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Evidence Based Practices: From Understanding Basics to Selecting the Right Fit with Fidelity and Sustainability.
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This three-part series on working with evidence based practices in your community, is designed to ensure your understanding of the importance of EBP's, learn the selection process, and finally implement with fidelity and for sustainability. Whether you are new to the prevention field, or really seeking to build your knowledge, this series will help your community select effective interventions with conceptual and practical fit.
About these trainings: These two-hour segments will provide time during the events to process the material in small groups and digest your knowledge between sessions. Our trainers are Dave Closson from DJC Solutions and Nicole Luciani, who together bring a broad understanding of the subject and unique styles of training that are sure to help deepen your understanding. Select all three sessions or customize your learning to fit your knowledge and schedule.
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Identify & Select EBP's:
An Overview
When it comes to Evidence Based Practices there are a lot of questions. What are EBP's? Why should we use them? When are they most effective? This introduction to our series will answer these questions and more; plus we'll start to learn how to find the best fit for a community's prevention efforts.
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EBP's for the Local Community:
A Closer Look
In our second segment on Evidence Based Practices we'll look at what must happen for intervention success and share how to select the best options, plus unpack the core elements of an intervention.
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Implementation with Fidelity and Sustainability
In the capstone segment we'll bring all our learning from the previous sessions, with emphasis on fidelity (how to plan against pitfalls), sustainability, and learn how to monitor our EBP implementation for maximum impact on your identified ATOD prevention efforts.
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Community of Practice: Equity and Inclusion in Behavioral Health Work
Current political environment around equity and inclusion in the workplace has made it challenging for practitioners to provide effective evidence-based practices towards prevention, treatment, and recovery. Behavioral health practitioners are required now more than ever to pay closer attention to these challenges in the workplace.
Join us July 21st for a discussion around increasing awareness, effectively navigating challenges, and moving towards action.
Listen to the interview with our guest Shawn Sorrell then sign up for this exciting and insightful Community of Practice.
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Look for future registration opportunities to the rest of our Leadership Institute Community of Practice sessions. Each month, from 12:00 to 1:00 PM CST, the TTC’s will host these free 60-minute virtual Zoom sessions to engage leaders in dialogue on the following topics:
· Equity and Inclusion in the Workforce (8/18)
· Relationship Building (9/15)
These collaborative efforts between the Mid-America Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC), Mid-America Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC), and Mid-America Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) will hold space for current and emerging as leaders in these behavioral health disciplines who want to participate in dialogue and begin to create space for our industries leaders of tomorrow.
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What is a Community of Practice (CoP)? It's a shared space where questions, challenges, and new ideas are exchanged and where participants walk away refocused. |
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The Mid-America PTTC Podcast: Listen, Subscribe, Share! |
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Peter Komendowski is one of Iowa’s leading advocates for healthy, drug-free communities and is a sought-after speaker, television host of the long-running series "Surviving Bad." Listeners of the podcast will understand why he has been entertaining audiences of all ages with his observations on “living in the digital world – life at the speed of human.”
Our next episode drops on July 21st is an in-depth conversation about Harm Reduction with Kim Nelson, Regional Administrator for SAMHSA.
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These events bring together DEC alliance members from across the United States to listen and learn about best practices from other leaders in the cause.
Each session is unique in focus and allows the participant to consider new ideas and build skills.
Who should attend?
Whether you're a DEC Academy graduate, existing collaborator or want to learn more about partnering in the DEC initiatives of our region (Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas) these calls are for you!
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As a follow-up to the All Hands on DEC events, these Community of Practice Sessions are designed to be an engaging and immersive learning experience.
These sessions will help answer your questions, and practice skill building for participant's to take back tools to their coalition.
Who should attend?
This CoP is for you if you are a DEC Alliance member in our region, or are considering participation in one of our up-coming DEC Academies in Nebraska or Missouri.
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NPN Conference
Aug 23-25
The Power of Hope: Healthy Opportunities for Prevention to Empower Change
Hosted and Sponsored by:
The National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors, Inc. (NASADAD) is a private, not-for-profit, educational, scientific and informational organization. NASADAD’s basic purpose is to foster and support the development of effective alcohol and other drug abuse prevention and treatment programs throughout every state.
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Harm reduction is any action that reduces risk and increases personal and public safety. Harm reduction approaches have proven to prevent death, injury, disease, overdose, prevent substance misuse or disorder and most of us practice harm reduction techniques daily. For example, when we wear a seatbelt or apply sunscreen we are using harm reduction strategies. Fentanyl strips, naloxone, and needle exchange programs are also examples of harm reduction. This poster identifies some of the most common harm reduction methods in an attempt to normalize the term "harm reduction" and broaden the definition.
The poster above can be downloaded in multiple formats directly from the MPATTC website (Mountain Plaines Addiction Technology Center). In addition, hard copies may be requested from the MPATTC by emailing us at mpattc@casat.org.
To request a "What is Harm Reduction?" poster to be mailed directly to you, please click "REQUEST A HARD COPY".
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At the Mid-America PTTC... |
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We believe prevention is better together
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together we are stronger!
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