Title: Supervision of Prevention Professionals Conference
Format: Virtual via Zoom
Date: November 4 & 5, 2025
Time: 9 am- 4:00 pm CDT
12 Total Continuing Education Hours:
Price: $375
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The basic goals of supervision of the prevention specialist are to assure the delivery of high-quality interventions, create a positive work environment, and develop staff professional and administrative skills.
As an advancing field of professional service, prevention is expanding through levels of certification and through concurrent initiatives with behavioral health. As the certification process advances in states, jurisdictions and tribes, there is little to no training specifically for supervising prevention staff.
This conference will explore staff development, supervisor roles and characteristics, staff performance and retention practices.
November 4th-
9:00-12:00- Supervision of the Prevention Specialist
12:00-1:00 Lunch Break
1:00-2:30- Real-Time Resilience
2:30- 4:00- Generations in the Workforce: How to Harness Differences for Advancement
November 5th-
9:00-12:00- Tapping the Power of Creativity to Elevate Your Leadership
12:00-1:00 Lunch Break
1:00-2:30- The Role of the Prevention Specialist: Hiring, Onboarding, and Setting Up for Success
2:30- 4:00-
All virtual workshops are scheduled in Central Time, CDT, Use the time zone converter , then enter Texas, Houston
Descriptions:
November 4th-
9:00-12:00- Supervision of the Prevention Specialist As an advancing field of professional service, substance misuse prevention is expanding through levels of certification and through concurrent initiatives with behavioral health. As the certification process advances in states, jurisdictions and tribes, there is little to no training specifically for supervising prevention staff. The basic goals of supervision of the prevention specialist are to assure the delivery of high quality interventions, create a positive work environment, and develop staff professional and administrative skills. This session will discuss characteristics of effective supervisors, the prevention supervisor job description, supervision tools and ethical issues for supervisors.
Presenter: Julie Stevens, ACPS, MPS 3 hrs. in Domain 6 – Professional Growth and Responsibility
Objectives- To familiarize the prevention supervisor with the IC&RC core standards for prevention specialists; To identify prevention supervision roles, tasks, and outcomes; To increase the ability of the supervisor to guide, monitor and evaluate performance of the prevention specialist; To identify the prevention supervisors’ responsibilities to foster an ethical workplace through personal compliance and setting the ethical tone; and To increase the supervisors’ ability to model and foster cultural competence in the prevention specialists that they supervise.
1:00-2:30- Real-Time Resilience is the ability to reset in the moment, recharge throughout the day and restore appropriately to meet the demands of the day. We will normalize and provide solutions to the real challenges to preventions leaders to being fully present, slowing-down without collapsing and feeling a need to GO-GO-GO! Attendees will learn through humor, neuroeducation and practical experience how to map their personal energy to manage daily energy capacity, revive empathy fatigue and burn bright after burnout. Real-Time Resilience is the foundation of the Self-Care and Resilience™ a nervous system-based resilience program that builds self-awareness, distress tolerance, self-regulation and other resilience tools to live life fully without the stress of nonstop thoughts, intense emotional triggers and exhausting energy leaks. This interactive training session focuses on the ABCs of Presence, a repeatable method to reduce overall stress-load throughout the day to restore rhythm. Attendees will practice these everyday resilience skills for use in the workplace, at home and specifically the transition times for daily, real-time application.
Presenter: Jen Schneeman, MBA, C-IAYT, CMHC, CDCA 1.5 hrs. in Domain 6 – Professional Growth and Responsibility
Objectives- Participants will be able to reclaim personal energy from everyday energy leaks and appply the ABCs of Presence to reset and pivot during times of transition.
2:30- 4:00- Generations in the Workforce: How to Harness Differences for Advancement Have you been the recipient or the giver of ‘shade-throwing’ on your generation (“okay Boomer” or “entitled Millennial”)? These terms often come from a place of misunderstanding and our workplace can become a frustrating environment if we don’t understand the core values of each generation. The current workforce primarily includes four generations: Baby Boomers, Gen Xers, Millennials, and Gen Z. Each of these generations have different experiences, values, beliefs, perspectives, philosophies, desires, and interests…all of which influence how they work, who they want to work with, and the emphasis they place on varying tasks and development. As entrepreneurs and leaders in your field, it is vital to not only know these differences, but to see them for what they are – an opportunity to harness the differences to spark intrapreneurship, innovation, collaboration, and sustainability. This session will explore the key aspects of the generations and what that means for both employing them and working alongside them. We’ll discuss how current trends and challenges in the workforce manifest within the generations, and how we can harness those differences to advance our work and sustain the future of the field. The session will conclude with provoking discussion and practical tips on engaging individuals from all generations in our work.
Presenter: Rikki Barton, CPS 1.5 hrs. in Domain 6 – Professional Growth and Responsibility
Objectives- Describe the key aspects of the four main generations in the current workforce and what that means for practical purposes of working with a generation-diverse field
November 5th-
9:00-12:00- Tapping the Power of Creativity to Elevate Your Leadership will help participants construct their own adaptive leadership model through storytelling and identify false beliefs that hinder progress; fostering growth and adaptability to advance their own personal leadership. Participants will gain insight into how creative influences impact leadership understanding in four key areas: core beliefs, messaging, external influences, and permission to create. This workshop challenges conventional views of leadership and offers a fresh perspective on the leadership journey.
Presenter: Steve Miller, CRPS 1.5 hrs. in Domain 6 – Professional Growth and Responsibility
Objectives-Understand the power of resilience, vulnerability, and self-awareness in evolving toward connection-based leadership.
1:00-2:30- The Role of the Prevention Specialist: Hiring, Onboarding, and Setting Up for Success This session will explore the current landscape, discussing how emerging trends and challenges impact prevention professionals. Participants will gain insight into defining the role, crafting an effective job description, and recruiting top talent. Additionally, we will cover strategies for creating a comprehensive onboarding plan that sets new professionals up for long-term success. Supervisors will leave with practical tools for hiring and onboarding, while new prevention specialists will gain a clear understanding of their role and key resources to thrive in their first year.
Presenter: Louise Montag CPC-R 1.5 hrs. in Domain 6 – Professional Growth and Responsibility
Objectives- Create a structured onboarding plan that provides new specialists with the tools and resources needed for a strong start. Develop a job description and recruitment strategy to attract qualified prevention professionals.
2:30- 4:00-
Presenter: 1.5 hrs. in Domain
Objectives-