Event Calendar

This meeting is for CPWI contractors including contract contacts, coalition coordinators, and fiscal agents to discuss CPWI contract adjustments.

Please see the link below to register for the CPWI Contractor call on July 6th

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7179311058981356303

**NOTE**

This webinar runs from 9am-1030am 

Session Objectives:

1. Examine public health elements to substance use Prevention Plus Wellness programming. 
2. Identify the prevention program topics and youth groups and training formats you are most interested in.
3. Create a public health substance use Prevention Plus Wellness program plan.

CEU Certificate: CEU certificate available upon completing webinar and requesting certificate

Learn more: http://preventionpluswellness.com

Description: In this webinar, “Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) for Substance Use Prevention”, Dr. Elizabeth Weybright will provide an overview of YPAR, including how to utilize the YPAR approach for substance use prevention activities.

The Center for Rural Opioid Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery (CROP+TR) aims to provide training and technical assistance related to opioid misuse to rural communities throughout Washington state. This webinar is part of a CROP+TR webinar series for prevention specialists on “Connecting Prevention to Treatment and Recovery for Opioid Use Disorder”.

CROP+TR is a collaboration between the Washington State University’s Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Department of Human Development, and Department of Extension. It launched in 2019 with support from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. To learn more about CROP+TR, visit www.croptr.org.

Presenter: Elizabeth Weybright, PhD, Associate Professor of Human Development & Adolescent Extension Specialist, Washington State University

About Minerva TA Calls:

This webinar will run for one hour from 1:00-2:00pm ET.

Our final webinar in this series will carry forward what we know about best practices for virtual facilitation and online learning. We will enhance your ability to lead virtual meetings with a variety of unique and creative facilitation styles. We will also discuss useful tools from the National Council that are available to support your development in this space moving forward.

PLEASE NOTE: Space is limited for attendance of this live webinar and the meeting will not be recorded, so we encourage you to join promptly at the start time.

This webinar will describe the importance of environmental strategies and how they differ from individual-focused prevention programs. Environmental strategies are prevention interventions that address factors related to the context within which individuals make decisions about initiating and continuing substance use. Researchers have identified numerous risk and protective factors for engaging in substance use, which are often categorized by a socio-ecological model. Environmental strategies primarily seek to address factors found at the community and society levels of the model. The webinar will discuss the different types of environmental strategies and provide examples of evidence-based strategies. It will also walk through examples of collaborative partners needed to implement environmental strategies and the pre-implementation work that preventionists will need to complete.

The National Hispanic and Latino Prevention Technology Transfer Center, and the National American Indian and Alaskan Native Prevention Technology Transfer Center are happy to invite you to a series of Virtual Learning Sessions: CULTURE IS PREVENTION.

Culture is fundamental to develop a successful career or a successful organization, and building that culture is everyone's responsibility. Despite recent progress, health disparities continue a challenge among Latino/Hispanic, Native Americans, and Alaska Natives, compared with the US population as a whole. National data show the need to enhance services and access to services for culturally and linguistically diverse communities. Providing culturally and linguistically appropriate prevention services requires an understanding of cultural competence/Humility.

This session is the 2nd of 4 sessions.
Session 1: Different Cultures; One Vision
Session 2: Spirituality In The Native American culture And Its Role In Prevention And Healing
Session 3: Spirituality in the Hispanic and Latino Culture And Its Role In Prevention And Healing
Session 4: How We Can Culturally Navigate Between The Two Communities

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, states issued stay-at-home orders in March 2020. Along with those orders, many states relaxed alcohol regulations—for example, many states started to allow curbside pickup of alcohol. The popular media reported a jump in alcohol sales and anecdotal accounts of increased drinking. But how did alcohol consumption change across the nation? Were people simply having one or two more drinks? Did harmful binge drinking increase? Were the changes greater among some subgroups of the population than others? These are important public health questions because alcohol is one of the leading preventable causes of mortality in the country.

