-date information to teachers, parents, and health professionals to equip students with the knowledge and skills they need to make informed decisions about the use of E-cigarettes, including JUUL devices.  CATCH My Breath uses a peer-led teaching approach and meets national and state health education standards. And best of all, it’s FREE!! Speakers:  Megan Piper is an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin Department of Medicine and the associate director of research at UW-CTRI. Dr. Piper’s research focuses on understanding and treating tobacco dependence, with an additional interest in different populations of smokers who have more difficulty quitting, such as women and smokers with mental illness.  In 2014, Piper received the Russell-Jarvik Young Investigator Award for her contributions to the field from the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. She serves as an associate editor for the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research. Abby Rose is a program manager for CATCH Global Foundation,where she is responsible for the development and dissemination of nutrition education, physical activity, youth vaping prevention and health promotion programs. Abby is active in SHAPE America, including serving on their Physical Activity Council and Early Childhood Advisory Group. Previously, Abby was a School Wellness Specialist in the Office of Student Health and Wellness of Chicago Public& Schools. Her main areas of focus were Comprehensive School Physical Activity Programming (CSPAP) and early childhood wellness. Abby was the founding PE teacher and Director of Health and Wellness at Namaste Charter School, a national model of school wellness as a vehicle for student success on the southwest side of Chicago. She holds a MSED from Northwestern University. Be sure to register for Part Two of the webinar series:  Vaping: CATCH My Breath In Action  December 11, 2019 11:00-12:00 PM CST  

This half-day, training provides an opportunity for prevention professionals, coalition members, and stakeholders to learn the latest on marijuana with a focus on the latest data, scientific research, and evolving policies.  This training will provide an overview and analysis of the latest marijuana policy trends in New England and the implications for prevention and public health.  This training will cover multiple areas of marijuana science including: marijuana and pregnancy, impact on youth development and behavioral health, impacts on physical health, impaired driving, and many others.  The training will provide an overview of the many different forms and routes of consumption of marijuana and the public health implications of rising strengths and potencies.   Learning Objectives: ·        Participants will learn about the current state of marijuana policies across the six New England States ·        Participants will learn about the importance of public policy that is data driven and informed by public health and prevention science. ·        Participants will learn how to use the Strategic Prevention Framework and prevention strategies to address intervening variables and contributing factors in their states and/or communities. ·        Participants will learn about the importance of training community sectors in marijuana science and how it can be a powerful environmental strategy for prevention.  

This presentation will provides an overview of the evolution of marijuana policies in the New England states and where prevention fits into the overall picture and conversation.  The training will discuss the importance of policy and the  unintended consequences that can arise from policy not informed by the science of marijuana, addiction, and public health.  Participants will learn the importance of educating the public and influencers with the science of marijuana. Participants will also learn about the training and technical assistance tools available through the New England Prevention Technology Transfer Center. 

This workshop will introduce the range of evidence-based environmental strategies designed to reduce alcohol-related problems in the community. The session will highlight how to use environmental strategies as part of comprehensive substance use and misuse prevention plans to influence community standards, institutions, structures, attitudes that shape individuals’ behavior. This presentation is part of the Coalitions Rising Conference (see registration information) 

This one-day conference presented by Prevention Action Alliance, in collaboration with the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, and the Great Lakes PTTC, brings behavioral healthcare providers, youth-led prevention groups, and others together to equip them with best practices for prevention. Alfredo Cerrato of the Great Lakes PTTC will present a keynote, “Cultural Competency: The Core of Your Work in Prevention,” and will also conduct a training on the intersection of culture, faith, history, and mental health. This presentation is open only to Ohio agencies who apply to Prevention Action Alliance.

