COALITION NEWS

Social connection is a basic human need, as essential to survival as food and water. Loneliness is how we feel when we do not have the level of connection that we need. It looks different for everyone, but loneliness can be harmful for our health according to the U.S. Surgeon General. Click on the image with this story to read facts about the health impacts associated with loneliness, isolation, and lack of social connections.

Did you know young adults are twice as likely to be lonely than seniors?

Read more in a supporting article from The Cigna Group.

The Trevor Project released results of their 2023 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ Young People, revealing that LGBTQ young people continue to report significantly high rates of mental health challenges and suicide risk. The survey also underscores the protective nature of affirming homes and schools, and how LGBTQ young people would envision a more accepting world.

Read more at www.thetrevorproject.org/survey-2023.

A survey of 2,500 teens and young adults led by the American Heart Association found that vaping nicotine and THC, the psychoactive component in marijuana, was associated with higher self-reported symptoms of depression and anxiety compared to non-vapers. “Younger people have long been vulnerable to tobacco use, may experience greater harm from nicotine and other drugs and may be targeted by tobacco advertisers and marketers,” said study author Joy Hart, Ph.D.

Read about the study findings and analysis at newsroom.heart.org.

A clickable list of the latest news and events from FDA's Center for Tobacco Products through the CTP Newsroom:

• FDA Issues Marketing Denial Orders for Approximately 6,500 Flavored E-cigarette Products
• FDA and NIH Award Funding for New Center for Rapid Surveillance of Tobacco
• FDA Takes Action Against Sale of Puff and Hyde Products
• FDA Puts Firms Responsible for Esco Bars and Breeze — Two Popular Disposable E-cigarette Brands— on Notice
• FDA Conducts Retailer Inspection Blitz, Cracks Down on Illegal Sales of Popular Disposable E-cigarettes

Season 2 is now available! In Episode 1 we welcomed Logan Morrow to the Podcast! Christopher interviewed Logan about her experiences as a Student Assistance Professional (SAP), and how coalitions can support their work.

Click the image with this story to listen to Season 2, Episode 1 ...and if you missed an episode of Season 1, here are links to all six episodes:

• Episode 0 - Welcome
• Episode 1 - Rural Network
• Episode 2 - Policy Change
• Episode 3 - Secure Your Cannabis
• Episode 4 - "Better You Bingo" with special guests from Clark County STASHA!
• Episode 5 - Sweet & Sour
• Episode 6 - New Coordinator Orientation

Season 2:

• Episode 1 - Supporting Student Assistance Professionals

Listen to all Prevent Coalition podcasts at preventcoalition.podbean.com or on Google Podcasts, the Apple Podcast app and other familiar streaming services. Episodes are also archived at preventcoalition.org/events/news/.

Consider adding the Prevent Coalition Podcast to your playlist! We're sharing stories and strategies to help coalitions and organizations reach their full potential.

"Become a Trusted Adult" is a training that prepares adults to understand their role as models of social and emotional health, anticipate the mental health needs of youth and understand how to engage with youth skillfully. Participants will learn the foundational ideas embedded in the Calm and Connected Toolkit and applicable strategies for integration into existing community programs. The training is valuable for professionals who work with youth but also beneficial for parents. Click on the image with this story to view the announcement flyer and registration link. Space is limited!

When: June 20th, 9am-5pm

Where: In-person @ Water Resource Center, 4600 SE Columbia Way, Vancouver, WA

Cost: Free!

Registration: Click here to register

Trainer Website: www.calmandconnectedtoolkit.com

Questions: contact Joy Lyons, Manager, Prevention Intervention & Youth Services, ESD 112. (joy.lyons@esd112.org)

This event will be held in Esther Short Park, Vancouver, WA on Saturday, June 17th in celebration of the federal holiday. Events are planned from 1pm-7pm including live music, kids activities, local vendors, art displays, food trucks, and community resources.

Join in and celebrate the freedoms that strengthen our community. Visit the event website www.jfcvancouver.org to learn more!

WSU Extension is offering virtual facilitator trainings for Guiding Good Choices (GGC) in 2023. The trainings are covered by a grant and therefore free to participants; each training is limited to the first 16 registered participants. One more training opportunity remains:

• June 26-30, 2023 (Click HERE to register)
  

Although the training and registration fees are covered for participants, attendees MUST purchase a Membership Subscription (either 1 year or 3 years) and the GGC Workshop Leader Guide License prior to the training. Please visit the University of Washington's GGC CoMotion Website for purchasing material: https://els2.comotion.uw.edu/product/guiding-good-choices-ggc.

