Prevention across the lifespan (Prevention for Lifes transitions) - PDF document

“ Prevention Across the Lifespan” Marcia Baker Ph.D. Candidate LCDC, ACPS, LBSW Five for Fighting "100 Years" - YouTube “ Prevention across the lifespan” (Prevention for Life’s transitions) Thoughts???? 1

Exercise Lifespan Definition • One way of looking at Lifespan is all the various • Break up into groups of____ ways that our life can change and create • Discuss these stages of life and experiences for us such as: experiences that go with it: Disabilities • Birth, Toddler, Childhood, Adolescent, Diseases Teenager, Young adult, Adult, Middle-age, Parenting Stages of Development (Aging) older adult. Employment School Prevention Across the Lifespan (cycle) Why Be Concerned About Health Across the Lifespan Early Childhood/ Prenatal Adolescent Young Adult Adult Elderly School age • Need to understand the influence of social and • Utero • Risk/Protective • Risk/Protective • Risk/Protective • Employment • Retirement exposure • Social and family Factors Factors status • Depression health determinants as predictors of population • Poor conditions • Experimentation • College transition • Income • Self nutrition • Parent active • Peer influence • Workforce/income • Housing and individual health (environment, access) medication • Active use/abuse • Underage drinking • Social and • Violent • Economics • Social determinants of health structure will use/abuse • Poor nutrition • Mental Health environmental behavior • Poor nutrition • Social and • Violence/abuse pressures • Use/Abuse Issues • Family family • Environmental • School • Education and social • Family determine population health, behavior and relations conditions success influence Performance relations • Treatment • Marketing exposure • Socioeconomics • Academic Success • Treatment services utilization experiences • Parent Education • Income/family • Mental Health Issues experiences • Social determinants of health will influence Substances • Abuse AOD relations used by • Sexuality and • (habit formation of parent: mental health illicit substance abuse health from early life (aging, education, social Alcohol, development • Self medications heroin, • Self esteem and safety net, lifestyle series, employment, income, Substances: Substances: cocaine, Substances used Substances: social behaviors Alcohol, smoking, meth, by parent: Alcohol, Alcohol, wellness and access) Substances used prescription prescription drugs, smoking, Alcohol, cocaine, smoking, by parent: cocaine, heroin, etc. drugs, prescription heroin, meth, etc; prescription *Marijuana, smoking, drugs, heroin, smoking, etc. drugs smoking, meth, etc. cocaine, etc. Contributed by Tania Garcia, CSAP’s Northeast CAPT March 06 inhalants, club drugs, alcohol, Contributed by Tania Garcia, CSAP’s Northeast CAPT etc. 2

Traditionally, Substance Abuse Prevention has been without significant collaboration • Prevention Programs have been developed A Public Health Issue: in many fields that do not communicate with one another such as: Substance Use and Abuse??? • School settings • Criminal Justice settings • Mental Health Organizations • Substance Abuse treatment organizations “ Prevention ” Across the Lifespan has Lifespan Prevention – Connecting been an integral part of many public the Dots health programs: • Suicide prevention • A way to define collaboration • Disease prevention • A way to assist organizations • Obesity/nutrition providing prevention to work • Diabetes prevention together using the newly defined Strategic Prevention Framework • Child abuse prevention from SAMHSA. • Injury prevention • Cardiovascular health 3

Strategic Prevention Framework Strategic Prevention Framework Steps • The SPF requires States and communities to systematically: • Assess their prevention needs based on epidemiological data, • Build their prevention capacity, • Develop a strategic plan, • Implement effective community prevention programs, policies and practices, and • Evaluate their efforts for outcomes. Exercise Public Health Promotion • Divide up into groups • Are we Salespeople for a Healthier Life? • Discuss how we can assist in connecting • What is Sustainability? the dots. • How do we promote Sustainability? • How can you be a part of the solution? 4

How to become a Prevention Prevention Resources Specialist • Local county health department • IC & RC • Arizona County Extension • ABCAC • Center for Applied Behavioral Health Policy • Arizona Prevention Research Center • Arizona Prevention Resource Center • NREPP • Arizona Dept. of Education • Arizona Dept. of Aging and Disability • Arizona Office on Aging Questions Resources • SAMHSA’s Older American Substance Abuse and Mental Health Technical Assistance Center www.samhsa.gov/OlderAdultsTAC • SAMHSA’s Co-Occurring Center for Excellence http://coce.samhsa.gov • SAMHSA’s FASD Center for Excellence www.fascenter.samhsa.gov • CSAP’s Centers for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPTs) http://captus.samhsa.gov • YOUTUBE 100 years 5