Advance Behavioral Health Prevention California (ABHPC)

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ABHPC Action Lab 2027
Stronger Together: Cultivating an Ecosystem of Prevention

March 9 – 11, 2027
DoubleTree Hotel | Sacramento, CA

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2026 Action Lab Recap

The Advance Behavioral Health Prevention California (ABHPC) team is excited to share our 2027 Action Lab! Our theme this year is Stronger Together: Cultivating an Ecosystem of Prevention. The three-day event will feature a range of training topics that support emerging, intermediate, and advanced preventionists. The annual ABHPC Action Labs training event focuses on workforce expansion and sustainability, engaging transition age youth populations, understanding the role of the social drivers of health in primary prevention, supporting the prevention field and efforts through collaboration, community, compassion, and care, and more.

Themes will include:

  • Growing Prevention Programs Across California
  • Strengthening the Field of Prevention
  • Connective Prevention People and Systems as One
  • Deepening and Exploring Prevention Concepts Together
  • Substance Use Prevention Plan (SUPP) Implementation Support

Additional information including agenda, presenters, and specific topics will be shared soon. Like all ABHPC Trainings, the Action Lab is provided at no cost to participants*. Continuing Education Hours are also available at no cost.

We encourage you to register and book your accommodations early to secure your spot and preferred lodging at the DoubleTree Hotel Sacramento • 2001 Point West Way, Sacramento, CA 95815. Please register by February 5, 2027!

Although we hope you can make the in-person event, some of the events will be hybrid and accessible over Zoom. Please see registration form for information.

Full agenda coming soon.

*Participants are responsible for their own costs for travel expenses, lodging,
and most meals.

This annual gathering offers in-person training and technical assistance opportunities
for prevention professionals throughout California. The three-day event will feature a
diverse range of training topics that support emerging, intermediate, and advanced
preventionists. The annual ABHPC Action Labs training event focuses on workforce
expansion and sustainability, engaging transitional age youth populations, understanding
the role of the social drivers of health in primary prevention, supporting the prevention field
and efforts through collaboration, community, compassion, and care, and more.
Participants may earn up to 16.75 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) at no cost for each
day of the three-day training event that they attend in full.

All prevention providers in California are welcome! If you support behavioral health
prevention efforts at the state, county, or community level, we invite you to attend.
Community sectors ideal for participation include county-level prevention professionals;
state-level prevention professionals; Tribal governments and organizations; community
coalition members and local champions; school-based and higher education behavioral
health professionals; youth-serving organizations; community-based organizations;
California primary prevention partners (such as Elevate Youth California and Friday Night
Live grantees!); and sector partners who support primary prevention, including peers,
those with lived experience, young adults, parents, caregivers, and community members.

There is no cost associated with registering for the training event. Some meals are also
automatically covered as part of attending. Costs not included are travel (e.g., mileage,
flights, tolls, etc.), meals outside of the training space, lodging, and other associated travel
expenses. If you are a county-level prevention provider, the Substance Use Prevention,
Treatment, and Recovery Services Block Grant (SUBG) is eligible to cover the costs
associated with attending the ABHPC Action Lab Training Event. Refer to your county SUBG contract for travel allowability and per diem rates. Beyond the SUBG, many other
prevention grants and funding sources also allow for attending training spaces. We suggest
that you talk to your grants officer or leadership team to see if your funding source is
applicable to support attending the ABHPC Action Lab Training Event.