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Assessing Cultural Competency
This Training will cover:
 

  • Principles of Cultural Competence

  • Tools for Assessing Your Coalition and Workplace

  • Action Steps for Working Towards Cultural Competence


 
WHEN:  Thursday, May 15, 2008
                 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
       
WHERE: Central MA Center for Healthy Communities 44 Front Street, Suite 280   Worcester, MA (A Program of LUK)
                 
 
For more information
or  To Register:
 
Call 508-438-0515 or
 
E-Mail: jrivera@cmchc.org
 
Please note: $25 registration fee
 
Checks payable to LUK, Inc.
Some Scholarships available call for information
May 13th - 14th

Annual Massachusetts Department of Public Health Statewide Suicide Prevention Conference
Conference brochures available on the Coalition website at www.MassPreventsSuicide.org

Worcester Police Department Annual YOUTH SUMMIT
May 15, 2008 from 6-9 PM
Boys & Girls Club of Worcester
FREE for all youth and families
 Click Here to Download the Youth Summit PDF Flier

2nd Annual, Massachusetts Department of Public Health Bureau of Substance Abuse Services Recovery Community Conference – No Wrong Door to Recovery: Education is the Key. This year’s consumer-based conference will be held on Tuesday, May 20th at the Best Western Royal Plaza in Marlborough, Massachusetts. No Wrong Door to Recovery is intended to meet the needs of persons in recovery from addiction and families of persons with histories of addiction .
To register please contact AdCare Educational Institute:
Phone: 508.752.7313; TTY: 508.754.0039

Join DPH for a series of FREE trainings and learn how to enhance your capacity to use national, state and local data to inform policy and identify program priorities

WHAT: Trend Analysis: Changes Over Time*

WHEN: Wednesday, May 21 st from 9:30am – 4pm

WHERE: Hoagland Pincus Center – 22 Maple Ave. Shrewsbury, MA

  • Participants will identify the benefits of examining trends over time
  • Participants will use trend analysis to understand health outcomes in their community by examining the frequency and distribution of these health outcomes in terms of time trends and racial/ethnic group trends
  • Participants will use trend analysis results to make future projections and policy recommendations
  • Participants will plot their outcome of interest over time and analyze the results

WHAT: Putting it All Together – Writing a Community Report**

WHEN: Thursday, June 19 th from 9:30am – 4pm

WHERE: Hoagland Pincus Center – 22 Maple Ave. Shrewsbury, MA

  • Participants will describe the elements in a report
  • Participants will draft an outline and begin to write up results from trainings from Jan – May
  • Participants will share preliminary results with other trainees
  • Participants will develop a plan for creating a final community report with quantitative and qualitative data

All trainings are FREE and include lunch!

For more information or to register, please contact

Dahlia Bousaid at 617.624.6078 or email dahlia.bousaid@state.ma.us

 
* Requires familiarity using MassCHIP as a pre-requisite
**Requires familiarity using MassCHIP, “Risk Statistics in Evaluating Teen Health Outcomes” AND “Trend Analysis: Changes Over Time” OR “Using Focus Groups as an Analytic Tool” as a pre-requisite

Social Norms Marketing Workshop

Sponsored by: The Office of Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

9:30 am – 3:00 pm

Best Western Royal Plaza

181 Boston Post Road West, Marlborough, MA 01752

Presenter: L. Suzanne Suggs, PH.D, CHES

Suzanne will introduce the concept of social marketing and the rationale for using it. She will highlight methods of obtaining funding, finding inexpensive resources, creating partnership opportunities, and using innovative strategies. She will focus on examples of effective social marketing campaigns, including what works and what kind of outcomes can be achieved. The workshop will be presented in an interactive fashion that allows questions and dialog between the participants and the presenter.

RSVP by Friday, May 16, 2008

For more information please email Amane AbdelJaber at amane.abdeljaber@state.ma.us

or Call 617.727.2200 ext.2693

$20 registration fee.

