Webinar: Substance Use Prevention: ICE Collaborative & the Icelandic Prevention Model

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In this webinar, Dr. Kristjansson emphasizes the role of community in decreasing the odds of substance use initiation and progression among youth and how Iceland, his home country, has altered the state of youth substance use through a collaborative model.

Learning objectives:

1. Elucidate how youth substance use is an ecological problem.

2. Clarify the role of community-based risk and protective factors in youth substance use.

3. To explain key elements in the Icelandic Model of Primary Substance Use Prevention.

Speaker:

Alfgeir L. Kristjansson, PhD, MSc, Associate Professor, Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences; Director, PhD Program, School of Public Health, West Virginia University. 

Dr. Kristjansson is an Associate Professor of Public Health at West Virginia University. The central focus of his work is on the health, behavioral development and well-being of children and youth with particular attention to substance use prevention and community health promotion.

Continuing Education:

The Office of Maternal, Child and Family Health has approved 1.2 contact hours for Nursing through the WV Board of Examiners for Registered Nurses, License # WV1999-0297 and 1 contact hour of social work through the WV Board of Social Work, #490089.

Webinar Recording:

The webinar was recorded and archived. The webinar recording can be accessed here.  CEs are no longer available for viewing the archived webinar.

Additional Information from the Webinar :

• In the News: ICELAND KNOWS HOW TO STOP TEEN SUBSTANCE ABUSE BUT THE REST OF THE WORLD ISN’T LISTENING, The Independant
• Brief historical overview: Prevention Is Possible: A Brief History of the Origin and Dissemination of the Icelandic Prevention Model, Journal of Health Promotion Practice  
• Five guiding principles: Development and Guiding Principles of the Icelandic Model for Preventing Adolescent Substance Use, Journal of Health Promotion Practice  
• 10 steps to implementation: Implementing the Icelandic Model for Preventing Adolescent Substance Use, Journal of Health Promotion Practice