RIPRC Trainings

The Rhode Island Prevention Resource Center hosts monthly trainings for prevention professionals throughout Rhode Island. With in-person gatherings being on pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the RIPRC has adapted to a virtual training model which allows individuals to access trainings remotely. Whenever possible, these sessions are recorded to provide those who are not able to attend the live training with access to the training content. Listed below are the recorded trainings. We hope you enjoy!

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Parents as Partners in Your Student Assistance Program

RIPRC/RISAS, March 2024

This is a recording of the RISAS/RIPRC Parents as Partners in Your Student Assistance Program Training, presented by Chuck Klevgaard on March 6, 2024. Building on the foundation of the initial training, Advocating for Your Student Assistance Program in the School and Community, this follow-up session takes a deeper dive into strategies for engaging parents. By viewing this webinar, participants will better understand the factors in families associated with early initiation and misuse, effectively communicate developmentally relevant prevention messages to parents, and walk away with strategies for reducing enabling behavior.

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LGBTQ+ & Diversity

RIPRC, January 2024

This is a recording of RIPRC’s LGBTQ+ & Diversity training, presented by Dr. Vilna Tejeda and Dr. Aswood Bousseau, on January 26, 2024. This training introduced participants to why living and working in a multicultural society is essential to expand our awareness and skills. In order to provide person-centered and strengths-based services to our clients and communities we must create a multifaceted approach to service delivery. This interactive training provides an overview of LGBTQIA2S+ terminology. Participants will be encouraged to explore how their values, beliefs, and culture may impact their rapport with others. Substance use prevention, intervention, and recovery approaches will be explored. Finally, participants will learn about interventions and referrals they can incorporate into their practice.

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Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders, Adult Onset: An Emerging Role for Prevention Specialists

RIPRC, December 2023

This is a recording of RIPRC’s Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders, Adult Onset Training: An Emerging Role for Prevention Specialists training, presented by Lee Dalphonse, DHA on December 14, 2023. This seminar introduced participants to transtheoretical research designs, with an emphasis on  interpersonal neurobiology (IPNB), evolutionary psychology, and related transtheoretical approaches to prevention, education, and treatment of mental health and substance-related problems. Transdiagnostic interventions target underlying neurobiological processes that appear much earlier in life— thereby providing preventionists with an opportunity to prevent the onset of adult medical, psychiatric, and substance-related problems. This presentation also introduced participants to the fundamentals of change theory, and motivational enhancement strategies so that they are better able to tailor IPNB-informed prevention interventions to the target audience’s phase of readiness to change.

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Advocating for Your Student Assistance Program in the School and Community

RISAS & RIPRC, November 2023

This is a recording of the Advocating for Your Student Assistance Program in the School and Community training, presented by Chuck Klevgaard on November 1st, 2023. From identifying the myriad of stressors facing the nation’s youth, to overcoming stigma and expanding prevention efforts to address these growing concerns, there’s lots to unpack around teen substance use and mental health. Student assistance programs have never been more relevant than they are today. All too often we find that substance misuse is not firmly at the center of these conversations. This workshop provided participants with the opportunity to refine your elevator speech to ensure that everyone in your community understands the critical role of student assistance services.

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Evidence-based Practices Series, Session 3: How to strike the right balance between EBP fidelity and adaptation?

The RIPRC, September 2023

This is a recording of Session 3 of the Evidence-based Practices (EBPs) Series: How to strike the right balance between EBP fidelity and adaptation? The third and final session in this training series focuses on five best practices for evidence-based program (EBP) implementation. The presenters provided research-based tools and strategies for assuring you maintain the core elements of the program needed to achieve positive outcomes while also adapting the non-core elements to enhance fit with your target audience. 

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Evidence-based Practices Series, Session 2: How to choose the right EBP for my community?

The RIPRC, September 2023

This is a recording of Session 2 of the Evidence-based Practices (EBPs) Series: How to choose the right EBP for my community? This second session dove deeper into a three-step process for choosing the right evidence-based program (EBP) to meet your community’s needs. Step 1 includes assessing your community’s needs and priorities. Step 2 uses the information from Step 1 to identify and narrow your EBP options by considering the type of EBP needed. Step 3 involves comparing EBPs by assessing their strength of evidence and degree of fit with your community’s needs and resources. Throughout this session, the presenters provided tools and resources to help support the three-step process.

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Evidence-based Practices Series, Session 1: What are EBPs and why are they important?

