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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
Jun 23

Centering Youth Voices to End Vaping Harm: What Youth Want Adults to Know

5:00 PM Hosted by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, this webinar will highlight youth perspectives, the role of peer influence and social media and strategies for prevention and cessation. Hear from youth advocates and team members from both organizations as they discuss what is driving youth vaping and how it affects young people and communities. Participants will gain insight into youth experiences and explore practical strategies to support prevention and cessation.

Jul 9

Substance Use Prevention Messaging: How to Talk with Youth & Educate Those Around Them

11:00 AM This 90-minute workshop will review emerging substance use trends in the state of Virginia. Guidance will be shared for healthcare providers and other trusted adults in the lives of youth on how to talk to youth about substances with a focus on prevention messaging and how to educate both youth and adults about substance-related information. Click here for the flyer. Speaker
Patty Ferssizidis, PhD.

Jul 21

From Vapes to Pouches: Helping Kids Avoid and Quit Nicotine

1:00 PM Taking a closer look at how nicotine use is changing, from vaping to pouches and dual use that can make quitting harder. In partnership with Truth Initiative, this session will break down why nicotine is so addictive, how it affects developing brains and mental health, and why many young people want to quit but struggle. You’ll also learn how to support them with practical, nonjudgmental conversations that support kids, whether it’s about prevention or quitting. The webinar is free for parents, caregivers, and professionals. Live Spanish captions are included, with full Spanish translations available the same day. All registrants receive the recording to watch or share anytime.

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Centering Youth Voices to End Vaping Harm: What Youth Want Adults to Know

05:00 PM Hosted by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, this webinar will highlight youth perspectives, the role of peer influence and social media and strategies for prevention and cessation. Hear from youth advocates and team members from both organizations as they discuss what is driving youth vaping and how it affects young people and communities. Participants will gain insight into youth experiences and explore practical strategies to support prevention and cessation.

Substance Use Prevention Messaging: How to Talk with Youth & Educate Those Around Them

11:00 AM This 90-minute workshop will review emerging substance use trends in the state of Virginia. Guidance will be shared for healthcare providers and other trusted adults in the lives of youth on how to talk to youth about substances with a focus on prevention messaging and how to educate both youth and adults about substance-related information. Click here for the flyer. Speaker
Patty Ferssizidis, PhD.

From Vapes to Pouches: Helping Kids Avoid and Quit Nicotine

01:00 PM Taking a closer look at how nicotine use is changing, from vaping to pouches and dual use that can make quitting harder. In partnership with Truth Initiative, this session will break down why nicotine is so addictive, how it affects developing brains and mental health, and why many young people want to quit but struggle. You’ll also learn how to support them with practical, nonjudgmental conversations that support kids, whether it’s about prevention or quitting. The webinar is free for parents, caregivers, and professionals. Live Spanish captions are included, with full Spanish translations available the same day. All registrants receive the recording to watch or share anytime.

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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