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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
Aug 20

Part 1: Creating a Trauma-Informed Recovery Oriented System of Care (TI-ROSC)

2:00 PM A trauma-informed recovery-oriented system of care (TI-ROSC) helps communities better support people with substance use challenges and foster sustained recovery. This two-part webinar series, hosted by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing and the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry’s Opioid Response Network (ORN), supports communities as they create and implement a TI-ROSC that strengthens their substance use prevention, treatment and recovery efforts.

Aug 25

Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training

8:30 AM Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training 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.

*Training sessions are limited to 15 participants per training.

Aug 25

Part 2: Creating a Trauma-Informed Recovery Oriented System of Care (TI-ROSC)

1:00 PM Through these webinars and two implementation coaching calls, participants will: 1) better understand the relationship between trauma and substance use 2) learn how to create and maintain community partnerships to address trauma and substance use and foster recovery 3) discover a community needs assessment tool so they can use a data-informed process to assess the community’s strengths and needs.

Aug 27

ACE Interface Presenter Cohorts 2025

8:30 AM Keith Cartwright, DBHDS ACE Coordinator, and Master ACE Interface trainer is returning to Fredericksburg to facilitate a train-the-presenter for the Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Building Self-Healing Communities. (This is the curriculum facilitating RACSB Prevention Services in the community over the past eight years.) Participants must commit to full attendance each of the three days. Space will be limited to 25 participants.  Registration will close 10 days prior to the train-the-presenter or when 25 participants are confirmed

Aug 27

RASAP 2025 Conference

9:00 AM Join us on August 27th for our (RASAP) Regional Alliance for Substance Abuse Prevention 2025 Conference. Come see Ryan Leaf, former NFL Quarterback tell his addiction and recovery story. Other speakers will be the Virginia Harm Reduction Coalition, Virginia Cannabis Control Authority, and a panel discussion.

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Part 1: Creating a Trauma-Informed Recovery Oriented System of Care (TI-ROSC)

02:00 PM A trauma-informed recovery-oriented system of care (TI-ROSC) helps communities better support people with substance use challenges and foster sustained recovery. This two-part webinar series, hosted by the National Council for Mental Wellbeing and the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry’s Opioid Response Network (ORN), supports communities as they create and implement a TI-ROSC that strengthens their substance use prevention, treatment and recovery efforts.

Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training

08:30 AM Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training 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.

*Training sessions are limited to 15 participants per training.

Part 2: Creating a Trauma-Informed Recovery Oriented System of Care (TI-ROSC)

01:00 PM Through these webinars and two implementation coaching calls, participants will: 1) better understand the relationship between trauma and substance use 2) learn how to create and maintain community partnerships to address trauma and substance use and foster recovery 3) discover a community needs assessment tool so they can use a data-informed process to assess the community’s strengths and needs.

ACE Interface Presenter Cohorts 2025

08:30 AM Keith Cartwright, DBHDS ACE Coordinator, and Master ACE Interface trainer is returning to Fredericksburg to facilitate a train-the-presenter for the Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Building Self-Healing Communities. (This is the curriculum facilitating RACSB Prevention Services in the community over the past eight years.) Participants must commit to full attendance each of the three days. Space will be limited to 25 participants.  Registration will close 10 days prior to the train-the-presenter or when 25 participants are confirmed

RASAP 2025 Conference

09:00 AM Join us on August 27th for our (RASAP) Regional Alliance for Substance Abuse Prevention 2025 Conference. Come see Ryan Leaf, former NFL Quarterback tell his addiction and recovery story. Other speakers will be the Virginia Harm Reduction Coalition, Virginia Cannabis Control Authority, and a panel discussion.

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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