The RIPRC, September 2023

This is a recording of Session 1 of Evidence-based Practices (EBPs) Series: What are EBPs and why are they important? The first session set the stage for the training series by defining evidence-based programs (EBPs) and describing why they are important for meeting substance misuse prevention goals. Participants reflected on their goals of their substance misuse prevention efforts and determined how EBPs can help them achieve those goals. The session also reviewed what research shows are the core elements of effective prevention programs and what research shows is not effective. Finally, the session introduced several program registries that participants can use to identify and compare specific EBPs that meet their community’s needs.

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Underage Drinking: A Review of Trends and Evidence-based Solutions for Prevention Strategies 

The RIPRC, August 2023

This is a recording of the RIPRC’s Underage Drinking Training: A Review of Trends and Evidence-based Solutions for Prevention Strategies. This training provides a brief review of the most recent data on the prevalence of underage alcohol use and patterns, including state and national trends. In addition, this training shares evidence-based solutions to address underage drinking and review measurement strategies to demonstrate the impact of prevention efforts.

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Exploring Intersecting Identities with Cultural Humility

The RIPRC, June 2023

In this training, participants explored language that reflects the complex reality of gender and sexual identities and gain historical context on our modern expectations of gender and sexuality. This workshop facilitated what creative and intentional language we can use, as well as provide meaningful ways to use language that aids in creating an affirming and inclusive space for people across the gender and sexuality spectrum. This workshop is not meant to ensure competence, but rather, humility, which includes the understanding that self-reflection is integral to our ongoing growth and learning. With this understanding, participants will have the tools to create equity through accountability, empathy, and empowerment.

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Beyond Diversity: Inclusive Practices through an Anti-Racist Approach

The RIPRC & RISAS, May 2023

This training focused on the integration of Anti-Racist practices and decolonization of clinical and community practice to effectively serve diverse populations. Identities, privilege, and power were examined to promote social justice and anti-racist practices in clinical and community work. This included challenging racist, and oppressive workplace structures and other organizational settings. Through this training, participants learned how to engage stakeholders from a culturally humble lens in order to center their needs and narratives as an essential part of our practice. This training identified and analyzed the impact of microaggression, biases, stereotypes, assumptions, and unconscious beliefs/values across settings. Participants learned how to explore how to integrate anti-racist practices into our daily practice and identify strategies to decolonize work climates and cultures in order to equitably service all of our service recipients.

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RIPRC’s Advanced Prevention Training for Supervisors – Session 3

The RIPRC, April 2023

This is a recording of the RIPRC’s Advanced Prevention Training for Supervisors – Session 3, presented by Robert Rogers on April 17th, 2023. By viewing this webinar, participants will gain skills in understanding the supervision needs of prevention specialists as it relates to their personal growth in the field of substance use prevention. This training is particularly beneficial for supervisors who are not prevention specialists themselves. In addition to gaining a better understanding of their own leadership style, participants will learn more about ways to diversify the prevention workforce, how to build and sustain the prevention workforce, and how to write SMART goals related to their role as a supervisor.

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RIPRC’s Advanced Prevention Training for Supervisors – Session 2

The RIPRC, March 2023

This is a recording of the RIPRC’s Advanced Prevention Training for Supervisors – Session 2, presented by Robert Rogers on March 22nd, 2023. By viewing this webinar, participants will gain skills in understanding the supervision needs of prevention specialists as it relates to their personal growth in the field of substance use prevention. This training is particularly beneficial for supervisors who are not prevention specialists themselves. In addition to gaining a better understanding of their own leadership style, participants will learn how to identify various ways of developing Prevention Specialist knowledge and skills in the 6 Domains, and understand how to document supervision hours and content of supervision.

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RIPRC’s Advanced Prevention Training for Supervisors – Session 1

The RIPRC, March 2023

This is a recording of the RIPRC’s Advanced Prevention Training for Supervisors – Session 1. This training was presented by Robert Rogers on March 14th, 2023. By viewing this webinar, participants will gain skills in understanding the supervision needs of prevention specialists as it relates to their personal growth in the field of substance use prevention. This training is particularly beneficial for supervisors who are not prevention specialists themselves. In addition to gaining a better understanding of their own leadership style, participants will learn more about the difference between Administrative Supervision versus Person Centered Supervision, as well as the three basic tenets of the Skills Model of Supervision.

To view this recorded webinar, click here.

