Convening Coalitions and Community Collaborations 1: Collaborative Purpose and Participation
During this course, participants will discuss how to establish the function and purpose of community coalitions and collaborations, and identify strategies for recruiting a diverse group of stakeholders. Participants should have a specific collaboration in mind when completing training activities to maximize learning opportunities.
*This course is 3 hours; an additional 30 minutes of prework is required.*
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Convening Coalitions and Community Collaborations 2: Structuring for Success
During this course, participants will discuss how to structure and organize a community coalition or collaboration for success and infuse cultural respect and responsiveness into their processes. Participants should have a specific collaboration in mind when completing training activities to maximize learning opportunities.
*This course is 3 hours; an additional 30 minutes of prework is required.*
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Convening Coalitions and Community Collaborations 3: Productive Group Processes and Facilitation
During this course, participants will discuss best practices for coordinating and facilitating community coalition or collaboration meetings, keeping stakeholders engaged, and evaluating the group’s effectiveness in making improvements. To maximize learning opportunities, participants should have a specific collaboration in mind when completing training activities.
*This course is 3 hours; an additional 30 minutes of prework is required.*
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Effective Group Facilitation
The ability to lead groups is essential to various positions within the prevention field. This two-day training builds basic facilitation skills of individuals working with youth and/or adult groups. By the end of the training, participants will understand the stages of group development and the major issues associated with them, as well as how to identify and use interventions that will influence group behavior. This is an interactive training that will incorporate theory into discussions, group interaction, role-playing and practice, and applied learning.
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Establishing and Leading a Youth Advisory Committee
In this one-day training, participants will learn how to establish and lead a youth advisory committee to support local substance use prevention efforts. Participants will learn best practices for engaging youth in advisory roles, how to establish an advisory committee structure, and strategies for recruiting and retaining youth advisors. Participants will also learn appropriate roles for youth committee members in substance use prevention activities.
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Foundations of Prevention Ethics
During this course, participants will explore the six principles of the Prevention Code of Ethics. Participants will then learn and use an ethical decision-making process to apply the Prevention Code of Ethics to various realistic ethical examples that substance use prevention professionals may encounter.
This course was developed by the SAMHSA Center for Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT) and will be facilitated by Prevention First’s Substance Use Prevention Training and Technical Assistance Specialists. A certificate for six (6) training hours is provided upon completion. This ethics training has been endorsed by the International Certification & Reciprocity Consortium (IC&RC) and meets the IC&RC’s prevention ethics education requirement for prevention specialist credentialing.
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Foundations of Teen Pregnancy Prevention Education
Foundations of Teen Pregnancy Prevention Education provides a basic understanding of the components and best practices related to implementing any TPPE program. This training will increase participants’ knowledge and skills related to planning, managing, facilitating, and evaluating Teen Pregnancy Prevention Education.
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Foundations of Positive Youth Development Series: Everyone's an Asset Builder and Sharing the Asset Message
During this foundational course, you will learn how to engage and support young people in your life and involve the family and community members of the youth connected to your work as a youth development professional.
Everyone’s an Asset Builder (Part I)
Developmental assets are prevention-focused and associated with all Reimagine Youth Development Services. These include improving academic performance, life skills education, recreation, sports, cultural/artistic activities, positive adult role models, service learning, and STEM Learning. The first day of the two-day training introduces the Developmental Assets® framework and the powerful role of individual asset builders in the lives of youth.
This two-day workshop will help participants:
- Identify the characteristics of effective asset builders and their own personal strengths and challenges
- Understand “circles of influence” and identify those circles in which there is potential for asset building
- Make and share a personal commitment to asset-building action
Sharing the Asset Message (Part II)
The second day of the training will prepare community members and groups to deliver various asset-building messages to multiple audiences. This workshop will help participants:
- Discuss how the assets relate to other positive youth development efforts
- Develop engaging presentation strategies to meet the unique needs of any audience
- Download free curriculum materials to use in their program presentations
Note: This is a two-day training; to receive credit, participants must attend both days of the training.
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Inclusive Classrooms: Creating LGBTQ+ Inclusive Health Classes for Educators
This webinar will examine the research on why it is important, now more than ever, for health education to be inclusive of LGBTQ+ youth. Participants will learn key terminology, with the understanding that identity terms mean different things to different populations, and that language is always evolving. Key statistics around LGBTQ+ mental health will be covered, as it relates to inclusivity in schools and classrooms. Overall, participants will learn how to be safe, supportive, and inclusive educators and providers for the young people they work with.
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Self-Care for Health Educators who Teach Pregnancy Prevention
As educators, many times our focus is on caring for our students and others. Too often, we put ourselves on the back burner, and forget that we can never pour from an empty cup. This webinar will provide participants the space to process what barriers get in the way of their own self care. We will also discuss community care options as well as how to build out a concrete self care “tool box”. In this webinar participants will learn what is true self care, deeper than what we see on social media. Lastly, this webinar will provide a time to engage in a self care activity to leave educators feeling supported, cared for, and calm.
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