Past Events

This 1-hour self-paced webinar, Informing Prevention: Vaping Among Adolescents (Part 6 of 6), is for any health, oral health, and behavioral health student or professional. During this webinar you will learn about the rates of vaping among adolescents and why adolescents vape. You will learn the social and biological consequences of vaping. Lastly, you will learn how to prevent adolescents from vaping. Developed by the Mountain Plains Prevention Technology Transfer Center (Mountain Plains PTTC). 1.0 Hours Continuing Education Credit Available

Topic:  Teaching the Substance Abuse Prevention Skills Training (SAPST) in a University The New England PTTC announces the launch of the Prevention in Action Webinar series.  Each webinar within this webinar series will feature a success story in prevention.  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.  Topic areas will include implementing a specific prevention program, implementing an environmental strategy, promoting prevention within communities, building prevention workforce capacity, and many, many more. In this one-hour self-paced course, participants will: * Review milestones in this history of prevention certification in Maine * Review background that led to the development of the SAPST course * Understand the structure and content of a University course focusing on the SAPST * Learn about example content of the SAPST course, and * Examine implementation and logistical methods and challenges of the SAPST course NOTE:  All New England Prevention Technology Transfer Center webinars and online courses are hosted at the PTTC Network Learning Management Center, HealtheKnowledge.  You will need to create an account to register and participate in the webinar.  If you need to create an account, click here and follow the instructions.  Once you have a user account you will be able to register for this, and all future New England PTTC webinars and courses.  Contact us if you have any questions.

In this 1-hour webinar, Carlos Morales will discuss Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the importance of providing accessible educational materials to the prevention work force. By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to: Define Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; Identify audiences impacted by Section 508; Define accessibility of information; and, Identify ways to increase Section 508 compliance within own work. Developed by the Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) Network's  Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Practices Workgroup which is working on efforts to decrease health disparities across the country. 1.0 Hour Certificate of Completion Available  

Introduction to Geographic Information System (GIS) Training   Part 1 of the Geospatial Academy for Prevention Professionals (GAPP)   Substance misuse prevention work is inherently concerned with place. As we work to prevent substance-related harms, the community context is an important consideration when deciding where to implement prevention strategies. Using a Geographic Information System (GIS) allows users to focus on the community context with a robust set of tools supporting data visualization and analysis. The Geospatial Academy for Prevention Professionals will provide you the skills necessary to implement geospatial analyses of community data to communicate work to key stakeholders, assess community need, and evidence the impact of prevention initiatives.   This 3 part training series will introduce you to the Quantum GIS software package, culminating in producing maps and analyses to support substance misuse prevention work in your community. Each part of the online training series is self-paced and supported by individual technical assistance.   Part 1: Introduction GIS and Basic Mapping Applications Part 2: GIS Applications: Geocoding, Proximity Analysis, Hotspot Analysis Part 3: Using Local Data to Support Prevention Goals   The first course in this series will introduce participants to GIS and a free software application to implement GIS in your organization.   Questions? Wish to Register? Contact Project Coordinator Clare Neary at [email protected]