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RIPRC’s Ethics and Risk Management in School Settings Training

The RIPRC, February 2023

This is a recording of the RIPRC’s Ethics and Risk Management in School Settings Training, presented by Dr. Prachi Kene on February 16th, 2023. This webinar provides an overview of the ethical decision-making process and risk management when responding to dilemmas encountered by clinicians in a school setting. The webinar includes a review of issues of consent and privacy as they apply to minor clients, and special emphasis is placed on risk management strategies in the delivery of telebehavioral health services. The webinar concludes with a brief discussion of ethical considerations when working with a diverse student body.

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RIPRC’s Kids and Trauma Workshop – With a Focus on Substance Use

The RIPRC, November 2022

This is a recording of the RIPRC’s Kids and Trauma Workshop – With a Focus on Substance Use, presented by Dr. Richard Booth on November 16th, 2022. This workshop aims to help improve understanding and reinforce the key concepts and neurobiological principles of trauma and substance usage, including an exploration of the associated individuals and community factors, with special focus on the unique circumstances experienced during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, this workshop aims to increase participant knowledge of strategies for working with youth populations and incorporating culturally relevant materials as aids.

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RIPRC’s Psychopharmacology Training

The RIPRC, September 2022

This is a recording of the RIPRC’s Psychopharmacology Training: Psychotropic Medications for Youth and the Interactions with Caffeine, Nicotine, Alcohol, and Marijuana. This training was presented by Dr. Hayden Center on September 15th, 2022. By viewing this webinar, participants will learn about the most frequently prescribed psychotropic medications used with older children and adolescents as well as the importance of understanding the pharmacokinetics of how medications affect neurobiology. Additionally, participants will gain an understanding of the interaction effects of certain psychotropic medications and substances used and misused among older children and adolescents.

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Fostering Students’ Social-emotional Well-being E-Learning Module

The RIPRC, March 2022

The purpose of this module is to outline the importance and basic concepts of social-emotional well-being for students and how educators, behavioral health professionals, and concerned adults can foster this well-being in youth.

By the end of this module you will be able to:

  • Describe why social-emotional well-being is important 
  • Explain how social-emotional well-being can be fostered in school and in the community   
  • Describe examples of efforts in Rhode Island to foster students’ social-emotional well-being
  • Identify how you can promote students’ social-emotional well-being.

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RIPRC’s Addressing Marijuana Use with Adolescents Training

The RIPRC, March 2022

This is a recording of the RIPRC’s Addressing Marijuana Use with Adolescents training, which was presented by Manu Singh-Looney on March 14th, 2022. This training provides information on marijuana and its impact on adolescents, with a focus on content that can be shared with adolescents and their families. Topic areas include the impact of marijuana on the brain, current trends in marijuana use among adolescents, medical marijuana, and applying motivational interviewing strategies when addressing marijuana use with adolescents. By viewing this webinar, participants will gain a solid understanding of the ways marijuana impacts the adolescent brain, learn about current issues regarding marijuana use that impact adolescents, and practice applying motivational interviewing strategies to prevent adolescents from engaging in risky marijuana use.

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RIPRC’s Enhancing Virtual Engagement Training

The RIPRC, January 2022

This is a recording of the RIPRC’s Enhancing Virtual Engagement training, which was presented by Arman Lorz on January 13th, 2022. This recorded session explores the various adult learning theories that apply to virtual learning and provides opportunities for viewers to identify challenges and best practices for enhancing participant online engagement. Viewers will have the opportunity to reflect on the learning and engagement theories applicable to facilitation, and learn more about effective ways to increase engagement through virtual facilitation.

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RIPRC’s Mindfulness and Adolescents Training

The RIPRC, November 2021

This is a recording of the RIPRC’s Mindfulness and Adolescents Training, which was presented by Shannon Spurlock on November 30th, 2021. During this training, Shannon Spurlock engages participants in a discussion regarding the benefits of mindfulness practice for youth academic achievement and social and emotional health. Viewers will have the opportunity to increase their awareness of the history and science behind mindfulness teaching/leading and practicing in order to enhance their understanding of why people engage in mindfulness practice. Viewers will also learn more about the role of mindful listening, attending, directing and discipline in youth academic achievement and social and emotional health. Lastly, viewers will develop a deeper understanding of how mindfulness practice can help youth, with attention, focus, impulse control, anxiety/stress reduction, and other social and emotional obstacles to youth/student success.

To view this recorded webinar, click here.

RIPRC’s Is it Time to Train, or to Present?