Training follows a Monday-Friday schedule:

• Mondays from 10 am -12 pm and 2 pm - 4 pm
• Tuesdays from 10 am -12 pm and 2 pm - 4 pm
• Wednesdays from 10 am -12 pm and 2 pm - 4 pm
• Thursdays from 10 am -12 pm and 2 pm - 4 pm
• Fridays from 10 am - 1 pm

Visit the Guiding Good Choices program website for more information, or please reach out to AnaMaria Diaz-Martinez at a.martinez@wsu.edu or Kayla Wells-Yoakum at kayla.wells@wsu.edu.

For an LGBTQ+ teenager coming out, family acceptance and open discussion of their feelings and needs are key to healthy adjustment. Factors like discrimination, bullying, and rejection by family, religious, or social groups can put children who identify as LGBTQ+ at greater risk for mental health issues and substance use.

The Child Mind Institute is a leading independent nonprofit in children’s mental health who provides gold-standard evidence-based care and educational resources to millions of families each year. Their Pride Month resources include the following:

• Mental Health Challenges of LGBTQ+ Kids
• How to Support LGBTQ+ Children
• Transgender Kids and Gender Dysphoria
• Supporting Trans and Nonbinary Kids at School
• Transgender Children: A Mother’s Story
• How to Support Kids Who Are Questioning
• Quick Guide to Gender Dysphoria

Visit childmind.org/topics/resources-for-pride-month to access their pride month resources and learn more about their work.

Positive environments are important to help all youth thrive. The CDC provides a webpage with a long list of resources from the CDC, other government agencies, and community organizations for LGBTQ+ Youth, their friends, educators, parents, and family members to support positive environments. Click the image with this story to access these resources.

The PTTC Culturally & Linguistically Appropriate Practices Work Group developed an extensive list of resources for health equity, inclusion, and cultural competency. It represents a compilation of resources produced by the PTTC Network to help individuals understand the impact of culture and identity in prevention efforts. All resources are free to access. The list is updated periodically to ensure it has the most relevant resources. Check out the resources at pttcnetwork.org/centers/global-pttc/cultural-responsiveness.

Live Vape Free is a teen and adult solution to help solve the vaping epidemic. Their tobacco cessation program is grounded in more than 35 years of physical, psychological and behavioral health science from Optum, the company that also manages the Washington State Quitline.

Check out the video with this story, or click on the flyer image to read more. Visit quitnow.net to access the services.

This resource was created and is available for download via the PTTC (New England) Network and was funded by SAMHSA. The tool was built on best practices for cannabis prevention. The program products include facilitator tools, such as a PPT and script, interactive quiz, and program guide with student training materials, sample school policy language, and more.

Check it out by visiting the PTTC website.

The Truth Initiative, well known for their tobacco prevention campaigns, has web-based resources for teen opioid prevention. This includes educational materials, videos, articles, real teen stories, fact cards, and more.

Visit www.thetruth.com/opioids.

Children Learning through Education And Research (CLEAR Alliance) is a non-profit organization based in Oregon with a mission to raise awareness and educate youth and adults to prevent substance misuse, impaired driving, and to promote mental health and wellness.

Available to the public is a suite of online courses for individual use or group presentations. They have a course is available on tobacco, marijuana, and e-cigarettes among several others. The courses are self-paced and have built in knowledge checks. The best part is they are free! Visit www.clearalliance.org to view their courses and other prevention resources.

"What do you want to know about vaping?" is the question presented by the vaping prevention campaign called Behind the Haze developed by Rescue Agency. The campaign targets teens and answers questions they may ask, such as:

• How do vapes work?
• What's in vapes?
• Is vaping dangerous?
• Is vaping addictive?
• Are they targeting us?
• How can I quit vaping?

Visit behindthehaze.com to view the campaign and learn more.

CCPH created a data dashboard as a way to explore important measures of youth wellbeing. All the data comes from the Washington Healthy Youth Survey (HYS) and will be updated with new data when available.

The dashboard makes navigating and reviewing available data easy with one click topic buttons, bar charts and line graphs that instantly update as you select different measures to explore. Give the dashboard a test drive at: https://clark.wa.gov/public-health/healthy-youth-survey

A few summers back, Prevent Coalition hosted a series of webinars focused on integrating commercial tobacco treatment in behavioral health. Leading experts shared their experience, knowledge, and best practices on the topics of tobacco cessation, pharmacotherapy, intervention, youth and adult treatment including criminal justice populations, policy guidance, and integrating tobacco treatment into organizations. These recordings are still available on-demand and free!