Date: December 3, 2019 Format: Webinar Contact Hours: 1 NAADAC Time: 1 PM—2 PM ET Cost: FREE   COURSE DESCRIPTION With the many substance use challenges facing the U.S. today, it is more important than ever for there to a well-developed and educated prevention workforce to address the causes behind substance use. This webinar is the first in a six-part series developed by the Central East PTTC to support the prevention workforce by detailing in-depth the steps to implementing a comprehensive, evidence-based approach. This webinar will overview the five steps of SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework, as well as discuss the importance of following ethical guidelines to prevention.   COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES Explain the goals and structure of this webinar series Discuss the importance of using evidence in prevention Overview the five steps of the Strategic Prevention Framework Describe what ethics in prevention means and why it is important SERIES DESCRIPTION A Six-Part Webinar Series on the Strategic Prevention Framework and Related Topics This six-part webinar series developed by the Central East PTTC will support and build the capacity of the prevention workforce. The series is a skill building training that will detail the steps to implementing a comprehensive, evidence-based approach to prevention using the five stages of SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework: 1) Needs Assessment, 2) Building Capacity, 3) Planning, 4) Implementation, and 5) Evaluation. The series will explain the importance of each stage and what aspects of the strategic planning process they cover, techniques for completing each stage, and strategies for overcoming obstacles. This series will also discuss other relevant topics, such as: ethical approaches to prevention, how to prioritize data, and how to modify programs, among others. Webinars will be held on December 3, December 17, January 28, February 20, March 16, and March 26. Each webinar will be scheduled at 1pm EST and recordings will be made available 2-3 weeks after the webinar concludes on this site.   SERIES LEARNING OBJECTIVES Explain the importance of an evidence-based approach to prevention Discuss the five stages of the Strategic Prevention Framework Examine how to apply the Strategic Prevention Framework to implement evidence-based prevention interventions Describe common challenges and strategies for overcoming obstacles PRESENTERS Josh Esrick, MPP is a Senior Policy Analyst with Carnevale Associates. Josh has extensive experience in substance use prevention; researching, writing, and presenting on best practice and knowledge development publications, briefs, and reference guides; and developing and providing training and technical assistance to numerous organizations at the Federal, state, and local levels. He developed numerous SAMHSA Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies’ (CAPT) products on strategies to prevent opioid misuse and overdose, risk and protective factors for substance use, youth substance use prevention strategies, youth substance use trends, emerging substance use trends, the potential regulations surrounding marijuana legalization, as well as numerous other topics. Emily Patton, MSc, PgDip holds a Masters of Science in Abnormal and Clinical Psychology from Swansea University and a Postgraduate Degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Edinburgh. She offers significant professional experience in the fields of public policy development and analysis, criminal justice research, data collection and analysis, program development, and performance management.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Training and Technical assistance for substance misuse prevention, addiction, and mental health in New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands. Presenters: Michael Chaple, Ph.D. Director, Northeast & Caribbean Addiction Technology Transfer Center Ann A. Murphy, Ph.D., CPRP Co-Director, Northeast-Caribbean Mental Health Technology Transfer Center Kristen Gilmore Powell, Ph.D., L.S.W. Director, Northeast & Caribbean Prevention Technology Transfer Center This webinar will provide a brief overview of the TTC model, goals, and objectives. We will introduce participants to leaders from the Addition Technology Transfer Center (ATTC), the Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC), and the Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) serving New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. We will share how to access our training and technical assistance services for substance misuse prevention, addiction, and mental health. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions to the presenters.

Sustaining the positive prevention outcomes and the processes used to reach them takes planning. This day-long, in-person training offers participants a unique opportunity to engage first-hand in a comprehensive sustainability planning process. Participants will learn the rationale for sustaining prevention processes and outcomes, the core components of sustainability planning, and receive tools and resources to create their own sustainability plan.

