Archived Trainings
ABHPC provides recorded training sessions available for access 24/7. These recorded training sessions are 504 compliant and include closed captioning to ensure accessibility for all viewers. To view a recorded training, simply click to expand the corresponding training session title.
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ABHPC Trainings
Advanced Prevention Skillsets: Applying a Shared Risk and Protective Factor Framework
Description: This advanced training session will explore the shared risk and protective factor framework through the lens of substance use disorder (SUD) primary prevention. Participants will learn the many applications of a shared risk and protective factor framework as well as best practices for implementation. Through this approach, primary prevention can simultaneously prioritize multiple behavioral health efforts (including mental health promotion, suicide prevention, violence prevention, etc.) and/or SUD prevention outcomes. A shared risk and protective factor framework is also ideal for navigating sustainability efforts, collaborating with sector partners, and braiding prevention funding for a streamlined community-based approach. Finally, participants will be able to align considerations for a shared risk and protective factor framework with the social drivers of health, ensuring that health equity is also prioritized through these efforts.
Collaborative Prevention Strategies with People Living with Disabilities
Description: Collaborative Prevention Strategies with People with Disabilities is part of ABHPC’s Centering DEIB in Primary Prevention series. This session will cover how having a disability can impact access to social drivers of health, the history of legislation and rights for folks with disabilities, and barriers to equity related to privilege and micro-aggressions. Participants in this session will gain an understanding of methods to incorporate and highlight the voices, strengths, and needs of people with disabilities into prevention and building healthier communities.
Centering Community Voices: Collaborative Prevention Strategies with LGBTQ2S+ Communities
Description: Collaborative Prevention Strategies with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Two-Spirit + (LGBTQ2S+) Communities is part of ABHPC’s Centering DEIB in Primary Prevention series. This session will cover what LGBTQ2S+ identities are, and the history of the LGBTQ2S+ community in the United States. Participants in this session will gain an understanding of disparities in health outcomes and the impact of the social drivers of health on LGBTQ2S+ individuals as well as strategies to center and support LGBTQ2S+ communities in primary prevention.
Centering Community Voices: Collaborative Prevention Strategies with BIPOC Populations
Description: This session shared some of the history of how BIPOC communities have been subdued in addressing their own health issues. Participants discussed various strategies to engage and collaborate with such communities on their terms. The case examples will be analyzed for best practices and replication within the sphere of influence of attendees.
Welcome to Prevention! An Introduction to the Primary Prevention Field
If you’re new to the prevention field, or still trying to gain a fundamental understanding of primary prevention best practices at the local, state, and national levels, this training is for you! Participants will gain a foundational knowledge of prevention, including the Strategic Prevention Framework, common acronyms and day-to-day challenges, and key strategies from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention for the successful implementation of primary prevention strategies.
Advancing Equity and Centering Communities
Successfully implementing substance use disorder (SUD) primary prevention programming that addresses the social drivers of health (SDOH) and is informed by a health equity lens requires learning and unlearning about the structural determinants that fundamentally shape systemic inequities. This requires an understanding of the impacts of systemic racism and oppression, as well as how health disparities and inequities continue to impact historically marginalized communities.
Advocacy vs. Lobbying
What’s the difference between advocacy and lobbying? Advocacy can be a powerful prevention strategy, but non-profit organizations often do not advocate because of concerns that advocacy could cross the line into lobbying. This training will define advocacy and what is allowable for a 501(c)(3) organization, discuss the difference between lobbying and advocacy, and share how social media can be used as a strategic advocacy tool.
Coalition Building and Maintenance
Coalitions are a critical component of community-based strategies. What is a coalition with a focus on substance use disorder (SUD) prevention and how does this work align with the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF)? This two part training series will examine the purpose and effectiveness of prevention coalitions, explore approaches to develop and sustain local coalitions, and promote strategies to sustain coalition participation and engagement.
