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Mobilizing communities to prevent substance misuse, suicide and other unhealthy coping skills and increasing awareness of how negative childhood experiences can impact us throughout our lives.

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1639 Jamestown Church
Nov 12

Continuing Connections: Supporting Traumatic Grief Through Holiday Rituals

11:30 AM This session is designed for both grievers and mental health professionals. Together, we’ll explore research on how ritual and continuing bond theory can support coping after loss and apply these ideas to practical ways of navigating the holidays. The session will: • Examine diverse grief and coping patterns within families, and the challenges of traumatic loss during the holidays.
• Understand how grief can affect traditions and how creating new ones can help bring comfort.
• Address common challenges such as letting go of or changing traditions and navigating family conflict.
• Explore how clients’ values can guide meaningful holiday choices and provide practical tools for ongoing, healthy connections after loss.   Prevention CEUs will be provided.

Nov 24

Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Division of Death Prevention: Lunch & Learn

12:00 PM Are you interested in learning more about local and regional overdose review teams? Would you like to start a review team in your community? Or are you curious about fatality review efforts in Virginia? The Virginia Department of Health’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Division of Death Prevention invites you to join us for a Lunch & Learn session to explore these important topics. Date: Monday, November 24 Join VDH for this informative and engaging session! Please feel free to share with your colleagues or others that may be interested. If you have questions, please reach out to Ryan Diduk directly via email or the phone number below.  Ryan M. Diduk, PhD, MPH Director, Division of Death Prevention Office of the Chief Medical Examiner 737 North 5th Street, Suite 301 Richmond, VA  23219 Phone:  804.205.3856

Dec 4

CRI COURSE 2: TRAUMA-SUPPORTIVE

9:00 AM This 6-hour course covers the science of resiliency and shares promising strategies to build culturally and contextually resilient individuals and communities. (You must complete Course 1 in order to take Course 2.)

Course 2 describes training on topics that teach the knowledge and skills required by individuals who have contact with those who may be adversely affected by trauma and toxic stress, whether or not the trauma is known. These topics include resilience-based practices with universal application, such as classrooms, offices, or other places the general public may congregate. Topics in this category focus on prevention and teach a variety of strategies to address the often-hidden effects of trauma and toxic stress by fostering resilience within the individual and the larger community. Lunch is on your own. Registration closes two days prior to training date.

Please Note: You must be present for 100% of the class to receive your certification.

 
There currently is no cost per participant.  Training materials and facilitation are provided thanks to the generous support of the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS).

Space is limited to 30 participants. (A minimum of 10 registrations is needed to host the course.) Demographics are for grant reporting purposes.

Dec 10

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Interface Training

10:00 AM Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Interface Training teaches participants about adverse childhood experiences, toxic stress, and how adversity in childhood can impact adult health. Learn the steps to address trauma, how to create safe environments and improve relationships so that healing can begin and allow all children to reach their full potential.

This two-hour training will provide a more in-depth look at the brain and the effects of trauma on the brain.

* Training session is limited to 30 participants.

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Continuing Connections: Supporting Traumatic Grief Through Holiday Rituals

11:30 AM This session is designed for both grievers and mental health professionals. Together, we’ll explore research on how ritual and continuing bond theory can support coping after loss and apply these ideas to practical ways of navigating the holidays. The session will: • Examine diverse grief and coping patterns within families, and the challenges of traumatic loss during the holidays.
• Understand how grief can affect traditions and how creating new ones can help bring comfort.
• Address common challenges such as letting go of or changing traditions and navigating family conflict.
• Explore how clients’ values can guide meaningful holiday choices and provide practical tools for ongoing, healthy connections after loss.   Prevention CEUs will be provided.

Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Division of Death Prevention: Lunch & Learn

12:00 PM Are you interested in learning more about local and regional overdose review teams? Would you like to start a review team in your community? Or are you curious about fatality review efforts in Virginia? The Virginia Department of Health’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Division of Death Prevention invites you to join us for a Lunch & Learn session to explore these important topics. Date: Monday, November 24 Join VDH for this informative and engaging session! Please feel free to share with your colleagues or others that may be interested. If you have questions, please reach out to Ryan Diduk directly via email or the phone number below.  Ryan M. Diduk, PhD, MPH Director, Division of Death Prevention Office of the Chief Medical Examiner 737 North 5th Street, Suite 301 Richmond, VA  23219 Phone:  804.205.3856

CRI COURSE 2: TRAUMA-SUPPORTIVE

09:00 AM This 6-hour course covers the science of resiliency and shares promising strategies to build culturally and contextually resilient individuals and communities. (You must complete Course 1 in order to take Course 2.)

Course 2 describes training on topics that teach the knowledge and skills required by individuals who have contact with those who may be adversely affected by trauma and toxic stress, whether or not the trauma is known. These topics include resilience-based practices with universal application, such as classrooms, offices, or other places the general public may congregate. Topics in this category focus on prevention and teach a variety of strategies to address the often-hidden effects of trauma and toxic stress by fostering resilience within the individual and the larger community. Lunch is on your own. Registration closes two days prior to training date.

Please Note: You must be present for 100% of the class to receive your certification.

 
There currently is no cost per participant.  Training materials and facilitation are provided thanks to the generous support of the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS).

Space is limited to 30 participants. (A minimum of 10 registrations is needed to host the course.) Demographics are for grant reporting purposes.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Interface Training

10:00 AM Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Interface Training teaches participants about adverse childhood experiences, toxic stress, and how adversity in childhood can impact adult health. Learn the steps to address trauma, how to create safe environments and improve relationships so that healing can begin and allow all children to reach their full potential.

This two-hour training will provide a more in-depth look at the brain and the effects of trauma on the brain.

* Training session is limited to 30 participants.

OUR PREVENTION TRAINING WORKSHOPS

Preparing Our Community to Help People in Need of Support

ACEs Interface training teaches participants about adverse childhood experiences, toxic stress, and how adversity in childhood can impact adult health.

Learn the steps to address trauma, how to create safe environments and improve relationships so that healing can begin and allow all children to reach their full potential..

Audience: Parents/Guardians, Teachers, Medical/Mental Health Professionals and Community Members.

LivingWorks Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is a two-day interactive workshop in suicide first aid. ASIST teaches participants to recognize when someone may have thoughts of suicide and work with them to create a plan that will support their immediate safety.

Audience: Although ASIST is widely used by healthcare providers, participants don't need any formal training to attend the workshop. Anyone 16 or older can learn and use the ASIST model.

Just as CPR helps you assist an individual having a heart attack, Mental Health First Aid helps you assist someone experiencing a mental health or substance use-related crisis. In the Mental Health First Aid course, you learn risk factors and warning signs for mental health and addiction concerns, strategies for how to help someone in both crisis and non-crisis situations, and where to turn for help.

Audience: Parents/Guardians, Teachers, Medical/Mental Health Professionals and Community Members.

REVIVE! training provides information on how to recognize and respond to an opioid overdose emergency using naloxone for lay rescuers. This training also covers understanding opioids, how opioid overdoses happen, and the risk factors for opioid overdoses.

Audience: Parents/Guardians, Teachers, Medical/Mental Health Professionals and Community Members

SafeTALK is a 4 hour LivingWorks workshop that teaches participants to be more alert to people thinking about suicide and better able to connect them to suicide intervention resources.

Participants will be better able to reach out to someone thinking about suicide, promptly connect them to further support, overcome personal and community attitudes that act as barriers to help and learn the powerful 4-step TALK model.

Audience: Everyone over the age of 16 years who wants to help keep the people around them safe from suicide should attend.

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Training and Instruction

The Historic Triangle Drug Prevention Coalition is always willing to train individuals, groups, agencies, and the like! Once you complete this form Joi Tramuel, HTDPC Coordinator, will reach out to you directly with more information on how to schedule your training.

PLEASE NOTE: We do not check messages sent through this form every day. If you have not received a response within three business days, please contact Joi Tramuel, HTDPC Coordinator at (757) 713-9670.

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