Prevention Prepared Communities (PPC) 101 – Orientation Training Power Point Slide Presentation
Prevention Prepared Communities (PPC) 201 – Building & Sustaining an Effective Community Coalition Training Power Point Slide Presentation
This toolkit was created for prevention specialists who need some tips in navigating conversations with local lawmakers in the era of legalized cannabis use. Many prevention specialists feel discomfort in outreaching to their municipalities because they do not want to unintentionally advocate or lobby, as this is prohibited. This toolkit helps prevention specialists broach those conversations and clearly outlines the differences between advocacy and education. The latter is very much allowed and encouraged! Along with the toolkit is a modifiable slide deck. This template serves to provide an introductory conversation between prevention specialists and their respective municipalities. It is a way to provide education and discussion as municipalities consider opting in to allow retail cannabis stores to operate in their area.
Reducing behavioral disparities is key to preventing substance use, yet doing so can be challenging. First, identifying groups that experience disparities can be difficult, as data on these populations isn’t always available. Second, there are no easy solutions: multiple factors contribute to disparities, including but not limited to reduced access to culturally and linguistically appropriate services.
Issues are problems, challenges, or obstacles, opportunities, and new ideas worth your attention. It’s really anything—good or bad—that your team may need to resolve. With your
Issues List complete and clear, start by prioritizing the one, two, and three most important Issues to tackle today. Then, follow this three-step Issues Solving TrackTM.
State- and local-level prevention practitioners are well-positioned to more effectively address the diverse substance use, misuse, and related behavioral health needs of the populations they serve, including traditionally underserved groups such as boys and young men of color.
The principles of ethics are models of exemplary professional behavior. These principles of the Prevention Think Tank Code express prevention professionals’ recognition of responsibilities to the public, to service recipients, and to colleagues within and outside of the prevention field.
CompassPoint encourages the active involvement of its directors, officers, and employees in the community. In order to deal openly and fairly with actual and potential conflicts of interest that may arise as a consequence of this involvement, CompassPoint adopts the following Conflict of Interest Policy.
PCAC is an advisory council, consisting of key coalition leaders from around the state, which focuses on the advancement, growth, and sustainability of prevention-focused coalitions. These coalitions are grounded-in and promote the use of evidence-based/informed practices through education, advocacy, and collaboration in order to prevent the likelihood of onset problem behaviors.
The Behavioral Health Treatment Needs Assessment Toolkit is intended to provide states and other payers with information on the prevalence and use of behavioral health services; step-by-step instructions to generate projections of utilization under insurance expansions; and factors to consider when deciding the appropriate mix of behavioral health benefits, services, and providers to meet the needs of newly eligible populations. The Toolkit was developed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
Asset mapping provides information about the strengths and resources of a community and can help uncover solutions. Once community strengths and resources are inventoried and depicted in a map, you can more easily think about how to build on these assets to address community needs and improve health. Finally, asset mapping promotes community involvement, ownership, and empowerment.