RTI funded a survey of nearly 1,000 Americans in May 2020 to assess changes in alcohol consumption and other measures of mental health from before (February) to after (April) the onset of measures to combat COVID-19. In this webinar, we talk about the different ways in which drinking changed during the pandemic and the implications for public health.

As RTI experts present the results of the survey, webinar attendees will learn whether:

1. The COVID-19 pandemic is associated with increased alcohol consumption.
2. The increase in drinking behavior is higher for certain genders, ethnicities, and regions.
3. There is a need for public health monitoring of alcohol consumption during the pandemic.  

Youth and young adults are bombarded with media depicting substances in a positive light, increasing the likelihood that they will use alcohol and other drugs. Building skills in youth and young adults to critically analyze media messages may help reduce the impact of the pro-substance messages on youth and young adults. This webinar will provide a basic overview of media literacy. Participants will practice identifying key concepts of media literacy and discuss ways that they can incorporate media literacy into their current prevention work.

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Define media literacy
2. Describe the importance of media literacy for preventing substance misuse
3. Identify key concepts of media literacy
4. Name at least two new ways to incorporate media literacy into prevention practice

Course Description:

Substance misuse and behavioral health overall, are an intrinsic part of public health. Many people with substance use disorders also live with mental health disorders, including serious mental illness, as well as preventable and treatable medical health issues. Often, the same root causes and care disparities are responsible for most or all of these issues. Therefore, substance use preventionists are often trying to reach and serve the same populations and individuals as mental and physical health care professionals. Bringing together these different fields into a comprehensive public health approach can significantly improve overall health and wellness. This webinar provides information on preparing for a public health approach from a substance use prevention perspective. This includes how preventionists can use the Strategic Prevention Framework to support the implementation of public health approach.

Objectives: 

Define a framework for a public health model
Explain what is a public health approach to prevention
Describe the stakeholders and partners necessary for a public health approach
Explore the steps to implementing a public health approach

Substance misuse and behavioral health overall, are an intrinsic part of public health. Many people with substance use disorders also live with mental health disorders, including serious mental illness, as well as preventable and treatable medical health issues. Often, the same root causes and care disparities are responsible for most or all of these issues. Therefore, substance use preventionists are often trying to reach and serve the same populations and individuals as mental and physical health care professionals. Bringing together these different fields into a comprehensive public health approach can significantly improve overall health and wellness. This webinar provides information on preparing for a public health approach from a substance use prevention perspective. This includes how preventionists can use the Strategic Prevention Framework to support the implementation of public health approach.

Learning objectives:

1. Define a framework for a public health model
2. Explain what is a public health approach to prevention
3. Describe the stakeholders and partners necessary for a public health approach
4. Explore the steps to implementing a public health approach

Join us for a conversation about what has and hasn’t worked with implementing evidence-based programs virtually. Three presenters will share their learnings. Eric Opoku Agyemang will explore what the literature suggest about best practices for virtual mentoring. Blair Brooke-Weiss will summarize recommendations for implementing Guiding Good Choices virtually and lessons from the field. Finally, AnaMaria Diaz Martinez will provide learnings from converting the Stress and Coping Program to an online format. We will also offer opportunities for participants to share their experiences from delivering evidence-based practices in virtual settings.

July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. This July, communities are facing the “perfect storm” of crises that are deepening the disparities in mental health and wellbeing. The current COVID-19 pandemic, economic crisis, behavioral health crisis, and the civil unrest stemming from recent incidents of police brutality has impacted all of America, but disproportionately affects communities of color.

Community and faith-based organizations play an essential role in helping these communities handle deeply experienced trauma, loss, and grief. Poor access to and mistrust of health care systems leads individuals to reach out to their familiar and trusted faith-based organizations and leaders. In many cultures, spirituality is a key driver of wellbeing and hope. Faith leaders are coming together across communities to organize, support, provide, engage and instill hope.

