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Monthly Newsletter
Happy New Fiscal Year!
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This month we’re sharing resources to support prevention programming with foundational tools that strengthen understanding within each step of the Strategic Prevention Framework. Whether you are a well-seasoned preventionist, or just getting started, you will find something helpful as you begin to think about the coming year’s activities. Also, check out the
PTTC website
for MANY additional opportunities for training and products.
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In this Issue
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Congratulations SAMHSA Grantees
Resources-New Fiscal Year
Training and Conference Highlights
Staff Music Picks
Staff Self-Care Ideas
Epi Corner-
Partnering with an Epidemiologist to Enhance Your Prevention Efforts
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Congratulations on your SAMHSA Grant Award!
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Tribal Opioid Response Grantees
- Tunica-Biloxi Indians of Louisiana, Louisiana
- Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Louisiana
- Ohkay Wingeh, New Mexico
- Taos, Pueblo of, New Mexico
- Five Sandoval Indian Pueblos, Inc., New Mexico
- Sac and Fox Nation, New Mexico
- Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Oklahoma
- Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma
- Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Oklahoma
- United Keetoowah Cherokee Council, Oklahoma
- Osage Nation, Oklahoma
- Chickasaw Nation, Oklahoma
- Pawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Oklahoma
- Muscogee Creek Nation, Oklahoma
- Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma, Oklahoma
- Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma, Oklahoma
- Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Oklahoma
- Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma
- Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma, Inc., Oklahoma
- Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma
- Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas, Texas
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SPF-PFS
- Adapt, Inc., Louisiana
- Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse for Greater New Orleans, Louisiana
- Metropolitan Center for Women and Children, Louisiana
- National Latino Behavioral Health Association, New Mexico
- Mescalero Apache Tribal Council, New Mexico
- San Juan County Partnership, Inc., New Mexico
- La Casa De Buena Salud, Inc., New Mexico
- Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico
- Capacity Builders, Inc., New Mexico
- County of Rio Arriba, New Mexico
- Ohkay Wingeh, New Mexico
- Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma
- University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma
- National Indian Women’s Health Resource Center, Oklahoma
- Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma, Oklahoma
- Wichita and Affiliated Tribes, Oklahoma
- Grand Nation, Inc., Oklahoma
- City of Sallisaw, Oklahoma
- Westcare Texas, Inc., Texas
- Sabine Valley Regional Mental Health and Mental Retardation Center, Texas
- Bay Area Council on Drug and Alcohol, Inc., Texas
- University of Texas San Antonio, Texas
- Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans, Inc., Texas
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Resources Listed by the Steps of the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF)
All resources this month are from the PTTC website
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Assessment
The Data Dive: Episode 1
Publication Date: October 1, 2019
Developed By: Global PTTC
This episode is about using data prioritization to focus substance misuse prevention efforts more effectively and efficiently. Using recent prioritization work in New Jersey as an example, we talk about the five key steps of a prioritization process and how they can look in action. We also discuss factors and questions to consider before and during a prioritization process.
Informing Prevention (Adolescents): The Effective Use of Epidemiological Data
In this webinar you will learn how to determine the scope of a problem for your target population. You will learn where to access data and ways to analyze epidemiological data.
Capacity
Build the capacity of your new prevention staff and coalition by attending training from the
PTTC Network
website or visit the free online learning site
HealtheKnowledge
for online course opportunities! We especially recommend the
Introduction to Substance Abuse Prevention: Understanding the Basics
for anyone new to prevention.
- Prevention in Action Series: Teaching the SAPST at a University
- Minecraft, not Ms. Pac-Man: Transforming Prevention Presentations for Today's Audience
- Early Childhood Development: Toxic Stress and Adverse Childhood Experiences
- Introduction to Substance Abuse Prevention: Understanding the Basics
Planning
Logic model development is central to strategic planning, helping us identify appropriate approaches for addressing salient risk and protective factors, and ultimately producing anticipated outcomes. Logic models presented are intended to be a guide, as the problem statements and inputs described are not relevant to, or present in, all states or communities.
Implementation
Implementing Evidence-Based Prevention Approaches Webinar Series
This is a four-part webinar series hosted by the Central East PTTC that focuses on implementing evidence-based prevention approaches.
