Consumer and Family Advisory Board Executive Committee of New Mexico--Meetings held:
January 24, 2007
April 25, 2007
July 25, 2007
October 24, 2007
More information and registration form in pdf.

New Mexico Prevention Generalist Training (Specially added workshop)
March 5-9
This five-day workshop is designed to provide new and returning prevention workers a strong foundation in the basic principles of current alcohol, tobacco and drug prevention practices. The workshop covers prevention certification basic pharmacology, effective program approaches, cultural competency, development of multiple long-term strategies with targeted groups, effective prevention programming components, and program evaluation.

New ! Improved! Expanded Institute!
ENDING VIOLENCE AGAINST NATIVE WOMEN TRAINING INSTITUTE
March 6 - 9, 2007 - Rapid City, SD
More information and registration form in pdf.

Developmental Assets: A Strength-Based Approach for Prevention
March 9, 9 am – 5 pm • Albuquerque
This interactive workshop is designed for educators, health professionals and others working with youth to prevent high-risk behaviors, especially substance abuse. The workshop will introduce the research-based Developmental Assets framework, demonstrate the power of strength-based practices and invite participants to become asset builders in their personal and professional life. Participants will analyze current practices from an assets perspective and walk away with ideas, tools, skills and strategies that they can use immediately.

As a result of participating in this training, participants will:

• Understand the asset framework and its power to protect against high-risk behaviors and promote thriving behaviors;
• Relate brain research to strength-based practice;
• Examine strength-based practices through the asset-building lens;
• Explore strategies for building assets and gain asset-building skills;
• Explore resources for on-going support; and
• Develop an action plan and share a personal commitment to act.
  

Free Federal Grant Writing Conference
March 15, 2007 - Location: UNM Student Union Building, Albuquerque, NM
Time: 8:15-4:00
More information and registration form in pdf

Engaging Youth and Future Leaders in Coalition Efforts
March 16, 9 am – 5 pm • Las Cruces
This workshop takes a look at the steps needed to include youth in community coalitions, advisory boards and neighborhoods associations. Participants will explore what it means for youth to be really included and the benefits derived from having them involved. We will be using various community mobilization models to see how youth can be woven in to help coalitions, have more youth represented, and still be effective. This workshop will be very interactive and give participants activities to use when trying to help adults and youth understand the meaning of coalition building and community mobilization.

The 8th Annual HIV/AIDS Wellness Conference
March 19 – 22, 2007
For additional information, contact Marie R. Kirk at (505) 764-0036 ext 116 or at mkirk@aaihb.org

Trauma among Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Youth--A Culture and Trauma Teleconference
March 22, 2007; 12 noon for 90 minutes. Held at Childhaven, airport building, Farmington, NM. Visit www.NCTSN.org/cultureseries for registration information, advanced presentation materials, and opportunities to pose questions to the invited speakers. Other Teleconferences and information in pdf.

Cultural Competency in Action: Effectively Interacting with Diverse Populations
March 22, 9 am – 5 pm • GallupCultural Competency in Action will enhance your skills to better communicate with an increasing diverse population. Participants will learn the process of clarifying misinformation and removing the guilt that keeps racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of prejudice in place.
In this workshop, you will learn to:

• Become an effective advocate
• Raise cultural awareness
• Unfreeze prejudicial attitudes
• Interrupt prejudicial practices
• Clarify racial misinformation
• Examine closely held beliefs, values and behaviors
• Recognize prejudice in institutions as well as ourselves
• Become allies for people from diverse backgrounds
• Empower yourself as an agent of change
  

Cultural Competency: Healing Wounds and Bridging Cultures
March 23, 9 am – 5 pm • Gallup
Prejudice and oppression can produce deep, life-limiting wounds in its victims, affecting even unborn generations. In this workshop, we will look a the devastation created by cultural insensitivity and oppression, and examine our options for healing. We will explore:

• The decision whether to do healing work (necessary conditions and potential benefits)
• Empowerment issues around healing work
• Safety issues around healing work
• The steps involved in the healing process
• Sharing and educating your culture with the outside community

Strategic Prevention Framework: Step 3 – Planning
March 19 or March 20, 9 am – 4:30 pm • Albuquerque (Please note: The workshops March 19 and March 20 are the same. Please only pick one date)

This workshop will provide the information needed to develop a comprehensive, data-driven strategic plan – a plan that can also be used as a management tool. The SPF Strategic Plan is primarily based on the knowledge gained and data gathered during the assessment and capacity phases of this process. Plan components will include the NM SPF SIG Logic Model; community-wide, evidence-based strategies; objectives/activities; and plans for evaluation, capacity development, cultural competency and sustainability.