Webinar Overview This webinar will provide an overview of the newly released National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s consensus report, Fostering Healthy Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Health in Children and Youth: A National Agenda. During this webinar, several key contributors to the report will highlight updates to the research since the previous report on this topic was released 10 years ago and discuss recommendations for leveraging this substantive research to create a national agenda where children and youth thrive.   Register Here   Presenters Thomas F. Boat, M.D. (Chair) is the dean emeritus of the College of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati and a professor of pediatrics in the Division of Pulmonary Medicine at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Earlier, he was the director of the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Research Foundation and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. More recently, he has worked at local and national levels to improve child health research efforts, subspecialty training, and clinical care. He has a special interest in issues posed by children’s mental health for pediatric care, research, and training, and he is working in Cincinnati and nationally to promote children’s behavioral health. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He is also a member of the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs and served as president of its board of directors. He has also served as chair of the American Board of Pediatrics and as president of both the Society for Pediatric Research and the American Pediatric Society. He has an M.D. in pediatric pulmonology from the University of Iowa. Richard Catalano, Jr. is the Bartley Dobb Professor for the study and prevention of violence in the School of Social Work, a research affiliate at the Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology, and the co-founder of the Social Development Research Group, all at the University of Washington. His work focuses on discovering risk and protective factors for positive and problem behavior, designing and evaluating programs to address these factors, and using this knowledge to understand and improve prevention service systems in states and communities. He is the co-developer of the Social Development Model; several parenting programs, including “Guiding Good Choices;” the school-based program “Raising Healthy Children;” and the community prevention approach “Communities That Care.” He is a recipient of the award of excellence from the National Prevention Network, a practitioner organization, and the presidential award from the Society for Prevention Research, a scientific organization. He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington, all in sociology. Kelly J. Kelleher is the ADS Professor of Innovation at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Dr. Kelleher is also Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health at The Ohio State University’s Colleges of Medicine and Public Health. As a pediatrician, his research interests focus on accessibility, effectiveness, and quality of health care services for children and their families, especially those affected by mental disorders, substance abuse, or violence. He has a long-standing interest in formal outcomes research for mental health and substance abuse services. He has an M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health and an M.D. from The Ohio State University College of Medicine.     Date and Time Tuesday, November 26, 2019 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Mountain/Arizona 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Pacific 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Alaska 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Hawaii 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm American Samoa Wednesday, November 27, 2019 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Republic of the Marshall Islands 10:00 am - 11:30 am Pohnpei and Kosrae 9:00 am - 10:30 am Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Chuuk, and Yap 8:00 am - 9:30 am Republic of Palau

Webinar Overview This webinar will provide an overview of the newly released National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s consensus report, Fostering Healthy Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Health in Children and Youth: A National Agenda. During this webinar, several key contributors to the report will highlight updates to the research since the previous report on this topic was released 10 years ago and discuss recommendations for leveraging this substantive research to create a national agenda where children and youth thrive.   Register Here   Presenters Thomas F. Boat, M.D. (Chair) is the dean emeritus of the College of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati and a professor of pediatrics in the Division of Pulmonary Medicine at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Earlier, he was the director of the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Research Foundation and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. More recently, he has worked at local and national levels to improve child health research efforts, subspecialty training, and clinical care. He has a special interest in issues posed by children’s mental health for pediatric care, research, and training, and he is working in Cincinnati and nationally to promote children’s behavioral health. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He is also a member of the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs and served as president of its board of directors. He has also served as chair of the American Board of Pediatrics and as president of both the Society for Pediatric Research and the American Pediatric Society. He has an M.D. in pediatric pulmonology from the University of Iowa. Richard Catalano, Jr., Ph.D is the Bartley Dobb professor for the study and prevention of violence in the School of Social Work, a research affiliate at the Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology, and the co-founder of the Social Development Research Group, all at the University of Washington. His work focuses on discovering risk and protective factors for positive and problem behavior, designing and evaluating programs to address these factors, and using this knowledge to understand and improve prevention service systems in states and communities. He is the co-developer of the Social Development Model; several parenting programs, including “Guiding Good Choices;” the school-based program “Raising Healthy Children;” and the community prevention approach “Communities That Care.” He is a recipient of the award of excellence from the National Prevention Network, a practitioner organization, and the presidential award from the Society for Prevention Research, a scientific organization. He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington, all in sociology. Kelly J. Kelleher, M.D., Ph.D is the ADS Professor of Innovation at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Dr. Kelleher is also Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health at The Ohio State University’s Colleges of Medicine and Public Health. As a pediatrician, his research interests focus on accessibility, effectiveness, and quality of health care services for children and their families, especially those affected by mental disorders, substance abuse, or violence. He has a long-standing interest in formal outcomes research for mental health and substance abuse services. He has an M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health and an M.D. from The Ohio State University College of Medicine.   Date and Time Tuesday, November 26, 2019 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Mountain/Arizona 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Pacific 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Alaska 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Hawaii 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm American Samoa Wednesday, November 27, 2019 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Republic of the Marshall Islands 10:00 am - 11:30 am Pohnpei and Kosrae 9:00 am - 10:30 am Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Chuuk, and Yap 8:00 am - 9:30 am Republic of Palau

