If you have been called on to develop or expand a suicide prevention program in a state or community, and you want it to have maximum impact, then this course may be for you. A Strategic Planning Approach to Suicide Prevention can help you identify activities that will be effective in addressing the problem of suicide and help you prioritize your efforts. To bring the approach to life, this training presents a case study that illustrates how a community task force applies the strategic planning process to their work.

This 2 hour course teaches you to:

• Describe the suicide problem and its context.
• Choose long-term goals for a suicide prevention program.
• Identify key risk and protective factors to focus on.
• Select or develop interventions to decrease or increase these risk and protective factors.
• Plan an evaluation.
• Implement the interventions and the evaluation.
• Take further action based on the evaluation.

This course is open to anyone and can be completed in approximately two or three hours. You do not have to complete the course in one session. You can exit the course at any time and return later to the place where you left off. 

SPRC is not a crisis center. If you are thinking of hurting yourself, or if you are concerned that someone you know may be suicidal, contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline by phone 1-800-273-TALKCall: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)

The Suicide Prevention Resource Center at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center is supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), under Grant No. 1H79SM083028. The views, opinions, and content expressed in this product do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, or policies of CMHS, SAMHSA, or HHS.

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Join us for the first offering in this informative pharmacology course series. This course will explore the pharmacology of alcohol. The presenter will cover how alcohol addiction impacts major brain regions and the acute and chronic symptoms associated with alcohol use. Specific features of alcohol dependence and withdrawal will be discussed. Additionally, we will discuss alcohol use during pregnancy and the categories of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). 

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

1. Define alcohol addiction and list the components that influence stigma.
2. Describe the acute and chronic effects of alcohol use.

Course developed by the Northwest Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) with support from SAMHSA Cooperative Agreement Number is: # H79SP080995-01

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The Covid-19 pandemic facilitated an extremely rapid-shift from in-person group counseling to “virtual groups.” Though in-person meetings have resumed, the virtual group model has been received positively by many clients and is a format that is here to stay. This 1.5 hour, 10-part, self-paced, eLearning course is designed to help group facilitators improve their understanding of the intricacies of leading virtual groups and build their skills along the way.

This publication was prepared with funding from cooperative agreements with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). All material appearing in this publication, except that taken directly from copyrighted sources, is in the public domain and may be reproduced without permission from SAMHSA or the authors. Citation of the source is appreciated. Do not reproduce or distribute this publication for a fee without specific, written authorization from the Great Lakes ATTC and any other contributing authors. At the time of this publication, Miriam Delphin-Rittmon, PhD, serves as the SAMHSA Assistant Secretary. The opinions expressed herein are the views of the presenters and do not reflect the official position of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), SAMHSA. No official support or endorsement of DHHS, SAMHSA, or the opinions described in this document, is intended or should be inferred.

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As we plan and work toward improving the overall wellness of the communities we serve, it is important that we understand the social determinants of health (SDOH). The SDOH are the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks. Understanding SDOH and how prevention work intersects with them is essential to providing a comprehensive approach in your community. In this course you will have the opportunity to examine the SDOH and how prevention professionals can use this framework in developing innovative prevention strategies and build partnerships across multiple disciplines in your community.

The course consists of an interactive content module and a completion quiz. It is estimated that the course may take up to 1 hour to complete.

This course was developed by the Great Lakes Prevention Technology Transfer Center, which is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and covers the HHS Region 5(IN, IL, MI, MN, OH, WI).

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This 45 minute course was developed by the National Family Support Technical Assistance Center(NFSTAC). The course provides training that supports the process to become a Certified Family Peer Specialist (CFPS). This course does not prepare individuals for the CFPS exam; however, completion of this course can be submitted as one training to meet the application requirements.

In this mini course, we will look specifically at the support young adults and adult children can provide in the role of an FPS - based on their lived experience. 

The National Family Support Technical Assistance Center Grant #1H79F6000160-Fam-CoE is supported by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) of the United States. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award with 100 percent funded by SAMHSA/HHS.

The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by SAMHSA/HHS, or the U.S. Government.

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Family Peer Support Across the Lifespan course is a prerequisite to accessing this topic. You must take it before you are able to enroll in this course. You will recieve the enrollment key for this course after completion of it.

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This 2-hour eLearning training offers experienced prevention professionals an in-depth exploration of the role of ethics in substance misuse prevention work. The course includes a brief overview of basic  ethical concepts and then explores some of the pertinent issues in prevention ethics. It also provides expanded opportunities to apply a decision-making model to challenge ethical issues.

This e-learning course was adapted by the Mountain Plains Prevention Technology Center (PTTC), a grant from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA); grant no. H79SP080971.

