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2020 VIRTUAL kansasprevention conference

2020 VIRTUAL Kansasprevention conference

Weaving a Stronger Kansas

CONFERENCE AGENDA

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

9:00 am Welcome and Opening Remarks

10:30 am Break

TIME

Thursday, October 15, 2020TIME

KANSAS PREVENTION CONFERENCE

3.1 The Power of Awareness: Promotion & Information Dissemination, Patricia Houston, MBA3.2 Leading Transformation Through Trauma-Informed Culture, Rebecca Lewis-Pankratz, BA 3.3 Clearing the Air About Vaping: Prevention and Cessation Strategies Jordan Roberts, BA / Jamie Katz, MPH, CPP 3.4 Organizational Trauma Due to Covid-19, Teresa Cornejo, LMSW, MSOD

Laura Howard, Secretary, Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services

9:30 am Keynote: Earl Greene, M.A., CAMS-1/Fellow

11:00 am Breakout Session 1: 1.1 "Huh? What? I Donʼt Understand. Communicating Effectively with Others in MyCommunity", Michael Parsons, BS / Crystal Dalmasso, MA 1.2 Poverty and Addictions, Mark Blakeslee, MS, LCMFT, LCAC, KCGC II, CACH 1.3 Hope Starts with NAMI Signature Programs, Sherrie Vaughn, Ed. D. Educational Leadership 1.4 The Crossroads of Gambling and Video Gaming: What has been the Pandemicʼs Impact,Juan Baez,B.A, LAC-T, KCGC-P

12:00 pm Break1:00 am Breakout Session 2:

2.1 Community Empowerment & Dissecting Data, Danielle Ramirez, AA / Ngoc Vuong / Paigton Mayes, Ph.D. 2.2 Let the Kansas Traffic Safety Resource Office Help You, Laura Moore / Cyndii Callaway, CPST 2.3 Meaningful Youth Engagement in Prevention: Strategies, Ideas, and Tips, Lydia Fuqua, MA / Deanne Armstrong2.4 Your Meds. Your Matter.: An Rx Prevention Media Campaign, Jamie Katz, MPH / Lee Stiegemeier

2:00 pm Break2:20 pm Breakout Session 3:

9:00 am Breakout Session 4: (90 Minutes) 4.1 Making Tobacco Policy & Environmental Changes at Your Organization: Lessons on Prevention from Addiction Treatment Organizations, Rick Cagan, BA, Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit ManagementPanelists: Rachel Bieker / Deb Stidham, MS, LCAC / Kimber Richter, PhDPanel Moderator: Elizabeth Ablah, PhD, MPH 4.2 Suicide Prevention During a Global Pandemic - What an Urban Augmentation Medical Task Force can Teach Us, Jason Deselms, PhD

10:30 am Break11:00 am Breakout Session 5:

5.1 LOUD and LOCAL! Becky Tuttle, MA, BS 5.2 Trauma-Informed Care for Strong Communities, Mimi Bachman, LMSW 5.3 Sources of Strength in Douglas County, Meg Fowler, MSW / Lydia Fuqua, MA 5.4 Medical Marijuana: Opening Pandoraʼs Box, Eric Voth MD, FACP, MD, Internal Medicine, pain,and addiction medicine.

3:20 am Adjourn

CONFERENCE AGENDA

12:00 pm Break1:00 pm Breakout Session 6:

6.1 Practicing Self Care to Care of Others, Troy Unruh, BS, LMR6.2 Building Strong Foundations, Resilient Relationships, and a Culture of Acceptance,Laurie Carr, BS/Seth Dewey6.3 SAFE - Seatbelts Are For Everyone, Laura Moore, BS6.4 Statewide Opioid Prevention Initiatives, Krista Machado, MS / Crystal Dalmasso, MA/Lydia Fuqua, MA / Deanne Armstrong

2:00 pm Break

Friday, October 16, 2020TIME

2:20 pm Breakout Session 7: 7.1 Creating a Sustainable Future for Local Coalitions: Tales from Suburban and Rural Coalitions, Jamie Katz, MPH, CPP/Jessica McGinnis, BA7.2 Kansas Drug Endangered Children (DEC) Development Academy - 2020, David Closson, MS7.3 Turning the Tables: Change is Student Lead, John Calvert, BS7.4 How to do Allyship for/with LGBTQ Youth, Liz Hamor, MS

