Login to Your CPA  Account

Commonwealth Prevention Alliance
  • ABOUT
    • ABOUT
    • BOARD OF DIRECTORS
    • BY-LAWS
    • REGIONS
    • CPA Region Map
    • RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA POSITION
    • GALLERY
    • CONTACT
  • CONFERENCE
    • REGISTRATION DETAILS
    • 2020 CONFERENCE BROCHURE
    • MAGGIE MARCOPUL AWARD
    • COALITION OF THE YEAR AWARD
    • EARLY CAREER PREVENTIONIST AWARD
    • REGISTER NOW
  • PREVENTION RESOURCES
    • 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
    • Informed Consent – PA Higher Education Needs Assessment
  • COMMITTEES & NEWS
    • NEWS
    • ADVOCACY & EDUCATION
    • COLLEGIATE COMMITTEE
    • CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
    • DEVELOPMENT PLANNING COMMITTEE
    • FINANCE COMMITTEE
    • MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE
    • PA STOP WORKGROUP
    • PREVENTION COALITION ADVISORY COMMITTEE
    • SOCIAL MEDIA, MARKETING and WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT
  • MEMBERSHIP
    • ABOUT CPA MEMBERSHIP
    • ESTABLISH NEW COMPANY MEMBERSHIPS
    • RENEW COMPANY MEMBERSHIPS
    • ADD AND REMOVE SUB-MEMBERS TO AN EXISTING COMPANY MEMBERSHIP
    • CHANGE A PRIMARY CONTACT
    • CURRENT MEMBERSHIP LISTING
    • STUDENT ADVISORY COUNCIL
    • MEMBERSHIP BROCHURE
  • PREVENTION WEEK
    • PA STOP MINI-GRANT OPPORTUNITY
    • VIDEO LIBRARY
    • AGENDA FOR PREVENTION WEEK
  • ABOUT
    • ABOUT
    • BOARD OF DIRECTORS
    • BY-LAWS
    • REGIONS
    • CPA Region Map
    • RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA POSITION
    • GALLERY
    • CONTACT
  • CONFERENCE
    • REGISTRATION DETAILS
    • 2020 CONFERENCE BROCHURE
    • MAGGIE MARCOPUL AWARD
    • COALITION OF THE YEAR AWARD
    • EARLY CAREER PREVENTIONIST AWARD
    • REGISTER NOW
  • PREVENTION RESOURCES
    • 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
    • Informed Consent – PA Higher Education Needs Assessment
  • COMMITTEES & NEWS
    • NEWS
    • ADVOCACY & EDUCATION
    • COLLEGIATE COMMITTEE
    • CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
    • DEVELOPMENT PLANNING COMMITTEE
    • FINANCE COMMITTEE
    • MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE
    • PA STOP WORKGROUP
    • PREVENTION COALITION ADVISORY COMMITTEE
    • SOCIAL MEDIA, MARKETING and WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT
  • MEMBERSHIP
    • ABOUT CPA MEMBERSHIP
    • ESTABLISH NEW COMPANY MEMBERSHIPS
    • RENEW COMPANY MEMBERSHIPS
    • ADD AND REMOVE SUB-MEMBERS TO AN EXISTING COMPANY MEMBERSHIP
    • CHANGE A PRIMARY CONTACT
    • CURRENT MEMBERSHIP LISTING
    • STUDENT ADVISORY COUNCIL
    • MEMBERSHIP BROCHURE
  • PREVENTION WEEK
    • PA STOP MINI-GRANT OPPORTUNITY
    • VIDEO LIBRARY
    • AGENDA FOR PREVENTION WEEK

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

Search

Recent Posts

  • Cannabis-related psychosis, addiction, ER visits: For young users, marijuana can be a dangerous game
  • Gov Wolf and Lt. Gov Fetterman Press Conference about the legalization of recreational marijuana
  • CPA Response to Lt. Governor’s MJ Legalization Report
  • Pennsylvania Renews Opioid Disaster Declaration for Seventh Time
  • Association between medical cannabis laws and opioid overdose mortality has reversed over time

Facebook

Comments Box SVG iconsUsed for the like, share, comment, and reaction icons

This message is only visible to site admins
Problem displaying Facebook posts. Backup cache in use.

Error: Error validating access token: The user has not authorized application 1123168491105924.
Type: OAuthException

Commonwealth Prevention Alliance

2 days ago

Commonwealth Prevention Alliance

... See MoreSee Less

View on Facebook
·Share

Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email

View Comments
  • Likes: 4
  • Shares: 0
  • Comments: 0

Comment on Facebook

Commonwealth Prevention Alliance

2 days ago

Commonwealth Prevention Alliance

Heavy screen time appears to impact children's brains: study ... See MoreSee Less

Heavy screen time appears to impact children's brains: study

sg.news.yahoo.com

Researchers have found "different patterns" in brain scans among children who record heavy smart device and video game use, according to initial data from a major ongoing US study. The first wave of i...
View on Facebook
·Share

Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email

View Comments
  • Likes: 0
  • Shares: 0
  • Comments: 0

Comment on Facebook

Commonwealth Prevention Alliance is with Linda Doty.

6 days ago

Commonwealth Prevention Alliance

Please join me in congratulating Linda Doty on her retirement! Linda is a former CPA Director, conference presenter, and leader in the prevention field. Best wishes Linda!! ... See MoreSee Less

View on Facebook
·Share

Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email

View Comments
  • Likes: 24
  • Shares: 1
  • Comments: 22

Comment on Facebook

Thank you CPA! You will always be very important to me!!

Congratulations and you are so blessed! I will miss our CPA Convention times and dinners out!!!! Please stay in touch.

Congratulations, Linda! All of the very Best Wishes for you!

Congrats, Linda! I hope you enjoy yourself with some well-deserved time off!

Congratulations. Now you’ll have time to spend with all those beautiful grand babies.

Congratulations! Best wishes on your retirement. Thanks for all you did for CPA!

Congrats, Linda, and thank you for moving our field forward!

Congratulations Linda Doty! Welcome to the ranks of the retired CPA Board Members! Enjoy your retirement!!

Congratulations Linda Doty!!! Thanks for all your hard work! Enjoy!

CONGRATS ---ENJOY🎉

Well.deserved retirement

Congratulations Linda Doty! Wishing you the best!

Congrats Linda!!!

Congrats, best wishes to you!

Woo hoo! Congratulations!

Congratulations 🎉🎊🎈

Congratulations Linda Doty! You will be greatly missed! Please stay in touch!

Congratulations!

Congratulations Linda Doty !!! You'll be missed!

Congrats Linda. Enjoy every minute.

Congratulations Linda!!!

Congratulations Linda! Enjoy!

View more comments

ABOUT CPA

CPA is a member-driven, grassroots organization whose mission is to support prevention professionals in eliminating substance abuse. We are a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization. Since 1976, CPA has kept the needs and concerns of the prevention professional and the field of substance abuse prevention as its key focus, and today it continues to be the foremost voice for prevention in Pennsylvania.

VISIT US ON FACEBOOK

Comments Box SVG iconsUsed for the like, share, comment, and reaction icons

This message is only visible to site admins
Problem displaying Facebook posts. Backup cache in use.

Error: Error validating access token: The user has not authorized application 1123168491105924.
Type: OAuthException

Commonwealth Prevention Alliance

2 days ago

Commonwealth Prevention Alliance

... See MoreSee Less

View on Facebook
·Share

Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email

View Comments
  • Likes: 7
  • Shares: 0
  • Comments: 0

Comment on Facebook

Copyright 2020 · Commonwealth Prevention Alliance · All Rights Reserved