A three-part training series focused on building youth engagement skills and expanding your professional learning networks.
Join the Maine Youth Action Network’s team for this free training opportunity! Participate in a learning cohort with other emerging leaders in the youth engagement field. This series provides participants with train-the-trainer content on youth mentoring best practices, engagement & retention strategies, and youth facilitation strategies. You’ll leave with training materials, strengthened skills and deeper connections to other youth workers in your community.
Part 1- Youth Mentoring Strategies -December 6th @ The Point Community Center -South Portland 9:30-4:00
Part 2 -Youth Engagement and Retention February 7th @ The Opportunity Alliance – Timbers Meeting Room – South Portland 9:30-4:00
Part 3 – Facilitating for Youth Voice April 3rd @ The Point Community Center – South Portland 9:30-4:00
Over the course of these trainings, attendees will be working in peer cohorts to build and strengthen their networks and professional communities. Due to this structure, if you are interested in only attending one of these trainings please email allyson.gardner@opportunityalliance.org to be placed on our wait list.
A three-part series focused on leveraging prevention best practices to effectively engage youth within our communities.
Come join the Maine Youth Action Network’s team, in this free training series to learn the neuroscience behind why scare tactics miss the mark in adolescent brains; strategies for directly involving youth in prevention-focused research; and how to grow and sustain lasting, supportive relationships with any young person.
Part 1- Using Neuroscience to Reach Developing Brains February 27th @ Bangor Public Library – Bangor, ME 9:30-4:00
Part 2 – Community Driven Research with Youth April 8th @ TBA 9:30-4:00
Part 3 – Relationships as Protective Factors June 27th @ TBA 9:30-4:00
Over the course of these trainings, attendees will be working in peer cohorts to build and strengthen their networks and professional communities. Due to this structure, if you are interested in only attending one of these training please email allyson.gardner@opportunityalliance.org to be placed on our wait list.
A three-part series focused on leveraging prevention best practices to effectively engage youth within our communities.
Come join the Maine Youth Action Network’s team, in this free training series to learn the neuroscience behind why scare tactics miss the mark in adolescent brains; strategies for directly involving youth in prevention-focused research; and how to grow and sustain lasting, supportive relationships with any young person.
Part 1- Using Neuroscience to Reach Developing Brains December 5th @ The Point – South Portland – 9:30-4:00
Part 2 – Community Driven research with Youth February 6th @ The Opportunity Alliance Timbers Room – South Portland – 9:30-4:00
Part 3 – Relationships as Protective Factors April 2nd @ The Point – South Portland – 9:30-4:00
Over the course of these trainings, attendees will be working in peer cohorts to build and strengthen their networks and professional communities. Due to this structure, if you are interested in only attending one of these training please email allyson.gardner@opportunityalliance.org to be placed on our wait list.
A three-part series focused on leveraging prevention best practices to effectively engage youth within our communities.
Come join the Maine Youth Action Network’s team, in this free training series to learn the neuroscience behind why scare tactics miss the mark in adolescent brains; strategies for directly involving youth in prevention-focused research; and how to grow and sustain lasting, supportive relationships with any young person.
Part 1- Using Neuroscience to Reach Developing Brains December 5th @ The Point – South Portland – 9:30-4:00
Part 2 – Community Driven research with Youth February 6th @ The Opportunity Alliance Timbers Room – South Portland – 9:30-4:00
Part 3 – Relationships as Protective Factors April 2nd @ The Point – South Portland – 9:30-4:00
Over the course of these trainings, attendees will be working in peer cohorts to build and strengthen their networks and professional communities. Due to this structure, if you are interested in only attending one of these training please email allyson.gardner@opportunityalliance.org to be placed on our wait list.
This important and timely workshop focuses on assisting school personnel and mental health professionals to improve their understanding of models of risk and threat assessment.
Tennies will discuss the characteristics of adolescent development that makes this process so challenging as well as the changes in our society that have contributed. The differences and commonalities of threat versus forensic risk assessments are reviewed as well as the findings of the Safe School Initiative by Homeland Security and Department of Education, which form the foundation to understand the principles of threat assessment. Tennies will introduce you to the threat matrix for decision-making about the level of risk of threats to assist participants in developing more precise ways to assess threats made in school settings.
In the afternoon, the elements and examples of forensic risk assessments are reviewed. Dynamic versus static risk and protective factors are delineated. Specific risk management interventions and strategies are provided with time for small group activities to individualize these strategies for your own organization.
Early bird fee: $55.00 if registration fee is paid by 11/15/19.
Individuals living with serious mental health conditions die on average 25 years earlier than the general population, most often from tobacco related cancer, heart disease, and lung disease.
If you work in the behavioral health field, you know that tobacco can be a difficult issue to address. Your clients – people with mental health diagnoses – are more likely to use tobacco, to smoke more and to have a harder time quitting than those without such a diagnosis. However, these individuals want to quit and CAN quit. But they may need some extra support.
Join other behavioral health professionals and MaineHealth Center for Tobacco Independence Training and Education staff for a half-day training to learn more about confronting tobacco use in individuals with behavioral health conditions.
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is a brain-based physical disability with behavioral symptoms.
The FASD BASICS workshop introduces a neurobehavioral approach to living with, caring for, and working with individuals and families impacted by FASD acknowledges the source of behaviors: the brain, and provides a set of research-based best practices for helping people with fetal alcohol exposure.
Whether you are already providing consent education, or don’t know where to start, this training is for you!
As a result of this training, participants will:
- Be able to define consent.
- Understand Maine’s new consent education law.
- Identify age-appropriate messages and strategies for addressing consent.
- Share lesson plans and ideas for incorporating consent in their work with youth, in and out of the classroom
Lunch is included in the registration fee.
2019 Clinical Opioid Update: Learning Objectives:
- Review latest research relating to opioid + pain prescribing practices
- Constantly consider harm reduction
- Discuss opioid use disorder and treatments
2019 Legal Opioid Update: Learning Objectives:
- Review impact of Chapter 488 in Maine
- Discuss opioid laws, rules and initiatives of the new administration
- Study Chapter 21 requirements & logical implementation
- Investigate methods to further transform local and regional prescribing
Co-Prescribing Benzodiazepines and Opioids: The Black Box of Increased Overdose Risk: Learning Objectives:
- Review the trends in benzodiazepine prescribing
- Evaluate risks of co-prescribing benzodiazepines and opioids
- Consider taper plans
- Recall importance of risk reduction
Registration is Free – Advanced Registration is required. Light snacks will be provided.
2019 Clinical Opioid Update: Learning Objectives:
- Review latest research relating to opioid + pain prescribing practices
- Constantly consider harm reduction
- Discuss opioid use disorder and treatments
2019 Legal Opioid Update: Learning Objectives:
- Review impact of Chapter 488 in Maine
- Discuss opioid laws, rules and initiatives of the new administration
- Study Chapter 21 requirements & logical implementation
- Investigate methods to further transform local and regional prescribing
Co-Prescribing Benzodiazepines and Opioids: The Black Box of Increased Overdose Risk: Learning Objectives:
- Review the trends in benzodiazepine prescribing
- Evaluate risks of co-prescribing benzodiazepines and opioids
- Consider taper plans
- Recall importance of risk reduction
Registration is Free – Advanced Registration is required. Light snacks will be provided.