9:00 am Breakout Session 8:8.1 Trauma-Informed Communities (TIC): How do we make it happen? Lynnette Redington, MEd, BS/Susan Lamb, BS8.2 #ZeroReasonsWhy - How a teen-led campaign is empowering students to open up about their mental health struggles and provide support to their peers, Jeff Short / Todd White, PhD.8.3 The Impacts of Naloxone Education and Distribution in Oklahoma, Lisa Harper, MBA

11:30 am Closing Keynote: Alex Elswick, MA, BA, PhD12:00 pm End of Conference

3:20 am Adjourn

BREAKOUT SESSION BREAKDOWN


BREAKOUT SESSION 1 1.1 "Huh? What? I Don’t Understand. Communicating Effectively with Others in My Community", Michael Parsons, BS / Crystal Dalmasso, MA

Why are messages misinterpreted? Why doesnʼt the receiver understand the same message sent by the sender? Communities are intertwined with people of different ages, heritages, traditions and experiences. To successfully establish a community group or implement prevention strategies, it is necessary to effectively communicate with others in the community. Although you may think your message is clear and digestible, others might interpret something profoundly different. This interactive session is formatted as a discussion to help participants better understand effective communication with others in their community. Discussion of this topic is appropriate for adults, youth or a mix of adults and youth. 1.2 Poverty and Addictions, Mark Blakeslee, MS, LCMFT, LCAC, KCGC II, CACH

Provide insight for individuals to address the unique situations that poverty brings to the areas of addiction. Community leaders, therapists, case managers, and foster care contractors. Understand that people in poverty must address their mental health needs, their financial needs and their economic needs to be successful. We must address the tryany of the momeny to postpone gratification where additive behaviors provide instant good feelings or escape. Provide the volunteer the insight to what the person in poverty may be addressing.

1.3 Hope Starts with NAMI Signature Programs, Sherrie Vaughn, Ed. D. Educational Leadership

In this session, we will provide information about the NAMI Signature Programs that are offered in Kansas as community-based services led by our thirteen affiliates. Participants will learn about NAMI signature programs, how to access NAMI signature programs and groups, and how to become a NAMI Signature Program leader. The educational programs provided in Kansas include NAMI Family to Family (evidenced-based program by SAMHSA), NAMI Basics, NAMI Peer to Peer, and NAMI Homefront. The support programs provided include NAMI Family Support Group and NAMI Connection. We also provide NAMI In Our Own Voice, a presentation program facilitated by individuals with a lived experience of mental illness as well as NAMI Provider, a 15-hour seminar for professionals.

1.4 The Crossroads of Gambling and Video Gaming: What has been the Pandemic’s Impact? Juan Baez, B.A, LAC-T, KCGC-P

The increase in Kansas and the United States of gambling opportunities are growing at breakneck speeds. Pair this with an explosion of video gaming and the blurred lines that occur between them both and you have a recipe for a new age of potential problems. How has Covid-19 played its part? What has technology and the internet done to bridge these merging issues? We will explore these fascinating yet scary implications in a rapidly changing world.

2.1 Community Empowerment & Dissecting Data, Danielle Ramirez, AA / Ngoc Vuong / Paigton Mayes, Ph.D.

This stimulating session will increase knowledge of how to help create a more community-centered and data-driven coalition. An authentic community voice is essential to a healthy coalition. Activities like yearly retreats, voting, and by-laws are just a few of the ways coalitions can ensure community input. In order to truly reflect the community a coalition must also represent the community. Being inclusive is vital. In 2020, 99.2% of our coalition members reported the coalition as having a strong capacity for , "Including diverse cultures, ethnicities, gender, sexual orientation, disability and age groups."

As Safe Streets Wichita began to achieve an inclusive, community driven coalition, our grassroots data team become possible. Data doesnʼt have to be scary! Participants can learn how to create your own data team, and explore best practices in collecting and analyzing data. Join this interactive session to learn and prepare your communities to Weave a Stronger Kansas.

2.2 Let the Kansas Traffic Safety Resource Office Help You, Laura Moore / Cyndii Callaway, CPST

Traffic Safety issues continue to have an impact on the lives of Kansans. The Kansas Traffic Safety Resource Office and staff are here to help. We have the resources that touch everyone from birth until the end of their traveling journey, even if theyʼre only traveling as a passenger. This session will lead attendees to resources, trainings, and programs available to all Kansans as well as data describing how traffic safety education has a positive impact on the way we travel.