Program Description: There is an alarming rise in the number of American teens and adults who are trying vaping. It is reversing the hard-fought declines achieved in the use nicotine. Vaping may pose serious and avoidable effects on health and brain development and the potential for addiction in youth. This Project ECHO will bring expert faculty together with groups from across New England who are focusing their efforts on substance use prevention to share knowledge and strategies to further their efforts to reduce vaping and its associated harms through case-based learning. This Project ECHO® on reducing vaping is first of a series of ECHO Projects to be initiated by the NEPTTC. Project ECHO® (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is an evidence-based distance learning method developed by researchers at the University of New Mexico. The 9-month program begins in October 2019 with monthly sessions between October and May.   Learning Objectives: Speed the dissemination and adoption of prevention evidence-based protocols, guidelines and practices. Share prevention efforts that are occurring across the communities in New England. Build prevention capacity across communities/states. Promote the ability to collect and analyze data.  

Please join us for a FREE webinar titled: Two Evidence-Based Prevention Approaches for the Hispanic and Latino Communities: Meet the Developers! Hispanic and Latinos are expected to reach one quarter of the U.S population by the year 2050, and are at a disproportionate risk for negative behavioral health outcomes such as substance use and alcoholism (National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2007), sexually transmitted illnesses such as HIV (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2007), and mental health concerns (Prado et al., 2006). With this knowledge, researchers have developed Evidence Based Practices  that focuses on culturally based risk factors within the Latino community.  Familia Adelante: Multi-risk Reduction Behavioral Health Prevention for Latino/Hispanic Youth and Families (FA) addresses the impact of acculturative stress on Latino communities and equips Latino-serving organizations with a psycho-educational curriculum that helps Latino families manage negative behavioral outcomes associated with stress exposure, and their families in family and peer communication, substance abuse prevention, HIV knowledge and perceptions of harm about high-risk behavior, and positive school bonding and behavior.  Familias Unidas: Family-centered, evidence-based substance use and sexual risk behavior prevention intervention for Hispanic youth and their families. Familias Unidas is a multi-level intervention that targets risk (e.g., poor adolescent communication) and protective factors (e.g., parental involvement) at the family, peer, and school level. Presenters: Richard C. Cervantes, Ph.D.; Research Director @Behavioral Assessment, Inc. Dr. Cervantes is Research Director of Behavioral Assessment, Inc. He served as Research Psychologist at the UCLA Spanish Speaking Mental Health Research Center and held a full-time faculty appointment in the USC School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Cervantes was the Principal Investigator for the NIH funded study, “Development of the Hispanic Stress Inventory-2” and PI on the recently completed the NIH study “Familia Adelante: A multi risk Prevention Program for Hispanic Youth”. He was also PI on the recently completed, NIH supported “Hispanic Family Assessment Inventory Study”. Dr. Cervantes is also a leader in evaluation science with special expertise in cultural competency and cross-cultural instrument development. He serves as the lead evaluator for SAMHSA’s National Hispanic/Latino Addiction and Prevention Technology Transfer Centers and was the lead evaluator for the New Mexico State Incentive Grant program. Guillermo Prado, Ph.D., M.SDean/Director @Graduate School, Leonard M. Miller Professor of Public Health Sciences, Division of Prevention Science and Community Health, UM Dr. Guillermo (Willy) Prado is Dean of the Graduate School, Leonard M. Miller Professor of Public Health Sciences, Director of the Division of Prevention Science and Community Health at the University of Miami. He has a doctoral in epidemiology and a master’s in statistics. His research broadly focuses on the development and evaluation of parenting interventions for Hispanic youth and their families. Dr. Prado’s research has appeared in over 130 peer reviewed articles and has been funded by over $100 million dollars of continuous NIH funding as PI, Co-I, or Mentor since the first year of his doctoral program. As Dean of the University of Miami’s Graduate School, Dr. Prado has developed programming around responsible conduct for research, professional development, and grantsmanship for all graduate students at the University of Miami. Dr. Prado has also had key roles in training components on NIH funded centers of excellence. Maria I. Tapia, MSW, LCSWClinical Social Worker Mrs. Tapia is a licensed clinical social worker with over 20 years of experience as a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine. She has dedicated her career to the prevention and treatment of adolescent substance use, behavioral problems and HIV prevention. In her role as a senior clinical trainer and supervisor of evidence-based practices, she has trained and supervised agencies and therapists in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe. She has participated in groundbreaking, NIH-funded behavioral health clinical trials, and has authored several articles and book chapters in the area of minority HIV and drug abuse prevention related to the cultural context and functioning of the family. Currently, she is Doctoral student of Social Work at Barry University School of Social Work and is the recipient of a Fellowship from The Center of Human Rights & Social Justice (DHRSJ).  

