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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
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
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