BREAKOUT SESSION 2



2.3: Meaningful Youth Engagement in Prevention: Strategies, Ideas, and Tips, Lydia Fuqua, MA / Deanne Armstrong

"Nothing about us without us" is a phrase we often use when talking about youth involvement in substance misuse prevention, but what does effective youth engagement really look like? Join us for an interactive presentation to explore the importance of getting young people involved in your efforts and approaches to authentic youth engagement in prevention.

2.4: Your Meds. Your Matter.: An Rx Prevention Media Campaign, Jamie Katz, MPH / Lee Stiegemeier

America is experiencing an opioid addiction and overdose crisis. In fact, itʼs so widespread that itʼs touching communities and families across the country, including ours right here in the Heartland. According to SAMHSA, 65 percent of opioids are obtained from friends or relatives and more than 1 in 3 Johnson County high school seniors reported that it would be sort of easy or very easy to obtain prescription drugs that were not prescribed to them.

Each of us has a decision to make; we can choose to be part of the problem or part of the solution.Your Meds. Your Matter. is an awareness and prevention campaign designed to help Johnson County, KS and Platte County, MO residents move toward a solution. It encourages the audience to take notice of the issue; take responsibility for prescription medications by monitoring, locking up and disposing of prescription medications, specifically opioid pills; and act by utilizing available resources to help combat the crisis. Learn about how this targeted media campaign leverages print, digital, billboard, and other media to continue to empower and educate individuals on the critical #YourMedsYourMatter initiative.

BREAKOUT SESSION 33.1 The Power of Awareness: Promotion & Information Dissemination, Patricia Houston, MBA

During this session we will answer the question "Why continue to raise awareness?". We will discuss strategies and generate ideas around awareness campaigns, promoting prevention efforts, and disseminating information to our communities.

3.2 Leading Transformation Through Trauma-Informed Culture, Rebecca Lewis-Pankratz, BA

The Journey to create a trauma-informed culture in a behaviorism system is messy, experiential, grounded in research, and vital to helping each and every student be truly successful. Typically, it takes 3 to 5 years for a building to become truly trauma informed.

In the face of COVID-19, this is more important than ever before! So, what are the core tenants of trauma-informed culture? How do we get there and how do we know if it is working? Or, what if we get the science but are still having many incidents with students and staff spinning out and minimizing or halting learning? How do we help kids deal with big emotions? How do I move staff out of a pound of flesh mentality when kids are dysregulated? And what does resilience truly mean and more importantly, how do we build it? We need strategies!

If you or your colleagues are asking these questions, you are in the right place! In this session, we will give an overview of the journey to become a trauma-informed school. We will also do an activity on resilience that will give us multiple strategies to take back and implement tomorrow!

3.3 Clearing the Air About Vaping: Prevention and Cessation Strategies, Jordan Roberts, BA / Jamie Katz, MPH, CPP

Do you know what a JUUL is? Do you need to know more about vaping? Are you curious about how to address tobacco prevention now that e-cigarettes are the most commonly used tobacco product among teens? Do you know resources available to help teens quit vaping? This interactive session will provide participants the most up-to-date information, best practices to prevent tobacco initiation among youth, and tools to engage youth and community members in policy, systems and environmental change around tobacco. Additionally, participants will learn how to help teens quit vaping through the My Life, My Quit program, which combines best practices for youth tobacco cessation adapted to include vaping and new ways to reach a coach using live text messaging or online chat.

3.4 Organizational Trauma Due to Covid-19, Teresa Cornejo, LMSW, MSOD

Much has happened in the last six months requiring organizations to pivot and adapt, often in the middle of other changes happening simultaneously. The impact of such swift change can be experienced as traumatic by our staff (and US!). This session will acknowledge leadership challenges faced in the context of COVID, identify loss and stress felt by staff, identify organizational strategies to address times of crisis and support resilience and identify actions that can lead to a stronger, more resilient organization.



