Utilizing Partnerships to Strengthen and Sustain Youth Mental Health Promotion and Substance Use Prevention Efforts

Recognize why efforts to prevent youth substance use and support healthy youth development are most effective when organizations work together, rather than when one organization or program tries to do it alone. Just as caregiver involvement and collaboration with youth are integral for effective substance use prevention and health promotion within a family, collaboration between local, state, and national organizations helps boost the effectiveness of community-based public health efforts. This session will highlight an innovative and impactful collaborative model between Partnership to End Addiction, a national non-profit that equips adults to support the health and well-being of the young people in their lives, and notMYkid, a non-profit providing on-the-ground prevention and behavioral health services for youth and parents. It will illustrate how local and national agencies, government, schools, and community organizations can work together to support youth and improve outcomes.

At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Define three risk factors or protective factors that should be prioritized with an “earlier and broader” approach to youth substance use prevention.
2. Gain at least one practical tool to foster and support cross-system partnerships that enhance local prevention efforts.

HESPA III Sub-competencies that will be covered include:

2.1.1 |Entry| Convene stakeholders to review assessment findings.

2.1.2 |Entry| Facilitate collaborative efforts among stakeholders to sustain engagement. 

Sponsored by the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE), a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES®) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES®) to receive up to 1.00 total Category I contact education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours available for this session is 0. Provider ID #98029 and Program ID PM98029.

SOPHE is a provider of Certified in Public Health (CPH) Renewal Credits. A total of 1.00 CPH Renewal credits are provided on behalf of the National Board of Public Health Examiners.