Join this NNED virtual roundtable hosted by the NNED National Facilitation Center and SAMHSA’s Office of Behavioral Health Equity in partnership with SAMHSA’s Mental Health Technology Transfer Center Network Coordinating Office to learn how faith-based NNED partner organizations are supporting the mental health concerns of racial/ethnic minorities and providing opportunities to receive support and connection through faith-based practices and partnerships.

This NNED virtual roundtable will highlight:
- Faith-based partnerships that address the behavioral health in communities of color and augment the behavioral health workforce;
- Cultural and spiritual practices provided by faith-based organizations to strengthen community and social connectedness during times of crises;
- Faith leaders’ strategies to help diverse communities cope with trauma, loss, and grief; and
- The importance of and role of faith leaders in promoting self-care among the health care workforce, caregivers, and themselves.

Learn more and meet the panelists: https://nned.net/7141/

SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) provides practitioners with comprehensive guidance to more effectively address substance misuse and related behavioral health problems in their communities. This seven-part webinar series will explore this five-step, data-driven process to identify genuine prevention needs, build capacity and plans to address those needs, implement effective programs and interventions, and evaluate and continually improve prevention efforts.

At each step of the SPF, and in separate sessions, practitioners will learn to integrate the guiding principles of cultural competence and sustainability to help support the implementation of SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF). 

Certificates for prevention hours will be available upon registration and completion of the webinar.

Each webinar is one hour and will begin at 8:00 a.m. PST

• February 25, Part 1: Assessment, will introduce the SPF and explore how to identify the needs of the community using data.

• March 24, Part 2: Capacity Building, will guide participants through the process of improving community readiness and increasing the resources available to address prevention efforts.

• April 21, Part 3: Planning, will prepare participants to plan to address identified needs

• May 19, Part 4: Implementation, will provide participants with the tools needed to implement prevention programs, policies, and practices with fidelity and effectiveness.

• June 23, Part 5: Evaluation, will offer helpful guides for the collection and analysis of prevention strategies and teach participants how to modify programming for future enhanced results.

• July 21, Part 6: Sustainability, will provide participants with the elements of a sustainable prevention program and how to integrate sustainability into each step of the SPF.

• August 25, Part 7: Cultural Competency, will prepare the participant to demonstrate cultural competence at the individual, organizational and system-level at each step of the SPF.

Communities that sustain positive prevention outcomes maintain effective strategic planning processes, as well as programs and practices. This one-hour webinar will explore best practices for sustaining planning and programmatic outcomes.

Webinar Learning Objectives:

• Describe why sustainability is important to prevention efforts 
• Identify how to sustain an effective strategic planning process 
• Identify how to sustain programs and practices that work 

The purpose of the virtual learning lab is to expand on the information delivered in the presentation, “Applying Prevention Science to Practice: Using Environmental Strategies to Reduce Substance Use”. The virtual learning lab will provide an opportunity for conversation between prevention professionals, guided by facilitators, to provide a greater level of detail and understanding into the key concepts of the topics addressed. Anticipated goals of virtual learning lab include; increased knowledge transfer, increased network development, opportunities to trouble-shoot real life items.

The National Hispanic and Latino Prevention Technology Transfer Center, and the National American Indian and Alaskan Native Prevention Technology Transfer Center are happy to invite you to a series of Virtual Learning Sessions: CULTURE IS PREVENTION.

Culture is fundamental to develop a successful career or a successful organization, and building that culture is everyone's responsibility. Despite recent progress, health disparities continue a challenge among Latino/Hispanic, Native Americans, and Alaska Natives, compared with the US population as a whole. National data show the need to enhance services and access to services for culturally and linguistically diverse communities. Providing culturally and linguistically appropriate prevention services requires an understanding of cultural competence/Humility.

This session is the 3rd of 4 sessions.
Session 1: Different Cultures; One Vision
Session 2: Spirituality In The Native American culture And Its Role In Prevention And Healing
Session 3: Spirituality in the Hispanic and Latino Culture And Its Role In Prevention And Healing
Session 4: How We Can Culturally Navigate Between The Two Communities

The National Hispanic and Latino Prevention Technology Transfer Center, and the National American Indian and Alaskan Native Prevention Technology Transfer Center are happy to invite you to a series of Virtual Learning Sessions: CULTURE IS PREVENTION.

