Learning Objectives:

• Define social marketing, social norms marketing, and media advocacy
• Identify how the goals and focus audiences differ for social marketing, social norms marketing, and media advocacy
• List the steps necessary to implement social marketing, social norms marketing, and media advocacy
• Identify when social media can be used to augment their substance misuse prevention work
• Select the appropriate social media platform(s) for their focus audience(s)
• Apply best practices for creating social media posts
• Identify appropriate use of social media when implementing social marketing campaigns, social norms marketing campaigns, and media advocacy strategies

This free, two-day virtual training will cover the topic of ethics in the substance misuse prevention field.  The training will cover key terminology, the six principles in the Prevention Code of Ethics, and a decision-making process to use when faced with an ethical dilemma.  

Learning Objectives:

• Explore a framework for community participation in prevention
• Identify who you want to engage in which prevention efforts
• Brainstorm ways to engage them during COVID-19 restrictions
• Develop your community engagement plan

Organizations are continuously faced with the day-to-day challenges of running programs and its operations. This often makes it difficult for organizations to make time to develop sustainability plans that take a broader perspective on ways to continue the work into the future. This training will explore ways for programs, coalitions, and organizations to understand sustainability, and begin developing a plan that sustains the work and the organization. We'll discuss key elements of sustainability, and participants will have an opportunity to collaborate with other professionals, and take initial steps to begin developing a sustainability plan for their program, organization, or coalition.

This is a casual event to provide an opportunity for prevention providers and stakeholders to network and collaborate, discuss training and news updates, and share prevention-related information with each other.

There will be sharing and discussion on updates from organizations and prevention programs, and discussion of any relevant news, opportunities for collaboration, or other relevant prevention-related information.

Other resources and trainings needed will be discussed.

2021 Evidence-Based Workgroup Meeting

This training will explore the basic concepts of evaluation and will teach attendees how to utilize Excel to assist in program evaluation.

The participants will learn the role and application of ethics in substance abuse prevention. Using scenarios and interactive activities, participants will explore the six standards in the Prevention Code of Ethics.