Contact Hours & CEUs: 6.0 hours

Cost: $60

Approved by: TDMHSAS, TCB, and CPRS

This training is for Tennessee:

• Certified Prevention Specialists
• Certified Peer Recovery Specialists
• anyone working in prevention programs under treatment, mental health, and veteran providers.

Course Goals:

What does the Ethics in Prevention course prepare practitioners to do?

• The Ethics in Prevention course offers substance use prevention professionals—both experienced and new to the field—an opportunity to explore the role of ethics in their work.
•  The course provides opportunities to engage in discussions of the prevention code of ethics’ six key principles and explore a four-step decision-making model for assessing, addressing, and evaluating a range of ethical issues.

Presenters:

Bill Gibson served as a police officer with the Cookeville Police Department for 10 years.  He graduated from Tennessee Technological University with degrees in Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice and the Nashville School of Law attaining his Juris Doctorate in 1986.  He served as District Attorney General for the 13th Judicial District of Tennessee from 1990 until 2008, Project director for the Middle Tennessee (6th Congressional District) Methamphetamine Prevention Task Force from 2009-2011 and Coalition Director for Power of Putnam from 2011 until the present.  He is a Certified Prevention Specialist II and SAPST trainer.

Carlton Hall is the President and CEO of Carlton Hall Consulting LLC (CHC), a multi-faceted, full-service consulting firm designed to provide customized solutions and enable measurable change for communities, organizations, families, and individuals. Carlton Hall has been providing intensive substance abuse prevention focused and community problem solving services to the nation for the last 25 years. His responsibilities, unique set of skills and experience have made him one of the most highly sought-after instructors and guides for community problem solving in every state and territory in the nation as well as internationally, with successful achievements in South Africa, Ghana, Bermuda, Kenya, and others.
  

Carlton spent twelve years with the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) serving in several leadership positions and including most recently Acting Vice President, Training Operations, and Acting Director for CADCA's National Coalition Institute. In this role, Carlton provided critical leadership supporting the successful design, and delivery of the community outreach component of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s DEA 360 Strategy in priority cities across the country. Carlton is one of the primary architects of CADCA's National Coalition Academy. The Academy, a year-long coalition development program, is designed to increase the effectiveness of communities in drug demand reduction producing population level outcomes. 

Currently, Carlton and the CHC team provide executive training and technical assistance support to the Southeast PTTC (Region 4).

Dave Closson is the owner of DJC Solutions, LLC, a modern-day consulting company with a combined focus of serving substance misuse prevention professionals, law enforcement officers, and military veterans. DJC Solutions connects others to sustainable habits, aligned experiences, and next-level excellence. Dave is the author of “Motivational Interviewing for Campus Police” and was chosen as one of the few Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) #StillServing Heroes nationwide.

Dave was most recently the Co-Director of the Mid-America Prevention Technology Transfer Center which is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. His PTTC serves as a prevention catalyst, empowering individuals and fostering partnerships to promote safe, healthy, and drug-free communities across Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas.

He was previously a Training/Technical Assistance Specialist for SAMHSA’s Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT). Before joining CAPT, Dave was Assistant Director of the Illinois Higher Education Center for Alcohol, Other Drug, and Violence Prevention.

Dave brings a unique experience to substance misuse prevention, having served as a university police officer at Eastern Illinois University. Dave was deployed as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. While spending a year in Iraq with his infantry battalion and his recon team, he earned the Combat Infantryman’s Badge and was awarded two Army Commendation Medals (one for valor and one for meritorious service).

Training, coaching, and helping others is what he does best!