Looking Ahead to 2023

Welcome to 2023 and a Happy New Year from Mid-America Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC). We're excited about the upcoming projects and products we'll be sharing across the four-state region of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska.

Looking ahead to the new year, you will see some familiar products being offered, like the Community of Practices series, additional support for the DEC mission in our region, and a lunch-n-learn series on Structural Inequities Affecting Prevention.

If you are a resolutions-in-the-new-year kinda person, then you'll wanna save the date for our upcoming webinar "Getting to Know Your Why". This fun and engaging session will empower you in the game of life. Save the date of March 7th at 10:00am CST.

Also, in 2023 we'll be launching a new cross TTC collaboration, develop a media literacy project, host a regional conference with The National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children, and as you may have noticed, a facelift for this newsletter and a new podcast title (see below).

Remember, prevention is better together and together, we are stronger!

New year, new name - Prevention Perk; the podcast from Mid-America PTTC. We'll still be offering content that reflects the mission of our network: to serve as a prevention catalyst, empowering individuals and fostering partnerships to promote safe, healthy, and drug-free communities.

Welcome, come on in for a perk to your prevention efforts.

Missouri Convenes Overdose Summit

Kim Freese, Region-7 Administrator for SAMHSA and Catherine Satterwhite, Region-7 Health Administrator from the Office of Assistant Secretary of Health discuss Missouri's Overdose Prevention Planning Strategy.

Listen: Episode 64

Piloting Core Competencies

Kate Kelley, Director of Community Programming with the Alliance of Southwest Missouri and Crystal Dalmasso, Prevention Specialist & Training Consultant with DCCCA discuss the recent launch of SAMHSA’s Core Competencies training.

Listen: Episode 65

(coming 01/19)

SAMHSA Guides to Prevention

Community Engagement

Community engagement is often cited as a tool to improve the health of the community and its members. This guide will review evidence related to leveraging community engagement to support the implementation and scale-up of evidence-based programs and policies.

Focus on Prevention

This manual helps communities plan and deliver substance use prevention strategies. It covers conducting needs assessments, identifying partners, and creating effective strategies for marketing and program evaluation. The manual also offers a sample timeline of tasks. Revised 2020

Our good friends at Partnership for A Healthy Iowa have a wonderful project on Digital Literacy.

What is Digital Literacy? A set of critical thinking skills that help people to understand how the media work, what effects they have, and how to manage them to get the maximum benefits while minimizing potential risks.

Their website is filled with lessons plans and other great content, to help facilitate learning.

Children are constantly surrounded by media, all trying to get their attention and to leave an impression. Children today spend vastly more time with screen media than with traditional print media, and the Iowa Digital Literacy Program is designed to help educators enhance the teaching of traditional literacy with digital literacy.

Children need new literacy skills to go with the new media. Without these skills, they are at the mercy of marketers and are unable to manage the information either for appropriateness or truth.

Click here to learn more about Iowa Digital Literacy, and visit Partnership for A Healthy Iowa

The Guide to the Eight Professional Competencies was designed to promote enhanced professional skills and ultimately significantly impact college students' decisions surrounding drugs and alcohol.

The Mid-America PTTC would like to thank Dr. Anderson and his team for their dedication to this initiative, which started from an idea that Dave Closson had during his tenure at Mid-America.

If you'd like to read, share, and comment on this work, please visit our website at www.preventioncompetencies.org.

SUBMIT PRESENTATION by 2.3.23

⏪ Listen on Rewind ⏪

Leadership Institute Community of Practice

This series provided this space for current and emerging leaders in behavioral health disciplines to participate in dialogue and create space for our industries leaders of tomorrow.

If you missed your opportunity to participate, you still have a chance to listen on rewind to this four-part series by clicking the links below.

Workforce Innovations: Social Impact & Remote Working

Equity & Inclusion in Behavioral Health

Promoting Equity and Inclusion in the Workforce

Building Rapport & Working Overextensions

Behavioral Health and Substance Use Awareness in the Workplace

Behavioral health and substance use are common occurrences. Everyone in the workplace can make an impact by learning more about these conditions, working to reduce stigma, and learning how to talk to a coworker who might be struggling and help them to access supportive resources.

This 1.5 hour course is designed to educate employers and employees about mental health and substance use issues that may arise in the workplace and how to manage them. It is not designed for the mental health professional, and this series does not train the viewer to diagnose, only to recognize and respond.

Certificate of Completion Available.

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