The Invitation to Change Approach is a practical, compassionate and skills-oriented program developed for people wanting to help loved ones struggling with substance use. It blends evidence-based principles and practices from Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT), Motivational Interviewing (MI) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Instead of the traditional message to families of “detachment,” the Invitation to Change Apporach emphasizes the idea that people can take care of themselves while simultaneously staying engaged and practicing active strategies to help their struggling loved one. Who Should Attend: Treatment professionals, lay professionals who work with families, community organization leaders

Registration Opening Soon! Presented by David Lischer, LCSW This full day workshop will explore BASICS - the Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students.  BASICS is an empirically supported harm reduction approach for working with college students to reduce negative consequences of alcohol use.  In this workshop, we will briefly review the context of alcohol use on campuses and its consequences. We will delve into the BASICS model, developing skills and knowledge necessary to effectively implement BASICS. Participants will leave the workshop with the tools needed to successfully conduct this individual intervention on their own campuses or in their communities. (The BASICS feedback report presented in this workshop makes use of Publisher and Excel software.  Participants are encouraged to bring their laptops in order to practice and develop confidence in creating these reports.)   Participants who successfully complete this workshop will: Briefly review research related to alcohol and interventions with college students Review instruments for assessing alcohol use and related behavior Reinforce or increase helpful knowledge of alcohol and its interaction with the body Develop understanding of the BASICS model and confidence in applying it Develop the ability to create a BASICS report for the student   About the presenter: David Lischer, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker with over 20 years of experience working with adolescents and young adults on issues related to mental health and substance use.  For the past 20 years, he has been on staff at a small, liberal arts college counseling center. He has worked extensively with his broad campus community to implement a socio-ecological model to address alcohol use.  In his direct work with college students, a primary focus has been using a harm reduction approach to reduce high-risk alcohol use. David was actively involved with Maine’s Higher Education Alcohol Prevention Partnership (HEAPP), an initiative to reduce negative consequences of alcohol use among college/university students.  David has enjoyed working with colleagues across the state and beyond, training and implementing the Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS).  

Chuck Klevgaard, Prevention Manager for the Great Lakes PTTC will provide a workshop during the conference on how prevention practitioners are in a unique position to reduce the stigma surrounding substance use disorder. Open to registrants for the Integrating Primary and Behavioral Healthcare Through the Lens of Prevention National Conferenence, New Orleanes, LA.  Co-Sponsored by the University of Oklahoma Outreach Public and Community Services

Registration Opening Soon! Presented by David Lischer, LCSW This full day workshop will explore BASICS - the Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students.  BASICS is an empirically supported harm reduction approach for working with college students to reduce negative consequences of alcohol use.  In this workshop, we will briefly review the context of alcohol use on campuses and its consequences. We will delve into the BASICS model, developing skills and knowledge necessary to effectively implement BASICS. Participants will leave the workshop with the tools needed to successfully conduct this individual intervention on their own campuses or in their communities. (The BASICS feedback report presented in this workshop makes use of Publisher and Excel software.  Participants are encouraged to bring their laptops in order to practice and develop confidence in creating these reports.)   Participants who successfully complete this workshop will: Briefly review research related to alcohol and interventions with college students Review instruments for assessing alcohol use and related behavior Reinforce or increase helpful knowledge of alcohol and its interaction with the body Develop understanding of the BASICS model and confidence in applying it Develop the ability to create a BASICS report for the student   About the Presenter: David Lischer, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker with over 20 years of experience working with adolescents and young adults on issues related to mental health and substance use.  For the past 20 years, he has been on staff at a small, liberal arts college counseling center. He has worked extensively with his broad campus community to implement a socio-ecological model to address alcohol use.  In his direct work with college students, a primary focus has been using a harm reduction approach to reduce high-risk alcohol use. David was actively involved with Maine’s Higher Education Alcohol Prevention Partnership (HEAPP), an initiative to reduce negative consequences of alcohol use among college/university students.  David has enjoyed working with colleagues across the state and beyond, training and implementing the Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS).  

  REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!!! The New England PTTC announces the next installment in the Prevention in Action Webinar series.  Each webinar within this series will feature a success story in prevention in New England.  This is an opportunity to share across the New England states those successful prevention initiatives being implemented across the region. It's a chance to learn about a strategy or initiative you may be interested in implementing in your state or community.   Each webinar presentation takes participants through the steps taken to put the particular initiative into action.  At the conclusion of each presentation, webinar participants will have an opportunity to ask questions of the presenter and get tips on how they could replicate in their own state or community.   This month's webinar...   Achieving Coalition Sustainability   Presented by: Kelly Leppard, CPS - Youth Prevention Coordinator, Southington STEPS The STEPS Coalition in Southington CT has just completed 10 years of funding through the Federal Drug Free Communities Support Program and the community has successfully sustained two full-time staff positions for the coalition.  Kelly Leppard, the STEPS Prevention Coordinator, will share her community’s successes over the past 10 years, to provide helpful tips regarding sustainability, and offer advice on how to make prevention a priority in your own communities for years to come.   Presenter Bio: Kelly Leppard has been the Prevention Coordinator for the STEPS Coalition in Southington, CT since 2008.  She graduated from Western New England University in Springfield, MA and is a Certified Prevention Specialist through the Connecticut and International Certification Board.  Kelly is a Board Member of the Connecticut Tobacco and Health Trust Fund, a member of the New England PTTC Advisory Council, the Past President of the Connecticut Association of Prevention Professionals, a member of Tobacco Retailer and Community Steering Committee, a Board member of the Main Street Community Foundation and a member of the Southington Rotary Club.  

This event is hosted by North Dakota Behavioral Health and Human Services.  The Mountain Plains - Prevention Technology Transfer Center will be exhibiting at the 2019 North Dakota Behavioral Health Conference.  Please stop by our booth to check out our substance misuse prevention resources and to meet our team.  See you in Bismarck!

Program Description: There is an alarming rise in the number of American teens and adults who are trying vaping. It is reversing the hard-fought declines achieved in the use nicotine. Vaping may pose serious and avoidable effects on health and brain development and the potential for addiction in youth. This Project ECHO will bring expert faculty together with groups from across New England who are focusing their efforts on substance use prevention to share knowledge and strategies to further their efforts to reduce vaping and its associated harms through case-based learning. This Project ECHO® on reducing vaping is first of a series of ECHO Projects to be initiated by the NEPTTC. Project ECHO® (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is an evidence-based distance learning method developed by researchers at the University of New Mexico. The 9-month program begins in October 2019 with monthly sessions between October and May.   Learning Objectives: Speed the dissemination and adoption of prevention evidence-based protocols, guidelines and practices. Share prevention efforts that are occurring across the communities in New England. Build prevention capacity across communities/states. Promote the ability to collect and analyze data.  

Part 2: Engaging the Faith Community in Substance Use Prevention will focus on delivery models to engage faith leaders in prevention. Drew Brooks and Ben Spooner will facilitate a panel presentation with faith leaders working across the continuum of care in Region 5.   Drew Brooks is the Executive Director of Faith Partners, a non-profit organization providing leadership, administration, and training for a congregational addiction team ministry model. He has been active in church all his life and provided leadership in a number of ministries. Drew has worked in the prevention, treatment, and public health fields for over thirty-six years with Hazelden, Johnson Institute, and other organizations including providing training and consultation to faith communities, schools, and community organizations across the country. He recently served as co-chair of the Austin Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care (ROSC) Initiative, member of the Texas Recovery Initiative (TRI), and a member of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy (BRSS TACS) twelve person team to assist the State of Texas in designing and implementing recovery-oriented supports, services, and systems.   Ben Spooner has contributed to technical assistance (TA) efforts in communities across the nation, including work with multiple American Indian tribes. He has served as a TA provider for the Massachusetts TA system since 2012. Prior to this, his most recent work was with the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Training and Technical Assistance Center and with the Tribal Youth Program Training and Technical Assistance Center providing TA on youth substance use and violence prevention.     This webinar is part two of a two-part series.  Be sure to join us for Part 1 Engaging the Faith Community in Substance Use Prevention, Part 1 October 29, 2019 10:00-11:30AM Register

