Webi-Conference: Understanding Substance Use Disorders
Topics: Family contact and birth parents, Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder or pre-natal exposure to drugs, Substance abuse
format: Webinar
Reaching for understanding, reaching for hope
These workshops may meet ITP (Individual Training Plan) topics for substance Use, FASD, and working with birth parents.
Fill out a questionnaire for each webinar to receive 1.0 training credit for each course
Day one: Understanding substance use and substance use disorder
- The role of OCS with families and substance use
- Current trends in substance use in Alaska and amongst adolescents
- Vaping and e-cigarettes use in Alaska youth
- Focus on parents: Signs, when to be concerned, how to be involved
- Understanding and accessing substance use services for youth in Alaska
- Naloxone training: How to respond to a drug poisoning
Day two: Making the journey with youth and families
- Understanding how addiction and involvement with OCS impacts the birth family
- When addiction runs in the family: Information for relative caregivers when fostering a child in your home
- Panel and presentation by parents raising youth with an FASD
Resources for Resource Families
- I Know Mine (Resources for Youth)
- SAMSHA Resources on Substance Use
- Treatment Connection Website to find treatment resources
- Partnership to End Addiction (Formerly Partnership for Drug Free Kids Partnership to End Addiction (drugfree.org)
- Drug Guide for Parents
- Alaska Insight Program 2022 on Fentanyl in Alaska
- Cultural Factors within Substance Use in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
The role of OCS with families and substance use
Danielle Milliron, Amber Staricha, and Diane Palmer
- PowerPoint slides
Current trends in substance use in Alaska and amongst adolescents
Coleman Cutchins, ParmD, BCPS, and Regina McConkey, Program Coordinator DOH Office of Substance Misuse & Addiction Prevention
- Youth Risk Behavior Survey
- PowerPoint slides
- Seven Types of Stigma
- Opiod Overdose Kit Order
- Alaska Public Health Centers can give naloxone training and resources at any time
- Project Hope
Vaping and e-cigarettes use in Alaska youth
Bea Pullekins, DOH Tobacco Prevention and Control Program
Focus on parents: signs, when to be concerned, how to be involved
Julie Luey, Volunteers of Alaska
- ACES and the relationship to toxic stress. What Are ACEs? And How Do They Relate to Toxic Stress? (harvard.edu)
- VOA Rapid Response Team 907-279-640
Understanding and accessing substance use services for youth in Alaska
Julie Luey, Volunteers of Alaska
Naloxone training: How to respond to a drug poisoning
Aaron Osterback, Volunteers of America
Get a Naloxone Kit and Find out About Training from any of these Alaska organizations: Project HOPE Contacts (alaska.gov)
Understanding how addiction and involvement with OCS impacts the birth family
Danielle Zundel, Chemical Dependency Counselor I, Southcentral Parent Leader for the Parent Advisory Committee
When addiction runs in the family: Information for relative caregivers when fostering a child in your home
Felicia Tungal, Volunteers of American Kinship Care Program
Flash training: Addictionary, Changing the Language of Addiction
Panel and presentation by parents raising youth with an FASD
Meagan Waller and Karen Lomack
- FASD Collaborative
- Epigenetics and its Impact on Child Development
- State of Alaska OCMAP FASD Program
Hope and Prevention: RECOVER ALASKA Media Campaigns
Reaching for understanding, reaching for hope
These workshops may meet ITP (Individual Training Plan) topics for substance Use, FASD, and working with birth parents.
Fill out a questionnaire for each webinar to receive 1.0 training credit for each course
Day one: Understanding substance use and substance use disorder
- The role of OCS with families and substance use
- Current trends in substance use in Alaska and amongst adolescents
- Vaping and e-cigarettes use in Alaska youth
- Focus on parents: Signs, when to be concerned, how to be involved
- Understanding and accessing substance use services for youth in Alaska
- Naloxone training: How to respond to a drug poisoning
Day two: Making the journey with youth and families
- Understanding how addiction and involvement with OCS impacts the birth family
- When addiction runs in the family: Information for relative caregivers when fostering a child in your home
- Panel and presentation by parents raising youth with an FASD
Resources for Resource Families
- I Know Mine (Resources for Youth)
- SAMSHA Resources on Substance Use
- Treatment Connection Website to find treatment resources
- Partnership to End Addiction (Formerly Partnership for Drug Free Kids Partnership to End Addiction (drugfree.org)
- Drug Guide for Parents
- Alaska Insight Program 2022 on Fentanyl in Alaska
- Cultural Factors within Substance Use in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
The role of OCS with families and substance use
Danielle Milliron, Amber Staricha, and Diane Palmer
- PowerPoint slides
Current trends in substance use in Alaska and amongst adolescents
Coleman Cutchins, ParmD, BCPS, and Regina McConkey, Program Coordinator DOH Office of Substance Misuse & Addiction Prevention
- Youth Risk Behavior Survey
- PowerPoint slides
- Seven Types of Stigma
- Opiod Overdose Kit Order
- Alaska Public Health Centers can give naloxone training and resources at any time
- Project Hope
Vaping and e-cigarettes use in Alaska youth
Bea Pullekins, DOH Tobacco Prevention and Control Program
Focus on parents: signs, when to be concerned, how to be involved
Julie Luey, Volunteers of Alaska
- ACES and the relationship to toxic stress. What Are ACEs? And How Do They Relate to Toxic Stress? (harvard.edu)
- VOA Rapid Response Team 907-279-640
Understanding and accessing substance use services for youth in Alaska
Julie Luey, Volunteers of Alaska
Naloxone training: How to respond to a drug poisoning
Aaron Osterback, Volunteers of America
Get a Naloxone Kit and Find out About Training from any of these Alaska organizations: Project HOPE Contacts (alaska.gov)
Understanding how addiction and involvement with OCS impacts the birth family
Danielle Zundel, Chemical Dependency Counselor I, Southcentral Parent Leader for the Parent Advisory Committee
When addiction runs in the family: Information for relative caregivers when fostering a child in your home
Felicia Tungal, Volunteers of American Kinship Care Program
Flash training: Addictionary, Changing the Language of Addiction
Panel and presentation by parents raising youth with an FASD
Meagan Waller and Karen Lomack
- FASD Collaborative
- Epigenetics and its Impact on Child Development
- State of Alaska OCMAP FASD Program
Hope and Prevention: RECOVER ALASKA Media Campaigns
