Youth Prevention Resource Center Training

This YPRC training session is designed for professionals who support youth programming in schools and communities. Training will include dynamic strategies to engage youth leaders in successful prevention programming. Utilizing the YPRC’s “Year-Round Planning Guide,” participants will have a broader understanding of implementing monthly prevention programs that align with standards and engage youth leaders.

Objectives:

• Identify strategies for engaging students in leadership roles with a growth mindset perspective.
• Participants can effectively utilize the YPRC's planning guides to measure their effectiveness in implementing year-round prevention initiatives with youth leaders as partners.
• Identify and apply techniques for cultivating a growth mindset to enhance the development of young leaders.
• Participants will proficiently employ the SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound) goal framework to develop comprehensive prevention programs in collaboration with youth leaders.

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QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer — the 3 simple steps anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide. Just as people trained in CPR help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR learn, in a short timeframe, how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help.

The Trevor Project’s 2024 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ Young People found that 39% of LGBTQ+ young people seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year, including nearly half of transgender and nonbinary youth. LGBTQ+ young people are not inherently prone to suicide risk because of their sexual orientation or gender identity but rather placed at higher risk because of how they are mistreated and stigmatized in society. Join Prevention First's Mental Health and Youth Prevention Resource Centers during Pride Month for a virtual QPR training with a special focus on preventing suicide among LGBTQ+ folks.

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Mental health and substance use challenges are connected, and the relationship is likely bi-directional. This means that mental health challenges can contribute to substance misuse, and substance misuse can contribute to the development of mental health challenges. They also share some common risk factors, such as genetic vulnerabilities, stress, adverse childhood experiences, and trauma. In this webinar, we'll explore the relationship between substance misuse and mental health, their shared risk and protective factors, and why we do ourselves and our communities a disservice to think of them as separate and unrelated issues.

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Youth are critical partners in developing and implementing programs and strategies that impact them. This course gives learners the knowledge and skills to authentically engage youth in prevention and youth development programs. Topics include adolescent development, the advantages of youth involvement, phases of authentic engagement, combating stereotypes and discrimination, adultism's impact, and effective youth recruitment and retention strategies. Participants will explore the importance of equitable power-sharing, recognize misconceptions, and understand how to engage youth effectively while navigating complexities in engagement practices.

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This online course will increase participants’ knowledge and skills in building relationships and collaborating with key community stakeholders. Participants will learn strategies for identifying and engaging key stakeholders, building relationships, getting stakeholders on board, and convening local coalitions.

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This online training will increase participants’ knowledge of how the teen brain develops, how adolescent brain development differs throughout various stages, and how adolescent brain development influences adolescent thinking and behavior. The impact of early life trauma and racism will also be explored. Participants will examine their beliefs and attitudes about adolescence and how they affect their work with youth. This training will also highlight the value of authentically partnering with young people.

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IISUP I: Welcome to Prevention is a self-paced, online course introducing participants to youth substance use prevention. Participants of this course will explore why prevention matters, including the rates, effects, and consequences of youth substance use. Participants will also examine milestones and trends of substance use in our society over time, how prevention efforts have evolved throughout history, and the components of effective prevention. This course consists of six modules. Estimated completion time for the entire course is 3 hours. The estimated completion time for each module is 30 minutes.

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This online training will provide an overview of youth engagement and best practices for working with youth committees/councils. Participants will learn about the benefits of engaging youth, levels of youth participation, strategies for addressing barriers to youth engagement, and best practices for youth/adult partnerships.

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These 60-minute recorded webinars on Authentic Youth Engagement target adults who work with youth, adults who seek to learn about authentic youth engagement, educators, and prevention professionals. Certificates of Completion/CEU's are not provided for recorded webinars. Authentic Youth Engagement - Part One was recorded on February 15, 2022 and Part Two was recorded on March 29, 2022. 

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This webinar was hosted on June 15, 2022. There are no CEUs offered for viewing this recording. 

Presenters: Bryant Laiche, Randyl Wilkins, and Makenna Gill

This special Pride Month webinar examines what it takes to be an LGBTQ+ ally. This webinar explores how you can support members of the LGBTQ+ community and fight against the risk factors that contribute to increased substance misuse and mental health challenges. 

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This is a recorded webinar. No CEUs are offered for recorded webinars.

Presenters: Kellie Henrichs, Randyl Wilkins, Kathy Murphy, Jody Heavilin, and Jacob Levinson

This webinar will share effective strategies that have been shown to engage youth in meaningful prevention efforts. 

Upon completing the webinar, participants will be able to: 

• Describe the importance of authentic youth engagement 
• Recognize opportunities to engage youth in prevention work 
• Highlight ways youth can benefit from being involved in prevention work 
• Identify how to recruit youth for prevention work 

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This is a recorded webinar. No CEUs are offered for recorded webinars.

Presenters: Makenna Gill, SAB Alumni, moderator; Shrinidhi Sriraman, SAB Member, panelist; Laila Hutchison, SAB Member, Panelist; Rachel Coutinho, SAB Member, Panelist

Join three of our new Student Advisory Board members as they share their thoughts and experiences on authentically engaging youth in prevention work.  

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This webinar was recorded on May 14, 2024. No CEUs are offered for recorded webinars.

This workshop covers basic LGBT concepts and terminology, transgender-specific information including medical and social transitioning, how to be more LGBT open and welcoming, how being more open and welcoming can reduce service disparities and chronic disease, and your role in making a difference.

Learning Objectives

• Participants will be able to differentiate between the four main concepts of biological sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.
• Participants will understand what it means to be transgender and the basics of social and medical transitioning.
• Participants will learn how being open and welcoming increases trust and reduces medical disparities. 
• Participants will learn ten (10) ways to be more LGBT-open and welcoming.

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