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Enhancing the Behavioral Health Workforce:

Prevention Pathways Community of Practice

Overview:

ABHPC will host a monthly online Prevention Pathways Community of Practice. These interactive sessions will provide participants with an opportunity to learn, build skills for successful prevention efforts, and network with other prevention professionals. Discussions will be centered around best practices in prevention, emerging and empirical research, and evidence-based programs. Each session will be led by an experienced consultant with expert knowledge on the topic and will include ample time for participant engagement and interaction.

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» August Topic:

Networking for the Prevention Professional: Creating and Sustaining School-Based Sector Partnerships

Tuesday, August 27 • 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. PT

Engaging youth in prevention is key to emphasizing protective factors and minimizing the impact of risk factors later in life. Schools play a huge part in shaping the lives of youth and are important partners in prevention work. Not only can we easily gain an audience with youth in schools, but we can extend that reach to families of students, and other community members.

As part of our Networking for the Prevention Professional series, this interactive Community of Practice will outline methods to initiate and sustain partnerships with elementary, middle, and high schools. Come join us to speak with prevention professional peers about how to gain an understanding of key roles in school systems and common barriers to implementing prevention in school settings.

About the Presenters

Olivia Shrago (she/her), M.S.W. provides management oversight for the ABHPC program with a focus on Prevention Pathways, which aims to develop and retain the prevention workforce. Olivia received her Master’s in Social Work from the University at Buffalo in New York, where she began her prevention work on the university’s sexual violence prevention team. Since then, Olivia has worked with government-funded suicide and mental health prevention programs across a variety of settings, including middle and high schools, the United States Air Force, and Black churches. Olivia has experience with project management, training design and implementation, and supporting prevention research.

Lane Krumpos (she/her) has witnessed firsthand the intersection of mental health, juvenile justice, and education and understands the transformative impact that can occur when these systems operate collaboratively, inclusively, equitably, and remain trauma-informed. She is passionate about leading with these values, supporting community partners in transformative ways of being, and amplifying youth voices to promote leadership. Throughout her career, Lane has worked in various roles, including the juvenile prison system, policy reform, education, peer counseling, and crisis response mental health. She has created training programs to support schools and community organizations with healing-centered practices, staff wellness and resilience, suicide prevention, suicide intervention, crisis postvention response, and restorative justice practices.

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