Any two people can have competing goals and differing values about a subject which can lead to relationship issues. How then can we get a concerned group of individuals to overcome issues like control or feeling helpless and instead learn to channel their passions and attract others to want to participate in prevention initiatives? It’s easy…serve cookies or have a lot of money to spend, right? In this session we’ll look at ways to engage the community by first looking at our own motivations and barriers to participation and suggest ways to build the people capacity of your coalition.

The workshop is designed to heighten the practitioner’s awareness of prevention methods that are driven by personal beliefs, values and sectors including:
• Socio Economic Factors (Privilege versus Oppression)
• Race/Ethnicity
• Access to Healthcare
• Insured or Underinsured
• Religious

Prevention Strategies Impacted by Cultural Competency influences thinking around the factors that drive prevention strategies with the following assumptions:
• Cultural Competency helps you understand the different factors that will impact prevention strategies
• Prevention methods must be fluid, recognizing that the pathology of addiction and dependency is the same, and should encompass”
 Cultural Sensitivity
 Awareness/Outreach Strategies
 Strategic Direction/Goals

An overview and update of the trends in workplace and student drug testing programs. We will look at methodologies of testing, drugs most commonly included in testing panels, laws regarding workplace and student testing, impact of legalized marijuana, and changes anticipated for 2016 and 2017.

E-cigarettes\vape products are safe, right? After all it’s just water vapor right? Everybody’s doing it so it has to be ok! E-cigs, vape pens, mods – whatever you want to call them, they are all the rage. Youth at record levels are trying them. But what is really being inhaled? How safe are they? Can you get into trouble if you use them? Youth who attend this interactive session will get a chance to see the products up close and personal and share what is going on in their communities. They will find out what is really in the vapor, the harm they can cause, and the rules and restrictions Missouri has on them.

This workshop will outline a variety of topics related to implementation of a Responsible Beverage Server Training into a community. This includes how to examine your community’s need for implementation of a responsible beverage server training program. This can be done by looking at alcohol compliance rates, MIP violations, citations for selling alcohol to a minor, etc. This workshop will also cover a step by step process on actually implementing the training into your community to include: community buy-in, community meetings, how to engage law enforcement in your efforts, how to set up the system, etc. This workshops will also cover challenges and strategies to get the most effective responsible beverage server training to fit your community needs.

In prevention efforts with complex social justice issues and big expectations for the role that collaborative efforts should play in helping to address them, even the most experienced partnership and coalition facilitators find themselves asking questions like:

“How clear are my partners on our group’s aim?”
“What levels of partnership are required to achieve our aim, and how do I know the group has agreed upon them?”
“How do I structure conversation and planning to get us to our goal?”

Join other partnership and coalition leaders and staff for an interactive session as we explore these topics and share resources to accelerate your initiative’s impact.