BREAKOUT SESSION 5

4.2: Suicide Prevention During a Global Pandemic - What an Urban Augmentation Medical Task Force can Teach Us, Jason Deselms, PhD

COVID-19 has created new and intensified existing stressors while at the same time removing many of the resources people turn to in times of need. Individuals are facing unprecedented economic pressures, interpersonal discord due to stay-at-home orders, and increased risk of intimate partner violence and child abuse. The disruption to routines due to concerns over contracting the disease are exacerbating preexisting problems such as mental illness and substance abuse, while at the same time physical distancing is endangering individualʼs mental health even as it protects their physical health. The high-profile suicides of the finance minister in Germany, as well as a Manhattan emergency room physician who was on the front line treating COVID-19 patients in April has raised concerns as well. What are the immediate and lasting impact on front-line workers exposed directly and indirectly to the coronavirus? In a time of change, what role does behavioral health providers play during this crisis, particularly in regard to front line workers?

This presentation will address the question of how behavioral health providers can work to address such concerns at all levels. It will draw from the experience of a behavioral health provider embedded with an Urban Augmentation Medical Task Force (UAMTF) mobilized to address COVID-19 in a high-risk hospital. Issues related to moral injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, and the long-term impact of the pandemic response will be discussed. It will highlight a strategic approach with strategies for making lasting change, as well as lessons learned during the process.

BREAKOUT SESSION 44.1: Making Tobacco Policy & Environmental Changes at Your Organization: Lessons on Prevention from Addiction Treatment Organizations, Rick Cagan, BA, Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management Panel: Rachel Bieker / Deb Stidham, MS, LCAC / Kimber Richter, PhD Panel Moderator: Elizabeth Ablah, PhD, MPH

E-cigarette and cigarette use should be major targets for prevention advocates. E-cigarette use can lead to cigarette smoking and other drug use among youth. In addition, quitting smoking improves recovery for people with mental illnesses and substance use disorders. This session is designed to address the extremely high rate of tobacco use among individuals with substance use disorders, a serious risk factor for early death. The session is designed for those working with individuals experiencing substance use disorders, those working in prevention coalitions addressing addiction issues, and for prevention professionals.

Panel presentations will include an overview of data on substance use and tobacco use and will outline the evidence-based approaches, and new funding for medications and counseling for reducing the impact of tobacco use in this population based on the Kansas Tobacco Guideline for Behavioral Health Care. Case studies from two addic-tion treatment organizations will describe their processes for developing, implementing, and enforcing policy and procedures for a tobacco-free campus for patients and staff. The speakers will discuss how they integrated tobacco dependence treatment alongside other substance use treatments. These presentations will outline the steps these agencies took to bring about change within their organizations. Discussion will focus on addressing the obstacles to engaging staff and clients on tobacco cessation and will make the case for tobacco dependence treatment as an essential prevention strategy.

5.1 : LOUD and LOCAL! Becky Tuttle, MA, BS

In August 2015 the majority of Sedgwick County Commissioners adopted a 2016 budget that eliminated health promotion, health assessment and planning, some immunization services, Early Detection Works screenings and other core functions of public health. In a coordinated effort to educate local decision makers on the implications to the community of such budget cuts, a group of dedicated public health professionals, named the Coalition of Coalitions Building the Case for Public Health in Sedgwick County, joined forces to quickly develop a grassroots, organic campaign.

Within less than one month, partners were engaged, earned and owned media were generated and small paid media campaign was developed. Because of these efforts, new and innovative methods to build the case for public health at the state and local level have been developed, including a Public Health Sister City Program, building ties to economic-development and a robust evaluation of the public health system in Sedgwick County.

During the presentation, the presenter will share experiences, successful outcomes and lessons learned, including data and evaluation methods from campaign efforts, funding opportunities that were pursued and next steps for public health in the stateʼs largest community. As the presenter is a local elected official, content will also be presented on how to engage with decision makers, power mapping, and building the case for successful advocacy initiatives.


5.2 Trauma-Informed Care for Strong Communities, Mimi Bachman, LMSW

Nationwide, 25% of children experience at least one traumatic event by the age of four. According to the CDC, this number doubles by the time a child reaches 18. As Trauma Smart continues to expand across the nation, agencies confirm that the impacts of trauma have no boundaries. How do we help build resilience in our places of work, homes, and communities?