"No matter what capacity you're working in - you are a leader. Whether you realize it or not, you are having an influence on those around you. Whether you're leading a coalition, organization, team, business, regional or event state-level agency, your ability to lead, learn, and implement effective leadership strategies is critical." - Dave Closson Coalitions, organizations, and communities need multifaceted leaders who can act on a broad vision, introduce change, engage the workforce, and sustain positive outcomes through effective leadership practices. Leaders are continually challenged to achieve these high expectations and perform beyond their current capabilities. To maximize their effectiveness and contribution, leaders need to be equipped with the most relevant knowledge, skills, and tools available today. Carlton Hall and David Anderson are bringing you the unseen routines, thinking patterns, and techniques that help leaders at all levels be more successful in fulfilling their leadership expectations and tackling tough challenges. Creating Change: Empowering the Leader Within has been crafted from decades of working with and learning from communities and leaders, in every state and territory, representing every culture and context, about what works, what does not, and how do they improve. Attendees will leave with: A revitalized understanding of leadership Helpful processes for planned changed Resourceful approaches for developing guiding principles from an organizational perspective Conceptual frameworks to reframe our opportunities   Meet the Speakers: Carlton Hall is the President and CEO of Carlton Hall Consulting LLC, a multi-faceted, full-service consulting firm designed to provide customized solutions and enable measurable change for communities, organizations, families, and individuals. Carlton spent twelve years with the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) serving in several leadership positions and including most recently, Acting Vice President, Training Operations, and Acting Director for CADCA's National Coalition Institute, responsible for the day to day operational oversight, design, and implementation of its premier national training delivery system. Carlton also supported CADCA's International Programs in partnership with the US State Department's International Narcotics Law Enforcement division (INL), managing training programs in Kenya, South Africa, and Ghana. Carlton is one of the primary architects of CADCA's National Coalition Academy. The Academy, a year-long coalition development program, is designed to increase the effectiveness of communities in drug demand reduction producing population-level outcomes. With more than 25 years experience in the fields of government relations, social services, and prevention science, Carlton first gained national prominence as a Communities That Care® Project Manager, for the Channing Bete Company. He was a Communities That Care® trainer/senior consultant with Channing Bete Company for four years. He received his Master's in Human Services from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. He was appointed as the Project Director for the Communities That Care® process in Philadelphia as well as the Crime and Public Safety manager for the Philadelphia Empowerment Zone, a division of the Mayor's Office of Community Services. During that time he managed a small planning grant to over three million dollars for science-based prevention programming in the neighborhoods of Philadelphia.   David Anderson, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Education and Human Development at George Mason University. At Mason, he served as Professor and Director of the Center for the Advancement of Public Health, acquired over 180 grants and contracts, and taught courses on drug and alcohol issues, health communication and community health. His professional work on drug and alcohol abuse prevention and wellness promotion spans over four decades. His specialties include strategic planning, program development, needs assessment and evaluation, and health communication. His research, writing, and training emphasize leadership skills, grounded and practical strategies, and healthy environments to maximize organizational, group and individual potential.   Recent books include Leadership in Drug and Alcohol Abuse Prevention: Insights from Long-Term Advocates (Routledge, 2019), Health and Safety Communication (2017), Wellness Issues for Higher Education (2015) and Further Wellness Issues for Higher Education (2016). Research includes the College Alcohol Survey (1979-2018), Understanding Teen Drinking Cultures in America, two national wellness studies, and numerous evaluation efforts. He co-directed Promising Practices: Campus Alcohol Strategies and prepared a Sourcebook, Action Planner and Task Force Planner; he developed resources on healthy living for young adults as well as a peer companion curriculum for seniors and trauma survivors. Prior to his 28 years at Mason, Dr. Anderson served as a student affairs administrator at Ohio University, Virginia Tech, Radford University, and The Ohio State University. He earned his bachelors degree from Duke University, his masters degree from The Ohio State University, and his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech.    Watch David's TEDx Talk    

  The Evolution of State Marijuana Policies and Where Prevention Fits In Registration Now Open!! Presenter: Scott M. Gagnon, MPP, PS-C, Director, New England Prevention Technology Transfer Center This webinar 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 discusses the importance of policy and the different layers of policy that need to be considered: federal, state, municipal, and organizational.  Participants will learn about 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 today's marijuana.  Participants will be introduced to how to use the prevention tools we already have at our disposal as commercial marijuana sales begin in some of our states and communities.   Participants will learn about the current state of marijuana policies in New England and how they evolve. Participants will learn about the importance of policy in the positive and negative impacts on public health. 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.   Contact Hours: 1.5 hours   About the Presenter Scott M. Gagnon, MPP, PS-C is a Certified Prevention Specialist and the Director of AdCare Educational Institute of Maine, Inc., and Director of the New England Prevention Technology Transfer Center.  Scott has a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service.  Appointed by the Maine Speaker of the House, Scott serves as the public health representative on Maine’s Marijuana Advisory Commission.  Scott chairs the marijuana prevention advocacy & education group, Smart Approaches to Marijuana, Maine and has also served as Co Chair of the Prevention Task Force for the Maine Opiate Collaborative.  Scott currently serves on the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention National Advisory Council. In addition to his role as Director for the New England PTTC, Scott has been a marijuana science trainer for the New England ATTC.   Scott was the 2017 recipient of the Patrick J. Kennedy Outstanding Advocate Award from Smart Approaches to Marijuana. In 2015, Scott was awarded the Maine Public Health Association's Ruth S. Shaper Memorial Award and Healthy Androscoggin's Will Bartlett Award and is also the 2013 recipient of the Maine Alliance to Prevent Substance Abuse Prevention Award. Scott trains and presents both in New England and nationally on marijuana science and policy, as well as on prevention workforce development.   

