Healthcare Professional
Join other healthcare professionals in this one-day training to learn more about nicotine addiction and how to integrate brief, evidence-based tobacco treatment interventions into current practice. The Basic Skills Training is open to all healthcare professionals, prevention professionals, and community members who are interested in learning more about the burden of tobacco and strategies for treatment.
The training is a requirement for those interested in the National Certificate in Tobacco Treatment Practice.
Join other healthcare professionals in this one-day training to learn more about nicotine addiction and how to integrate brief, evidence-based tobacco treatment interventions into current practice. The Basic Skills Training is open to all healthcare professionals, prevention professionals, and community members who are interested in learning more about the burden of tobacco and strategies for treatment.
The training is a requirement for those interested in the National Certificate in Tobacco Treatment Practice.
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| Please join the University of New England, the Collaborative SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment) Training Grant and the City of Portland’s Public Health Division for a series of workshops about ideas and strategies aimed at reducing negative consequences associated with substance use and other high-risk behaviors.
Join a wide array of medical professionals, students, harm reductionists, social service workers, people with substance use experience past and present, law enforcement, and local community allies. This conference will offer workshops and presentations on various topics, Introductory, Intermediate, and Advanced Tracks will be available. Topics will include: · Reproductive Justice and Substance Use · Naloxone Distribution in Maine · Overdose Prevention Services · Harm Reduction Basics · Hepatitis Transmission and Treatment · Peer-Led Recovery and Pathways to Support · Many more topics |
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The Ethics in Prevention training provides Substance Use Prevention Specialists opportunities to engage in discussions of the six key principles of the Prevention Code of Ethics and explore a four-step decision-making model for assessing, addressing, and evaluating a range of ethical issues. This training provides opportunities to engage in discussions of the six key principles of the Prevention Code of Ethics and explore a four-step decision-making model for assessing, addressing, and evaluating a range of ethical issues. Participants completing the training will receive a certificate of attendance for seven hours of participation which can be submitted to the Maine Prevention Certification Board to meet the prevention ethics requirement for Prevention Specialist certification or re-certification. This training is endorsed by the International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium (IC&RC). Early bird registration $40.00 if paid by Wednesday, August 28th.
This workshop is two 1/2 days (August 9th and August 23rd) will provide participants with eight parenting skills they can immediately use with parents who are struggling to raise children, including skills to help regulate emotions, communicate with kids and avoid judgments. The skills are drawn from Dick’s Dialectical Parenting Group, based on the DBT theoretical framework. Participants will receive handouts and homework they can use in their practice. The workshop is a good fit for mental health and substance abuse professionals, parent educators and parents themselves. It will take place in two 4-hour sessions on two different days. The first day will be spent with participants learning skills while day two will include skills and discussion of participant’s use of the skills.
Early bird registration fee $50.00 if paid by August 7th, 2019. Fee includes a continental breakfast.
MPHA’s annual conference is the largest statewide meeting dedicated to public health, and we feature the latest science, policy and programming related to public health in Maine. We attract 400+ students and professionals with a shared interest to improve and promote public health – and we hope you will join us! MPHA members registration fee: $90.00. Early bird fee if paid before July 31st $72.00. Non-Member fee: $160.00, early bird fee $128.00. Fee includes breakfast and lunch.
The conference theme, “Turning the Tide: Maine’s Path Forward in Addressing the Opioid Crisis” will bring people together to discuss the many challenges those with substance use disorder and in recovery face alongside the opportunities that exist moving forward.
The Edmund N. Ervin Pediatric Center’s Child Development and Behavior Conference at Colby College is a program that brings a science and evidence based approach to understanding interventions that endeavor to improve the lives of children with complex needs. We have national speakers join with our regional and local experts and policy makers to bring science to service and policy. We are very excited about our program this year as it promotes utilization of an evidenced-based approach to meeting the needs of our most at risk families.