Professional Development – Regional & National
ROTA-RC Partners
Professional Development Events
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Parenting in an Addictive World: When to Step in & How to Help
from Operation Parent
Parenting in today’s world means navigating a minefield of addictive temptations—social media, pornography, and substances can pull kids in before they even realize what’s happening. So how do you know when to step in, and how can you help without pushing them away? Join Kriya Lendzion, a counselor and prevention expert with over 30 years of experience, as she shares real-world strategies to help you guide your child through these challenges with warmth, structure, and impact. Drawing from her own journey through teen addiction, Kriya offers insight into what’s really going on beneath risky behaviors and how you can intervene in ways that build trust and lasting change.
Date/ Time: May 6, 2025
Environmental Scans: Tools for Alcohol and Cannabis Prevention
from Prevention First
The alcohol and cannabis retail environments can change rapidly and pose challenges in community health. Assessing your community is critical in identifying potential issues contributing to underage or excessive alcohol and cannabis use. Completing a comprehensive assessment involves utilizing many tools and methods. Environmental scanning allows you to observe and document how these issues present themselves in your community, including through advertising. In this webinar, the APRC and CRPC will share their Environmental Scan Toolkits, and why the point-of-sale matters for alcohol and cannabis in your communities.
Date/ Time: May 6, 2025, 10:00 – 11:00 AM CST/ 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
Conflict to Connection: Create the Conditions for Healthy Disagreement
from Great Lakes PTTC
Conflict is ever-present in our professional and personal lives. Our knee-jerk reaction is to avoid it at all costs. However, healthy disagreement is in fact essential in our work. How can we encourage different viewpoints and use conflict as an opportunity for growth? In this 90-minute peer sharing session, a series of guided questions will be used to gain a deeper understanding of our collective relationship with conflict, discuss ways to reframe it and strategies to embrace it.
Date/ Time: May 8, 2025, at 10:00 – 11:30 AM CST/ 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST
Substance Use Disorders Boot Camp
from University of Wisconsin – Madison, Interprofessional Continuing Education Partnership
This training aims to enhance confidence and competencies related to the management of substance use disorders in general medical settings. Through case-based and interactive didactic content, the workshop will explore issues related to assessment, monitoring, prevention, and management of issues that commonly occur with substance use (for example addiction, infectious disease, mental health issues).
Date/ Time: May 15-16, 2025
A Fresh Look at the Strategic Prevention Framework: Community-Centered Prevention in Action Session 1: Rethinking Assessment
from Northeast and Caribbean OTTC
Instead of viewing the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) as a step-by-step prevention planning model, reimagine it as an ecosystem—one that’s adaptive and constantly evolving with the needs and culture of the community. Through this frame, the SPF is not simply a process to follow, but one that both creates and responds to a dynamic web of relationships, environments, histories, and possibilities. Each step of the SPF—Assessment, Capacity Building, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation—functions interdependently nourishing one another, responding to changing community conditions, and requiring ongoing attention. When we treat prevention as part of the broader ecosystem of community wellness, we shift our focus from managing problems to cultivating resilience, connection, and belonging.
This six-part webinar series invites prevention practitioners and partners to explore the SPF through this lens, focusing in on key skills in each step and grounding our discussion in real-life contexts. Be inspired by the potential of what we can grow together!
Date/ Time: May 22, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 PM CST/ 1:00 – 2:00 PM EST
Getting Your Coalition to do the Work Instead of Paid Staff
from Partnerships for Success
In this interactive session, we’ll explore what it really takes to build and maintain strong, lasting partnerships that don’t fizzle out once the funding does. We’ll break down fresh, actionable strategies for creating meaningful connections, keeping your coalition members motivated, and turning your mission into a movement. We will discuss how to get volunteers and others to take action on behalf of the coalition. Together, we’ll uncover how to tell your coalition’s story in a way that gets people excited—and keeps them coming back. You’ll learn how to identify your biggest champions in the community and how to bring them on board as true partners. And let’s not forget the long game: we’ll walk through smart steps to keep things moving forward after the grant cycle ends—because the impact doesn’t stop when the funding does. You’ll leave inspired, recharged, and armed with tools to build a coalition that thrives, not just survives.
Date/ Time: June 17, 2025, 12:00 – 1:30 PM CST/ 1:00 – 2:30 PM EST
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