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  • ABOUT
    • ABOUT
    • Application – CPA Board of Directors
    • BOARD OF DIRECTORS
    • BY-LAWS
    • REGIONS
    • RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA POSITION
    • GALLERY
    • CONTACT
  • CONFERENCE
    • 2023 Conference
    • Maggie Marcopul Award
    • Early Career Preventionist Award
    • EARLY CAREER PREVENTION PROFESSIONAL AWARD
    • PAST CONFERENCE BROCHURES
  • PREVENTION RESOURCES
    • PA Higher Education Needs Assessment
    • Community Action Series
    • Brave Conversations in Classrooms and Communities
    • DDAP Resources & Peer Sharing
    • OTHER TRAINING
    • COALITION RESOURCES
    • PREVENTION 101
    • PREVENTION RESOURCES
    • RED RIBBON WEEK RESOURCES
    • FASD RESOURCES
    • MARIJUANA SPECIFIC RESOURCES
  • COMMITTEES & NEWS
    • JOIN A CPA COMMITTEE
    • COLLEGIATE ACTION NETWORK (CPA CAN)
    • ADVOCACY & EDUCATION
    • COLLEGIATE COMMITTEE
    • CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
    • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging Committee
    • FINANCE COMMITTEE
    • MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE
    • PA STOP WORKGROUP
    • PREVENTION COALITION ADVISORY COMMITTEE
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    • NEWS
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2018 Conference Speaker Materials

Please contact speakers directly to request permission prior to using any part of their presentation or materials. Additional materials will be added as they are made available by the presenters.

Sessions in bold have materials available if requested through our contact page.  Be sure to specify which session you are interested in.

 

Wednesday 8:30 am – 10:00 am 

Keynote, Susan Comfort

 

Wednesday 10:15 am-11:45 am

1A: PAYS 101: An Overview for PAYS Novices – What is PAYS and How Do I Use It?

1B: PA’s Changing Tobacco Landscape: How to Stay on Top!

1C: Making PA STOP Work for You and Your Agency

1D: In Pursuit of Wellness: Tools and Tips for Healthy Practices at Any Age

1E: Fidelity and Adaptation: Is it Really Cheating?

1F: The Effect of Substance Use on Adolescent Brain Development

1G: Using Social Media Personally

1H: Building a Youth Advisory Board – Our Story

 

Wednesday 1:45 pm-3:15 pm

2A: Diving Deep: Exploring & Enhancing Your PA Youth Survey (PAYS) IQ

2B: Primer on Synthetic Opioids

2C: Telling Your Story: Moving People With Your Message

2D: Preventing Youth Suicide by Promoting Healthy Lifestyles & Resilience

2E: Fidelity and Adaptation: Is It Really Cheating?

2F: The Effect of Substance Use on Adolescent Brain Development

2G: Using Social Media Professionally

2H: How to Engage Youth in a Coalition

 

Wednesday 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

3A: Human Trafficking: Bodies and Souls

3B: Increased Accessibility of Alcohol: What It Means to Prevention

3C: What’s Your MPG? (Mindfulness, Play & Gratitude)

3D: Resources for Resilience, Mental Health Promotion & Suicide Prevention

3E: Measuring Success

3F: Addiction as a Disease

3G: Using Technology to Promote Health Behavior Change Among College Students

3H: How Youth Can Utilize Their Local PAYS Data

 

Wednesday 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm 

Special Evening Session – Marijuana

 

Thursday 8:30 am – 10:00 am

Keynote: Understanding and Preventing the Leading Cause of Fetal Brain Damage: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)

 

Thursday 10:15 am-11:45 am

4A: Creating Welcoming Services for LGTBQI Individuals and Their Families

4B: Increased Accessibility of Alcohol: What It Means to Prevention

4C: Hope of Individuals & Their Families Living with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)

4D: A Grief Trajectory: A New Model for Understanding and Approaching Grief

4E: Why Buying an EBP Curriculum Isn’t Enough: Overcoming Barriers to Implementing School-Based Prevention Programs

4F: Adverse Childhood Experiences

4G: Key Elements of Effective Communication in the SUD Field

4H: SADD 30 Years Later: What Has Remained Constant, and Engagement with the Future

 

Thursday 1:30 pm-3:00 pm

5A: From Social Gaming to Internet Gambling: Identifying the Connection, Addressing the Issues & Establishing Meaningful Recovery Principles

5B: Money to Help Me Implement a PA STOP Opiate Campaign

5C: Introduction to Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

5D: Teens & Technology: Unintended Consequences

5E: The Social Development Strategy (2-Part)

5F: Family Dynamics in Addiction

5G: Building Better PowerPoints: Designing Memorable Presentations for Adult Learners (2-Part)

5H: Together We Are Strong: Collegiate Resources for K-12 & Community Prevention

 

Thursday 3:15 pm – 4:45 pm

6A: From Social Gaming to Internet Gambling: Identifying the Connection, Addressing the Issues & Establishing Meaningful Recovery Principles

6B & 7F: Substance Misuse Trends in PA

6C: Introduction to Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

6D: Teens & Technology: Unintended Consequences

6F: Basic Pharmacology

6H: Student Leadership: Engaging Them in Purpose-Driven Programs

 

Friday 11:00 am – 12:30 pm

7A: Problem Gambling Integration into the Public Health Continuum: Prevention to Recovery

7B: PA Medical Marijuana Program: Overview and Insights

7D: Yoga: Mindfulness in the Classroom

7E: Harnessing the Prevention Power of Families: How to Get Families in the Door & Keep Them in Your Prevention Program

7G: Introduction & Overview of the New DDAP Prevention Needs Assessment

7H: Improving Health Outcomes Through Prevention with College Students

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