This introduction to trauma-informed care includes lecture, videos, and discussions and is intended for all audiences. Participants will learn about the ACEs study, the definition of trauma and its impacts, and be able to identify the parts of the brain involved in the trauma response. The presentation will also touch on how caregivers can positively impact a childʼs resilience through building relationships and using their trauma lens.

5.3 : Sources of Strength in Douglas County, Meg Fowler, MSW / Lydia Fuqua, MA

This presentation will provide an overview of youth-led initiatives surrounding mental health stigma and suicide preven-tion, with a specific focus on Sources of Strength - an upstream prevention program. The target population for this presentation will be for those who work with youth in any capacity, but may be especially beneficial for those looking to start a youth prevention group or initiative.

5.4 Medical Marĳuana: Opening Pandora’s Box, Eric Voth MD, FACP, MD, Internal Medicine, pain, and addiction medicine.

This presentation will help participants understand the conundrum of the problems associated with marijuana use as well as true medical applications for cannabinoids and marijuana. It will also dispel the myths of marijuana harmlessness, and provide tools and a useful resource for individuals involved with prevention efforts and those that deal with youth marijuana use.

BREAKOUT SESSION 66.1 Practicing Self Care to Care of Others, Troy Unruh, BS, LMR

Practicing Self Care in the new online environment is an important aspect of prevention for both prevention experts and the people and communities they serve.

Along the way the participants will gain TIPS on what to include in their Zoom or Online meetings in order to help people leave energized. They will have a behind the curtain look at moving people to action while being able to participate with others in meaning dialogue.

This will a facilitated training they will be able to take and do with others to build trust and strengthen groups of people. Strategies will include using Zoom, Breakout Rooms, Though Joggers, Journaling, Action Planning and Heart Lock-ins.

6.2 Building Strong Foundations, Resilient Relationships, and a Culture of Acceptance, Laurie Carr, BS / Seth Dewey

The Opioid Crisis as well as other substance misuse disorders have negatively impacted Reno County in many ways. A Drug Impact Task Force was initiated by the Mayor of Hutchinson in 2015 for the purpose of identifying ways in which our community could address this complex issue. Progress has been made, although slower than our community would like to see. The fire was rekindled in 2018 due to greater community concern and funding opportunities.

This issue impacts all in our community. Some of the areas of greatest concern are:

• The increasing number of suicides and deaths by those individuals who have a substance abuse disorder;• Use of the Reno County Correctional Facility as a quasi-detox center;• Poor public awareness of how this epidemic is affecting our community;• Continuing stigma of people with substance abuse disorders.

We are anxious to share our experiences, successes and challenges to offer any help to strengthen our communities and ALL in them!

6.3 SAFE - Seatbelts Are For Everyone, Laura Moore, BS

Seatbelt use among Kansas teens is increasing as is general traffic safety knowledge and awareness. The SAFE program has played a major role in that change. In this session, adults and teens will learn how to implement the free program into their school while gaining knowledge surrounding traffic safety.




BREAKOUT SESSION 77.1 Creating a Sustainable Future for Local Coalitions: Tales from Suburban and Rural Coali-tions, Jamie Katz, MPH, CPP / Jessica McGinnis, BA

Has your organization spent considerable time and effort in strategic planning and in the end watched the final plan collect dust on the shelf? If so, this session is for you! This session will highlight the aspects of moving local strategic plans into full operation. We will share the tools and training used to build local coalition capacity in strategic planning and will describe the processes that turn local plans into programs, policies, practices, and sustainability for coalitions. Participants will learn the benefits of strategic planning, the components of a successful strategic plan (including animplementation plan), and how to apply best practice and evidence-based strategies while honoring the community. Strategies, tools, and training will be shared to assist local coalitions in moving past activity to outcomes, even with limited staffing and funding. Local examples will be utilized to illustrate how coalitions can use successfully strategic plans to focus coalition efforts and accomplish outcomes in media, policy, programs, and practices.

7.2 Kansas Drug Endangered Children (DEC) Development Academy - 2020, Michael Parsons, BA / David Closson, MS

DCCCA, The Mid-America PTTC and National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children are pleased to announce the Kansas DEC Development Academy: Building Community Capacity to Address the Needs of Drug Endangered Children. The purpose of this academy is to support communities in building their local alliance for drug endangered children in Kansas by providing targeted and intensive technical assistance to community partners. The Kansas DEC Academy started in March of 2020 and ran through August of this year. During this time seven different counties from across the state participated in virtual and in-person meetings that took them through what is a DEC Alliance, how to start an Alliance, growing collaboration, building leadership, and Alliance development. Kansas currently has 8 DEC Alliances from across the state. Come learn and hear more about not only how to start an Alliance in your community, but also the success and current status of the Alliances across the state. There are 179,157 children in substance exposed home environments and 4,185 substance exposed newborns in Kansas in the past year we need your help.

