Prevention First’s Youth Prevention Resource Center (YPRC) provides training, education, resources, and tools for youth and adults who work with them.

The YPRC is committed to bringing you training that reflects best practices on strategies proven to reduce risks associated with substance misuse, teen traffic safety, and mental health and wellness. We also offer training to increase protective factors around the same, such as Mental Health First Aid for Youth and Adults.

Training Events

Our training events (in person and virtually) are offered throughout the fiscal year. To find the next scheduled event, search below. Training on demand (self-paced) can be found via search or browsing through the online training and recorded webinar descriptions below. 

Online Training

Collaborating with Key Stakeholders

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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The Dynamic Adolescent Brain

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.

Register

Recorded Webinars

Authentic Youth Engagement

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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Being Visible: A Look at What It Takes To Be An LGBTQ+ Ally

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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Engaging Youth in Prevention

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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Engaging Youth in Prevention: SAB Edition

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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Live Webinar

QPR - Youth Suicide Prevention

Monday, May 06, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Online
Description
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 how in a short timeframe to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help. 
 
 Suicide is the second leading cause of death among young people aged 10 to 14, and the third leading cause of death among 15–24-year-olds (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2022). Join Prevention First’s Mental Health and Youth Prevention Resource Centers during Children’s Mental Health Acceptance Week for a virtual QPR training with a focus on preventing suicide among young people.
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Live Webinar

LGBT Connections

Tuesday, May 14, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Online
Description

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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Live Webinar

Engaging Youth Leaders in Successful Prevention Programming

Monday, June 03, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Online
Description

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 will be able to 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 be proficient in employing the SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound) goal framework to develop comprehensive prevention programs in collaboration with youth leaders.
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Live Webinar

QPR - LGBTQ+ Suicide Prevention

Thursday, June 13, 2024
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Online
Description
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 how in a short timeframe to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help.
 
The Trevor Project’s 2023 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ Young People found that 41% of LGBTQ+ young people seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year, including roughly 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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Online

Collaborating with Key Stakeholders

Online
Description

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

Read More

Audience:

General

View Details & Register for Collaborating with Key Stakeholders
Online

The Dynamic Adolescent Brain

Online
Description

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.

Read More

Audience:

General

View Details & Register for The Dynamic Adolescent Brain
Recorded Webinar

Authentic Youth Engagement - Part One (Recorded)

Online
Description

These 60-minute recorded webinars on Authentic Youth Engagement targets 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 (February 15, 2022)

 

 

 

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Recorded Webinar

Authentic Youth Engagement - Part Two (Recorded)

Online
Description

These 60-minute recorded webinars on Authentic Youth Engagement targets 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 Two (March 29, 2022)

 

 

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Audience:

General

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Recorded Webinar

Being Visible: A Look at What It Takes To Be An LGBTQ+ Ally (Recorded)

Online
Description

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

This special Pride Month webinar looks at what it takes to be an LGBTQ+ ally. This webinar will explore 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.

Presenters: Bryant Laiche, Randyl Wilkins, and Makenna Gill

View webinar 

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Audience:

General

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Recorded Webinar

Engaging Youth in Prevention

Online
Description

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

CADCA

 

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Prevention First's Prevention Connection

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Recorded Webinar

Engaging Youth in Prevention: SAB Edition - Archived Webinar

Online
Description

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

Summary: Join 3 of our new Student Advisory Board members as they share their thoughts and experiences on what it means to engage youth in prevention work authentically.

 

Read More

Audience:

General

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