Plus, secure sustainable funding, use environmental strategies, and learn about worldview dynamics. Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a web page. Coalitions Rising: Meet Our Lunch Keynote And See Your Afternoon Breakout Sessions Pause, Reflect, and Connect: 3 Steps to Care for Ourselves So That We Can Care for Others By Brandi Lust Founder Learning Lab Consulting When we don’t pause to replenish our own resources, we are less resilient and less effective in our care of others. So how can we sustain ourselves in order to do the work that matters to us? Creating pause in the midst of movement, making time to reflect, and purposefully connecting with others are three steps we can incorporate into our lives. Learn how to implement these tools and leave with a personal plan to create more resilience in your life. About Brandi Lust Brandi Lust is the founder of Learning Lab Consulting and the author of Myths of Being Human: Four Paths to Connect with What Matters. Through both her work and her writing she helps schools, businesses, and individuals lower stress, build resilience, and create more connection through tools like mindfulness and social-emotional learning. Brandi believes that our common humanity enhances the workplace; when we bring our whole selves to everything we do, both the easy and the hard stuff, we are more fulfilled and more effective. Her clients include The Ohio State University, the Columbus Museum of Art, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Equality Ohio, Americorp, and many school districts and businesses throughout Central Ohio. Brandi has a Bachelor’s degree in English from The Ohio State University and earned her M.A.Ed. from Mount Vernon Nazarene University. She has over a decade of experience as an educator and facilitator and maintains a daily mindfulness practice. Join Us and Brandi Lust at Coalitions Rising Afternoon Keynotes at Coalitions Rising An Introduction to Environmental Strategies as Part of a Comprehensive Plan By Chuck Klevgaard Prevention Manager Great Lakes Prevention Technology Transfer Center This workshop will introduce the range of evidence-based environmental strategies designed to reduce alcohol-related problems in the community. The session will highlight how to use environmental strategies as part of comprehensive substance use and misuse prevention plans to influence community standards, institutions, structures, attitudes that shape individuals' behavior. By participating in this session, you will learn how to define environmental strategies. You'll also learn to explain the roles and benefits of environmental strategies in a comprehensive prevention approach. Finally, you'll identify risk factors that can be addressed using environmental strategies and link those risk factors to community conditions using a logic model. Join Chuck at Coalitions Rising Sustainable Funding for Coalitions By Bevin Van Wassenhove Executive Director Dearborn County Community Advocates for Substance Use Awareness As prevention specialists, we all have the passion and motivation to promote healthy choices among the youth we work with; but the question always comes down to, HOW will we fund these programs and how can we sustain them when the grant funding runs out? Dearborn County Community Advocates has been included as a line item in the City of Lawrenceburg’s annual operating budget since 2011. County and city leaders are committed to this coalition’s mission of promoting substance use prevention and healthy choices with the youth in our county. This session will share the process this coalition took to get the support from their city officials and how they continue their work to maintain this support. Attendees of this session will learn the steps one coalition took to receive continued financial support from a city. They'll also review steps coalitions can follow to build and continue support from city and county officials. And they'll learn the main points coalitions can build to seek out this support and maintain it. Join Bevin at Coalitions Rising Worldview Dynamics: The Intersection of Culture, Faith, History, and Mental Health By Alfredo Cerrato Senior Cultural and Workforce Development Officer Great Lakes Technology Transfer Centers When we look at integrated systems of learned behavior, the philosophical maps of how we view reality, and the history that brought us to this moment, we then may be able recognize why we are the way we are and what shaped us. Alfredo Cerrato will take us on a journey that will better explain the dynamics and intersections of culture, faith, history, and mental health. Together, we will consider our worldview, the worldview of others, and how they were shaped. Communicating across cultures requires an interdisciplinary approach. That approach involves literacy in fields such as anthropology, cultural studies, history, psychology, religion, and communications, among others. With a better understanding of these global dynamics, we can develop practical strategies. These strategies will help us attract and serve a more diversified and growing population within our community and organizations. Join Alfredo at Coalitions Rising Don't Wait! Register Now for Coalitions Rising Registration for Coalitions Rising closes November 22nd. Register now to ensure you don't miss this opportunity to learn about the latest in prevention. Prevention Action Alliance, in collaboration with the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, created Coalitions Rising to bring together community coalitions, behavioral healthcare providers, youth-led prevention groups, and others to equip them with best practices for prevention. Coalitions Rising will bring national and state leaders like in prevention to present on a variety of topics, including how to put cultural competency at the core of your work in prevention, sustainable funding practices, and how to engage key partners such as Ohio’s faith leaders and the Ohio National Guard, among other topics. This one-day conference in Columbus, Ohio, will be held at the Renaissance Columbus Westerville-Polaris Hotel on December 4, 2019. Register today for Coalitions Rising on Eventbrite. We will apply for Continuing Education from the Ohio Chemical Dependency Professionals Board, the Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board, and National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. After registering for Coalitions Rising, you’ll receive an email with a discount code for $25 off registration for the Prevention Action & Advocacy Summit on Vaping. SPCA members can receive a $25 discount on registration to both Coalitions Rising and the Prevention Action & Advocacy Summit. When checking out, SPCA members will have the option to select a discounted ticket. Register Now Exhibitor Space Available Prevention is an ever-changing field with new developments and practices emerging regularly. Over time, new substances emerge that must be contended with, community norms evolve and affect risk and protective factors, old grants dry up and new ones are created, and evidence-based practices emerge. As practitioners in prevention, it can be difficult to stay on top of these changes and to incorporate them into your efforts. Everyone has a role in prevention, and exhibitors support the vital work we do at Prevention Action Alliance by providing resources and tools for all. Together, we help communities, schools, prevention workers, teens, and parents by giving them the strategies and resources they need to prevent the use of alcohol, tobacco, opioids, or other drugs by young people. We lead healthy communities in the prevention of substance misuse and the promotion of mental health wellness. Exhibiting at Coalitions Rising supports the dozens of Ohio and other states' coalitions that look to it for up-to-date information about prevention. As such, it's the perfect opportunity to share information, tools, and other resources dedicated to prevention. Become an Exhibitor ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Share this email with your friends! ‌ ‌ ‌ Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Click here to email us. Prevention Action Alliance | 6171 Huntley Road, Suite G, Columbus, OH 43229 Unsubscribe [email protected] Update Profile | About Constant Contact Sent by [email protected] in collaboration with Try email marketing for free today!