Part 1:
How to Implement an Evidence-Based Approach Through Strategic Planning
Part 2:
Understanding Risk and Protective Factors and Identifying Factors in Your Community
Part 3:
Selecting and Implementing Evidence-Based Prevention Strategies
Part 4:
Engaging in Collaborative Prevention Efforts
Scope of Prevention: Universal, Community and School Based Prevention Interventions
This webinar will use the experience of one prevention service provider as a model to discuss universal prevention strategies and the differences between school-based and community-based universal prevention programs. Participants will explore how the Strategic Prevention Framework can be used to identify needs within the community to select evidence-based interventions, as well as how to engage the community to participate.
Evaluation
Cultural Approaches to Prevention: Measuring Cultural Factors Associated with Substance Misuse and Mental Health in American Indian and Alaska Native Populations
Measuring Cultural Factors Associated with Substance Misuse and Mental Health in American Indian and Alaska Native Populations provides information on measures that prevention practitioners and evaluators can use when evaluating substance misuse prevention programs that include cultural elements. The measures are divided into two main sections: (1) those that can be used for research purposes without further permission from the author; and (2) those that will require you to contact the measure developer for permission to use the questionnaire and to access the complete scale items. Within each section, measures are organized by overarching conceptual themes.
Sustainability
A Sustainability Planning Guide for Healthy Communities
The Sustainability Planning Guide is a synthesis of science- and practice-based evidence designed to help coalitions, public health professionals, and other community stakeholders develop, implement, and evaluate a successful sustainability plan. The Guide provides a process for sustaining policy strategies and related activities, introduces various approaches to sustainability, and demonstrates sustainability planning in action with real-life.
Cultural Competence
New Free E-Learning Program on Cultural Competency for Behavioral Health Professionals
This new, free and accredited e-learning program is available via U.S. Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health’s (HHS OMH) Think Cultural Health website. It is designed to develop behavioral health providers' knowledge and skills related to culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS).
This online program is a practical tool for behavioral health professionals who want to gain skills and knowledge about culture and diversity, which could be applied daily to better serve your clients. The tool is particularly timely for professionals working to address the opioid epidemic among racial and ethnic populations, which have low treatment rates and some of the highest rates of opioid misuse and overdose.
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Other Highlights
Integrating Primary and Behavioral Health Care through the Lens of Prevention (IPBHC)
November 13-15, 2019
New Orleans, Louisiana
This conference is attended by professionals involved in prevention, behavioral healthcare, and physical health care. The conference differs from similar behavioral health conferences because it explores prevention’s role in health integration. Also, its emphasis is on presenting information demonstrating the benefits and necessity of placing the field of professional prevention on par with behavioral health and primary healthcare into the practice of integrated health care. Additionally, IPBHC has a reputation for attracting diverse professionals who are committed to breaking down silos and serving as a vehicle addressing the need for interdisciplinary cooperation and respect involving prevention experts, substance use disorder professionals, primary care practitioners, and behavioral healthcare specialists. Sponsored by the University of Oklahoma’s Southwest Prevention Center.
Native American Substance Abuse Prevention Skills Training
October 29-November 1, 2019
Rapid City, South Dakota
This training is for Native American and Alaska Native substance abuse prevention practitioners and those working in Native American and Alaska Native communities in related disciplines to develop the knowledge and skills needed to address substance use prevention and provide effective prevention services to their communities using the Strategic Prevention Framework. This training requires completion of an online portion (5 hours) prior to attending the four-day face-to-face training.
Participant information:
- This training is free to tribal members
- Participants are responsible for their own travel, accommodation and food
- Participants will receive a certificate representing the total number of attended training hours. These can be submitted to participants’ local credentialing authority toward prevention certification or re-certification. We are a NAADAC certified educational provider.
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South Southwest PTTC Staff Wellness and Music Picks
With the start of a new fiscal year and the holidays just around the corner, stress can affect the wellness of any hard-working prevention professional.
As you consider your own list of self-care habits that help you relax and de-stress, we invite you to plan for implementation of your favorite practices this month. Here are a few music and wellness recommendations from the South Southwest PTTC staff. We hope you’ll love these ideas as much as we do! Let us know some of your favorites, and about your successes this month, and we’ll share them in the newsletter next month!
