Decoding Prevention: Acronyms, Affiliations, and Alphabet Soup
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. PT
Overview:
Tuesday, May 27 • 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. PT
The world of prevention is vast – if you’ve attended a coalition meeting or training, you’ve likely heard an “alphabet soup” full/variety of acronyms representing different programs, practices, and affiliations. Creating an understanding across the prevention workforce helps us unify our efforts towards common prevention goals. This is a great beginner session for folks early in their prevention career, or new to the California prevention workforce. Participants will leave with a strong understanding of key state-wide prevention affiliations and common practices in prevention.
The recommended skill level for Decoding Prevention: Acronyms, Affiliations, and Alphabet Soup is for beginner prevention professionals.
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for this ABHPC training are offered by the Center for Applied Research Solutions (CARS) at no cost to you. Information about how to request no-cost CEUs will be provided during the training. Participants are required to attend the full training in order to receive CEUs through ABHPC.
About the Presenters
Shari Egeland (she/her), MFT, has a master’s degree in counseling and is currently the Associate Director and Research Specialist and Youth ATOD Prevention Counselor at Omni Youth Programs in Sacramento, CA. She has over 23 years training and teaching professionals, teens, young adults, parents, and families on Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs (ATOD) prevention and other topics, is certified Model Program Trainer in 6 ATOD Model Programs, and also leads and helps develop trainings for CARS. She has developed curriculums, presented and been a guest panelist as a prevention expert at over 50 summits and conferences and was the recipient of the Harold Cole Award in Prevention in 2021.
Charlie Seltzer (he/him) was the Substance Use Disorder (SUD) prevention coordinator for the Mendocino County Public Health Department for 10 years. When he retired from full time work, he became a consultant for CARS. Now, he gets to consult with people all across the state, assisting them to design and implement strategic plans and build capacity for their local prevention work. He enjoys offering SUD prevention trainings to the field and has led numerous Prevention-101 trainings, trainings on environmental prevention, the Strategic Prevention Framework, social determinants of health, conducting focus groups, designing logic models, and Diversity/Equity/Inclusion/Belonging issues for LGBTQ+ individuals, the disabled and rural populations. When he’s not working in the SUD prevention field, Charlie enjoys playing the piano, gardening, reading, cooking, hiking the beautiful hills of Mendocino County, and being home with his husband and their cat.