Sustaining Your Positive Prevention Outcomes Sustaining 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. Holiday Inn and Suites Mount Pleasant  5278 East Pickard Street Mount Pleasant MI 48858 Contact: Erin Ficker [email protected]

Webinar Overview Prevention has grown as a discipline over the last 30 years. The continued emphasis in the field of using “evidence-based” interventions, along with increased knowledge of what is effective, has led to greater community success at improving substance-related outcomes. Once these successful prevention efforts are in place, how do communities sustain these efforts over time? As a follow-up to Part I in this webinar series, this webinar will provide the specific tools to help prevention professionals and community members answer this question. Note: Attendees should join this webinar even if they did not attend Part I in the series! A soon-to-be-released toolkit will be discussed and participants will have the opportunity to practice specific sustainability strategies.  Presenters Hayden Center, Jr, PhD, has worked as a consultant in alcohol, tobacco, and other drug misuse prevention for more than 30 years.   He served the State of Alabama Department of Education as the coordinator of the Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program. Dr. Center was a consultant to the Alabama Governor’s Office of Drug Abuse Policy for ten years and has worked with numerous state and local agencies in the state of Alabama.  He is also working on the development of a prevention sustainability toolkit that will be released in the Fall of 2019. Date & Times Tuesday, September 24, 2019 Mountain: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Pacific: 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Hawaii: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm American Samoa: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Wednesday, September 25, 2019 Republic of the Marshall Islands: 10:00 am - 11:30 am Pohnpei and Kosrae: 9:00 am - 10:30 am Guam, Northern Mariana: 8:00 am - 9:30 am Republic of Palau: 7:00 am - 8:30 am

NIATx Change Leader Academy Friday, September 20, 2019 Free training sponsored by Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge and the Great Lakes PTTC Earn 4.5 NAADAC CEUs 8:30 am – 4:00 pm Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge-Portland Building 1619 Portland Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55404   What is the NIATx Change Leader Academy? • An interactive one-day face-to-face workshop on the NIATx model of process improvement, followed by three months of peer networking and support from a NIATx coach. What is the NIATx model of process improvement? • A structured, team-based approach to change management that relies on the power of making small changes that produce results quickly.   At the NIATx Change Leader Academy, you’ll learn how to: • Select a change project and set a project aim • Engage a team in the change process • Use the 5 essential NIATx tools • Achieve measurable, sustainable results Who Should Attend? Anyone interested in leading change or improvement in their prevention organization: Senior leaders, managers, coalitions members and leaders, and direct service providers from health departments, community coalitions, schools, or nonprofit organizations. The CLA provides both beginners and those with some experience in process improvement with the tools to lead change projects within their organization.

Understanding the Role of Policy in Preventing Substance Misuse Thursday, September 19, 2019, 1 to 2:30 pm ET & Thursday, September 26, 2019, 1 to 2:30 pm ET   When successfully implemented, policy strategies can produce widespread adoption of behaviors and attitudes that promote health and reduce substance misuse. They have far-reaching effects, can be relatively inexpensive and easy to sustain, and can be successfully used to reinforce programs directed at individuals. Yet ironically, policy is one of the prevention strategies least utilized by our field, particularly at the local level. Policy development can seem complicated and/or perceived as the purview of state and federal governments and, because policies take time to develop and produce results, they can feel less concrete than other prevention strategies. This two-part, introductory webinar is designed to help you get past these barriers—both real and perceived—by presenting clear steps can take to select and implement policies that produce lasting change. Specifically, we will outline a process for identifying and enhancing the community conditions that promote policy adoption and review best practices for supporting policy implementation.  In addition:  Part 1 will examine specific policies to prevent youth alcohol use and prescription drug misuse. Part 2 will examine policies to prevent youth tobacco and marijuana use, with a focus on preventing vaping.   During both sessions, participants will have an opportunity to pose questions and discuss common challenges to leading policy change efforts, including selecting appropriate policy strategies and building local support for policy passage and implementation.   Questions?   Contact Project Coordinator Clare Neary at [email protected]   Wish to Register?   Please register by following this link.

