Training at Prevention First

This session will cover how effective prevention requires intentional and informed efforts. Through the Five Ps in effective prevention, participants will have the opportunity to discuss tools, strategies, and techniques relevant to primary prevention. Evidence-based strategies will be discussed, and how to utilize each Pillar to keep prevention moving forward, impactfully, and sustainably.

Training Objectives

1.     Describe the five key strategies grantees could use to be effective.

2.     Identify 5 pillars: Passion, Prestige, Presence, Powerbase, Process

3.     Identify actionable strategies to strengthen each of the Five P’s—People, Process, Planning, Partnerships, and Policy—to build resilient, effective, and sustainable prevention initiatives.

The training aims to provide participants with the background knowledge and practical skills that they need to address suicidal risk and behaviors in clients in care for substance use disorder treatment. Participants will have the opportunity to increase their knowledge and apply practical skills in the following areas:

Approaching Your Work: Learn how to manage reactions related to suicide and maintain a collaborative, non-adversarial stance. Acquire the necessary skills to address potential conflicts between a care professional’s goal to prevent suicide and relapse and a client’s goal to eliminate psychological pain via suicidal behavior.

Understanding Suicide: Gain an understanding of the definitions and language used when talking about suicide, as well as the data that are relevant to addressing suicide in substance use disorder treatment, including risk and protective factors, warning signs, and the complicating factors of substance misuse, including opioids.

Gathering Information: Identify key points in treatment where a suicide assessment should occur, what questions to ask to learn more about a client’s suicidal thoughts and behaviors past and present, and how to ask them. Participants will practice asking questions in an interactive learning environment designed to help build confidence. The training presents key scenarios, such as when to seek supervision or consultation and what to do when someone discloses suicidal thoughts during a group treatment session.

Formulating Risk: Practice synthesizing assessment information into a risk formulation that will help inform the next steps in treatment. AMSR emphasizes the importance of using a risk formulation not for prediction but as information to make a collaborative decision regarding recovery-oriented treatment planning.

Planning and Responding: Review suggested actions to take based on a risk formulation using resources from SAMHSA’s TIP 50 and evidence-based interventions. Practice having conversations related to safety planning and addressing the potential for relapse through means counseling interventions.

Most adolescents who receive counseling and other social services do so involuntarily which often creates automatic resistance. In addition, talk therapy or counseling can be quite uncomfortable for teens. Topics covered in this presentation include: engaging adolescents in counseling within the first 10 minutes of counseling; strength-based approaches to engaging adolescents in counseling; humor and engagement; strategies for addressing adolescent boredom in counseling: evidence-based engagement strategies.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this presentation, you will be able:

• Engage adolescents in counseling within the first ten minutes of contact.
• Utilize seven strength-based questions to help with engagement.
• Articulate three evidence-based strategies to help with engagement.

This training might be of particular interest to RPSA High Risk Youth Intervention Services as well as Youth Development Grantees.

Success Labs are built on the understanding that true success for individuals is holistic, encompassing personal growth, professional development, and overall well-being. Grounded in the principles reflected in SAMHSA’s definition of recovery, the concept recognizes that everyone is in a form of recovery or growth, continuously working toward improved health, purpose, and community.  

Success is not limited to one area of life but is strengthened when individuals are supported across multiple dimensions. Through the OLRC, Success Labs provides interactive learning spaces that help participants build on their strengths, develop practical skills, and connect personal and professional success to long-term stability and opportunity. 

Session Two: 

Boost your value at work by being seen as an effective problem-solver. In this session, explore the skills and strategies behind critical thinking — what it is and how to show it. Practice the ability to adopt multiple perspectives, analyze different data, and tackle complex issues collaboratively. Explore techniques for evaluating solutions and communicating them to key stakeholders. Walk away with confidence that you know how to generate improvements to benefit yourself, your team, and the organization. 

Objectives: Upon completion of this presentation, participants will be able to:  

1. Practice problem-solving and data-analysis strategies 
2. Recognize and overcome barriers that limit or impede our thinking 

This one-hour harm reduction workshop introduces the eight most common areas of focus in harm reduction practice. Participants will explore the core principles of harm reduction, including both compassionate and pragmatic philosophical approaches, and review evidence from the literature demonstrating where harm reduction practices have been shown to be effective. 

Objectives:  

After completing this course, learners will be able to:  

Objectives: 

• Participants will be able to define harm reduction. 

• Participants will identify two harm reduction stances and define the differences between them. 

• Participants will identify at least 3 harm reduction principles. 

Strong prevention work is built on strong partnerships—with schools, law enforcement, local organizations, and community members. Come ready to discuss the successes and challenges you've experienced while building these connections. We’ll brainstorm together and encourage one another to develop creative, sustainable partnerships that move prevention forward.

The goal of Power Hours is to create a collaborative space for SUPP prevention professionals to share successes, explore challenges, and seek guidance from both peers and SUP TTA Specialists. Each session will also highlight valuable resources to support ongoing learning and engagement.