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Sexual and reproductive health providers care for individuals across the lifespan, yet age-specific clinical recommendations can shift in important ways during adolescence, young adulthood, midlife, and the perimenopausal years. This webinar provides a practical, evidence-informed review of sexual and reproductive health recommendations across key life stages: adolescents, young adults, middle-aged adults, and individuals in the perimenopausal transition. Participants will explore how clinical priorities evolve over time, including preventive services recommendations for adolescents, pregnancy prevention and STI screening for younger adults, chronic disease and reproductive health intersections in midlife, and counseling considerations during perimenopause. Emphasis will be placed on person-centered, developmentally appropriate care that supports informed decision-making and timely access to services.


This training is supported by DHHS grant # 1 FPTPA006031-01-00. The opinions expressed herein are the views of the trainers and does not reflect the official position of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Office of Population Affairs (OPA). No official support or endorsement of DHHS, OPA, for the opinions described in this training is intended or should be inferred.

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This mini-course covers information on how facilities become licensed in Kansas and regulations affecting SUD programs. This course is part of an online 6-course series, Understanding Addiction Services in Kansas: A Mini-course Series, designed for Kansas mental health and addiction counseling professionals and organization leaders who need to know about topics essential to Kansas Substance Use Disorder (SUD) practice.

This course was developed for Kansas by the Mid-America Addiction Technology Transfer Center, in partnership with the Kansas Association of Addiction Professionals, and Kansas content specialists.

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This course, developed by the Southeast PTTC, provides an overview of how policy change can be an effective strategy for prevention professionals to address community-level problems with alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. The goal of the course is to dispel some of the concerns around policy and help community coalitions and partners see that it is feasible, do-able and most importantly, impactful.

Developed by the Southeast Prevention Technology Transfer Center at Wake Forest School of Medicine.  

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In this interactive course, you will learn how the principles, tools, and approaches to continuous quality improvement (CQI) can optimize their prevention work. The course explores how to incorporate the key tools of CQI – including the Plan, Do, Study, Act cycle– into all phases of your prevention work to ensure your programs are efficient and effective. 

The course consists of an interactive content module and a completion quiz. It is estimated that the course may take up to 2 hours to complete.

This course was developed by the Great Lakes Prevention Technology Transfer Center, which is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and covers the HHS Region 5 (IN, IL, MI, MN, OH, WI).

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The Basics of Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) for Early Psychosis is a self-paced online course designed introduce the evidence-based, multidisciplinary early intervention service for individuals experiencing a first episode of psychosis. The purpose of this 5 hour course is to provide a basic orientation to CSC's treatment components for staff and trainees that are beginning to work in a CSC program and to those who are interested in learning more about CSC.  

Each course module is co-presented by individuals with professional and lived experience. The following course was developed with financial support provided by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMSHA).   

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Join us for the fourth and final offering in our pharmacology course series. This course will explore the pharmacology of cannabis. The presenter will cover how cannabis addiction impacts major brain regions and the acute and chronic symptoms associated with cannabis use. Specific features of cannabis dependence and withdrawal will be discussed specifically symptoms that occur when a person is discontinuing its use.

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

1. Define addiction and how it impacts regions of the brain.
2. Describe the acute and chronic effects of cannabis use and withdrawal.

Course developed by the Northwest Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) with support from SAMHSA Cooperative Agreement Number is: # H79SP080995-01

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This course will explore the pharmacology of opioids. The presenter will cover how opioid addiction impacts major brain regions and the acute and chronic symptoms associated with opioid use. Specific features of opioid dependence and withdrawal will be discussed specifically symptoms that occur when a person is discontinuing their use.

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

1. Define addiction and how it impacts regions of the brain.
2. Describe the acute and chronic effects of opioid use and withdrawal.

Course developed by the Northwest Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) with support from SAMHSA Cooperative Agreement Number is: # H79SP080995-01

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Join us for the third offering in our pharmacology course series. This course will explore the pharmacology of psychostimulants with a focus on cocaine and methamphetamines. The presenter will cover how psychostimulant addiction impacts major brain regions and the acute and chronic symptoms associated with cocaine and methamphetamine use. Specific features of psychostimulant dependence and withdrawal will be discussed specifically symptoms that occur when a person is discontinuing their use.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

1. Define addiction and how it impacts regions of the brain.
2. Describe the acute and chronic effects of cocaine and methamphetamine use and withdrawal.

Course developed by the Northwest Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) with support from SAMHSA Cooperative Agreement Number is: # H79SP080995-01

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This 1.5 hour course is designed to educate employers and employees about mental health and substance use issues that may arise in the workplace and how to manage them. It is not designed for the mental health professional, and this series does not train the viewer to diagnose, only to recognize and respond. Behavioral health and substance use are common occurrences. Everyone in the workplace can make an impact by learning more about these conditions, working to reduce stigma, and learning how to talk to a coworker who might be struggling and help them to access supportive resources.

