2023 NPN Conference Program - Flipbook - Page 20
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM | Workshop Session IV
4C - Research and Design Fellowship: A R.A.D. Approach to Workforce Development for Advanced and
Experienced Prevention Professionals, Scott Gagnon, Sarah Johnson, and Daniel Fitzgerald
Join the New England PTTC to learn how they address workforce development for advanced professionals through the
Research and Design Fellowship Program. This annual program selects six fellows to participate in a seven-month fellowship.
During this time, they learn how to design a prevention tool or resource on a topic of their choosing. Learn how to create a RAD
Fellowship program in your state or community.
4D - It's All About the Skills: Empowering Youth in Your Coalition, Dana Mitchell and Students
This youth-taught session describes the process of empowering youth advocates to participate in policy change and other
community advocacy. The role of skill development in ensuring that youth are not just enthusiastic but are also effective in
prevention activities is highlighted. Emphasis is placed on the adult role in guiding and coaching youth to achieve a higher
standard of performance. Presenters illustrate and simulate, with audience interaction, the process of building core advocacy
skills (public speaking, media, working with the press). Resources to assist other groups in skill development and action steps will
be provided. This training session is ideal for adults or organizations that would like to partner more effectively with youth
advocates; for community coalitions with youth participation; or for entities that would like to broaden their existing youth
advocacy efforts. This session will be taught by students from Dover Youth to Youth, a nationally recognized student advocacy
group from New Hampshire that provides empowerment training throughout the United States.
4E - The Fierce Urgencies of Now! Changing the Conversation about The Role of Prevention,
Commercialization and Inequity in a Time of National Crisis, Carlton Hall
Hear how the role of prevention is critical in addressing addiction, which is directly and indirectly, impacting all Americans from
coast to coast. The cost of marijuana use is high. But it is not that simple. Communities are still amid an opioid epidemic, while
addressing emerging challenges like rising vaping injuries and a methamphetamine resurgence, during a global pandemic. This
session will discuss poly-drug misuse, racial disparities, and other social factors. The presenter will reframe perceived “gaps in
the national conversation” as opportunities to change the conversation. Strategies as critical skills required to specifically impact
population-level reductions in polysubstance misuse and abuse will be offered.
4F - Addressing Alcohol Access through Partnerships, Jody Heavilin and Kevin Williams
There is increased youth retail access to alcohol and a lack of formal training options that law enforcement can employ with
youth. Learn about the need for professional certified training for law enforcement that includes awareness of youth substance
use and contributing factors data, while providing and increased collaboration of prevention professionals, law enforcement, and
youth. This presentation is aimed at coalition members, prevention professionals, and law enforcement and highlights a program
to increase awareness of youth retail access through presentations, propose training highlighting best practices for compliance
checks and cultural considerations reflecting local data and share a youth training toolkit for law enforcement.
4G - Turning Prevention Science into Practice: Understanding and Implementing a Culture of Prevention,
Josh Esrick, Emily Patton, and Deborah Nixon-Hughes
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This workshop will review prevention science and its relevance to substance use prevention professionals, discussing how
prevention science can be used to help foster a “culture of prevention.” The session will describe the different domains of
relevant science - including epidemiology, intervention development, and research methodology with the goal of building
support for prevention across policymakers, public health stakeholders, and the community at large by demonstrating that
prevention is evidence-based and grounded in science. In addition, it will discuss how prevention science can support the
prevention field in establishing actionable processes, policies, and programs and how this knowledge can be used to build a
culture of prevention and how having this culture can benefit all levels of the community. By fostering a culture of prevention,
prevention professionals can establish support for new and expanded evidence-based programs and services and lead to a selfreinforcing cycle that further increases the use of prevention science. The workshop will explain the concept of a culture of
prevention, how it stems from prevention science, and why it is important to the prevention field.
