Cannabis Policy Resource Center Training

This is a recording of a webinar on February 6, 2024. No CEUs are offered for this recording.

Vaping has become a significant public health concern, and youth using on-campus challenges schools and communities to create effective policies and response strategies. When intervention is warranted, the use of alternatives to suspension programs has been shown to have a greater effect than removing students from school. This webinar will describe the frameworks of alternatives to suspension programs, demonstrate their effectiveness, and display Stanford REACH’s cannabis vaping alternatives to suspension program, Healthy Futures.

Dr. Bonnie Halpern-Felsher is the Marron and Mary Elizabeth Kendrick Professor in Pediatrics II in the Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University. Dr. Halpern-Felsher is a developmental psychologist with additional training in adolescent and young adult health. She is the founder and executive director of her REACH Lab, the Tobacco Prevention Toolkit, the Cannabis Awareness and Prevention Toolkit, the Vaping Information, Solutions, and Interventions Toolkit, and Safety First: Comprehensive Drug Prevention Program. She is also the President-Elect of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. Funded by the NIH and many foundations, her research has focused on understanding and reducing adolescent and young adult tobacco, marijuana, and other drug use. Her research, committee, and advocacy work have been instrumental in setting policy at the local, state, and national level. She has served as a consultant to several community-based adolescent health promotion programs, participated in three Surgeon General Reports, participated in six National Academies of Science committees, and has been a member on several national campaigns to understand and reduce adolescent tobacco/e-cigarette use.

This webinar was recorded on March 23, 2023. No CEUs are offered for recorded webinars.

The proportion of cannabis impairment involved in traffic crashes and injuries has been on the rise. In this webinar, Dr. Ashley Brooks-Russell examines the association of cannabis impairment with injury prevention policy.

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Click HERE to watch Community Responses to Cannabis Legalization: The Illinois Experience hosted by the Great Lake PTTC, featuring Prevention First's Jake Levinson and Brandi Young. The Illinois Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act went into effect on January 1, 2020, making retail cannabis sales legal in Illinois. In this webinar, we will describe the main features of the legislation, provide a snapshot of the current cannabis landscape in Illinois, and highlight some of the ways the state’s prevention system and local communities are responding.

The webinar explores the rapid proliferation in the availability and use of derived intoxicating cannabis products, including delta-8 THC, HHC, and THC-A. The session will include information about the harms of using synthetically derived cannabis products, the predatory marketing practices used to target youth, and the challenges states have faced in trying to regulate these products. Information is provided on the legal language and related advocacy and enforcement needed to effectively address this issue at the federal, state, and local levels. The presentation is followed by a discussion regarding strategies to support related public health efforts.

Dr. Matthew Rossheim is an Associate Professor at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. His work, including more than 90 peer-reviewed research manuscripts and 100 scientific presentations, has helped influence the development of laws and regulations from the local to federal levels. He is one of the nation’s leading public health experts on “supersized” alcopops and derived intoxicating cannabis products (such as delta-8 THC). His related publications illustrate how these harmful, intoxicating substances are made appealing and accessible to young people. His research has been cited in reports by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and World Health Organization (WHO), as well as featured by BBC, CNN, CBS, NBC, NPR, Washington Post, and The New York Times.

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

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

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

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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 

Helpful Links:

YPRC Tip Sheet - Engaging Youth in Your Messaging

TSRC Peer to Peer Traffic Safety Program

APRC Resource - Youth Voice: Educating Elected Officials

APRC Resource - Youth Voice: Educating on Policy

APRC Resource - Strategic Prevention Framework Resource Guide

APRC Resource - Law Enforcement Strategies Guide

ChangeLab Solutions Pathways to Policy

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This webinar was recorded on May 6, 2025. No CEUs are available for recorded webinars.

The alcohol and cannabis retail environments can change rapidly and pose challenges to community health. Assessing your community is critical in identifying potential issues contributing to underage or excessive alcohol and cannabis use. Completing a comprehensive assessment involves utilizing many tools and methods. Environmental scanning allows you to observe and document how these issues present themselves in your community, including through advertising. In this webinar, the APRC and CRPC will share their Environmental Scan Toolkits and explain why point-of-sale matters for alcohol and cannabis in your communities.

Join the Cannabis Policy Resource Center (CPRC) in partnership with Advocates for Human Potential as we explore some of the critical differences between alcohol and cannabis. Our knowledgeable and experienced speakers will compare alcohol and cannabis policies and discuss the respective public health outcomes. We will end the webinar with an Ask the Experts session!

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This webinar was recorded on January 30, 2025.

Description: Over the past decade, the U.S. alcohol retail landscape has changed drastically with the introduction of new types of ready-to-drink products – many with high alcohol content – the co-branding of alcohol and soda brands, and the emergence of THC-infused beverages. Additionally, shifts in marketing and sales practices, influenced by technological advances and the COVID-19 pandemic, have raised substantial concerns about underage access and overconsumption. This presentation will explore these evolving trends, offering insights into recent research on product marketing and the implications for public health and policy development.

Dr. Matthew Rossheim is an Associate Professor at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. His work, including more than 90 peer-reviewed research manuscripts and 100 scientific presentations, has helped influence the development of laws and regulations from the local- to federal-levels. He is one of the nation’s leading public health experts on “supersized” alcopops and derived intoxicating cannabis products (such as delta-8 THC). His related publications illustrate how these harmful intoxicating substances are made appealing and accessible to young people. His research has been cited in reports by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and World Health Organization (WHO), as well as featured by BBC, CNN, CBS, NBC, NPR, Washington Post, and The New York Times.

This training provides a focus on cannabis policy and how it impacts and should inform, how we plan, implement, and evaluate our cannabis prevention strategies.

Participants will learn the basic policy literacy skills that are necessary to be aware of and understand the cannabis policies that are passed in your state and communities, including how to inventory those components of cannabis legalization policies that impact the risk and protective factors we have prioritized in our prevention work.

The training examines the different layers of policy: federal, state, municipal, and organizational, and how we can have impact through prevention. Finally, participants will see examples of how we can identify intervening variables and local conditions impacted by state legalization policies, and how we use the strategic prevention framework, and the Seven Strategies of Community Change, to map out prevention strategies to address them.

Presented by Scott M. Gagnon, MPP, PS-C, Associate Executive Director of AdCare Educational Institute of Maine, Inc., and Director of SAMHSA’s New England Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC).

This is a recorded webinar from June 30, 2022/CEU's are not provided for recorded webinars. 

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