Building and Sustaining a Culture of Strategic Intersections: Creating Signature Partnerships in Your City

Virtual Workshop Description

This interactive virtual workshop examines some of the traditional models of prevention, intervention and treatment and their degrees of effectiveness. Participants will be asked to view prevention through a different lens and are given the opportunity (through breakout sessions) to brainstorm new ways of addressing concerns. Updated terminology and best ways to start the conversation with teens and young adults are discussed. Participants are given tools and suggestions such as interviewing, screening, assessment, referrals and a review of levels of care according to ASAM criteria, for starting an Early Intervention Program in their school or community.

This workshop is great for clinicians, policy makers, and anyone in the position to create or impact programming.

In this Virtual Workshop you will:

• Name different types of prevention
• Show an understanding of the importance of starting effective prevention early on
• Differentiate levels of care according to ASAM criteria
• Outline the basics of an Early Intervention Program suited to their population
• List examples of Motivational Interviewing questions that may be effective in exploring substance use with teens and young adults

Virtual Workshop Instructor

Paul Short has over two decades of Human Services experience in a variety of different roles including management and coordination in distinct sectors including business, government, and non-profit. He is a certified Master Trainer and Facilitator through Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.

Additionally, he is an ordained minister and self-em- employed as a Personal and Business Coach. When not traveling the country, Paul enjoys volunteering for global service organizations.