CAPT on the Web - December 2016

What's New in December 2016

Welcome to CAPT on the Web ---- a quick link to the latest prevention resources, articles, and tools on www.samhsa.gov/capt, offering cutting edge research, timely publications, and examples of successful prevention efforts from around the country. Check out what's new on the site!

Announcements

National Tribal Behavioral Health Agenda. This first-of-its-kind collaborative tribal-federal blueprint highlights the extent to which behavioral health challenges affect Native communities and strategies for improving the behavioral health of American Indians and Alaska Natives.

Archived Webinars

Empowering Communities to Address Health Disparities: Practical Steps to Take at the Local Level. This webinar explored strategies for engaging communities in activities to address behavioral health disparities, including opportunities for improving local-level assessment practices and practical approaches for evaluating community-based interventions aimed at reducing disparities.
The National CLAS Standards in Action. This webinar presented examples of how communities are integrating the national Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) Standards into their prevention efforts, as well as best practices for evaluating the success of these efforts.

Related Resources:

Tools from the CAPT: Increasing Cultural Competence to Reduce Behavioral Health Disparities.

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Grantee Stories and Tools

Washington D.C.'s Community Conversations Deepen Understanding of Neighborhood Prevention Needs. Learn how Washington, D.C. is addressing data gaps and identifying nascent issues using an innovative, "bottom up" data collection approach.

Related Resources

Focusing on Focus Groups: An Implementation Guide for Substance Misuse Prevention Practitioners (Online Course).

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Upcoming Events

SAMHSA's 13th Annual Prevention Day. February 6, 2017, National Harbor, MD. Features presentations, training sessions, technical assistance, and resources to support prevention practitioners, community leaders, researchers, and consumers in successfully addressing emerging prevention issues.
CADCA's 27th Annual National Leadership Forum. February 6-9, 2017. National Harbor, MD. Learn about the latest strategies for fighting substance misuse, and hear from nationally-known prevention experts, federal administrators, and concerned policy makers.

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SAMHSA's Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT) is a national training and technical assistance system committed to strengthening substance abuse prevention efforts at the regional, State, and local levels and building the nation's behavioral health workforce.

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SAMHSA's Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies
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