Find opportunities to learn more about trauma-informed care

 January 28th
Free, online training 1PM - 3PM.  
Effective Sharing of 'Lived Experience' while Maintaining Boundaries.  This interactive learning community conversation supports the work of peers and the use of their valuable experience. 

January 29th
Free, online training 9AM - 12:15PM.  Register by January 27th.
Supporting First Responders.  First responders—police officers, firefighters, paramedics, and emergency medical personnel—face unique challenges in their line of duty. The nature of their work regularly places them in high-stress situations, exposing them to traumatic events that can impact their mental and emotional well-being. As helping professionals, understanding the distinct needs of this population is crucial for providing effective support and treatment. This webinar is designed to equip mental health practitioners, counselors, social workers and other allied professionals with the knowledge and tools to work effectively with first responder clients. This session delves into the unique characteristics, cultural norms and occupational hazards that define the first responder community and are needed to create stronger therapeutic alliances. One of the highlights of this webinar is the introduction to the PEACE Resilience Model, which is specifically designed for clients that will encounter ongoing trauma exposure. Above all, the training explores how to be a more effective support for those who dedicate their lives to serving others.

January 30th
Free, online training 1PM - 3PM
Foundations of Trauma-Informed Care:  Key Concepts and Core Principles.  A history of trauma is extremely common in individuals presenting for mental health and/or substance use disorders treatment. Attention to trauma issues occurs on a continuum ranging from trauma-informed to trauma-sensitive to trauma-integrated. A trauma-informed approach seeks to raise awareness about trauma among all behavioral health caregivers. A trauma-sensitive approach promotes screening and treatment methods that take past trauma into account without re-traumatizing the client and fully integrates trauma issues into all aspects of care delivery especially through the use of specific models used to treat trauma. This training will review key concepts and core principles of trauma-informed care and trauma-sensitive care and will explore how individuals can integrate these principles into their own approaches as Behavioral Health Providers, Programs, Agencies, and related Systems of Care. This workshop will address the issue of trauma as it affects individual clients, clinicians, and systems of care.

January 30th
Free, online training 2PM - 3PM
Prevention & Parenting Across the Lifespan:  Equipping Caregivers.  Adult-Supervised drinking during adolescence increases the risk for alcohol misuse. The series looks at opportunities to prevent substance misuse during adolescence and college-age years. This webinar discusses ways that parents teach their children skills to equip them for their future, and how teaching the right skills can impact future problems.

February

February 3rd
SAMHSA’s 21st Prevention Day!
In Person Event at: Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, MD (near Washington, D.C.) SAMHSA’s Prevention Day brings together over 4,000 prevention practitioners, advocates, scientists, leaders (community, state, tribal, federal), and consumers at the largest federal gathering dedicated to advancing the prevention of substance use. The event explores current, emerging, and innovative strategies, policies, programs, practices, and research. The 2025 theme, "Telling the Prevention Story," underscores sharing the successes of prevention and inspiring action.

February 4th 
Take 10! Transforming Care for Women with Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) and Their Families, Topic 4 (Overview Session): Intersections of SUDs and Trauma
10am - 10:30am
This free, virtual overview session will introduce participants to the emotional, physical, and socioeconomic factors that uniquely impact women during treatment, and especially how these factors relate to the intersections of SUDs and trauma.

 February 4th
Ethical Use of the Social Determinants of Health in SUD Prevention
10am - 12pm - free online training
Originally designed as an instrument of awareness and investment for providers to deepen understanding and engagement with clients, the World Health Organization's Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) has more recently been applied by providers as a problematic diagnostic tool for identification and prognosis of client outcomes. This session explores this phenomenon while engaging participants in a reflection of their own understanding and application of the SDoH in their prevention efforts.

 February 4th
Tips for Engaging Coalitions to Respond to the Opioid Crisis: Lessons Learned from the HEALing Communities Studies
1 pm - 2:30 pm - free online training 
Coalitions are a key resource for expanding the implementation of evidence-based practices to reduce opioid overdose trends. Join researchers and partners from four states to gain valuable insights into how community coalitions were organized and how their structure influenced coalition effectiveness in addressing the opioid crisis. Building on experiences of the HCS, this webinar will cover the role of coalition charters, capacity building, and the impact of the Communities That HEAL (CTH) intervention – a community-driven approach designed to reduce opioid overdoses by strengthening local coalitions and implementing evidence-based strategies related to opioid education and naloxone distribution, medication treatment for opioid use disorder, and safer opioid prescribing and dispensing.
 
February 5th
Registration deadline 3 February 2025
Listening for Life: Motivational Interviewing for Suicide Crisis Support
10am - 1:15pm - free online training 
This training provides help line workers with foundational skills in Motivational Interviewing (MI) to support individuals experiencing suicidal ideation. Participants will explore how MI principles can be applied to foster hope, strengthen a person’s intrinsic motivation for change and navigate ambivalence about living. Through a mix of didactic instruction, role-plays and practical exercises, attendees will build confidence in using MI techniques to engage callers effectively, honor their autonomy and guide them toward life-affirming decisions.