The 5-hour training workshop will include breakfast and lunch.

  • The 2008 New England School of Addiction Studies will be held June 9 - 13, 2008 at Franklin Pierce University, Rindge, NH
  • The 2008 New England School of Prevention Studies will be held June 9 - 11, 2008 colocated at Franklin Pierce University, Rindge, NH.
  • The 2008 New England School of Best Practices in Addiction Treatment (advanced coursework and specialized opioid dependence treatment coursework) will be held August 18 - 21, 2008 at the Waterville Valley Resort and Conference Center, Waterville Valley, NH

Mark your Calendars!

The 2008 Youth At Risk Conference will be held on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at Endicott College.

Please click here for more information.

2nd Annual Healthy Communities Conference   June 18th 2008, 9am-4pm  Hoagland Pincus Conference Center, Shrewsbury, MA

Partners/Co-sponsors: The Medical Foundation/MassPartnership for Healthy Communities; MA Dept of Public Health; MA Partnership for Healthy Weight; MA Public Health Association; Regional Centers for Healthy Communities; Critical MASS Coalition to End Health Disparities; & Lahey Clinic Medical Center and MA General Hospital/Partners Healthcare.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:             

LAUREN SMITH, MD, MPH, Medical Director, MA DPH

MARKETPLACE FOR IDEAS:  

Exhibit space available.

SKILL BUILDING SESSIONS:

Obesity, substance abuse, youth development, & health disparities

TO REGISTER: WWW.MASSPARTNERSHIP.ORG

For info call: 617-279-2240 x 500 or 617-279-2269

 
Northeast Youth Leadership Institute
July 15-17, 2008
Merrimack College, North Andover
The Northeast Youth Leadership Training is a 3 day, 2 night program dedicated to empowering youth ages 14 to 21 to become leaders in creating healthier communities. Program information will be made available on the Youth at Risk website, www.essexcountyyouth.org the 4th week in April. For more information, contact Penny Bruce at 978-668-2323 x8615
 

Organizations Offering Professional Development Opportunities & Training

Adcare Educational Institute www.adcare-educational.org

Associated Grant Makers http://www.agmconnect.org/

BEST Training Institute meets the youth-work field's need for training in best practices based on positive, healthy outcomes for young people. http://www.youthworkcentral.org/best_training_institute.html

Central Massachusetts Area Health Education Center http://www.cmahec.org/

Central Mass Communities of Care
http://www.mass-communitiesofcare.org/Professional%20Training.htm

The Center for Democracy and Humanity at MWCC http://democracy.mwcc.edu/pages/1.html

GLBT Youth Support Project Training Directory http://www.hcsm.org/glys

Greater Boston Center for Healthy Communities http://www.masspreventioncenter.org/

Health Care of Southeastern Massachusetts http://www.hcsm.org/

MassPartnership for Healthy Communities http://www.tmfnet.org/partnership/training_technical.html

MassHealth Training Forum http://www.masshealthmtf.org/

Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling
http://www.masscompulsivegambling.org/paths/pro_training.php

Massachusetts Nonprofit Network http://www.massnonprofitcalendar.org/

Massachusetts Public Health Association http://www.mphaweb.org/calendar.php

National Association of Social Workers WebEd http://www.naswwebed.org/

National Prevention Network http://swpc.ou.edu/npn/

New Beginnings http://www.nbprograms.com/

New England Institute of Addiction Studies http://www.neias.org/

New England Inhalant Abuse Prevention Coalition http://www.inhalantabusetraining.org/

Northeast Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT)

Northeast Center for Healthy Communities http://www.nc4hc.org/

Regional (Metro West) Center for Healthy Communities http://www.healthier-communities.org/

UMass Medical School Tobacco Treatment Specialist Trainings http://www.umassmed.edu/behavmed/tobacco/ or call 508-856-4099.

Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center http://www.udetc.org/

Western Mass Center for Healthy Communities http://www.westernmasshealthycommunities.org/pages/what/work&con.html

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