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May 30, 2024

Join us for an interactive webinar to explore how communities can engage youth to work toward policy changes. Using a case study, we will discuss how youth were successfully engaged in an alcohol policy change. We will share key considerations and tools for gaining public support for impactful policies.
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Elizabeth Parsons
May 23, 2024

This training utilizes a combination of didactic presentation and interactive case studies and focuses on problem gambling and suicide prevention concepts and terminology, the similarities and differences between problem gambling and suicide prevention, how to assess if an individual has a problem gambling disorder or is at risk for suicide, and questions and strategies to ask to get the individual the support they need.

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Lauri Solomon , Public Health Expert
Prevention Intersections, Intermediate
April 16, 2024

Identifying prevention approaches for emerging behavioral health problems, such as problem gambling where the field is young can be challenging, and we don’t yet have a lot of evidence-based or evidence-informed strategies with proven outcomes to utilize. What we do have is a history of prevention in other behavioral health fields in knowing what works that we can draw from, and we can draw on that experience to develop strategies and interventions to address problem gambling prevention. One way to explore this is through the Diffusion of Innovations (DOI) theory, which explains how and why people adopt new behaviors. This advanced training reviews the DOI theory, Motivational Interviewing, and the stages of change, including how various groups adopt new behaviors and how participants can use the DOI theory and apply it to their behavioral health field of study or develop an intervention to reach key populations and change beliefs and attitudes.

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Problem Gambling, Advanced
April 9, 2024

Research shows that communities of color, including the Latinx/e community, are disproportionately impacted by problem gambling, yet underrepresented in access to prevention, intervention, treatment, recovery supports, and research. For Latinx/e individuals and families, the power of the Collective and Familia are cultural values that drive decision making, trust building, and willingness to engage with individuals outside of their family and community networks. Utilizing an equity lens, this training will create awareness about the culture characteristics amongst Latinx/e individuals and their families, in an effort to improve engagement and partnerships that can promote access, increase trauma informed programming, and address the Structural Determinants of Health (SDOH) and inequities, resulting in increased quality of life.  

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Sandra Munier, MA, LICSW
March 19, 2024

Are you a sports fan? Did you know that in the U.S., sports betting is legal, and revenue amounted to 4.33 billion dollars? (statista.com) Around 1 in 5 U.S. adults reported they have personally bet money on sports in some way during the last 12 months (Pew Research Center, 9/14/2022). Sports betting is perceived as harmless but there are profiles of who are at risks (Seal et al., 2022). Attend this session and learn prevention strategies to help persons be part of a winning team without suffering losses. 

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