February 5th
New Frontiers in Youth Engagement Peer Sharing Call 
1pm - 2:30pm - free online training
Engaging youth authentically and equitably is key for sound public health practice in general and for the prevention field in particular. Promoting youth engagement has a positive impact on youths’ social participation and sense of connection and teaches them that supporting health and wellness for all is a shared responsibility across organizations, systems, and individuals across the lifespan.  Join us for this 1.5-hour peer sharing call to explore current trends related to youth involvement in prevention efforts. During this discussion-driven session, we will delve into the recent shifts prevention practitioners have witnessed around youth participation and engagement over the past several years, new and emerging challenges to engaging youth, as well as promising strategies for providing tailored and culturally responsive engagement opportunities and removing barriers to engagement.
 
February 5th
Guiding Principles of Recovery
2pm - 3pm - free online training
This webinar will explore definitions of recovery and the 10 guiding principles, drawing on research, practice, and personal experience of recovering individuals. Participants will advance their understanding of the four major dimensions that support a life in recovery: home, health, purpose, and community. Understanding the guiding principles will help advance recovery opportunities and apply these concepts for use by peers, families, funders, providers, and others. 
 
February 6th
Foundations of Trauma Informed Care 
2pm - 4 pm - Free online training
A history of trauma is extremely common in individuals presenting for mental health and/or substance use disorders treatment. A trauma-informed approach seeks to raise awareness about trauma among all behavioral health caregivers. This training will review key concepts and core principles of trauma-informed care and trauma-sensitive care and will explore how individuals can integrate these principles into their own approaches as Behavioral Health Providers, Programs, Agencies, and related Systems of Care.
 
February 2025 6th & 7th
Engagement in the Black Community - Virtual NAADAC Summit
12pm - 5pm - virtual event
The fifth annual Engagement in the Black Community: A Virtual NAADAC Summit will feature immersive training sessions presented by nationally-recognized speakers. Schedule includes times, presenters, and descriptions of each session.
 
February 11th 
CLAS for Workforce Professionals: Inclusivity and Cultural Humility in SUD Treatment Settings
10am - 2pm - free online training
Marginalized communities including, but not limited to, Black, Indigenous, and LGBTQIA are adversely affected by substance use disorders and recent data proves those same communities have more barriers to treatment. So how do we as providers use a person-centered approach that embraces cultural humility ensuring that folks from all walks of life get the SUD recovery support they so richly deserve? In this conversational and peer-lead workshop, we will dive into those inequities and discuss how CLAS (Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services) standards can help us infuse our practice and organizations with cultural humility.
 
February 12th
Hormones are powerful: 101 on the Endocrine System (Body, Health, and Wellness)
9 am - 12 pm -free online training
This professional development opportunity will provide contemporary scholarship, national data, and credible resources, along with tips and techniques for understanding and supporting youth and families. Participants will hear from an experienced educator who has decades of experience presenting 'delicate and difficult' material in comfortable and comforting ways, allowing individuals to take what they need. Participants are encouraged to join the conversation, share comments, questions, and concerns so that we can fully explore the benefits of understanding one of the most misunderstood of the body's systems.
 
February 12th 3pm - 4:30pm
Resolving PTSD Without People Having to Relive Pain
Free, live webinar
What if we can resolve PTSD without people having to relive pain, decrease wait times, and enhance access to care?  Considering the high comorbid rates of Substance Use Disorder and PTSD, this needs to be explored.  Buckle in as emerging trends, solutions, and paradigm shifting ways of thinking about PTSD get presented!  Apply a 3-word mantra to calm the nervous system and a 5-word mantra to eliminate judgement.  Trauma can be stored in the body.  Demonstrate a posture that changes mood.  Witness it live!  Discover the brain-based cause of trauma.   Lastly, differentiate a way of thinking about anxiety that is an innovative solution to help your client population and learn about a brain-based healing methodology to resolve trauma.
 
February 12th – 14th
https://internationalcredentialing.org/trainings/
9a-5p - virtual credential training - $295.
Harm Reduction Specialist (HRS) Training Introduction and Objectives.
 
February 13th
Partnering for Success: Strategic Approaches to Community Collaboration
10am - 12pm - free `online training
This workshop empowers beginner prevention professionals with the skills to create and sustain effective community partnerships. Participants will learn to identify key community sectors for collaboration, discuss the benefits and challenges of developing partnerships, and implement strategies for building strong, strategic alliances. The workshop covers essential practices for managing conflicts and ensuring accountability, with activities and group discussions. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to enhance your skills in building robust community partnerships that drive positive change and foster a healthier, more connected community.
 
February 13th
Ethically Advocating for Prevention
10am - 12pm - free online training
This highly interactive session will focus on taking a deep dive into the substance misuse prevention code of ethics regarding how we can advocate for prevention while staying true to our prevention ethics. After a short presentation, participants will work in breakout rooms to gain ideas and share perspectives on this topic.
 
