2023 NPN Conference Program - Flipbook - Page 11
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM | Networking Snack Break & Exhibitor Viewing
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM | Workshop Session II
2A - Prevention Specialist Certification: An Overview, Julie Stevens
New and aspiring prevention specialists who want to make a career out of delivering competent prevention strategies will
benefit from this presentation covering: prevention and behavioral health promotion, the role of prevention in SUD services, the
importance of CPS certification and a competent prevention workforce, and the benefits of becoming a CPS and how it can
enhance the practitioner’s ability to deliver services. The speaker will share Prevention strategies personally used including
training hundreds of specialists in the SAPST, Ethics and other prevention workshops, and the CPS exam prep course.
2B - State and Jurisdiction Block Grant Administrators' Descriptions of Their Resources and Decision
Making to Support the Adoption of Novel Evidence-Based Substance Misuse Prevention Interventions and
Strategies, Elvira Elek, Amy Goldstein, Sarah Mariani, Shirley Liu and Donna Dent
The first panelist will describe how an NIH-funded program of research, the HEAL Prevention Cooperative (HPC), was designed
to address barriers to the adoption of new interventions. The second panelist will describe findings of a survey of fifty-five state
and jurisdiction administrators of SAMHSA Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant (SABG) funds to better
understand their prevention infrastructure and intervention adoption decisions. The third and fourth panelists will provide the
perspective of a state prevention system on the resources they use to support substance misuse prevention and how they and
their prevention providers make decisions about implementing specific EBIs. This presentation will then conclude with an
interactive discussion between the panelists and audience participants.
2C - Women and Alcohol: Drinking to Cope, Nicole Schoenborn, Beverly Triana-Tremain, and Sheila Boswell
While alcohol drinking rates and alcohol-related deaths have been on the rise for women over the past couple of decades, the
COVID-19 pandemic created a perfect storm for increased alcohol availability and drinking to cope that propelled this trend. In
this session, we argue that certain biological and environmental factors laid the groundwork for a burgeoning public health crisis
for women, especially women of child-bearing age. We also examine the epidemiological trends both nationally and in the
South-Southwest Prevention Technology Transfer Center (SSW PTTC) region and offer practical solutions for prevention
professionals to address these concerning trends for women.
2D - Vaping and Youth: This Problem Isn't Going Away! Resources and Strategies Schools Need Today!
Bruce Barcelo
The vaping epidemic is a constantly changing landscape. While the federal government struggles with regulations, school
systems and caregivers continue to look for help in education and prevention in dealing with the use of electronic cigarettes. The
focus of this session will be to share my suggestions for best practice universal prevention curriculum, and the need for schools
to move from suspension and expulsion and adopt alternatives. I will share model policy, evidence based ATS programs, how to
help the student that is addicted to nicotine, and the Triangulum of cigarettes-vapes-weed.
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