Webinar Topics:

• The Need for Addressing Tobacco in Behavioral Health Settings (presented by Dr. Jill Williams, Professor and Division Director, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School)
• Changing the Treatment System Environment to Better Address Tobacco (presented by Dr. Jill Williams, Professor and Division Director, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School)
• Quitline Services & Referrals (presented by Jessica Benson, Optum, and Nick Fradkin, WA Dept. of Health)
• Evidence-based Tobacco Treatment Pharmacotherapy for Use in Behavioral Health Settings (presented by Dr. Michael Steinberg, Professor at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Director of Rutgers Center for Tobacco Studies)
• Introduction to Motivational Interviewing for Tobacco Use Disorder (presented by Dr. Marc L. Steinberg, Clinical Psychologist, Professor, and Director of Addiction Psychology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School)
• Treating Youth Tobacco Use (presented by Dr. Krysten Bold, Clinical Psychologist, Researcher, and Assistant Professor at Yale School of Medicine)
• Treating Tobacco Dependence in Corrections Settings (presented by Dr. Pamela Valera, Faculty Affiliate and Assistant Professor, School of Public Health and School of Social Work, Rutgers University)

Access these at the webinar series landing page: www.preventcoalition.org/webinar-series/.

*Storing medicine in a locked location is the single most effective deterrent to accidental poisonings, overdose, medicine theft, and misuse that can lead to prescription drug addiction. Stay informed and talk with loved ones about the risks for ingesting or taking medicine not prescribed for them and benefits of safeguarding your medications. Learn more at www.LocksSaveLives.org.

The Prevent Coalition published the Rural Healthy Youth Survey data from our needs assessment reports to an online Tableau dashboard you can interact with and explore on our website. There is a tab where you can select geographies including the new Rural WA option, and WA State, etc. We plan to update this next year with future Healthy Youth Survey results as they are published.

Visit the dashboard: https://www.preventcoalition.org/resources/reports/.

• Assess Needs: We will be hosting rural Listening Sessions in May and June led by WSU researcher Dr. Janessa Graves. This information will be about rural risk and protective factors, and will help us update our needs assessment from 2020.
• Evaluation: Look forward to an annual evaluation survey coming in June to reflect on our progress as a network and ensure we're doing what works.
• Assess Data: Clark County Public Health is creating an online dashboard of rural Healthy Youth Survey results that will be published in June, allowing users to easily access cross-tabs and detailed results from the report in a visual and accessible way.
  
• Build Toolkit: We appreciate all who have submit youth survey responses to the Find Your Good campaign update. We have collected them, reviewed them as a full network during thee April meeting, and will be having our Communications team finish the rest. The Committee run by Logan will reconvene to review the sample posts that Communications makes during the next meeting.
  
• Build Toolkit: The Toolkit Workgroup led by Logan Morrow meets monthly to update the Find Your Good campaign with rural elements, captions, and images. Email Logan.morrow@esd112.org to get involved!
  
• Change Policy: We trained rural youth groups statewide at the Youth Advocacy Training in December, then connected with Senator Shelly Short, Republic Floor Leader to host a legislative Q&A.
  
• Offer Training: Special thanks to Jason Anderson and The Montana Institute for providing training at our March meeting about Positive Community Norms and the Science of the Positive.
• Offer Training: Thank you to Dr. Janessa Graves for presenting on rural mental health and Group Concept Mapping in February! In November and January we learned about policymaking.
  
• Offer Training: We're sending several rural communities to the Montana Summer Training Institute. We look forward to hearing how it goes!
  
• Promote Equity: We published Spanish translations of the entire Making the Connection Toolkit. Learn more at: https://bit.ly/connectiontoolkit.
  
• Promote Equity: We published Spanish translations of the entire Making the Connection Toolkit. Learn more at: https://bit.ly/connectiontoolkit.
  
• Promote Equity: Logan is starting a book club event to review "I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times," by Washington author Mónica Guzmán. Connect with Logan to get involved!

For a full grant progress timeline visit www.preventcoalition.org/rural/our-work/.

The Rural Toolkit can be found at www.preventcoalition.org/rural/toolkit. Access to the Rural Toolkit is password protected. The password is: ruralrocks!

SW Regional Network Meeting

Thursday, June 8, 2023

2:00 -3:30 p.m.

Online conference call by invitation.

For southwest regional network members.

Coalition Coordinators Meeting

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

9:30 -11:00 a.m.

Online conference call by invitation.

For southwest region coalition coordinators.

Rural Network Office Hours

Wednesday, June 7, 2023

1-2 p.m.

