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2018 Prevention Professionals Day (In-Person)

November 14, 2018 @ 8:30 am - 4:30 pm

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Wednesday, November 14th, 2018 at
Hilton Garden Inn, Auburn, ME
8:30am-4:30pm
Registration/Check In Begins at 8:00am
Cost: Free
Prevention Professionals Day is designed to offer Maine’s Prevention Community a broad range of learning opportunities. The day will focus on providing tools and resources for the field of tobacco and substance use prevention including building resilience and protective factors as a prevention strategy; innovative approaches to addressing health disparities; framing and messaging; co-morbid tobacco and marijuana use; and engagement of youth in prevention. The program includes both panel presentations and plenary sessions that will provide the opportunity for interaction among the participants.

Target Audience:
The target audience of this conference includes community prevention professionals; coalition members; tobacco, substance use and mental health prevention and health promotion practitioners; program managers and administrators; state agency prevention staff; volunteers and task force members; and others who deliver tobacco, substance use and mental health prevention services or who are interested in prevention issues and practice.

Keynote Speaker:
Judith Josiah-Martin, PhD, ACSW, CADC – Faculty, University of Maine School of Social Work

Plenary Speakers:
Gillian Schauer, PhD, MPH – Senior Consultant to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute on Drug Abuse Glynis Shea – Communications Director for the Konopka Institute for Best Practices in Adolescent Health at the University of Minnesota

Continuing Education:
This training has been approved by the Maine Prevention Certification Board and meets the requirements for Prevention Specialist Certification in Maine. 6.25 hours of training for Certified Prevention Specialists: ATOD and IC&RC Prevention Performance Domains 1-6.

This program constitutes 6.25 hours of training through AdCare Educational Institute of Maine, Inc.

Details

Date:
November 14, 2018
Time:
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Website:
http://www.cvent.com/events/me-323-450-2018-prevention-professionals-day/event-summary-5523018d64554ce1a693b4fd6301e7cc.aspx?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

Organizers

Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Maine Prevention Services
AdCare Educational Institute of Maine

Venue

Hilton Garden Inn
14 Great Falls Plaza
Auburn, ME 04210 United States + Google Map