Trauma among Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Youth--A Culture and Trauma Teleconference
March 22, 2007; 12 noon for 90 minutes. Held at Childhaven, airport building, Farmington, NM. Visit www.NCTSN.org/cultureseries for registration information, advanced presentation materials, and opportunities to pose questions to the invited speakers. Other Teleconferences and information in pdf.

SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN THE LIVES OF NATIVE WOMEN
March 28 - 30, 2007 - Albuquerque, NM
More information and registration form in pdf.

Methamphetamines: Communities at Risk
March 29, 9 am – 5 pm • Ohkay Owingeh (formerly San Juan Pueblo)

Effective prevention efforts recognize that methamphetamine use affects
The health and safety not only of individual users, but of our communities as well.
This workshop will cover topics that include:

• The history of methamphetamine
• The production of methamphetamine, specifically why the manufacturing
• process is so dangerous
• The effects of methamphetamine on the user, the family, and the communities of New Mexico
• Current prevention efforts, including local, state and national legislation

Making Sense of Public Policy: Becoming an Effective Advocate for Change

March 30, 9 am – 5 pm • Ohkay Owingeh (formerly San Juan Pueblo)
Public Policy—everybody talks about the need for effective policies to prevent and reduce substance abuse but how can these policies be brought about? This workshop will focus on the importance of advocacy to substance abuse prevention, how the legislative process works, and will provide skills to help you make your case to policymakers. With a focus on policy advocacy at the state level, the course will provide in-depth, hands-on training and skills that can be applied at the state, local, tribal and federal levels.

Believe in NM Girls 2007: On the Road Project
Deming on Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Las Vegas on Thursday, March 29, 2007
Gallup on Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Carlsbad - during the first week of April
Albuquerque Charter Schools - in April

More information and registration form in pdf.

Suicide 102, Tools for Suicide Intervention and Postvention
For professionals and non-professionals working with suicidal clients of all ages.
April 3, 2007 - Albuquerque, NM
More information and registration form in pdf.

ADVOCACY FOR NATIVE WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN RAPED
April 4 & 5, 2007 - Albuquerque, NM
More information and registration form in pdf.

Update on current prescription drugs commonly used with children (William F. Johnson, M.D.)
April 4, 10 AM – 12 Noon, at Su Vida in Santa Fe.
Sponsored by the New Mexico Alliance for Child Traumatic Stress (NMACTS).
More information and registration form in pdf.

NM Public Health Association 2007 Conference, “Make Public Health a New Mexico Priority”
April 4-6, 2007, Albuquerque Marriott, 2101 Louisiana Blvd. NE, Albuquerque NM
More information and registration form in pdf. Scholarship form in pdf.

Proposal Writing Workshop for Tribal Programs

April 11, 2007 from 1-5pm, April 12, 2007 from 9am-4:30pm (must attend both days) - Value Options, Albq. Service Center, 7th floor Roadrunner C+B / A+B

Target audience: Tribal administrators, planners, program managers, providers, etc.

RSVP to Wanda Yazzie (505) 474-3136

Sign up now, all participants needed to attend both days.

Seats limited to the first 20 people.

Sponsored by Value Options Region 6, Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board, AAIHS, NM DOH Epidemiology and Response Division, UNM Dept. of Psychiatry PERC

Believe in NM Girls 2007: On the Road Project
Gallup on Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Carlsbad - during the first week of April
Albuquerque Charter Schools - in April

More information and registration form in pdf.

EQUAD CONFERENCE (New Mexico Conference On Child/Adolescent Trauma in Community & Domestic Violence)
April 25 and 26th – at The Scottish Rite Temple.
This is a collaborative effort with law enforcement and community agencies Note: not actually sponsored by NMACTS – NMACTS is one of the collaborators
More information and registration form in pdf.