Date: September 18, 2019 Format: Webinar   Time: 11 AM—12 PM ET Cost: FREE Event Flyer: Click here! WEBINAR DESCRIPTION The Danya Institute continues its collaborative efforts to develop and strengthen the specialized behavioral health and primary healthcare workforce to provide evidence-based and promising practices in the treatment and prevention of mental health and substance use disorders. The Danya Institute manages three SAMHSA-funded Region 3 Technology Transfer Centers: Central East Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) Central East Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) Central East Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) Each center's director will provide an overview of their missions and goals. The TTCs are committed to helping the workforce achieve meaningful and lasting changes in policies, programs, and practices that will enhance services and improve outcomes for individuals and their families who have, or are at risk of developing, a behavioral health condition. In part, this is accomplished by providing no cost, individualized, locally-driven training and technical assistance (T/TA) to enhance the delivery of behavioral health prevention, treatment and recovery support services. Learn how we can provide training and technical assistance (T/TA) to support your organization to increase capacity, skills, and expertise to deliver effective evidence-based interventions! OBJECTIVES Orient attendees to the technology transfer model Inform attendees of T/TA opportunities Educate attendees of the process to request T/TA Inform attendees of joining an Advisory Boards Provide a Q/A forum to answer questions regarding your T/TA needs WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Anyone! Behavioral health care professionals, prevention professionals, health care workers, community coalitions, peers, consumers, family members, stakeholders, and advocates interested in improving cultural competence and humility in the delivery of behavioral health. PRESENTERS                                                             

Today’s Marijuana -- Stronger, More Edibles, Confusing Information about Driving Webinar is at capacity, recorded webinar will be posted to Healtheknowledge.org!! Presenter: Karen E. Simone, PharmD, Director of the Northern New England Poison Center   In this webinar, Dr. Karen Simone, Director of the Northern New England Poison Center, will provide an overview of factual information about today’s marijuana products. They are stronger, often times contain no or less CBD in relationship to THC, and are vastly available in edible and other forms.  Information is plentiful, while facts are difficult to extract with confidence. People using marijuana are confused regarding the safety of driving. CBD is promoted as a cure for everything and anything. Learn what is known and unknown.   Contact hours: 1.5 hours   Karen E. Simone, PharmD. Dr. Karen Simone is the Director of the Northern New England Poison Center, which serves the States of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. She is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Karen began poison center-related work at the Cincinnati Drug & Poison Information Center in 1989. She became a Certified Specialist in Poison Information in 1993, received her Doctorate in Pharmacy from the University of Cincinnati in 1994, and joined the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology (AACT) before becoming a Diplomate of the American Board of Applied Toxicology (ABAT) in 1998 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology in 2011.  

The Utah Fall  Conference continues to be the premier educational and networking event in the Mountain West. You are cordially invited to network with your colleagues, as you learn from preeminent national and local leaders in the behavioral health field. Choose your learning track, whether it is treatment, justice, prevention or family services. There is something for every professional in the field. The Utah Fall Conference is sponsored by the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health. 

This webinar will provide an overview of suicide prevention with the intention of encouraging participants to be available to prevent suicide within the people they interact with. Facilitator will discuss warning signs and risk factors for suicide. National data, youth data, including suicide among Latinos and other relevant data will be presented. The webinar will discuss the effects of this “forever decision” which is preventable. The facilitator will present her experience as the suicide prevention project coordinator at CETPA Inc. Lastly, suicide prevention resources that are easy to implement and culturally based practices that have proven to work in the efforts of preventing suicide will be discussed. Presenter Diana Rosado, ICP Born in Ohio from Puerto Rican parents. Graduated from a B.A. in Business Education and a M.A. in Guidance in Counseling from the University of Puerto Rico. Diana is an Internationally Certified Prevention Specialist. Worked as a school counselor in elementary, intermediate and high schools in public school settings. Worked as a Partnership Specialist with the Department of Commerce for three years. She was a prevention specialist at CETPA (Center for Education, Treatment and Prevention of Addictions) Inc. As the project coordinator for the suicide prevention initiative, she started the Suicide Prevention Coalition in Gwinnet County in GA, coordinated the direction and production of a suicide prevention documentary that aired in Spanish TV and won the Emmy Award in the Southeast. Ms. Rosado afterwards directed the Alcohol Prevention Project in five regions of Georgia, concentrating efforts towards the Latino youth.

