This training will prepare anyone working on an Office of Substance Abuse Prevention (OSAP) grant successfully manage their scope of work. This training will describe the federal and state requirements OSAP operates under that impact contracts, uses proven project management tools and techniques, and explores how to budget for strategies. Further, participants will review tips and practices for the management plan and developing a filing system to document costs and activities that support each fiscal year’s scope of work. Participants who have completed this training self-report a thorough understanding of how to conduct all required activities for the year.

Note: This training is open only to OSAP providers funded with SAPT or PFS20 funds.

.FACILITATOR: Paula Feathers, MA
CONTINUING EDUCATION HOURS: 6.6
ICRC Domains: Domain 1 Planning and Evaluation (Task 9, 10, 11, 18, 20)
                          Domain 2 Prevention Education and Service Delivery (Task 1)
                          Domain 6 Professional Growth & Responsibility (Task 5, 6)
HYBRID SCHEDULE: October 2-4 (Online Oct 2-3/ Closes Oct. 3 @ 3:00 pm): Zoom October 4, 9:00-12:00)

This training is for people who have met criteria to apply for their Certified Prevention Specialist Credential and will be testing within the next 6 months. Becoming a Certified Prevention Specialist requires you know the entire breadth of prevention, even things that are not in your scope of work. This training will provide a brief overview of the history/building blocks of prevention and then will move into a review the six domains you will be tested on: Planning/Evaluation; Prevention Education/Service Delivery; Communication; Community Organization; Public Policy and Environmental Change; and Professional Growth/Responsibility. Because this is test preparation, you must come to this training with a working knowledge of each of these areas. Participants will also explore sample test questions and discuss test taking strategies. Prerequisite: Participants must have taken the Substance Abuse Prevention Specialist Training (within the past 5 years) and Prevention Ethics. This training will meet for 4 mornings (9:00-12:00). Participants must be able to attend each session in its entirety.

FACILITATOR: Ginny Adame, SCPS
CONTINUING EDUCATION HOURS: 13.2
ICRC Domains: Domain 6 Professional Growth and Responsibility (Task 1, 2, 4,5)
SESSIONS: Live web-based Zoom, Oct 23-26, 2023 (9:00 - 12:00 each day) 

This training has been reported as one of the most impactful trainings many Preventionist have taken. The skills gained in this training will help participants facilitate discussions, meetings, planning sessions, education sessions, community mobilization activities that require group collaboration, and even in everyday relationships. Prevention at its essence is about facilitating change.  Facilitation is not about using force or fear, rather it gets people to think critically and be engaged in processes that create change. Good facilitation requires the mastery of many skills.  An effective facilitator must be knowledgeable of processes that engage people, have emotional intelligence, and manage groups when conflict arises. This is a very intense skill-building training that will improve confidence in a safe environment and will provide participants with a set of tools for activities, planning, and interventions. Participants will receive two incredible resource books in addition to a manual that serves as useful reference.

Special Note: Due to the individual practice this training offers, it is open to only 10 participants. Training schedule: 9:00-5:00.

NOTE: If COVID impacts in-person training, the training will be moved to online during the same time(s) and dates.

FACILITATOR: Paula Feathers, MA
CONTINUING EDUCATION HOURS: 15.6
ICRC Domains: Domain 2 Prevention Education and Service Delivery (Task 1, 2, 3)
                          Domain 3 Communication (Task 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
                          Domain 4 Community Organization (Task 2, 3, 4, 6, 7)
                          Domain 5 Public Policy and Environmental Change (Task 1, 5, 6)
                          Domain 6 Professional Growth & Responsibility (Task 7, 8)
SESSIONS: In-Person in Albuquerque, Nov 8-9 (9:00-5:00 each day)

Substance use prevention is an ever-evolving science. This training is intended to provide participants with a comprehensive overview of evidence-based substance use prevention. Participants will explore: the substances they are working to prevent, the history of substance use prevention, theories and models that have laid the foundation of prevention science, and how evidence-based is defined. Further prevention categories, strategies, and outcomes will be reviewed. Throughout the training participants will be developing a workbook that will serve as a helpful resource. This training will lay a solid foundation of knowledge for implementing evidence-based prevention.

FACILITATOR: Contreta Endwarrior, MHA
CONTINUING EDUCATION HOURS: 10.8
ICRC Domains: Domain 1 Planning & Evaluation (Task 1, 5, 6, 7, 10)
                          Domain 4 Community Organization (Task 6, 9)
                          Domain 5 Public Policy and Environmental Change (Task 3)
                          Domain 6 Professional Growth and Responsibility (Task 1)
LOCATION: Self-paced Online Training, open from November 13 - 21, 2023

As a human develops there are physical, mental, and emotional milestones they work to achieve and are nurtured by family, school, community, and society in general.  Development plays an important role in substance use and misuse. The most effective substance use prevention strategies incorporate an understanding that substance use behaviors can fulfill a variety of developmental needs (Griffin, K. and Botvin, G., 2011). Understanding human development can help preventionist identify what strategies should be employed to increase protective factors and reduce risk factors at various stages of life. This training will explore the journey of human development including several psychological theories (Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Erikson’s Psychosocial Development Stages, Piaget’s Cognitive Development Stages, and Cognitive-Behavioral). Foundational explanations as to how development can affect regulation and decision making will also be examined. Participants will review examples of prevention strategies that use these theories to help gain a concrete understanding of how human development shapes effective prevention.

FACILITATOR: Donna Lucero, MA, LPCC
CONTINUING EDUCATION HOURS: 7.2
ICRC Domains: Domain 1 Planning & Evaluation (Task 9, 10)
                          Domain 2 Prevention Education & Service Delivery (Task 1, 2, 3)
                          Domain 3 Communication (Task 7)
                          Domain 4 Community Organization (Task 9)
                          Domain 6 Professional Growth & Responsibility (Task 1,3, 7, 9, 10)
SESSION: Live web-based Zoom, Dec 6 and Dec 8  (9:00-12:15)

This engaging and informative training will delve deeper than an introductory training into the world of methamphetamine. We will review methamphetamine's chemical structure and the intricate physical and psychoactive relationship between amphetamines and the human body. We will also examine available data sources that can be used to assess methamphetamine's impact on New Mexico. This training will also explore the interconnected web of co-occurring substance use and mental health issues that often accompany methamphetamine use. Time will also be dedicated to examining potential innovative environmental prevention approaches for schedule II ADHD medications that could play a pivotal role in curbing methamphetamine misuse.

FACILITATOR: Jesse Gremore
CONTINUING EDUCATION HOURS: 6.6
ICRC Domains: Domain 1 Planning & Evaluation (Task 3, 6, 10)
                          Domain 6 Professional Growth & Responsibility (Task 1, 8, 9, 10)
SESSION: Live web-based Zoom, Dec 12-13 (9:00 am-12:00 pm)