This foundational course serves as the required, introductory module for the in-person Substance Abuse Prevention Skills Training (SAPST). This self-paced course offers practitioners new to the field of prevention, or working in related fields, an introduction to the history of prevention, key concepts and definitions, specific drug effects, and an exciting glimpse into the effects of substance use and addiction on the brain.

Participants will learn about: Basic terminology and facts; History of substance use and prevention in the United States; Addiction and the brain; and, Effects and health risks of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.

This course was developed by the Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC).

5.0 Hours Certificate of Completion Available

*Note: this course is a required pre-requisite course for the in-person Substance Abuse Prevention Skills Training (SAPST) but can be taken as a stand-alone course.

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The Introduction to Prevention Core Competencies for Prevention Professionals was designed to introduce practitioners to the essential competencies, knowledge, and skill to work in substance use and misuse prevention. It is based on the Prevention Core Competencies published by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The course provides a foundation for service delivery based on prevention science and the use of evidence-based practices. It strengthens the understanding of effective planning and implementation approaches and encourages the pursuit of more specialized training and professional development.

1. 1.Describe the key elements of prevention planning and evaluation.
2. 2.Understand the core prevention professional knowledge, skills, and competencies.
3. 3.Acknowledge the importance of research-based theories and processes that help explain and build effective prevention interventions. 
4. 4.Describe how evidence-based (EB) prevention strategies can be delivered across settings including the family, school, media, community, or workplace.

Prepared by the Prevention Technology Transfer Center National Coordinating Office (PTTC NCO) supported with supplemental funding from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Award No. 5H79SP081006.

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In this engaging 1-hour course, professionals in substance misuse prevention, treatment, and recovery will gain a comprehensive understanding of evaluation practices and their crucial role in planning and success. We will demystify evaluation, making it accessible and encouraging its integration into your work. You’ll learn how planning and evaluation complement each other and discover the importance of monitoring as a distinct yet integral part of evaluation. The course will provide practical ideas on what and how to measure, along with sense-making guidelines. Additionally, you’ll explore the differences and similarities between impact evaluation and contribution analysis, understand the steps involved in contribution analysis, and see real-world examples of its application. Join us to enhance your evaluation skills and ensure your programs achieve their desired impact.

This course was developed by the Mid-America Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) which is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

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Effectively preventing suicide requires an understanding of who is attempting and dying by suicide, where the problem is most severe, and under what circumstances attempts and suicide deaths occur. But how do you find the data you need to answer these questions and others? Locating and Understanding Data for Suicide Prevention presents a variety of data sources that are useful for finding information about suicide deaths, suicide attempts, and suicidal ideation. This 2 hour course also explains key concepts that will help you better understand the data you find.

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Define and understand the difference between suicide deaths, suicide attempts, suicide ideation, and risk and protective factors for suicide.
• Explain key terms that are essential to accurately interpreting data and making meaningful comparisons; this includes counts, rates, and trends. 
• Identify some commonly used and readily accessible online national data sources, and the type of data that is available from each source.
• Identify some alternative data sources that may be available in states and communities, the type of data available from these sources, and considerations when approaching organizations and agencies for these data.
• Think critically about the strengths and limitations of a given data source. 
• This course is open to anyone and can be completed in approximately two hours. You do not have to complete the course in one session. You can exit the course at any time and return later to the place where you left off. 

SPRC is not a crisis center. If you are thinking of hurting yourself, or if you are concerned that someone you know may be suicidal, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline by phone 1-800-273-TALKCall: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)

The Suicide Prevention Resource Center at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center is supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), under Grant No. 1H79SM083028. The views, opinions, and content expressed in this product do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, or policies of CMHS, SAMHSA, or HHS.

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Logic Models: Mapping Your Prevention Efforts is a course for prevention practitioners to help them understand logic models, and provide guidance for building a logic model for their prevention program.

The course consists of an interactive content module and a completion quiz. It is estimated that the course may take up to 2 hours to complete.

This course was developed by the Great Lakes Prevention Technology transfer, which is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and covers the HHS Region 5 (IN, IL, MI, MN, OH, WI).

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Hey, the 90s called … they want their slide deck AND presentation back! Coalitions use presentations as a primary strategy to disseminate information, build skills, ignite calls to action and influence change. However most of us never receive any formal training in presentation design – despite all we expect them to do for us. Consequently, our presentations are as dated as dial-up Internet. In this session, you’ll learn a framework based in brain science to develop and deliver exceptional presentations – every time – using the tools and resources you already have. Get ready to transform your audience with modern and powerful presentations.