This 90-minute webinar is the second in the Preventing the Spread of Stigma;series. Join Chuck Klevgaard, prevention manager for the Great Lakes PTTC,and representatives from anti-stigma campaigns in three states.  Mark Loggins: IIndiana Next Level Recovery Know the Facts Mark Loggins is the State Opioid Response Grant Director at the Indiana Division of Mental Health and Addiction, where he administers, coordinates, and reports on the use of Indiana’s State Opioid Response and State Targeted Response grants from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Mark also spent over a year as the primary outreach coordinator for Indiana’s “Know the O Facts” campaign and continues to serve in a leadership role in the direction of the campaign. Jenny Lancaster: StigmaFree West Virginia Jenny Lancaster is a partner and client director at Terzetto Creative. With over 15 years’ social marketing experience, Jenny serves as a point of contact for clients’ creative, media, technical, and logistical needs. She has served on facilitation teams for the former Governor's Advisory Council on Substance Abuse and Task Forces, his Early Childhood Planning Task Force, the WV Interagency Council on Homelessness, and the WV Behavioral Health Planning Council. Jenny has worked on rural policy issues and served as coordinator for the Central Appalachia Regional Network, part of the Kellogg Foundation Rural People Rural Policy Initiative. Currently she serves on the prevention subcommittee for the the Governor’s Council on Substance Use and Prevention. She has managed the development of web-based platforms, custom software applications, and online educational courses, and has experience in advocacy campaigns and social media engagement. Jenny graduated summa cum laude from Xavier University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education. Elizabeth Owens: Colorado Lift the Label Public Awareness Campaign Elizabeth Owens works for the state of Colorado as the Director of Communications for the Office of Behavioral Health, where she manages the Lift the Label public awareness campaign and oversees marketing for the state's crisis hotline. She's a former nonprofit worker -- at the Bell Policy Center in Denver and the American Association of University Women in D.C. -- and started her career as a reporter and editor at The Des Moines Register. Liz has a degree in newspaper journalism from Drake University in Iowa and a master's degree in public policy and women's studies from George Washington University in D.C.

Sustaining Your Positive Prevention Outcomes Sustaining 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. Waukesha County Health and Human Services Center 514 Riverview Ave Waukesha WI 53188 Room 114 Contact: Julie Bartelt  [email protected]

This two-day interactive training will prepare you to strategically plan and implement a social marketing campaign designed to change behavior and improve health outcomes. During the training, participants will discuss and apply the theories and tools of social marketing. Training Objectives: Describe social marketing and its goals Explain key concepts for planning a campaign Apply research-based techniques to plan and launch a campaign   Trainers Amy B. Lester, Ph.D Dr. Amy B. Lester is a Senior Market Research Analyst at a utility company in Tampa, Florida.  Dr. Lester earned her PhD in Public Health concentrating on Social Marketing in 2014 from the University of South Florida, College of Public Health.  Dr. Lester holds additional undergraduate and graduate degrees in Public Health, Anthropology, and Biomedical Sciences.  Dr. Lester has strong methodological expertise, and her research interests focus on qualitative formative research, social marketing, and voice of the customer (VoC) research.  In addition to research, Dr. Lester has extensive teaching experience at both the college and high school levels.  Mahmooda Khaliq Pasha, PhD, MHS, CPH Mahmooda Khaliq Pasha, PhD, MHS, CPH - is an Assistant Professor in the College of Public Health at the University of South Florida and Associate Director for the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Social Marketing and Social Change. Drawing on her work as a public health practitioner, her work is all about the practice of social marketing and how it can be translated for use by communities, to build capacity and to improve behavioral outcomes. What this looks like is a focus on training and technical assistance to build social marketing capacity, followed by research to gain insights and develop, implement, and evaluate a social marketing intervention.    