The RIPRC, October 2021

This is a recording of the RIPRC’s training, Is it Time to Train, or to Present?, which was presented by Beth Gragg on October 26th, 2021. This session focuses on two tools of training design: SMART learning objectives and the experiential learning cycle. Viewers will learn how to use these tools to decide if it’s appropriate to help participants gain new skills and knowledge through training, or if sharing information is the answer to the problem. The session uses demonstrations, vignettes and other techniques to explore the difference between training and presenting. Viewers will leave with a deeper understanding of good practices in adult learning.

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RIPRC’s Mental Health Training Series – The Next Step in our Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Efforts

The RIPRC, October 2021

This is a recording of the RIPRC’s The Next Step in our Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Efforts training, which was presented as part of the RIPRC’s Mental Health Training Series. This training was recorded on October 6th, 2021 and presented by Arman Lorz. By viewing this training, participants will learn how to identify a direction, significant steps, and benchmarks for increasing equity, diversity, and inclusion internally and within the prevention services they provide. Viewers will have the opportunity to reflect on what equity, diversity, and inclusion means for programmatic activities and organizational efforts. Additionally, viewers will learn how to describe the manifestations of incomplete efforts of inclusion, diversity, and equity at the organizational and service-delivery level, as well as identify interventions that can help to become a more inclusive, equitable, diverse, and fair team.

To view this recorded webinar, click here.

RIPRC’s Mental Health Training Series – Mental Health and Adolescent Marijuana Use

The RIPRC, October 2021

This is a recording of the RIPRC’s Mental Health and Adolescent Marijuana Use training, which was presented as part of the RIPRC’s Mental Health Training Series. This training was recorded on October 5th, 2021 and presented by Manu Singh-Looney, Ph.D. By viewing this training, participants can expect to learn more about the impacts of marijuana on adolescent mental health in order to impact prevention efforts targeted to adolescents. Viewers will learn how to identify the factors that increase the likelihood of adverse impacts of marijuana on adolescent mental health, and to understand the mental health consequences of marijuana use in adolescents. Additionally, viewers will learn more about effective adolescent marijuana use prevention programs and strategies.

To view this recorded webinar, click here.

RIPRC’s Mental Health Training Series – Prevention of Adolescent Anxiety Disorders

The RIPRC, September 2021

This is a recording of the RIPRC’s Prevention of Adolescent Anxiety Disorders training, which was presented as part of the RIPRC’s Mental Health Training Series. This training was recorded on September 30th, 2021 and presented by Dr. Danielle Black. By viewing this training, participants can expect to gain a strong foundation on the characteristics of adolescent anxiety disorders to support prevention efforts and the wellbeing of adolescents in Rhode Island. Viewers will learn how to better understand the impact of anxiety disorders on teens, identify anxiety disorders in teens, understand the mechanisms maintaining teen anxiety, and understand the primary and secondary interventions for teen anxiety disorders.

To view this recorded webinar, click here.

Power Prism 101: Effective Advocacy for Community Change

The RIPRC and The American Heart Association, August 2021

This is a recording of the RIPRC’s Power Prism 101 training, which was presented by Lori Fresina and Terra Hall of the American Heart Association on August 10th, 2021. Viewers can expect a lively and interactive training session that will leave you better equipped to achieve equitable health outcomes in communities across Rhode Island through policy. The Power Prism advocacy model has been used by countless organizations around the country, and our trainers are members of the American Heart Association’s Voices for Healthy Kids team who put these tools and practices to use every day.

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The RIPRC’s PFS Panel Discussion

The Rhode Island Prevention Resource Center, July 2021

This is a recording of the RIPRC’s PFS Panel Discussion, which was held on July 20th, 2021. During this webinar, the PFS (Partnerships for Success) Panel addresses education and messaging around best practices regarding alcohol sales during COVID. The PFS grant focuses on reducing underage drinking and reducing alcohol-related harms to youth in Rhode Island by utilizing evidence-based programs to educate youth and adults and reduce access to alcohol by minors. This session provides information on the importance of the Social Host Law and its impact on parents/guardians not allowing underage drinking to occur in and on their property, as well as violations of the law and its role in reducing risks associated with youths and alcohol. During the webinar, Steven Eiland and Scott McGovney discuss a new “SAFE HOMES” initiative that focuses on educating parents and the community, pledging involvement in reducing alcohol in the homes. This panel also discusses the use of community surveys to gather information on challenges and best practices employed by businesses to reduce youth access to alcohol during COVID, as well as an analysis of what other methods can be employed to further reduce alcohol sales to youth.

To view this recorded webinar, click here.