Pacific Southwest PTTC Prevention Academy 2022

The Pacific Southwest PTTC is pleased to announce that our second annual Prevention Academy for 2022 will be in-person! Featuring three workshop options, keynote speakers, and networking opportunities. Participants will leave with new skills to improve their communication, collaboration, and community mobilization.

Event Schedule:

• May 10, 2022: 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
• May 11, 2022: 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
• May 12, 2022: 8:30 am – 12:00 pm

Location

The Academy will be held at The Westin Los Angeles Airport

The Westin Los Angeles Airport
5400 West Century Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90045

The event room rate is no longer available, please check with the Westin Hotel for available rates.
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Keynote Speaker:

• David Jernigan, PhD, Department of Health Law, Policy, and Management, Boston University

More Information coming soon!

Workshop Options

Participants will select one workshop to participate in during the Prevention Academy. All have a general connecting theme of communication, collaboration, and community mobilization.

Workshop Option 1:

Let’s Talk – A Science of the Positive Approach to Community Conversations

• Level: Entry-level
• Facilitator: Jason Anderson, The Montana Institute

Workshop Description 

Improve health and safety in your community with The Science of the Positive and Positive Community Norms (PCN). This highly interactive and engaging workshop will leave you inspired, energized, and ready to increase health in your community! These frameworks focus on growing the good that already exists in your community by promoting protective factors, increasing healthy norms, and changing community cultures on issues including substance use, traffic safety, child maltreatment, mental health, suicide prevention, and more. So much of the work of prevention centers on conversations. It is in conversation that the gaps between perceived and actual community norms are explored. At the meeting. In the hallway after the meeting. Sitting in the bleachers next to another parent. This is where perspectives can be shifted. Equipping prevention professionals with skills to effectively facilitate these conversations without raising defensiveness provides a significant impact. In the closing session, which is based upon and created in conjunction with Jeff Linkenbach of The Montana Institute, Jason will introduce the concepts of “Let’s Talk” while providing examples of the advantages of this communication style versus other approaches.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Define the Cycle of Transformation.
• Summarize the impact of identifying and growing Positive Community Norms.
• Identify the power of their “Why.”
• Discover their “Why,” how to talk about it, and who to share it with.
• Summarize the impact of community affirmations.
• Apply effective strategies for responding to those who are less-than enthused by your prevention efforts.

Workshop Option 2:

Collective Impact

• Level: Intermediate
• Facilitator: Deb Halliday

Workshop Description 

Our work as community builders calls us to connect with a wide variety of people, organizations and initiatives to build trusting, collaborative relationships. Yet collaboration across sectors can often feel daunting, and aligning our work for meaningful impact can be a real challenge. Join this highly-interactive workshop intensive to explore collective impact, a framework for understanding and practicing complex collaboration. Collective impact is being used throughout the world as a way to develop the capacity of people and organizations to work together.  This workshop will present the core components of collective impact and allow participants an opportunity to explore several tools to help them connect theory to practice.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Define the collective impact framework, including the five essential conditions and how initiatives are centering equity in their approach
• Apply practical tools to help deepen and advance their own community collaborations
• Develop a customized roadmap for moving their community initiative forward

Workshop Option 3:

Liberating Structures

• Level: Leadership
• Facilitators: Fisher Qua and Anna Jackson

Workshop Description 

In this workshop, we will collaboratively reflect on the practices and qualities of leadership that can be easy to overlook, ignore, and underestimate. We will also use the session to introduce a suite/repertoire of participatory facilitative methods called Liberating Structures. These tools are nicely adapted to prevention work AND help to draw out more distributed contributions and leadership from groups. Come prepared for a lively and experiential set of interactions!

We anticipate that people who participate will…

• Have an embodied understanding of different tools, methods, and practices that can be used to lead groups in a facilitative way;
• Critically reflect on and draw forward the underlying habits, principles, practices, and behaviors of effective leaders;
• Look appreciatively and developmentally at their own leadership (practice) and notice where there are opportunities to strengthen current practices, lean into new ones, and reinforce their commitment to their own leadership values; and
• Make and deepen connections with peers who can be tapped for future problem-solving, reflection, and support.

Who should attend?

The Prevention Academy is intended for those working in primary substance misuse prevention, specifically those who are dedicated to delaying the initial onset of substance use and prevent substance misuse.

Participation is limited to those working in HHS Region 9. HHS Region 9 includes: American Samoa, Arizona, California, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.

Continuing Education

Prevention Academy attendees will receive Certificates of Participation with 16 contact hours that can be submitted to your state or jurisdiction IC&RC-affiliated certification board to apply towards Prevention Specialist certification or recertification. Certification board requirements vary, so be sure to confirm with your board that it meets their specific certification requirements. Partial credit is not available.

COVID-19 Information

We are looking forward to your participation in the 2022 Prevention Academy at The Westin Los Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, CA. The Pacific Southwest PTTC is dedicated to promoting positive norms that keep people safe and healthy! It is strongly recommended that all attendees wear a mask, regardless of vaccination status per the most recent guidance from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Please check the event page for updates regarding COVID-19 safety and policies due to the fluid nature of the situation. Thank you for your ongoing efforts to protect the health and well-being of all Prevention Academy participants.