Everyone has a role in prevention. Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a web page. Help Parents, Families, and Communities Return to School We invite you to join us for an important conversation on Friday, August 7th, about how we can help parents, families, and communities return to school safely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prevention Action Alliance Executive Director Fran Gerbig, Deputy Director Bobby Persinger, and special guest Dr. Jill Jackson from the Ohio Department of Education will lead the conversation, and we will take and answer your questions during this online talk. Join the Conversation—Register Now How Do You Use Social Media? The Great Lakes ATTC, MHTTC and PTTC are conducting research about social media engagement. They'd love to hear from you about your interactions with social media. Your feedback will help them improve our existing social media platforms. Please complete the anonymous survey by August 7th—it should only take one minute to complete! Take the Survey Build Your Skills Virtual Training through the Ohio Prevention Conference The 2020 Ohio Prevention Conference this year includes a virtual webinar series and a separate series of webinars on Working Minds, an initiative designed to help workplaces appreciate the critical need for suicide prevention while creating a forum dialogue and critical thinking about workplace mental health changes. All sessions are free and courses are scheduled through September. Register for the Virtual Webinar Series Register for the Working Minds Series IPGAP Online Courses Now Available Designed for gambling support service system, a new online training series from the Indiana Problem Gambling Awareness Program (IPGAP) has been developed to provide 30 hours of training specific to disordered gambling. The series is divided into 20 courses of 1.5 hours each. The courses are available through the IU Expand site and are available to anyone. Each course in the series offers 1.5 hours of continuing education units. The series was developed in collaboration will nationally certified problem gambling treatment professionals. Interested parties can take as many or as few courses as they want. Courses are self-paced and provide the foundation to provide treatment and prevention services for problem gamblers. The Indiana Problem Gambling Awareness Program is part of Prevention Insights at the IU Bloomington School of Public Health. IPGAP is funded with a contract with the Indiana Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Indiana Gamblers’ Assistance Fund. To access the courses go to: [link removed]. For more information, contact Mary Lay, MPH by emailing [email protected]. Join Us in Building a Healthier World Become a Member of SPCA Today—for Free If you want to take your coalition work to the next level, you shoud join the Statewide Prevention Coalition Association. In light of current events and in an effort to grow coalition capacity across Ohio, we're waiving membership fees for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from July 1st to June 30th. Whether you're a current SPCA member or want to become one, now you can get one year of membership for free. Apply to Join SPCA Learn More about SPCA Make an Impact on the OYLPN Youth Council The Ohio Youth-Led Prevention Network is accepting applications for the 2020-2021 Youth Council (YC). In addition to the annual We Are The Majority Rally, the Youth Council plans and implements prevention activities related to their strategic plan. The 2019-2020 YC built a Vaping Prevention Education Toolkit that is nearly ready to be revealed. YC originally expected to work with youth-led groups this fall to use the toolkit in their communities, but the plan may change due to COVID-19 and YC priorities. To learn how youth can bring their advocacy efforts to the state level, check out our application here. You can also download a preview of the application here. We expect that COVID-19 will continue to influence the way youth-led programs meet and work together, and so next year's YC will look a little different than it has in the past few years. Working together, though, we can still support other young people in the state and figure out the best way to move forward despite the challenges ahead. Apply Now for the OYLPN Youth Council Funding Opportunities Innovation to Reduce Tobacco Disparities: Interact for Health seeks applicants to pilot and spread programs and practices to reduce tobacco disparities among adults with lower incomes, rural communities, and African American adults. Learn More and Apply Work in Prevention Problem Gambling Network of Ohio (PGNO) is accepting applicants for the position of Program Assistant until July 27, 2020. The Program Assistant is a full-time (40 hours per week) employee of PGNO reporting to the Executive Director. Time for this position will be allocated over PGNO’s projects and grants. Interested candidates should submit a Cover Letter and Resume to PGNO at [email protected]. Applications will be considered through July 27, 2020. For additional details regarding the position, including: responsibilities, qualifications, and the benefits package, visit the PGNO Careers page at PGNOhio.org. Resources You Can Use Addiction—What Is It and How Can I Stop It? Addiction, or substance use disorder, is a chronic, complex brain disease that affects about 21 million, or 1 in 7, Americans, according to the U.S. Surgeon General’s report Facing Addiction in America. Addiction compels people to seek out drugs despite any negative consequences that might be incurred. As a disease, it hijacks the brain to create an intense craving for the addictive drug or behavior. That craving can override other thoughts and needs in the brain, including desires to care for an infant, build and maintain healthy relationships, work, have fun, take care of oneself, and protect oneself from harmful situations. It changes how you think and how you behave. Download Our Fact Sheet Prevention Makes Cents The misuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs cost the U.S. more than $740 billion annually due to crime, lost work productivity, and health care. By contrast, nationwide implementation of school-based effective prevention programs could have saved the U.S. $99.8 billion by directly offsetting these costs. Ultimately, investments in prevention are investments in the people that comprise a community. Like other investments, they can pay off in dividends when they’re implemented wisely. Unlike other investments, the dividends of prevention can be measured in lives saved. Download Our Fact Sheet Learn About Problem Gambling Gambling is the act of taking part in an activity—usually a game—where you risk something of monetary value on the chance of winning something. Gambling stimulates similar reward centers in the brain that using drugs activate. Like drug use, gambling is also addictive, and continuing to gamble despite suffering serious consequences is problem gambling. Prolonged problem gambling can result in disordered gambling, which can harm the gambler and loved ones. Download Our Fact Sheet Know! To Continue the Conversation on Racism Conversations on race and racism aren’t easy nor comfortable, but they are imperative. It’s important for parents to have this conversation in an open way. If you’re not sure how to have this conversation or where to start, we created a Know! Parent Tip on the key terms you’ll need to know and this one on how to have that conversation. Know! To Continue the Conversation on Racism includes specific, actionable tips for talking to your teens about racism. It’ll help you encourage empathy, inspire hope and activism, help them understand perspectives, and teach them to think critically. Read Know! To Continue the Conversation on Racism Suicide in Ohio: Facts, Figures, and the Future The Mental Health & Addiction Advocacy Coalition with the Ohio Alliance for Innovation in Population Health and the Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation have released a report showing deaths by suicide across the state of Ohio. Suicide in Ohio: Facts, Figures, and the Future provides insight about deaths by suicide and the impact of and community responses to suicide in specific areas of Northeast and Southwest Ohio. It can help develop effective responses at the local, state, and federal levels. Get the Report July is Minority Mental Health Awareness Month July is Bebe Moore National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, and Mental Health America has created a Blacks, indigenous people, and people of color (BIPOC) Mental Health Month toolkit. This toolkit includes: Links to updated information Lists of resources specifically for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities Handouts on racism and mental health and racial trauma An infographic built from MHA screening data on BIPOC and LGBTQ+ mental health A call to action for people to share how discrimination and/or racism have affected their mental health using the hashtag #ImpactofTrauma Learn More and Download theToolkit Reducing Vaping among Youth and Young Adults The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) recently released a free guide that "supports health care providers, systems, and communities seeking to prevent vaping." 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