Coalition Building and Maintenance, Part 1: Understanding Coalitions
Coalition Building and Maintenance, Part 2: Strategies and Applications for Coalition Engagement and Maintenance
Collaborative Prevention Strategies in Rural Communities
Collaborative Prevention Strategies in Rural Communities is part of ABHPC’s Centering DEIB in Primary Prevention series. In order to build and implement successful prevention strategies, we need to ensure our efforts fit the needs and norms of the communities we are working with. Participants in this session will gain an understanding of typical barriers to prevention faced by rural communities and will discuss methods to incorporate and highlight community members’ voices, strengths, and needs into prevention and building healthier communities.
Community-Led Strategies: Navigating Community-Based Processes Series
Community-Led Strategies: Navigating Community-Based Processes is a dynamic four-part series designed to empower community leaders and practitioners in building effective coalitions for youth substance use prevention and mental health. Each session offered a deep dive into key aspects of coalition building, from community-led strategies and capacity building to engagement, maintenance, and the vital role of youth involvement. Through case studies, interactive discussions, and practical activities, participants will gain comprehensive insights and tools for creating, maintaining, and mobilizing impactful community coalitions. This series is essential for those who foster sustainable community change and wellness through collaborative efforts.
Part 1: SAMHSA Primary Prevention Strategies: Localizing Behavioral Health Prevention Efforts
In this session, participants will explore the role of community coalitions in tackling youth substance use and mental health disorders, focusing on SAMHSA’s best practices. Key objectives include analyzing and applying community-based prevention strategies, developing sustainable change initiatives, and integrating health equity. This interactive session combines case studies, group activities, and insights into SAMHSA’s strategies, tailored for community leaders and practitioners.
Part 2: Understanding Coalitions and Building Local Capacity
This interactive session explores the core elements of building and strengthening community coalitions. Participants will learn to engage diverse community sectors, develop capacity-building plans, and analyze coalition dynamics for equitable power sharing. The session combines case studies, role-play, and group discussions, providing practical insights into effective coalition building for community leaders and stakeholders.
Part 3: Strategies and Applications for Coalition Engagement and Maintenance
Participants will explore strategies for effective coalition engagement and maintenance in this session. Focusing on role clarity, stakeholder involvement, conflict resolution, and data-driven evaluation, the session provides practical tools for sustaining active and effective coalitions. Through case studies and interactive workshops, this session is essential for those seeking to enhance their coalition’s impact and longevity in the community.
Part 4: Youth Mobilization and Coalition Development
This final session focuses on the pivotal role of youth in community coalitions. Participants will explore strategies for engaging and empowering youth, gaining insights from youth-led coalitions, and learning how to integrate youth perspectives for coalition success. Featuring a youth coalition panel and case studies, this session is crucial for anyone looking to enhance their coalition’s impact through active youth involvement.
Environmental Approaches to Prevention
One of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s key primary prevention strategies, environmental prevention, “establishes or changes written and unwritten community standards, codes, and attitudes. Its intent is to influence the general population’s use of alcohol and other drugs.” This training will explore best practices in environmental prevention and how to effectively implement strategies in community-based settings. Participants will learn about the Public Health approach and how it relates to environmental prevention, strategies to address environmental contributors to substance use and misuse, and how to engage communities in environmental prevention efforts.
Environmental Prevention 101
Are you thinking about integrating environmental approaches into your prevention efforts? Environmental prevention involves promoting health and safety by changing the policies, settings, and community conditions that contribute to high-risk, unhealthy behaviors. This training focuses on the distinctions between environmental and individual-based prevention, and the theoretical foundation for using environmental strategies. Presenter Shari Egeland, will review evidence-based environmental prevention strategies and highlight ways that they can include best-practice cultural competence. The training also looks at ways to effectively engage communities in these efforts, including how to work with youth to get them ready to implement environmental prevention projects. This training is appropriate for county prevention coordinators and administrators, county-sponsored prevention providers, schools, communities, and faith-based prevention providers.
Fundamentals of the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF)
This training will present an overview of the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) – the SAMHSA model that all California counties follow when planning their Substance Use Disorder (SUD) primary prevention services.