6th Annual Rally for Recovery The Great Lakes ATTC, MHTTC, and PTTC are proud to sponsor the Wisconsin Voices for Recovery 6th Annual Rally for Recovery.  Featured speakers include nationally recognized recovery advocates:  Ryan Hampton: Author of American Fix and theVoices Project  Lee Turner: Studio touring musician and recovery Montee Ball: Former Wisconsin Badger and NFL running back  Please stop by the Great Lakes ATTC/MHTTC/PTTC exhibit table to say hello! 

Please join the Central East PTTC’s September peer sharing call on Thursday, September 12 to discuss strategies and opportunities for preventing underage drinking and adult binge drinking. This call will be an opportunity for preventionists to share their past experiences of obstacles and successes in this topic, ask questions of each other and the Central East PTTC, and provide feedback on what Central East PTTC training and technical assistance on the topic they would like to receive.   Among other topics, preventionists will be asked to share and discuss: How prevalent is underage alcohol use and/or adult binge alcohol use in your community or catchment area? What data sources are you using to identify the scope of the problem? What strategies are you using to prevent underage alcohol use and/or adult binge alcohol use? What successes have you achieved or obstacles that you have encountered? Do you collaborate with law enforcement on preventing underage alcohol purchases? What kinds of training and technical assistance related to underage alcohol and adult binge alcohol use prevention would you like the Central East PTTC to provide?   DESCRIPTION: The Central East PTTC will be facilitating monthly peer-sharing calls for preventionists in the Central East region. Calls are scheduled for the second Thursday of every month . These calls will provide preventionists an opportunity to share ideas and resources, as well as successes and challenges in overcoming barriers in the use of evidence-based prevention strategies/interventions. Our Prevention Specialist, Josh (see below), will facilitate each call and can answer questions related to the ongoing PTTC webinars series or other prevention subjects. Topics from the recent webinars will serve as a discussion starting point for the calls but we welcome participants to offer additional topic ideas.   FACILITATOR: 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 T/TA to numerous organizations. 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. DETAILS & LOGISTICS: Time: 1:00pm ET When: 2nd Thursday of every month  Call information: Join Zoom Meeting      https://zoom.us/j/714489436      Dial: +1 646-558-8656      Meeting ID: 714-489-436# Questions? Contact: [email protected] or (240) 645-1145

The major focus of this webinar will be to discuss how opioid misuse and overdose prevention strategies can be coordinated with efforts around infectious disease control in order to improve data collection, align resources, increase access to focus populations, and address shared risk and protective factors. Melissa Adolfson, M.S.  Melissa Adolfson currently serves as an epidemiology consultant for EpiMachine, a company that specializes in monitoring prevention programs progress, analyzing data, and seeking ways to improve the programs in order to advance public health outcomes. Over the past fifteen years, she has provided high quality training and technical assistance (T/TA) on finding and using data for Minnosota’s State Epidemiology Outcomes Workgroup and SAMHSA's Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies. She also provides custom T/TA to grassroots organizations and to states and communities as they work to assess and prioritize needs using data      

Click on the word "Download" to access your certificate and presentation slides   About the Presenter - Amy Ronshausen Amy Ronshausen is the Executive Director of both Drug Free America Foundation, Inc. and Save Our Society From Drugs (S.O.S.), national nonprofit organizations that works to defeat drug legalization attempts, promote sound drug policies, and prevent drug use, abuse and addiction. Mrs. Ronshausen also serves the Executive Director for the Florida Coalition Alliance, representing over 30 community anti-drug coalitions.

Title: Methamphetamine Prevention Strategies Course Description: Methamphetamine is a highly addictive, easy-to-manufacture stimulant that has negative impact on individuals, families, and communities – especially rural communities. There are many lessons learned from others who have addressed methamphetamine in their communities. This course will highlight responses to environmental health, drug exposed children, access to substance use treatment and the establishment of successful prevention programs that include environmental strategies, model laws and interagency collaboration. Objectives: Increase knowledge of prevention initiatives to intervene early Increase understanding of evidence based programs and best practice initiatives to address the problems associated with methamphetamine Learn to establish model laws and interagency collaborations to abate methamphetamine