7.3 Turning the Tables: Change is Student Lead, John Calvert, BS

Tired of coming up with new ways to motivate students? Tired of telling them about the same dangers, only to see no change? Attendees will learn a new way of empowering students, and discover that sometimes it is the adults who get in the way of positive change.

7.4 How to do Allyship for/with LGBTQ Youth, Liz Hamor, MS

In this session, you'll learn about the four GLSEN research and evidence-based supports that can help create safer, more inclusive schools for LGBTQ students. We'll take a look at some data about the experiences of Kansas LGBTQ students, and attendees will get some practical tips that they can take back to their spaces to better do allyship for and with LGBTQ youth.

6.4 : Statewide Opioid Prevention Initiatives, Krista Machado, MS / Crystal Dalmasso, MA / Lydia Fuqua, MA, Deanne Armstrong

This presentation will provide an overview of the successes and lessons learned from the implementation of statewide opioid prevention initiatives through the State Opioid Response grant with KDADS.


BREAKOUT SESSION 88.1 Trauma-Informed Communities (TIC): How do we make it happen? Lynnette Redington, MEd, BS / Susan Lamb, BS

With all the talk of trauma-informed communities using ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences), have you wondered how to focus on this with your community? Harvey County set up a model to incorporate this in daily life. Weʼll share the steps to get awareness into the community, and our current process of ʻNext Steps: Resiliencyʼ. This presentation will give you the ʻwhyʼ we started this, ʻwhereʼ to find funding, ʻwhoʼ we identified to be ACEs Informed Advocates, and the ʻhowʼ we got a system in place to get community members aware and educated to start thinking and making differences for their communities.

8.2 #ZeroReasonsWhy - How a teen-led campaign is empowering students to open up about their mental health struggles and provide support to their peers, Jeff Short / Todd White, PhD.

#ZeroReasonsWhy is a teen-led storytelling and community mobilization campaign that began in response to 2018ʼs sharp teen suicide rate increase in Johnson County, Kansas. The primary goals of the campaign are to remove the stigma around matters of teen mental wellness, to commit to education on mental health, and to build community support for teens. This segment will highlight the impetus for the campaign, its structure, the outcomes recognized after two years, and next steps for the campaign.

8.3 The Impacts of Naloxone Education and Distribution in Oklahoma, Lisa Harper, MBA

Providing Naloxone is a SAMHSA recognized evidence-based strategy for reducing overdose deaths. However, stigma and misinformation can be barriers that prevent availability in communities. After 4 years of working to provide Naloxone at no cost along with training and education, Oklahoma has seen positive impacts to community readiness and most importantly, decreased overdose deaths. This session will highlight the structure in Oklahoma for providing training and free Naloxone, the impacts on overdose death data, how community readiness has changed, and provide all attendees with training on how to recognize an overdose and administer Naloxone. Learning how to save a life with Naloxone is a valuable first aid skill for any community member and is especially important for health leaders, parents, school and college staff, ministers, and law enforcement.


KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Opening Keynote:Earl Greene, M.A., CAMS-1/Fellow

Earl Greene has presented at the CADCA Annual National Leadership Forum on Cultural Humility for the past 4 years. Each year, he hasintroduced a new segment; expanding the scope of Cultural Humility and presenting across the country to community coalitions, colleges, universities, churches, community organizations, local & state agencies, and state & national conferences. In his current roles, Earl serves as a Community Development Specialist with Finger Lakes Prevention Resource Center in Rochester, NY through the NYS OASAS; providing training and technical assistance to 23 community coalitions and four college prevention coalitions

in the Finger Lakes Region of Upstate New York. Earl's background includes 40 years of experience in community engagement and mobilization in both Rochester, NY and Boston, MA where he worked extensively in mental health, violence prevention, gangs, youth leadership development, social justice and advocacy, cultural diversity and inclusion. He is a Professional Development Training Consultant, founder and director of the Family Life Center and Minister of the Church of Christ in Newark, NY. Earl is also a certified facilitator for Racial Justice Work through the Interaction Institute for Social Change in Boston, MA, President of the Wayne Action for Racial Equality (W.A.R.E.), a Nationally Certified Anger Management Specialist/Fellow through the National Anger Management Association, (NAMA), a Professional Mediator & Arbitrator with the Center for Dispute Settlement in Rochester, NY, and a Guest Instructor for “Renewing the Mind” Initiative through the Office of Mental Health Promotion at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