This presentation was prepared for the Mid-America Addiction Technology Center (Mid-America ATTC), Mid-America Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (Mid-America MHTTC), and the Mid-America Prevention Technology Transfer Center (Mid-America PTTC) under a cooperative agreement from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

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Suicide is a leading cause of death among American Indians and Alaska Native people. This 1.5 hour training will help you build your knowledge of Indigenous people and learn to balance that knowledge with an understanding that there is always more to learn. Using education, interactive scenarios, and knowledge checks, this course will help you understand how to better support Indigenous individuals in crisis.

Objectives By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Recognize the strengths of Indigenous communities
• Clarify common assumptions and misconceptions about Native people and communities
• Identify resources and supports for Native people in crisis

The Suicide Prevention Resource Center at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center is supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), under Grant No. 1H79SM083028. The views, opinions, and content expressed in this product do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, or policies of CMHS, SAMHSA, or HHS.

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Data collection is a critical and ongoing component of prevention, especially when following a data- informed evidence-based process like SAMHSA’ s Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) . Data are relevant in some way to every step of the SPF. The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency created many  challenges in implementing effective prevention, including data collection. While much of our work in prevention has returned to pre-pandemic approaches, there are some advantages to online data collection methods and it is worth considering when collecting data virtually might better meet data  collection needs.

This 1.5 hour self-paced online course will provide a general overview of evaluation and best pra ctices for collecting primary data virtually , focusing on both quantitative and qualitative data collection methods.  The course will review online surveys, including surveys with youth and ethical considerations; focus groups and listening sessions; interv iews; and other methods. The course will use case study examples and provide additional resources.

The Pacific Southwest Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) developed this course with support from SAMHSA of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) through SAMHSA Cooperative Agreement #H79SP081015-01. 

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By the end of this course, participants will be able to do the following:

• - Recognize the Best Practices Registry's impact on suicide prevention efforts and the support it provides to professionals and communities working to implement suicide prevention practices that have evidence of effectiveness.
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• - Use critical thinking to assess the strengths and weaknesses of Best Practices Registry applications. This includes applying best practices and considering and valuing other ways of knowing to create an impartial review process.
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• - Navigate the review of a Best Practices Registry application and apply this knowledge to a simulated application scenario.

The Suicide Prevention Resource Center at the University of Oklahoma is supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), under Grant No. 1H79SM090640 . The views, opinions, and content expressed in this product do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, or policies of CMHS, SAMHSA, or HHS.

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The Brief Intervention for School Clinicians (BRISC) is a brief (four session) assessment, engagement, initial intervention, and triage strategy that aims to promote efficiency and structure in school mental health (SMH) service delivery, while also using treatment elements that are research-based. 

Clinicians using the BRISC approach quickly assess the student's needs using a structured process and then engage the youth in problem solving around data-informed treatment goals. A selected number of treatment elements from cognitive-behavioral therapy and other research-based psychosocial interventions are used to ensure the student's success. Systematic progress monitoring guides clinical decisions within BRISC and selection of a post-BRISC treatment pathway for the student.

This BRISC e-learning is a 2 hour self-paced asynchronous web-based course that provides a basic orientation to the rationale for and treatment elements of BRISC in advance of (1) a live/synchronous session in which BRISC activities are modeled and practiced, and (2) consultation and fidelity assessment and feedback from BRISC experts.

Development of the Brief Intervention for School Clinicians (BRISC) and this e-Learning was supported by the Institute for Education Sciences, U.D. Department of Education, through Grant R305A160111 as well as the Northwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC), funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

*Note: This is a private course that requires an enrollment key. 

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The Brief Intervention for School Clinicians (BRISC) is a brief (four session) assessment, engagement, initial intervention, and triage strategy that aims to promote efficiency and structure in school mental health (SMH) service delivery, while also using treatment elements that are research-based. 

Clinicians using the BRISC approach quickly assess the student's needs using a structured process and then engage the youth in problem solving around data-informed treatment goals. A selected number of treatment elements from cognitive-behavioral therapy and other research-based psychosocial interventions are used to ensure the student's success. Systematic progress monitoring guides clinical decisions within BRISC and selection of a post-BRISC treatment pathway for the student.

This BRISC e-learning is a 2 hour self-paced asynchronous web-based course that provides a basic orientation to the rationale for and treatment elements of BRISC in advance of (1) a live/synchronous session in which BRISC activities are modeled and practiced, and (2) consultation and fidelity assessment and feedback from BRISC experts.

Development of the Brief Intervention for School Clinicians (BRISC) and this e-Learning was supported by the Institute for Education Sciences, U.D. Department of Education, through Grant R305A160111 as well as the Northwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC), funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

*Note: This is a private course that requires an enrollment key. 

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