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In recognition of National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, join the National Coalition on Mental Health and Aging for a webinar focused on identifying multi-layered prevention approaches that combine universal, selective, and indicated interventions to provide the greatest benefit of reducing suicide in older adults.

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Is there a neurobiological link between childhood trauma and susceptibility to addiction? Steve Delisi, MD, will explain how traumatic experiences can increase the risk of addiction by influencing the brain’s development, and discuss the need for specific, trauma-informed care for those with opioid use disorder and attachment issues.

Objectives:

• Understand the neural circuitry of chronic opioid use  
• Recognize the co-occurrence of opioid use disorders and trauma  
• Describe the relationship between the neurobiology of opioid use disorders and trauma

Behavioral Health care professionals and advocates interested in improving cultural competence and humility in the delivery of behavioral health prevention, treatment and recovery services and supports. The course goal is to increase knowledge of methamphetamine use in West Virginia.

Save the date! Webinar offered by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Population Affairs.

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.

This webinar will focus on how health practitioners, families, and individuals can implement community resources to maintain recovery for persons with mental and substance use disorders, as well as why fellowship sustains recovery.

Many individuals with first episode psychosis are reluctant to attend treatment and are at risk for dropping out before receiving the full benefits of care. This webinar will review reasons that teens and young adults may be wary of first episode psychosis treatment and offer practical suggestions for creating a program that promotes engagement and minimizes barriers at the outset of treatment.

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Webinar hosted by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Deliquency Prevention, National Training & Technical Assistance Center.

This webinar will discuss how to identify key links between opioids and suicide and how to prevent both by utilizing crisis management and suicide prevention models.

Presented by: Cynthia Price, PhD, MA, LMP

Save the date! Webinar offered by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Population Affairs.

This webinar will feature individuals living in recovery who are now working in the field to help and support others. The discussion will focus on individuals telling their personal recovery stories, what they are doing to give back, and how they are making a difference in their community.

This webinar is for parents, guardians, youth workers, and caring adults interested in teen mental health.  Nearly one in three adolescents meet the criteria for an anxiety disorder by the age of 18. Sadly, 80% of youth diagnosed with anxiety are not getting the treatment they need. Caring adults can make a difference by learning to recognize the signs and intervening before anxiety takes over a teen’s life or leads to depression.  

In this webinar, Lisa M. Schab, LCSW, a practicing psychotherapist and international best-selling author, will discuss the symptoms of an anxiety disorder, anxiety management skills adults can practice with youth, and ways adults can encourage teens to be a part of choosing treatment options.

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.

Learning Objectives

Target Audience

Mental Health and Children: Perspectives from Family on Screening, Diagnosis, and Support

Dr. Justin Coffey was at Henry Ford System when they created the Perfect Depression Care model, which is the foundation for Zero Suicide. Zero Suicide is now the leading framework for health systems interested in recognizing suicide risk and supporting patients at all levels of care.

“Zero Suicide: A Community Roundtable with Dr. Justin Coffey is part of Suicide Prevention Month activities in September sponsored by Greater Columbia Accountable Communities of Health, Walla Walla County Department of Community Health, REACH OUT, Providence St. Mary Medical Center, Providence Medical Group and Whitman College.”