Medications to support recovery from opioid use disorders are critical tools in effective evidence-based addiction treatment, yet their outcomes are less than optimal because of the lack of psychosocial support typically offered to patients. Medication initiation, adherence, and persistence benefit from behavioral interventions to help patients build motivation, set goals, manage expectations, effectively communicate with their support team, overcome obstacles to staying on track, and celebrate successes along the way. This training offers an overview of the role that approved medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) play in the “whole-person” approach to treatment and recovery with a strong emphasis on specific science-based behavioral skills that are useful as part of comprehensive medication-assisted recovery.

All participants receive an electronic copy of an in-depth training journal to guide the training experience and as a resource for continuing skill application as part of the training.

The training aims to provide participants with the background knowledge and practical skills that they need to address suicidal risk and behaviors in clients in care for substance use disorder treatment. Participants will have the opportunity to increase their knowledge and apply practical skills in the following areas:

Approaching Your Work: Learn how to manage reactions related to suicide and maintain a collaborative, non-adversarial stance. Acquire the necessary skills to address potential conflicts between a care professional’s goal to prevent suicide and relapse and a client’s goal to eliminate psychological pain via suicidal behavior.

Understanding Suicide: Gain an understanding of the definitions and language used when talking about suicide, as well as the data that are relevant to addressing suicide in substance use disorder treatment, including risk and protective factors, warning signs, and the complicating factors of substance misuse, including opioids.

Gathering Information: Identify key points in treatment where a suicide assessment should occur, what questions to ask to learn more about a client’s suicidal thoughts and behaviors past and present, and how to ask them. Participants will practice asking questions in an interactive learning environment designed to help build confidence. The training presents key scenarios, such as when to seek supervision or consultation and what to do when someone discloses suicidal thoughts during a group treatment session.

Formulating Risk: Practice synthesizing assessment information into a risk formulation that will help inform the next steps in treatment. AMSR emphasizes the importance of using a risk formulation not for prediction but as information to make a collaborative decision regarding recovery-oriented treatment planning.

Planning and Responding: Review suggested actions to take based on a risk formulation using resources from SAMHSA’s TIP 50 and evidence-based interventions. Practice having conversations related to safety planning and addressing the potential for relapse through means counseling interventions.

Life can be stressful, and many of us move through our days without a chance to pause and breathe. This mindfulness webinar introduces simple, practical tools to help participants slow down, reduce stress, and feel more present in their daily lives. Through guided exercises and discussion, participants will learn easy mindfulness practices they can use anytime they need a moment of calm and clarity.

Objectives:

After completing this course, learners will be able to:

• Define mindfulness and its role in supporting stress reduction and emotional well-being.
• Identify at least three simple mindfulness techniques that can be used in daily life to promote calm and focus.
• Practice guided mindfulness exercises that support relaxation, breathing awareness, and present-moment attention.
• Identify ways to incorporate brief mindfulness practices into daily routines to manage stress and improve overall well-being.

Trauma and substance use disorders runs in families across generations and are often fueled by dark family secrets. Topics covered in this presentation includes: The role of youth development, prevention, and clinical professionals in breaking intergenerational patterns of trauma, substance use disorders and dark family secrets; breaking intergenerational patterns by focusing on the unique needs of children of parents with substance use disorders and children on the FASD spectrum; the role of parents and persons in recovery in breaking intergenerational patterns; mobilizing the entire community to help break intergenerational patterns of trauma and substance use disorders. You will learn about successful programs in breaking intergenerational patterns in Iceland, Native American, Metropolitan, and rural communities.

By the end of this presentation you will be able to:

• Begin to use strategies to help break generational patterns of trauma, substance use disorders and dark family secrets in your role as a treatment provider.
• Begin to use strategies to help break intergenerational patterns of trauma and substance use disorders in your role as a prevention specialist.
• Articulate the importance of prevention and treatment providers working together to break intergenerational patterns.
• Utilize strategies to help parents break intergenerational patterns of trauma, substance use disorders and dark family secrets.
• Address the unique needs of children of parents with substance use disorders.
• Learn strategies to break intergenerational patterns from Iceland, Native American, Metropolitan, and rural communities

This training is designed to equip participants with effective strategies for engaging faith-based organizations as vital partners in community initiatives. Faith-based institutions play a powerful role in influencing, mobilizing, and sustaining community action. Participants will explore the unique strengths of faith communities, identify shared values, and learn to foster respectful and mutually beneficial partnerships. The session emphasizes practical tools for outreach, collaboration, and communication that honor cultural and spiritual contexts.

Training Objectives

After this training, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the unique role faith-based organizations play in community engagement and development.
2. Explore strategies to build trust and meaningful relationships with leaders and members of faith communities.
3. Develop collaborative approaches that align faith-based missions with broader community goals and initiatives.
4. Apply culturally responsive engagement techniques that respect spiritual values while promoting inclusive, sustainable partnerships.