February 13th
Suicide Postvention as Prevention: Understanding and Implementing Support Strategies for Loss Survivors
11:30am - 1pm - free online training
Suicide postvention is an organized, immediate, short- and long-term response to suicide loss survivors. The intention is to provide support, promote healing, and mitigate grief and trauma responses to being exposed to a suicide death. Research also shows that appropriate suicide postvention is also part of suicide prevention, as being a suicide loss survivor is a risk factor for attempting suicide. But- what does that actually look like and mean? This presentation will introduce the concept of suicide postvention and discuss suicide postvention interventions and models.
 
February 18th
Communications Training Series - Best Practices for Virtual & Hybrid Meetings
10am - 11:30am - free online training
Collaboration, which we used to take for granted in face-to-face situations, has become more challenging, especially when people choose to be off-camera. Further, questions remain about how to manage hybrid groups where some are together in a room and others are logged in virtually. In this session, we’ll focus on how to manage technology for greater impact.
 
February 18th
Inclusivity and Cultural Humility in SUD Treatment Settings
10am - 2pm - free online training Marginalized communities including, but not limited to, Black, Indigenous, and LGBTQIA are adversely affected by substance use disorders and recent data proves those same communities have more barriers to treatment. So how do we as providers use a person-centered approach that embraces cultural humility ensuring that folks from all walks of life get the SUD recovery support they so richly deserve? In this conversational and peer-lead workshop, we will dive deeper into those inequities and discuss how CLAS (Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services) standards can help us infuse our practice and organizations with cultural humility.
 
February 18th
Foundations of Person-Centered & Recovery Oriented Treatment Planning 
12PM - 2PM - free online training
See description under February 21st training.
 
February 21st  
Foundations of Person-Centered & Recovery Oriented Treatment Planning
12PM - 2PM - free online training
Person-driven care is a cornerstone of behavioral healthcare reform. Historically, behavioral healthcare services for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness and/or co-occurring substance use disorders have been rooted in traditional practitioner-driven approaches. This workshop will explore the difference between traditional provider driven and person-driven approaches to care. Shared decision making will be explored as a foundation of recovery planning. This foundation engages individuals in their recovery and avoids the potential for traumatizing individuals through a disempowering prescriptive process. Provider responsibilities in promoting an engaging versus traumatizing recovery planning process will be identified. 
 
February 19th
Recovery Intro Series: Recovery Oriented Systems of Care
2pm - 3pm - free online training
This webinar will teach participants the importance of people with lived experience in a Recovery Oriented System of Care.  They will learn how to implement the use of peers in recruitment and leadership opportunities, recognize the need for community involvement for ROSC sustainability, and understand what a recovery-ready ecosystem model looks like.
 
February 20th
Advocacy Webinar
10a - 11a - free webinar
Prevention Action Alliance’s advocacy webinar provides updates on events, bills, and legislation, as well as other prevention and wellness advocacy-related activities within the state and federal government.
 
 February 20th
Substance Use Risk and Protective Factors in the Older Adult Population
1pm - 2:30pm - free online training
Aging is a process that involves many positive qualities like perspective and experience. It also involves what some have called “an accumulation of losses,” which may include the death of a spouse or other close relationship, retirement and the associated loss of purpose and respect, loss of physical strength and possibly mobility, loss of independence, and so much more. These losses are often called “Life Transitions” and are a critically important risk factor for substance use and misuse among older adults. This presentation will explore this and other risk factors that may lead to problematic substance use among this population. It will also explore some of the protective factors involved to mitigate potential problems, in addition to potential prevention strategies to address problems.
 
February 26th
2025 African American Hall of Fame Panel Presentation 
10am - 11:30am - free webinar
In this virtual panel presentation, the 2025 Hall of Fame Award Recipients from the Museum of African American Addictions, Treatment, and Recovery will participate in a panel presentation discussing the importance of providing culturally responsive care and ways practitioners can be more effective when working with African American clients.
 
February 26th
Conducting Cultural Assessments: Engaging and Providing Treatment for Justice-Involved Individuals from BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ Communities
3pm - 4:30pm - Free webinar
This presentation provides a deeper understanding of marginalized communities' experiences, including those in the justice system. Through storytelling and interactive experiences, we will examine the relationship between trauma, substance use disorders, and communities such as Justice-Involved, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+. Additionally, we will address the challenges individuals face post-incarceration, shedding light on the critical need for re-entry support.
 
February 27th
Prevention and Parenting Across the Lifespan: Equipping Adolescents: An Introduction to Guiding Good Choices, a tested and proven parenting program
2pm-3pm - free online training
In this presentation, we will describe the Guiding Good Choices five-part workshop series for parents of children aged 9-14. We will cover the program’s evidence base, the outcomes, target audience, and describe what is recommended in terms of a successful implementation. We will also cover licensing and available implementation supports for the program.
 
February 28th
Registration deadline 26 February 2025
ABCs of Harm Reduction
9am - 12:15pm - free online training
This session will educate participants on the concepts of harm reduction and ways to support people who continue to participate in risky behaviors, such as substance use and gambling. Attendees will learn to identify their own values and biases around harm reduction and become more familiar with harm reduction, person-centered frameworks and “meeting people where they are at.” The presentation is designed to highlight the current and potential future landscape of harm reduction with available data and assist attendees by incorporating harm reduction strategies in their practice.