Addressing the Trauma Treatment Needs of Children Who are Deaf--A Culture and Trauma Teleconference
April 26, 2007; 12 noon for 90 minutes. Held at Childhaven, airport building, Farmington, NM. Visit www.NCTSN.org/cultureseries for registration information, advanced presentation materials, and opportunities to pose questions to the invited speakers. Other Teleconferences and information in pdf.

SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE WORKPLACE
May 8 & 9, 2007 - Prior Lake, MN
More information and registration form in pdf.

Working with Homeless and Runaway Youth--A Culture and Trauma Teleconference
May 24, 2007; 12 noon for 90 minutes. Held at Childhaven, airport building, Farmington, NM. Visit www.NCTSN.org/cultureseries for registration information, advanced presentation materials, and opportunities to pose questions to the invited speakers. Other Teleconferences and information in pdf.

SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE WORKPLACE
May 30 & 31, 2007 - Albuquerque, NM
More information and registration form in pdf.

ADVOCATES' RETREAT: HOW DOES INTERNALIZED OPPRESSION & PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AFFECT YOUR WORK?
June 4 - 6, 2007 - TBA
More information and registration form in pdf.

Women’s Behavioral Health Conference, Embracing a Women’s Journey
June 7-8, 2007 Albuquerque

More information and registration form in pdf.

The Traumatic Experience of Border and Immigrant Youth--A Culture and Trauma Teleconference
June 28, 2007; 12 noon for 90 minutes. Held at Childhaven, airport building, Farmington, NM. Visit www.NCTSN.org/cultureseries for registration information, advanced presentation materials, and opportunities to pose questions to the invited speakers. Other Teleconferences and information in pdf.

American Indian Youth: Current and Historical Trauma--A Culture and Trauma Teleconference
July 26, 2007; 12 noon for 90 minutes. Held at Childhaven, airport building, Farmington, NM. Visit www.NCTSN.org/cultureseries for registration information, advanced presentation materials, and opportunities to pose questions to the invited speakers. Other Teleconferences and information in pdf.

Child and Adolescent Refugee Mental Health--A Culture and Trauma Teleconference
August 23, 2007; 12 noon for 90 minutes. Held at Childhaven, airport building, Farmington, NM. Visit www.NCTSN.org/cultureseries for registration information, advanced presentation materials, and opportunities to pose questions to the invited speakers. Other Teleconferences and information in pdf.

“Restoring Centerpoint” (Beverly Kune, MA, ND, LMT, LPCC)
August 28th, (Tuesday) 10AM- noon
More information and registration form in pdf.

“Tending to the Helpers Fire” Amber Elizabeth Grey. LPCC (Tentative)
(date and time TBD)
More information and registration form in pdf.

Child Trauma, “Race” and Urban Poverty--A Culture and Trauma Teleconference
September 27, 2007; 12 noon for 90 minutes. Held at Childhaven, airport building, Farmington, NM. Visit www.NCTSN.org/cultureseries for registration information, advanced presentation materials, and opportunities to pose questions to the invited speakers. Other Teleconferences and information in pdf.

“Experiential Activities for Working with CTS” Amber Grey, LPCC (Tentative)
October (date and time TBD)
More information and registration form in pdf.

Trauma Treatment Needs of Children and Families in Rural Communities--A Culture and Trauma Teleconference
October 25, 2007; 12 noon for 90 minutes.Held at Childhaven, airport building, Farmington, NM. Visit www.NCTSN.org/cultureseries for registration information, advanced presentation materials, and opportunities to pose questions to the invited speakers. Other Teleconferences and information in pdf.

Creating a "Toolkit” Robin Wiley, LPCC, LISW, LADAC, CISW
November (date and time TBD)
More information and registration form in pdf.

Adapting Trauma-focused Treatment for Culturally Diverse Populations--A Culture and Trauma Teleconference
November 29, 2007; 12 noon for 90 minutes.Held at Childhaven, airport building, Farmington, NM. Visit www.NCTSN.org/cultureseries for registration information, advanced presentation materials, and opportunities to pose questions to the invited speakers. Other Teleconferences and information in pdf.

Spirituality and Child Trauma--A Culture and Trauma Teleconference
December 13, 2007; 12 noon for 90 minutes.Held at Childhaven, airport building, Farmington, NM. Visit www.NCTSN.org/cultureseries for registration information, advanced presentation materials, and opportunities to pose questions to the invited speakers. Other Teleconferences and information in pdf.