1.5 Hour Certificate of Completion Available

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The ORN Community Collaboration is intended to:

• Expand and disseminate evidence-based approaches to opioid and substance use disorder.
• Engage community in strategic discussions and learn: What is working, where are the gaps, and what strategies and resources are needed to build capacity to address the epidemic in that region?
• Increase awareness of technical assistance available through ORN and Technology Transfer Center (TTC) networks.
• Offer up to 11.5 hours of CE for CNE, CME, CHES, NASW, and NAADAC (and/or certificates of attendance).
• The ORN Community Collaboration consists of a two-hour virtual live session followed by up to eight recorded modules, available over 40 days, covering a variety of topics related to prevention, treatment and recovery, effective approaches for adolescents, family-centered care, the impact of stigma, and the intersection between social determinants of health, the opioid epidemic and COVID-19. We will also cover available technical assistance. A final two-hour live session will provide an opportunity for structured Q&A, with a focus on partnering to build capacity in states/regions and planning next steps.

Funding for this initiative was made possible (in part) by grant no. 6H79TI080816 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

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The major focus of this online course is to discuss how opioid misuse and overdose prevention strategies can be coordinated with efforts around infectious disease control in order to improve data collection, align resources, increase access to focus populations, and address shared risk and protective factors. 

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe the current intersections between the opioid epidemic and the increases in infectious disease.
• Share evidence-based and promising interventions for addressing the epidemic.
• Identify potential roles for prevention practitioners.

Developed by the South-Southwest Prevention Technology Transfer Center.

3.0 Hour Certificate of Completion Available

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This course is intended for members of the Opioid Response Network and serves as an orientation to the project. The Opioid Response Network was created to support community efforts in addressing opioid use disorder prevention, treatment and recovery. This project is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

Funding for this initiative was made possible (in part) by grant no. 1H79TI080816-01 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. Copyright Opioid Response Network 2020 (orn@aaap.org).

This project is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and is here to assist and support communities to be positioned to help address the national opioid public health crisis. 

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This course is intended for members of the Opioid Response Network and serves as an orientation to the network. The Opioid Response Network was created to support community efforts in addressing opioid use disorder prevention, treatment and recovery. This project is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

Funding for this initiative was made possible (in part) by grant no. 1H79TI080816-01 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. Copyright Opioid Response Network 2020 (orn@aaap.org).

This project is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and is here to assist and support communities to be positioned to help address the national opioid public health crisis. 

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The Opioid Response Network (ORN) Virtual Community Collaboration (VCC) includes eight recorded modules to share evidence-based resources around effective interventions in prevention, treatment and recovery to impact the opioid epidemic across all populations.

 Pre-recorded modules include:

1. The Opioid Epidemic: Evidence-Based Approaches to Prevention
2. The Opioid Epidemic: Evidence-Based Approaches to Treatment
3. The Opioid Epidemic: Improving Recovery Outcomes
4. The Impact of Stigma on Care
5. Substance Use Prevention in Youth and Adolescents
6. Family-Centered Care for Pregnant and Post-Partum Women and their Families
7. Opioid Response Network Overview
8. The Opioid Epidemic in the age of COVID-19: How Social Determinants of Health Create Differential Impacts

Funding for this initiative was made possible (in part) by grant no. 6H79TI080816 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

7.5 Hour Certificate of Completion Available

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The ORN Community Collaboration is intended to:

• Expand and disseminate evidence-based approaches to opioid and substance use disorder.
• Engage community in strategic discussions and learn: What is working, where are the gaps, and what strategies and resources are needed to build capacity to address the epidemic in that region?
• Increase awareness of technical assistance available through ORN and Technology Transfer Center (TTC) networks.
• Offer up to 11.5 hours of CE for CNE, CME, CHES, NASW, and NAADAC (and/or certificates of attendance).
• The ORN Community Collaboration consists of a two-hour virtual live session followed by up to eight recorded modules, available over 40 days, covering a variety of topics related to prevention, treatment and recovery, effective approaches for adolescents, family-centered care, the impact of stigma, and the intersection between social determinants of health, the opioid epidemic and COVID-19. We will also cover available technical assistance. A final two-hour live session will provide an opportunity for structured Q&A, with a focus on partnering to build capacity in states/regions and planning next steps.

Funding for this initiative was made possible (in part) by grant no. 6H79TI080816 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

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The ORN Community Collaboration is intended to:

• Expand and disseminate evidence-based approaches to opioid and substance use disorder.
• Engage community in strategic discussions and learn: What is working, where are the gaps, and what strategies and resources are needed to build capacity to address the epidemic in that region?
• Increase awareness of technical assistance available through ORN and Technology Transfer Center (TTC) networks.
• Offer up to 11.5 hours of CE for CNE, CME, CHES, NASW, and NAADAC (and/or certificates of attendance).

The ORN Community Collaboration consists of a two-hour virtual live session followed by up to eight recorded modules, available over 40 days, covering a variety of topics related to prevention, treatment and recovery, effective approaches for adolescents, family-centered care, the impact of stigma, and the intersection between social determinants of health, the opioid epidemic and COVID-19. We will also cover available technical assistance. A final two-hour live session will provide an opportunity for structured Q&A, with a focus on partnering to build capacity in states/regions and planning next steps.