He holds a Masterʼs Degree in Counseling Psychology and provides training in Cultural Competence, Cultural Humility, Anger Management, Conflict Resolution, Stress Reduction, ACEs and Trauma Informed Care and more; traveling throughout the US and Canada.

Alex Elswick is a tireless advocate for people with substance use disorders. He earned a B.A. in History from Centre College, as well as a Masters and PhD from the University of Kentucky. Alexʼs knowledge and experience with addiction is multifaceted. His professional experience, non-profit work, and research agenda all focus on long term recovery. But most importantly, Alex is himself a person in long term recovery from the chronic disease of addiction.

Closing Keynote:Alex Elswick, MA, BA, PhD

CONFERENCE INFORMATION


Continuing Education

Conference Objective

The Kansas Prevention Conference provides educational opportunitiesto increase awareness of emerging trends, build skills and knowledge to prevent suicide, alcohol, tobacco, and other drug abuse, and advocate for best practices:

1. Participants in the Kansas Prevention Conference will increase their knowledge and awareness related to prevention of suicide and alcohol, tobacco, and other drug abuse.2. Participants in the Kansas Prevention Conference will increase their connection or reach through educational opportunities and networking.3. Participants in the Kansas Prevention Conference will increase their knowledge of ways to connect with their community and others to advocate for best practices in prevention.4. Participants in the Kansas Prevention Conference will increase their knowledge about prevention activities currently underway in Kansas.

General Conference Registration (October 14th - 16th)

The fee to attend the General Conference is as follows:

General Conference Fee: $75General Conference Speaker Fee: $50

Cancellations and Refunds

All cancellations must be in writing. A 15% cancellation fee will be assessed on all cancellations (this includes purchase orders andunpaid registrations). There will be no refunds after September 17, 2019 to September 30, 2020.

Notice of Non-Discrimination

Wichita State University does not discriminate in its programs and activities on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression,marital status, political affiliation, status as a veteran, genetic information or disability. The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding nondiscrimination policies: Executive Director, Office of Equal Employment Opportunity, Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount, Wichita KS 67260-0138; telephone (316) 978-3186

Special Accommodations

Wichita State University is committed to making programs accessible to people with disabilities. If you wish to volunteer information regarding any special assistance you may need, please contactthe Office of University Conferences at (316) 978-6493.

Right of Termination for Cause

This agreement and the Universityʼs obligations hereunder regarding this conference and the presentation of any or all associated sessions and optional entertainment events are subject to acts of God, war, terrorism, government regulations, disaster, fire, strikes, civil disorder, curtailment of transportation facilities, or other similar cause beyond the control of the parties making it inadvisable, illegal, or impossible to hold the event or provide the facility. If the conference or any associated event is canceled due to one of the aforementioned occurrences, the liability of the University shall be limited to refunding the conference registration fee or a portion thereof. The University shall not be responsible for consequential damages, including, but not limited to, any losses incurred by registrants including, but not limited to, airline cancellation charges, hotel deposits and other associated travel costs.

Nursing

Wichita State University College of Health Professions is approved as a provider of continuing nursing education by the Kansas State Board of Nursing. This course offering has been pending approval for contact hours applicable for RN, LPN, or LMHT relicensure. Kansas State Board of Nursing provider number: LT 0090-0327. These course offerings are pending approval for 12.6 contact hours for the General Session, all for RN, LPN or LMHT relicensure. Social Work

Wichita State University School of Social Work is approved as a provider of continuing social work education by the BSRB. This program is pending approval by the Kansas Behavioral SciencesRegulatory Board for continuing education for social workers. These course offerings are pending approval for 10.5 contact hours for the General Session applicable for relicensure (BSRB approval #05-001).

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