Online conference call

For Rural Network members to receive technical assistance

Rural Steering Committee

Wednesday, June 7, 2023

3-4:30 p.m.

Online conference call

Develop the plan, guide the implementation, evaluate the results.

Rural Network Meeting

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

2-3:30 p.m.

Online conference call

Dr. Janessa Graves, WSU will facilitate Group Process Mapping, step 2

Rural Network Office Hours

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

1-2 p.m.

Online conference call

For Rural Network members to receive technical assistance

Rural Steering Committee

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

3-4:30 p.m.

Online conference call

Develop the plan, guide the implementation, evaluate the results.

All times are Pacific Standard Time (PST)

Click for full calendar of coalition and community events.

Relevant events not sponsored by Prevent Coalition:

The 2023 Montana Summer Institute

The Paradox of the Positive: Preventing Harm by Promoting Health

(In-person at Big Sky Resort, Montana. Virtual option available)

June 20-23, 2023

Registration: click here to visit event web page

Dr. Jeff Linkenbach, Dr. Jason Kilmer, and The Montana Institute training team will dive into the Paradox of the Positive and learn how we can prevent harm by promoting health. Our exciting lineup of presentations and workshops will explore the Science of the Positive, Positive Community Norms, and Health Outcomes from Positive Experiences.

CADCA

Mid-Year Training Institute 2023

(In-person, Dallas, TX. Virtual option available)

July 16-20, 2023

Cost: $745-$955 through June 5th, 2023

Registration: click here to visit event web page

Training from top experts in the field, information, tools, and strategies to take your prevention work to the next level. The latest science, news, and trends on substance misuse issues and the opportunity to network with thousands of advocates passionate about prevention. Specialized youth leadership training sessions held too!

National Prevention Network (NPN)

National Conference

(In-person, Birmingham, AL)

August 15-17, 2023

Cost: $799 before July 15. Click here to visit event web page

The purpose of the NPN Conference is to highlight the latest research in the substance use prevention field. It provides a forum for prevention professionals, coalition leaders, researchers, and federal partners to share research, best practices and promising evaluation results for the purpose of integrating research into prevention practice.

PAVe

Clear the Vapor Conference

(Webinar)

October 24-25, 2023

Times TBD

No fee, click here to visit registration page

Clear the Vapor is PAVe’s annual high-level and highly accessible youth vaping event. It is a unique, parent-powered and volunteer-led FREE event intended to provide both an overview and a deep dive into all aspects of this ongoing adolescent public health crisis, with an emphasis on practical solutions.

NW PTTC

Ethics in Prevention Foundations

(Virtually moderated 6-hour course)

Repeats monthly, visit website for next session!

No Fee, Limited Space Available

This two-week, asynchronous moderated course, adapted from the original SAMHSA Center for Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT) course, explores the six principles of the Prevention Code of Ethics. The course also introduces a decision-making process to help practitioners apply this code to a variety of ethical dilemmas, and an online discussion area to facilitate discussion with other course participants. Course meets requirements for prevention specialist credentialing.

View ongoing training and events at https://pttcnetwork.org.

NW PTTC

Special Topics in Prevention of Substance Misuse

(Self-paced courses)

A large selection of online, on-demand courses that explore special topics in prevention of substance misuse that will better-equip prevention professionals & coalitions to serve their communities.

Access the courses via the HealtheKnowledge.org website.

NW PTTC

Pharmacology for Prevention Professionals

(Self-paced course)

Explore the basics of how substances impact major brain regions and the acute and chronic symptoms associated with different substances. Certificates of 1.5 hours for each of the following four courses: Basics of Pharmacology and Alcohol, Basics of Pharmacology and Opioids, Basics of Pharmacology and Psychostimulants (Cocaine & Methamphetamine), and Basics of Pharmacology and Cannabis.

Learn more and enroll via the HealtheKnowledge.org website.

Supported by the fiscal agent ESD 112, Prevent is a regional coalition formed in 2003 to increase collaboration, awareness, and reduce youth substance use in Southwest Washington. Prevent also implements initiatives for rural communities across Washington state. As a community mobilizer, the coalition creates a culture promoting healthy choices; advocates for policies and regulations that protect, empowers and nurtures youth; and facilitates positive opportunities for youth to be involved and thrive.

Email: preventcoalition@esd112.org
Website: www.PreventCoalition.org
Location: 2500 NE 65th Ave., Vancouver, WA, USA
Phone: 360-952-3457
Facebook: Facebook.com/PreventCoalition
Twitter: @supportyouthnow