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!
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.
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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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