[Prevention] Prevention News

[Goodwin, Jacinda]

Dear Prevention Colleagues,

 

   Below is the substance abuse prevention funding and news.  The source
of this information is noted in each section.  Please follow up with
contact information found associated with each article or go to the
sites listed below.  If you wish to post information that you believe
would be pertinent to your prevention colleagues please forward that
information to me at Jacinda.Goodwin at maine.gov for review and possible
posting.

 

   Search the Maine Prevention Calendar for upcoming trainings,
conferences, and workshops (you can also submit statewide and regional
events for posting):  www.mainepreventioncalendar.org

 

ONLINE COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT

Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover: Using Feasibility Assessment to Select
Prevention Programs

 

When? Monday, March 30 - Friday, April 3, 2009

 

How much? Free! 

Registration will open Wednesday, March 11 at 10 a.m.
To register, go to: http://www.northeastcapt.org/registration
<http://www.northeastcapt.org/registration> 

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: 

Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover: Using Feasibility Assessment to Select
Prevention Programs is an interactive, online workshop designed to help
you choose an evidence-based prevention program that is the right fit
for your organization and community. Recognizing that not all programs
work equally well in all settings, it introduces a tool that will allow
you to objectively select programs that match your organization's or
community's capabilities. If you've already selected a program, the tool
can help you systematically identify areas you may need to address prior
to implementation.

 

Specifically, participants in this 5-day workshop will have an
opportunity to:

*	Identify criteria to guide the selection of an appropriate
prevention program from a set of evidence-based programs 
*	Determine the fit among organizational capacity, community
conditions, and programs requirements 
*	Apply a feasibility assessment model to a specific prevention
program 
*	Define program fidelity and adaptation 
*	Describe elements to consider in effective program replication
and adaptation 

 

*	Log on to the course web site at least once a day, at your
convenience 
*	Review materials 
*	Complete online assignments designed to help you apply what you
have learned 
*	Participate in moderated, web-based discussions 
*	 

 

Participants who complete all assignments will receive a certificate for
5 hours of participation.

 

*	Licensed alcohol and drug counselors and assistants from
Massachusetts can submit this certificate to the Alcohol and Drug
Counselor Licensing Unit to receive continuing education hours. 
*	Participants from New York can submit this certificate to New
York State's Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS)
to receive Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor
(CASAC), Credentialed Prevention Specialist (CPS) or Credentialed
Prevention Professional (CPP) credit hours. 
*	Participants from Pennsylvania can submit this certificate to
the Pennsylvania Certification Board (PCB) to receive PCB credits. 
*	Participants from Rhode Island can submit this certificate to
the Rhode Island Board for the Certification of Chemical Dependence
Professionals to receive continuing education credits. 

 

The Northeast CAPT is a NAADAC approved education provider. Our provider
number is 556.

 

MODERATOR: 

Carol Prost is a Northeast CAPT Associate and Research Associate at the
Schneider Center for

Behavioral Health, Heller School for Social Policy and Management at
Brandeis University in

Waltham, Massachusetts. Her primary work is conducting evaluation with
community-based

outreach, treatment and prevention programs. Programs include
evidence-based, promising and

innovative interventions addressing substance abuse, co-occurring
disorders, trauma and HIV

prevention and education interventions. Program target populations
include: youth and their

families, those experiencing homelessness, new immigrants, forensic and
minority populations.

 

REGISTRATION:  
Registration will open Wednesday, March 11 at 10 a.m.
To register, go to: http://www.northeastcapt.org/registration
<http://www.northeastcapt.org/registration> 

For more information, contact Melanie Adler, Manager of Distance
Learning Programs, at

madler at edc.org <mailto:madler at edc.org>  (617-618-2309). 

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