Enhanced Prevention Learning Series (EPLS): Prevention Ethics Overview This 3-week series offers a unique interactive experience that provides participants an opportunity to explore the six principles of the Prevention Code of Ethics using realistic examples designed to strengthen participants’ abilities to manage challenging situations in their work. The learning series is structured to also provide online consultation, skill-based learning and practice, group and individual activities, reading assignments, and discussion on topics essential to application of an ethical decision-making process.   Facilitator Jill Parker Ms. Parker has been working in the field of public health for over twenty years. She is currently the Executive Director of the Utah Association of Local Health Departments and Utah Association of Local Boards of Health. In this role, she coordinates with and supports the 13 local health departments across the state, serves as a legislative liaison, and works to spread the message on the essential role of public health in communities. She also serves on the Executive Board of the Utah Coalition for Opioid Overdose Prevention and the Utah Poison Control Center Advisory Board.   Session Dates Session 1: Monday, November 4, 2019 Session 2: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 Session 3: Thursday, November 14, 2019 Session 4: Tuesday, November 19, 2019   Time 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Alaska 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Pacific 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Mountain   Register Here

Webinar Overview The “all hands on deck” call to address the opioid crisis has challenged our efforts to implement primary prevention that complement other efforts to address the crisis across the spectrum of behavioral health care services.  This interactive webinar will explore ways to expand prevention to move our work more upstream, beyond preventing deaths from opioid overdoses to preventing the misuse that leads to those overdoses. This webinar will include an overview of 2018 NSDUH data, risk and protective factors associated with opioid misuse and overdose, as well as a range of promising and evidence-based strategies to consider as part of creating a comprehensive plan to move the work of prevention upstream. The webinar will also explore community mobilization strategies and ways to build additional partnerships.   Presenters Kevin P. Haggerty, MSW, PhD, Professor, UW School of Social Work, Director, Social Development Research Group Dr. Haggerty specializes in prevention programs at the community, school and family level. For more than 30 years, he has focused on developing innovative ways to organize the scientific knowledge base for prevention so that parents, communities, and schools can better identify, assess, and prioritize customized approaches that meet their needs.  He has an extensive research background in the intersection of biological and environmental risks for drug abuse in emerging adults and is an expert on substance abuse and delinquency prevention. Additionally, Dr. Haggerty is an investigator of the Community Youth Development Study, which tests the effectiveness of the Communities That Care program. Michelle Frye-Spray, MS, CPS Northwest PTTC Coordinator Ms. Frye-Spray is a Project Manager at the University of Reno, Nevada’s CASAT.  Michelle leverages her passion for upstream prevention with over 25 years of prevention-related experiences working with schools, communities, states, tribal organizations, and jurisdictions. Her skills include training design and facilitation, community capacity-building, and navigating culturally complex communities and systems to oversee the delivery of prevention services that are culturally appropriate and audience-specific.  Alyssa O’Hair, MPH, MA, CPS, Pacific Southwest PTTC Project Director Ms. O’Hair is a Senior Manager, Workforce Development at the Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies at the University of Nevada, Reno. With over 10 years of experience providing training and technical assistance, she currently serves as the project director for the Pacific Southwest PTTC, which aims to build the skills of the substance abuse prevention workforce.  Ms. O’Hair has extensive subject matter expertise in public health approaches to prevention; community needs assessments; data-driven decision-making; and evaluation design and methodology.     Date and Time Thursday, October 31, 2019 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm   Mountain 03:00 pm - 04:30 pm   Pacific/Arizona 02:00 pm – 03:30 pm  Alaska 12:00 pm - 01:30 pm   Hawaii 11:00 am - 12:30 pm   American Samoa Friday, November 1, 2019 10:00 am - 11:30 am   Republic of the Marshall Islands 09:00 am - 10:30 am   Pohnpei and Kosrae 08:00 am - 09:30 am   Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Chuuk, and Yap 07:00 am - 08:30 am   Republic of Palau