The goal of the Prevention Summit is to provide an enriching training on prevention strategies and a networking and resource sharing opportunity for youth, volunteers, and professionals working toward prevention of substance misuse, violence, tobacco/vaping, and other destructive behaviors. The focus will be on promoting the social determinants of health nd ways to integrate prevention efforts within our community. 

This year’s conference will explore how mentoring and youth development professionals can learn and gain tools on how to lean into a holistic approach when working with youth and how to take a step forward after changing language, being trauma informed, and inclusive. May 8th will be a full day of informative and thought provoking workshops that will begin with keynote speaker, Dr. Shawn Ginwright, exploring the concept of being healing centered.   At the conclusion of the conference, participants will leave with a deeper understanding of how to incorporate Healing Centered Engagement into programs and organizations, as well as deeper knowledge and tools to support the wellbeing of their communities. We hope to see you there! 

Register here: https://www.accelevents.com/e/healingcenteredengagement

If the $45-60 ticket price is an issue for you, please reach out to us at info@mentorwashington.org. It's important to us that this space is accessible!

Join us for a Minerva 2.0 technical assistance/support call for Minerva 2.0 users (CPWI, CBO and project providers, and tribe and urban Indian organization partners).

Whether you have just started using the system, or are a seasoned user, this call is designed to support users through Minerva 2.0 functions, features, and answer any data entry-related questions. There is no registration, please join using the Microsoft Teams link below.

Questions will be answered in the order shared. If there are questions or topics you wish to have addressed during the call, consider sending you question(s) in advance to PrevMIS@hca.wa.gov, and include your prevention manager. Don't have a specific question? Feel free to join and listen.

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Thank you for your interest in Minerva 2.0 at Washington Health Care Authority. This quarterly training is designed specifically for new users and will provide a comprehensive overview of Minerva 2.0’s functionalities, features, best practices, and supportive resources.

Registration is required.  Your confirmation email will contain the meeting link.

You can learn more about Minerva 2.0 visit the Minerva Knowledge Base. If you have any questions or need additional support, please contact your prevention manager.

In our prevention efforts, we most often focus on children and youth. However, prevention is important across the entire lifespan.  In this 3-part series, participants will learn about substance use among young adults, mid-life adults, and older adults. Participants will also learn about preventive strategies that can be used with the adult population.

Each of the three 90-minute webinars will focus on a different age group. Participants can register for the entire series, or for single webinars. Each webinar will consist of a one-hour presentation, followed by a Q&A session. Dr. Kilmer will focus on young adults; Mr. Klevgaard on older adults; and Drs. Epstein and Halvorson on mid-life adults.

*This webinar is jointly brought to you by the Great Lakes PTTC and the Northwest PTTC.

Disparities in access to health care are significant in Latino communities, leading to lower utilization of services and poor quality care. These topics are relevant and important to find out clinical interventions that are cultural and linguistically appropriate. To address these issues, speakers have been invited to share their frameworks, experiences and commitments related to prevention, treatment and wellness. This conference offers a forum to stimulate open learning and dialogue on the needs of Latino communities, and how as a community of providers, we can work together to address those needs.

With the generous support of Washington’s Division of Behavioral Health & Recovery (DBHR), this event is offered at no cost to all registered participants. 

Check out this incredible lineup!:

• Strategies to Support Students to Reduce Harms in the Era of Rising “Other Drug” Use while complying with DFSCA
  • Kristin Nash, MPH, William G. Nash Foundation
  • Barbara McCall, MPH, MCHES, Assoc VP Student Health and Wellbeing, Middlebury College
  • Nina Christie, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center of Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addictions, University of New Mexico
• Building Relationships to Build Capacity for Prevention      
  • Joan Masters, M.Ed., MAPS, Project Director, Missouri Partners in Prevention                
• Hoosiers Not Hazers:

A Touchpoint Model as Conduit and Compass for Hazing Prevention

• Tripp Harris, M.S.Ed, Senior Assistant Director for Prevention and Wellness, Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life, Indiana University Bloomington

• Four Strategies to Institutionalize Campus Alcohol Prevention Work
  • Jen Jacobsen, MA, MPH, Executive Director of Health & Wellness, Macalester College
• Food Insecurity and Substance Use Among Young Adult College Students in the United States
  • Hans Oh, Ph.D., MSW, Assistant Professor, Social Work, University of Southern California
• Psychedelics, Harm Reduction, and Stanford’s REACH Lab (REACH: Research and Education to Empower Adolescents and Young Adults to Choose Health)
  • Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, Ph.D., FSAHM, Marron and Mary Elizabeth Kendrick Professor in Pediatrics II, REACH Lab, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University. 

In recent years, public health has seen a large number of young professionals entering the field. With fewer mentors due to significant turnover during the COVID-19 pandemic, and an increasing number of senior employees leaving the workforce, this has created challenging conditions for new staff as they settle into their roles.
In this hour-long webinar, Tia Benally, Malcolm Clay, Brooke Ambrose, and Emma Diffendal will offer their personal perspectives on how they have remained resilient and found opportunities for growth in their careers. By the end of the webinar, participants will better understand some of the challenges that new public health professionals face and consider ways to support early career staff in public health organizations of all sizes.

Is your coalition struggling to identify solid policies and other environmental strategies to combat the rising availability and low perception of harm of cannabis in your community? In this training, participants will learn from two presenters with hands-on experience both in prevention and shaping cannabis strategies and policies. Additionally, hear from other coalitions around the nation on how coalitions have successfully addressed policies and their effect on BIPOC communities.