Better yet, send us a picture of you enjoying what you like to do to de-stress.
wwest@ou.edu
South Southwest PTTC Staff Music Picks
Beverly Triana-Tremain, Epidemiologist:
Dodi Swope, T/TA Specialist:
Elizabeth Hume, Program Manager:
LaShonda Williamson-Jennings, Co-director:
When I need inspiration or energy, I listen to the
oldies.
Nicole Schoenborn, Evaluator
Wanda West, Product Development and Distance Learning Coordinator
When I’m working and need softer music or want to relax, I like indie, folk music or anything with acoustic guitar. Here’s a mix I found on
YouTube
. My get-up-and-go music is
classic rock
; Rolling Stones, Scorpions, AC/DC etc.
South Southwest PTTC Staff Self-Care Recommendations
Beverly Triana-Tremain, Epidemiologist
Favorite Books
Dodi Swope, T/TA Specialist
I’m [sharing] a lovely little mindfulness moment…the poem,
Hokusai Says
by Roger Keyes.
Elizabeth Hume, Program Manager
For self-care I get a hotel room (ALONE) put on a [face] mask and read a People magazine with my phone turned off.
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Nicole Schoenborn, Evaluator
I am planning to do a Japanese garden in a small space in my backyard. So far, I have a lot of rock piled up and one Japanese maple. [To the right] is a picture of the Japanese botanical garden I visited in Seattle. It is part of a much larger amazing arboretum in the city.
Marie Cox, Director
I put my work cell on silent when I go to bed.
Sheila Boswell, Assistant Evaluator
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Japanese Botanical Garden in Seattle
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Wanda West, Product Development and Distance Learning Coordinator
For self-care, I walk my dog on a quiet trail near my home in the evenings or work out at the gym. My favorite place to relax is my back porch on the porch swing that belonged to my mom.
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Wanda's back porch and favorite place
to relax.
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Epi Corner
Iris Smith, Ph.D
South Southwest Prevention Technology Transfer Center
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Partnering with an
Epidemiologist to Enhance Your Prevention Efforts
Epidemiology is the study of the frequency, distribution and determinants of health outcomes in order to identify, prevent, control or treat health outcomes in specific populations
[1]
Epidemiologists provide data to support policy development, strategy selection and the identification of trends and emerging issues related to substance use. Epidemiologists typically have a wide range of skills related to the collection, analysis and interpretation of research data. They play an important role in helping communities collect and utilize data, assessing community needs and capacity, as well as planning, implementing and evaluating prevention strategies.
Selecting an Epidemiologist
As mentioned, an epidemiologist involves a wide range of skills. When selecting an individual to serve in this role you may want to consider the following:
- Formal training and/or experience in a similar role.
- Demonstrated skill in both quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis.
- Knowledge of drug use prevention research.
- Familiarity with publicly available data sets related to drug use and prevention.
- Interpersonal and communication skills- including experience communicating research findings to non-research community audiences
Preparing for the initial meeting
Prevention work requires an active and ongoing partnership between the prevention provider and the epidemiologist. This relationship is most effective when there is shared understanding of the purpose, goals and objectives of the community coalition, prevention provider and the epidemiologist’s role. In preparation for the initial meeting, it may be helpful to begin to think about some of the following questions:
- What information do you already have about use, risk factors and resources in your community?
- What data sources have you used?
- How was it collected?
- Does the data reflect current conditions in the community?
- What additional questions do you have about use, risk factors and resources in your community (data gaps)?
- What data is most critical at this time (i.e. priorities)?
- What would be the most efficient and effective way to communicate (for example, frequency, modality, etc.)
- How will the data be disseminated once it becomes available (i.e. who are the potential audiences for the information)?
- What are the reporting deadlines that will require epidemiologic input?
The epidemiologist is an important member of your prevention team. They contribute highly specialized expertise to ensure that your prevention strategies effectively address the needs and characteristics of your community. In addition, they can provide data on emerging issues and national trends which can be helpful in planning for sustainability. Using some of the tips above and after careful consideration of the community needs, you’ll be prepared to work with your epidemiologist successfully, with great outcomes to your prevention programming.
[1] Adapted from Last (2001) A Dictionary of Epidemiology 4
th Edition.
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