The Prescription Playbook

Expand your knowledge of opioids, fentanyl, counterfeit pills, kratom, and other easily accessible substances such as stimulants as well as their impact on youth and our communities.

Practical Harm Reduction for Prevention

Review how to create open dialogues about substance use while considering the language we use in our work, learn practical tips to teach actual injury mitigation tools, and consider how to expand these practices and policies in your workplace.

Emerging Drug Trends and Tools

Examine emerging drug trends, map the modern drug supply chain, and translate these realities into practical strategies for protecting the health and wellness of PWUD (people who use drugs).

Generation Nicotine? What Youth Nicotine Use Looks Like Now

Nicotine products are changing - and so are the ways young people are exposed to them. This session explores today’s nicotine trends, with a focus on the rise of nicotine pouches and vape pens, and how these products evolved, and why they appeal to youth.

Uplifting Youth in Our Communities: Engaging Youth for Positive Change

Learn the importance of youth voice in local policy change and how both youth and communities benefit from a curriculum based on direct, involved student experience of their local government as a service-learning project focusing on a current local problem or issue.

Regional Anchors, Strong Communities: Enhancing Access to Behavioral Health Services

The Community Network Anchor program was created to strengthen the work of supporting children and families in the mental and behavioral health system by building a regional network of families and organizations. Learn about the role the anchor’s play, how you can partner with them, and gain practical knowledge of regional resources.

Fundamentals of Youth Crisis Response

Establish a foundational understanding of how to recognize and respond to youth experiencing emotional distress or in crisis.

Leveraging Systems of Care to Increase Recovery Capital for the Unhoused

Learn person-centered interventions, best practice for systems of care, and the unique barriers faced by the unhoused communities. Become empowered to address homelessness through domains of wellness.

Changing Laws, Changing Lives: How Advocacy Shapes the Future of Tobacco & Vaping Prevention

Learn what currently exists in tobacco policy, as well as how federal, state, and local tobacco laws intersect, why advocacy is one of the most powerful tools for public health, and how successful policies across Illinois are already reducing youth access to harmful products.

Changing Laws, Changing Lives: How Advocacy Shapes the Future of Tobacco & Vaping Prevention

Learn what currently exists in tobacco policy, as well as how federal, state, and local tobacco laws intersect, why advocacy is one of the most powerful tools for public health, and how successful policies across Illinois are already reducing youth access to harmful products.

The Algorithmic Rewiring of Youth Mental Health: Screen Time, Social Media, and How Caregivers Can Help

Look at the impact of social media and screen time on youth and learn practical strategies for addressing challenges. The session will examine the prevalence of social media use amongst young people and the impact of screen time on youth mental health and development across multiple age ranges. Attendees will explore options for reducing the negative impacts of social media and screen time on both youth.

The Algorithmic Rewiring of Youth Mental Health: Screen Time, Social Media, and How Caregivers Can Help

Look at the impact of social media and screen time on youth and learn practical strategies for addressing challenges. The session will examine the prevalence of social media use amongst young people and the impact of screen time on youth mental health and development across multiple age ranges. Attendees will explore options for reducing the negative impacts of social media and screen time on both youth.