What you’ll learn:

• Various ways community members, groups, and agencies have addressed behavioral health.
• Strategies for coping with individual and community emotional wellness and behavioral health issues.
• The power of community in promoting mental well-being and social justice.
• Resources and tools for fostering positive change.

Working in rural communities can be as rewarding as it is challenging. Isolation and a lack of connectedness is an issue in all parts of rural life, prevention work is no exception. Prevention professionals working in small towns, rural communities, and frontier areas often feel isolated from others in the profession and can be misunderstood by funders and program developers. Finding connection and support can be the key to helping move prevention forward in rural communities.

In this webinar, we will discuss the unique benefits and barriers of working in rural communities. We will explore ways to make connections and share knowledge with prevention professionals working in similar settings. Our speakers will share their experience with the Rural Network in Washington state. The network brings together rural prevention providers to help share ideas, discuss challenges, and affirm and support each other’s work.

These workshops are drawn from the Art & Science of Community Organizing Training (ASCOT) curriculum and are designed for busy community leaders, advocates, allies, organizers, mobilizers, and champions in their work to prevent substance use disorders and local violence, while also promoting equity, inclusion and access. Facilitators are dedicated WA State prevention advocates and advocates with decades of experience. 

$75 per workshop; $200 for the entire series.

*Northwest HIDTA is partnering with WASAVP to offer these workshops at no cost to individuals, organizations and communities.

Full workshop cost waivers are available; just ask.

Discover how integrating Indigenous wisdom with contemporary strategies bolsters substance use disorder prevention. This session highlights how blending traditional and modern practices creates effective community-based prevention models. Experts will unpack the process of merging ancestral knowledge with innovative approaches, aiming to tackle substance use challenges more effectively, enhance community bonds, and promote health.

Presented by: Rachael Masaitis (Idaho DHW) and Mitch Doig & Erinn McGraw (UW ADAI)

Certificate of attendance (can be used to obtain CE credits from many credentialing bodies) available to all attendees of the live event!

Telehealth has become more common in the healthcare world, but not everyone has access to the technology needed to use it. In Idaho, the Department of Health and Welfare led an initiative to create telehealth pods in libraries and other community spaces to help expand access to care and worked to provide funding, technical assistance, and other supports.

In an effort to support these libraries and other telehealth access sites, the Center for Advancing Addiction Health Services (CAAHS) at the UW Addictions, Drug & Alcohol Institute (ADAI) has developed a free online toolkit with the goal of providing information that is crucial to providing safe, supportive, and accessible spaces in community settings where telehealth can be accessed.

Though the toolkit is targeted at libraries implementing telehealth spaces, it can also provide useful information for clinicians who provide telehealth services and have clients who may be interested in using libraries or other "Third Spaces" for their appointments. 

Learning objectives:

*Learn about the history of the efforts in Idaho to implement telehealth pods in public spaces to support access to telehealth.

*Learn about the key components of the Third Space toolkit, decisions made, and key considerations identified by the CAAHS team.

*Learn how to navigate, access, and use the toolkit for internal needs or to support advocacy efforts in building partnerships with non-healthcare entities.

Untold Legacies is a four-part workshop that investigates how the origins of nonprofit youth development impact the mentoring field today. Throughout this training, participants will reflect on and adapt their programs to approach mentoring through an asset-based liberatory model. This is a training designed to take place over four days with two facilitators.

Sessions Overview: 

• Investigate the origins of nonprofit youth development as well as an exploration of inclusive mentoring models/stories
• Learn how this creates an inclusive, liberatory space; and implications for systemic change within mentoring.
• Join in a collaborative workshop to begin reflecting on changes that can be made within your organization to approach your work through an asset-based liberatory lens

These sessions are scheduled:

• Session 1: May 23rd from 10a-1p PST
• Session 2A: May 29th from 10a-12p PST
• Session 2B: May 30th from 10a-12p PST
• Session 3: June 6 from 10a-12p PST

Note: The time for session 1 differs from the times for sessions 2-3

Please note the zoom link will register you for all 4 sessions.

More details coming soon. 

The first step toward addressing the challenge of isolation and loneliness in our aging communities is being able to talk with one another. Through multi-partner collaboration, “The Cafés” (Age Café, Death Café and Memory Café) convene and engage diverse communities in facilitated discussions on topics that matter in an informal, comfortable and welcoming space.

Join the National Council's Older Adults Interest Group and thought leader, Kera Magarill to learn more about the Café model and how the Oregon Older Adult Behavioral Health Initiative is helping older Oregonians create new and meaningful connections through this community-building project.

Join us for a Minerva 2.0 technical assistance/support call for Minerva 2.0 users (CPWI, CBO and project providers, and tribe and urban Indian organization partners).

Whether you have just started using the system, or are a seasoned user, this call is designed to support users through Minerva 2.0 functions, features, and answer any data entry-related questions. There is no registration, please join using the Microsoft Teams link below.

Questions will be answered in the order shared. If there are questions or topics you wish to have addressed during the call, consider sending you question(s) in advance to PrevMIS@hca.wa.gov, and include your prevention manager. Don't have a specific question? Feel free to join and listen.

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We have all heard it before: If you fail to plan, you plan to fail! However, in today’s busy world, it is challenging to create and execute a plan flawlessly; things can and will go wrong. This means that it is exceedingly important to have an effective project management plan and process in place. A prevention organization’s project management process helps your team define roles and responsibilities and ensures no one gets burned out from taking on too many tasks. It is also easy to lose sight of how much money has been spent when we are busy spinning our wheels. A sound project management process will keep track of all expenses, making sure you know where the money is going. During this 3-hour training, tips for effective project management will be shared to provide you with the knowledge and a step-by-step guide to move your projects from start to finish