Funding for this initiative was made possible (in part) by grant no. 6H79TI080816 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

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The ORN Community Collaboration is intended to:

• Expand and disseminate evidence-based approaches to opioid and substance use disorder.
• Engage community in strategic discussions and learn: What is working, where are the gaps, and what strategies and resources are needed to build capacity to address the epidemic in that region?
• Increase awareness of technical assistance available through ORN and Technology Transfer Center (TTC) networks.
• Offer up to 11.5 hours of CE for CNE, CME, CHES, NASW, and NAADAC (and/or certificates of attendance).

The ORN Community Collaboration consists of a two-hour virtual live session followed by up to eight recorded modules, available over 40 days, covering a variety of topics related to prevention, treatment and recovery, effective approaches for adolescents, family-centered care, the impact of stigma, and the intersection between social determinants of health, the opioid epidemic and COVID-19. We will also cover available technical assistance. A final two-hour live session will provide an opportunity for structured Q&A, with a focus on partnering to build capacity in states/regions and planning next steps.

Funding for this initiative was made possible (in part) by grant no. 6H79TI080816 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

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As the landscape of medicinal and adult personal use of cannabis change across the country, prevention practitioners are left with mixed messages about how to address youth cannabis use. Research is catching up to this changing landscape, and new information about how perception of harm and related factors impact youth cannabis use are emerging. This two-module, 2.5 hour, webinar course will focus on the research behind those factors, as well as evidence-informed strategies for addressing them.

This publication was prepared by the Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) Network under a cooperative agreement from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Award No. 3H79SP081006-04S1.

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In this one-hour self-paced course, participants will:

• Review milestones in this history of prevention certification in Maine
• Review background that led to the development of the SAPST course
• Understand the structure and content of a University course focusing on the SAPST
• Learn about example content of the SAPST course, and
• Examine implementation and logistical methods and challenges of the SAPST course

1.0 Hour Certificate of Completion Available

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Welcome to Prevention Science Foundation: Shared Risk and Protective Factors.  This course is a 7 hour, self-paced course for working in the field of prevention and healthy youth development. Learners will watch videos, read information from the surgeon general, and reflect on their learning  using journaling techniques. Participants will apply and test their knowledge through quizzes following each module. The goal of this course is to help participants understand prevention science. Join Kevin Haggerty, the Director of the Northwest Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC), and John Briney, Research Scientist and Data Manager, for a deeper dive into risk and protective factors for healthy youth development – what they are, why they’re important, and how to measure them at the community level.

This product was funded under a cooperative agreement from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) (Grant Number: H79SP080995). All material, except that taken directly from copyrighted sources, is in the public domain and may be used and reprinted for training purposes without special permission. However, any content used should be attributed to the Northwest Prevention Technology Transfer Center. This product should be used for educational purposes only.

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The success of prevention efforts in the community is dependent on a competent, well-trained, ethical and professional Prevention Specialist. Therefore, the purpose of this 3 hour training program is to enhance the quality of services provided as well as the knowledge and skills necessary to become a Certified Prevention Specialist (CPS).

This e-learning course was adapted by the Southeast Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC), a grant from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA); grant no. H79SP081029-05.

Disclaimer: This training is supported by SAMHSA of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award with 100 percent funded by SAMHSA/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by SAMHSA/HHS, or the U.S. Government.

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Safety Planning for Youth Suicide Prevention is a one-hour, self- paced online course designed for licensed health and behavioral health professionals and students in clinical training programs. The course aims to develop participants’ knowledge and skills in using the Stanley-Brown Safety Planning Intervention, an evidence-based intervention developed by Dr. Barbara Stanley and Dr. Gregory Brown. Course participants will review the core elements of the Safety Planning Intervention, explore strategies for effective collaboration with young people and their family members, and consider ways to overcome common challenges to delivering the intervention with fidelity.

This online course was sponsored by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, which is supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), under Grant No. 1H79SM083028. The views, opinions, and content expressed in this product do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, or policies of CMHS, SAMHSA, or HHS.

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1 Hour CE Available

NASW, CME, NBCC

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Suicide Prevention Resource Center has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7568. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Suicide Prevention Resource Center is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

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This 3 hour overview is required to receive full access to the updated 2023 SAPST curriculum. It covers the changes in each module and how to train new content. This training is intended for those who have previously completed a SAPST Training of Trainers. Upon attestation of trainer status and course completion, SAPST materials will be made available within this course.

The SAPST was originally developed under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA’s) Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies task order (reference #HHSS283201200024I/HHSS28342002T).

This updated SAPST curriculum and this subsequent course, was created through a collaborative effort of SAMHSA’s regional Prevention Technology Transfer Centers (PTTCs) and Network Coordinating Office (#HHS5H79SP081006).

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