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Prevention Learning Series
Reducing Stigma and Promoting Engagement Across the Continuum
This webinar defines stigma and exposes the impact on individuals and systems. This includes a language audit and shift to non-stigmatizing language across settings. There is a focus on capacity building and engagement across the Strategic Prevention Framework through an anti-stigma lens.
Trauma and Resilience Informed Care for Prevention Professionals
Explore the key concepts of trauma, resilience and adverse childhood experience, and understand their prevalence and impact on populations. This transformative approach utilizes practical strategies to foster a trauma-informed environment with healing-centered interactions and engage individuals with lived experience in prevention work.
Understanding and Preventing Substance Misuse in Rural Communities
Rural communities have unique needs within their communities. This webinar identifies how substance misuse rates differ in rural versus urban contexts, including risk and protective factors for substance misuse, capacity building, community engagement and action steps that are specific to rural communities.
What Doesn’t Work in Prevention
Prevention is riddled with tactics, that while may be enjoyable to participants, often fail to produce long term impact. Learn about what tactics are not producing a desired effect, and the data behind it, so that we can make way for programs that will have a lasting impact on the community.
Sustainability in Community Prevention
We know prevention works, but we also know that the long-term key to success is building sustainable prevention programs and initiatives in our communities. For the Alliances and their prevention initiatives to be successful over the long term, sustainability needs to be woven into every step of the Strategic Prevention Framework, and we need to create actionable sustainability plans. This webinar examines critical elements in planning and implementing sustainability strategies.
Social Determinants of Health and Prevention
Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) are non-medical factors that affect an individual’s health and lead to poor community outcomes. This webinar focuses on understanding the impact of SDoH in substance misuse, how to identify community partners, and examples of evidence-informed strategies to address the SDoH and health disparities.
Community Responses to Cannabis Legislation
This webinar reviews the cannabis legalization laws in New Jersey from a harm reduction approach with adults and underage use prevention for youth. Learn about the changing landscape, risk and protective factors association with youth cannabis use, and effective prevention and harm reduction efforts.
Introduction to Risk and Protective Factors
Understanding our communities’ strengths and weaknesses are essential to planning and implementing effective prevention programs. This webinar introduces the risk factors that cause harm to the community along with protective factors that reduce that harm. These factors lay the foundation for understanding the needs and resources to bring about community-level change.
Grow Strong Prevention Programs Where You’re Planted
Whether you’re experienced in prevention work (a master gardener) or brand new (never owned a houseplant), this session is for you. This webinar will help you to understand the issues in your community, how to grow relationships and resources to drive change, create effective plans that turn into action, track what’s working and adapt what isn’t, and create long-term change.