Required for Cohort 6 Coordinators. 

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Come be a part of the solution to prevent suicide in WA state:

• Participate in the legislative process
• Attend a Safer Homes, Suicide Aware event with a free locking device giveaway
• Participate in the Ceremony of Remembrance & Hope
• Training in suicide prevention and veteran specific needs 
• Dispose of unused or expired medications

All Education Day activities will be in Olympia, at the Capitol Campus and at the Woman’s Club of Olympia two blocks away.  

A continental breakfast and lunch will be served. 

Schedule: 

8 AM: Understanding the legislative process and orientation, Woman's Club of Olympia

9 AM: Understanding the legislative process and orientation, Woman's Club of Olympia

9:30  – 11:00 AM: Forefront Suicide Prevention LEARN SAVES LIVES training, Woman's Club of Olympia

11:00  – 11:45 PM: Lunch, Woman's Club of Olympia

12:15  – 1:00 PM: Ceremony of Remembrance & Hope at the Safer Homes Memorial, Capitol Lawn

1:00 – 3:00 PM: SAFER HOMES, SUICIDE AWARE: Locking device giveaway and drug disposal, Capitol Lawn

2:30 – 3:30 PM: Veteran Specifc Needs Training by the WDVA, Woman's Club of Olympia 

8:00 – 4:00 PM: Meet with legislators (optional), State Legislators' Offices

Presented by the National American Indian & Alaska Native Prevention Technology Transfer Center Network. 

The prevalence of depressive disorders is higher in women than men. Why? Many factors are thought to contribute to the divergence, including biological and clinical presentations. Understanding these variances may lead to earlier diagnosis and might aid the search for more personalized treatments.

In this webinar, Dr. Madhukar Trivedi and Dr. Laura Melaro will discuss the data behind gender differences in depression, including results from the STAR*D Trial, and their potential clinical implications.

About Minerva TA Calls:

Presenter:

Jill M. Head
Supervisory Chemist
United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
Special Testing and Research Laboratory
DEA Emerging Trends Program

Please join ACEs Connection and the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) for a free webinar to learn how to drive public-policy change without violating the restrictions on non-profit organizations or the requirements of funders. 

The featured speaker of the webinar, “Strategic Advocacy: Winning Policy Change without Crossing the Lobbying Line,” is attorney Allen Mattison, an expert at helping non-profits understand the legal distinctions between lobbying and non-lobbying activities.  He will address how to structure your campaigns strategically to get the biggest bang for your bucks. 

Other speakers will include Kelly Hardy with Children Now and Jeff Hild with Building Community Resilience at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University.  The session is co-moderated by Elizabeth Prewitt, ACEs Connection’s Policy Analyst and Andrea Blanch, CTIPP co-chair and consultant on trauma-informed approaches and systems change. 

Experimenting and pushing limits are normal developmental parts of adolescence and young adulthood. This may encompass experimenting with various substances that are easy to acquire and, unfortunately, that includes opioids. Whether they're buying pills and heroin off the street or getting prescriptions from medical professionals, how can we best prevent opioid abuse in this population and provide the best intervention and treatment when there is a problem? This webinar will explore 1) vulnerabilities to developing an opioid addiction 2) warning signs that a young person is misusing a prescription 3) conversations (that take 3 minutes or less) that can help prevent misuse of mediation and 4) various options for treatment with the pros and cons of each.

In this webinar, Dr. Carlini will present a recently concluded content analysis study that looks into how cannabis products, legal stores and vaping devices are portrayed in print media ads and the implications of these findings for prevention and education.

Dr. Beatriz Carlini is a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Washington's Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute (ADAI) and an Affiliate Associate Professor at the School of Public Health. Her research career has been dedicated to understanding the public health impact of legal psychoactive substances such as alcohol, tobacco, inhalants and more recently, marijuana.

This webinar will be beneficial for the following audiences: Prevention staff, public health educators and advocates, coalition coordinators, community health specialists, parents, middle – high school staff, pediatricians, college students.

Author: Martha Williams, martha.williams@hca.wa.gov

A unique opportunity for your community to come together to address the opioid epidemic by taking action to increase awareness and prevention. Join educators, students, and community leaders for a facilitated discussion to develop innovatice, out-of-the box strategies for opioid prevention in our whole community. Share your ideas. Be a part of the solution.