Culture is fundamental to develop a successful career or a successful organization, and building that culture is everyone's responsibility. Despite recent progress, health disparities continue a challenge among Latino/Hispanic, Native Americans, and Alaska Natives, compared with the US population as a whole. National data show the need to enhance services and access to services for culturally and linguistically diverse communities. Providing culturally and linguistically appropriate prevention services requires an understanding of cultural competence/Humility.

This session is the 3rd of 4 sessions.
Session 1: Different Cultures; One Vision
Session 2: Spirituality In The Native American culture And Its Role In Prevention And Healing
Session 3: Spirituality in the Hispanic and Latino Culture And Its Role In Prevention And Healing
Session 4: How We Can Culturally Navigate Between The Two Communities

The National American Indian & Alaska Native PTTC will be holding virtual sessions to support our Native communities in these challenging times. These weekly meetings will cover major concerns that have been expressed, and will continue to share resources, and encourage the peer support that has been happening among those who participated. We hope these meetings will be supportive and helpful, and that we can help connect you with the resources you need. Also feel free to reach out to Cindy Sagoe in advance to let her know if there are any topics you specifically want us to be prepared to address. We hope each and every one of you are staying safe and we look forward to connecting with you soon!

- Your National American Indian & Alaska Native PTTC team in collaboration with SAMHSA’s Tribal Training and Technical Assistance Center

The Department of Health (DOH), in partnership with the Health Care Authority and ESD 112, is offering a free online Tobacco-Free Fundamentals training on Tuesday, July 28, 8:30am-4:00pm.

Training objectives:

• Understand the burden of tobacco uponpeople with behavioral health conditions
• Build on your existing tobacco and tobacco cessation knowledge
• Provide information on the latest evidence-based tobacco cessation strategies
• Learn the latest information about electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS)
• Review the evidence base for nicotine-free policies and steps for policy implementation

Ideal participants include health care and public health professionals who can champion treatment of tobacco use and dependence and tobacco-free policy within their agencies. The trainers will make for as engaging and interactive experience as the Zoom platform permits, including use of ‘breakout rooms’ for small group discussion.

The training is capped at 40 participants, and State Opioid Response (SOR) grant-funded agencies receive registration priority. If there are open seats as of July 14, the registration link will be posted to this page; providers and staff at other agencies are encouraged to check back at that time. 

If you have not yet participated in one of our Tobacco-Free or Tobacco Treatment Specialist trainings, we certainly hope you will join us on July 28 to learn how important it is to treat tobacco use and dependence, perhaps now more than ever given the threat that COVID-19 poses to people who smoke.

If you work at a SOR grant-funded agency and would like to register, or if you have questions about this training and/or the DOH Tobacco-Free Behavioral Health Initiative, please email Nick Fradkin at nick.fradkin@doh.wa.gov.

If you work at a SOR-funded agency and would like to register, please contact Nick Fradkin at nick.fradkin@doh.wa.gov for the registration link.

This activity has been submitted to the following accrediting agencies for approval to award 1.0 contact hours: National Association of Social Workers (NASW), Maryland Nurses Association, National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. (NCHEC).

This *LIVE ONLINE* event will feature:

-A panel of community members and professionals impacted by opioid use

-Community and family support resources

-Narcan training

-Caregiver knowledge and support for those affected by opioid use

This event is sponsored by the Spokane Regional Opioid Task Force.

This webinar will explore the core principles and offer practical guidance for supporting families affected by domestic violence and substance use disorders. Addressing these co-occurring issues in an integrated, trauma-informed, and comprehensive manner will ensure that parents can focus on all domains of recovery so their families can thrive. Attendees will learn how family drug court (FDC) teams are working together to meet the basic and complex needs of safety, protection, healing and recovery.