Kansas Prevention Collaborative Conference 2024
SAVE THE DATE!
October 3 – 4, 2024
Pre-Conference: October 2, 2024
Wichita, KS
The Kansas Prevention Conference provides educational opportunities to increase awareness of emerging trends, build skills and knowledge to prevent suicide, alcohol, tobacco, and other drug misuse, and advocate for best practices. The KPC Conference hosts state and local professionals from the various facets of the substance misuse prevention field and related disciplines.
Wichita Marriott
9100 Corporate Hills Drive
Wichita, Kansas 67207
Conference Hotel Room Block: Coming Soon
Other nearby hotels without a discounted conference rate:
Hampton Inn Wichita-East (0.2 miles)
Comfort Inn East (0.2 miles)
2023 Breakout Session PowerPoints
Pre-Conference:
- Feeding Two Birds With One Scone: Implementing Community Approaches to Reduce Substance Misuse and Suicide
Opening Keynote
- Building Blocks – Faith, Prevention, Recovery
Breakout Session One
1.2 – If you build it, they will come! Creating a strong coalition foundation in order to recruit and retain members.
1.3 – A Preview of Beliefs, Attitudes, and Facts: Understanding Addiction
1.4 – Fentanyl as an emerging concern: Measuring awareness in Kansas youth and young adults with implications and strategies for prevention
Breakout Session Two
2.1 – Using data to drive system changes in a county-wide Zero Suicide Initiative: Addressing legal barriers for sharing data.
2.2 – Engaging Lived Experience: Examining Policy, Practices, and Programs
2.3 – Remarkably Resilient Together: Teaching Regulation and Self-Care to the Community
2.4 – It’s NOT Just Marijuana, Cannabis in Kansas!
Breakout Session Three
3.1 – Overcoming Addiction and Overdose Together: Lessons Learned from 5 Years of Nationwide Technical Assistance by SAFE Project
3.3 – We Are Here To Help: A Guide to Suicide Loss Support Program, Lemon Aid
3.4 – Effective, non-punitive strategies to address youth tobacco purchase, use, and possession in schools and communities.
Breakout Session Four
4.1 – Leveraging KCTC Student Survey Data Now and Into the Future
4.2 – Applying the Strategic Prevention Framework to Prevent Prescription Drug Misuse
4.3 – Spreading HOPE in your Community
4.4 – Naloxone, Fentanyl Test Strips, and Beyond: Harm Reduction as a Cultural Shift in Kansas
Breakout Session Five
5.1 – Substance abuse disorder needs and resources among racial and ethnic communities in Wichita
5.2 – Trauma Informed Care and Assessing the Needs of the Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center
5.4 – Kansas Overdose and Naloxone Training
Breakout Session Six
6.1 – Building Hope in Youth (Hope Squad Cowley County)
6.3 – One Care Kansas Programs: Integrating tobacco dependence treatment into care coordination
6.4 – UPDATE ON: Kansas School Suicide Prevention, Intervention & Response, and Postvention Toolkit
Closing Keynote
The Intersection of Substance Use and Trauma on the Path to One Kansas
2023 Schedule at a Glance
October 11, 2023
- 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM:
Pre-Conference
October 12, 2023
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM:
Registration and Breakfast8:30 AM – 9:15 AM:
Welcome and Opening Remarks9:15 AM – 10:15 AM:
Opening Keynote10:30 AM – 12:00 PM:
Breakout Sessions12:00 PM – 1:30 PM:
Kansas Prevention Collaborative Award Luncheon1:30 PM – 2:30 PM:
Breakout Sessions3:00 PM – 4:00 PM:
Breakout Sessions4:00 PM – 5:30 PM:
KPC Conference Reception
October 13, 2022
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM:
Breakfast8:30 AM – 9:30 AM:
Breakout Sessions9:45 AM – 10:45 AM:
Breakout Sessions11:15 AM – 12:00 PM:
Breakout Sessions12:00 PM – 12:45 AM:
Lunch12:45 PM – 2:00 PM:
Closing Keynote
Contact
Information
For questions or information, please email Janell Stang at janell.stang@wichita.edu or call (316) 779-4014.