The NCW Opioid Response Conference is a FREE conference that takes place at the same time, at multiple sites throughout the North Central Region.

In partnership with: North Central Accountable Community of Health, WorkSource Okanogan County, Columbia Valley Community Health, Grant Integrated Services, and North Central Educational Services District. Thank you to Washington State University Extension for developing the Rural Pathways to Prosperity conference delivery model and for providing training and support for this conference.

Locations:

• Bridgeport: Bridgeport High School, 1220 Kryger Ave, Bridgeport, WA 98813

• Colville: WSU/TEDD Conference Room, 986 S. Main St., Colville, WA 99114

• Coulee Dam: Lake Roosevelt Jr./Sr. High Library, 505 Crest Dr., Coulee Dam, WA 99116

• Leavenworth: Chelan County Fire Station, 228 Chumstick Hwy, Leavenworth, WA 98826

• Moses Lake: Grant Integrated Services, 840 E. Plum St., Moses Lake, WA 98837

• Nespelem: Lucy F. Covington Government Center, 21 Colville Street, Nespelem, WA 99155

• Omak: Omak High School Library, 20 S Cedar, Omak, WA 98841

• Oroville: Oroville District Office, 816 Juniper Street, Oroville, WA 98844

• Twisp: Liberty Bell High School, 24 Twin Lakes Road, Winthrop, WA 98862

• Wenatchee: Confluence Technology Center, 285 Technology Center Way, Wenatchee, WA 98801

During this webinar participants will:

1) Explore the range of evidence-based environmental strategies to reduce alcohol-related problems in the community
2) Learn the core differences between individual and environmental strategies
3) Have an opportunity to identify policies under consideration and pose questions about them

Presenter: Michael Sparks M.A. is an Alcohol Policy Specialist and President of SparksInitiatives. His primary interest is assisting communities to implement evidence-based environmental strategies to reduce alcohol and other drug problems. Michael is currently working with Johns Hopkins University, Wake Forest University, Texans Standing Tall, Centers for Disease Control, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Foundation, Health Foundation of South Florida and Paso del Norte Health Foundation on a range of public health issues.  

Webinar is part of the Regional Webinar Series for Central East Prevention Technology Transfer Center Network. 

Webinar is part of the Regional Webinar Series for Central East Prevention Technology Transfer Center Network. 

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) webinar to discuss best practices for engaging partners in planning, hosting, and promoting a successful Communities Talk Town Hall Meeting event.

This summer - in the wake of two celebrity suicides and the release of the CDC report highlighting an alarming rise in the US suicide rate - the public's attention was drawn to the significant public health problem of suicide. Because alcohol and drug use greatly increase suicide risk, it is critical to integrate suicide prevention into substance use early intervention and treatment. This webinar describes suicide as a public health problem and explains how suicide screening and intervention can be integrated into the SBIRT model.

As a result of participating in this webinar, you will be able to:

• Describe suicide as a public health problem;
• Identify a suicide screening tool and brief intervention; and
• Explain how suicide prevention can be integrated into the SBIRT model.

Coalitions often struggle to identify interventions that qualify as environmental strategies. This webinar will present information on environmental interventions that are considered evidence-based and that result in greater community-level impacts. These interventions are policy focused and have risen to meet the evidence standards set by the Community Guide to Preventative Services and the World Health Organization. During the webinar, the presenter will also discuss the manner in which evidence-based interventions translate to implementation at the local level. Interaction by participants will be encouraged.

During this webinar participants will:

1) Explore the range of evidence-based environmental strategies to reduce alcohol-related problems in the community
2) Learn the core differences between individual and environmental strategies
3) Have an opportunity to identify policies under consideration and pose questions about them

Presenter: Michael Sparks M.A. is an Alcohol Policy Specialist and President of SparksInitiatives. His primary interest is assisting communities to implement evidence-based environmental strategies to reduce alcohol and other drug problems. Michael is currently working with Johns Hopkins University, Wake Forest University, Texans Standing Tall, Centers for Disease Control, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Foundation, Health Foundation of South Florida and Paso del Norte Health Foundation on a range of public health issues.

If you have problems submitting this form or do not receive a confirmation e-mail, please contact Clarissa Lam Yuen at clamyuen@casat.org or call 775-682-8562.