New Webinars
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Description
The evidence is clear: the Botvin LifeSkills Training (LST) program is proven to drastically cut youth substance abuse, violence, and other high-risk behaviors by teaching essential self-management and social skills.
As a dedicated LST provider, your challenge isn’t the program’s quality; it’s navigating the often-complex landscape of school and organizational partnerships. This webinar moves beyond the curriculum itself to focus on the art of strategic partnership building.
Join us to learn proven strategies for identifying key stakeholders, effectively presenting LST’s evidence-based outcomes in a way that aligns with stakeholder priorities (e.g., grant funding, SEL, academic outcomes), and developing a sustainable, high-fidelity implementation plan. Elevate your presentation from a single program pitch to the foundation of a lasting community partnership.
Presenter:
Kimberly Williams
Director, Outreach and Training Services
Leading a Prevention-Supportive Environment with LifeSkills Training
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Description:
Simply purchasing a curriculum is not enough; creating lasting change requires leadership commitment.
The Botvin LifeSkills Training (LST) program has proven its effectiveness in reducing youth substance use and violence by building critical self-management and social skills. This session moves beyond what LST teaches and focuses on how leaders can ensure its success within their organization.
We will provide leaders with actionable strategies for institutionalizing LST—including aligning it with existing SEL and wellness initiatives, ensuring high-fidelity implementation, providing necessary staff support and protected time, and using data to measure improvements in organizational culture (such as reduced referrals and improved school connectedness), not just drug statistics. Learn how to transform LST from a standalone program into a foundational pillar of your school or organization’s preventative health strategy.
Presenter:
Kimberley Williams
Director, Outreach and Training Services
School Counselors as Connectors: Strengthening Prevention Partnerships through LifeSkills Training
Dates and Times:
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Description:
The consequences of a young person’s drug and alcohol use may be serious and far-reaching, forecasting problematic use or addictive behaviors into adulthood. School counselors play an essential part in substance misuse prevention in their roles as leaders, advocates, and mentors for students and teachers. Research supports the importance of building partnerships with school personnel, health professionals, and community agencies to promote desirable and sustainable change for students.
Join us to explore how school counselors are uniquely equipped to collaborate among school and community stakeholders to support and reinforce Botvin LST prevention programs. The presenter will provide a rationale for why and how school counselors can be integral to the successful adoption and implementation of Botvin LifeSkills Training (LST) in schools by embodying the ASCA National Model themes of leadership, advocacy, collaboration, and systemic change. The presenter will also share how the skills taught in LST align with the ASCA National Model Mindsets and Behaviors for student success.
Presenter:
Karen Haas
Prevention Specialist
Empowering Youth: Advancing Prevention with LifeSkills Training
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Description:
There are few things more rewarding than providing youth with the essential life skills to advance their personal or academic goals while acquiring life-long skills to lead happy, healthy, drug-free lives. This presentation will review the evidence-based Botvin LifeSkills Training (LST) programs and how they address key risk factors such as peer pressure, low self-esteem, and stress while strengthening essential protective factors, including decision-making, communication, and self-management skills.
Through engaging lessons and skill-building activities, LST empowers students to make positive choices, resist unhealthy influences, develop healthy relationships, communicate effectively, manage emotions, and build lifelong resilience.
Join us to see how LifeSkills Training can transform the lives of the youth you serve.
Presenter:
Craig Zettle
Sr. Vice President
Empowering Teens to Rise Above Vaping: Proven Prevention through LifeSkills Training
Dates and Times:
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Description:
Youth vaping, smoking, and the use of other products containing nicotine continue to pose new challenges for prevention educators. In this engaging and informative session, we will explore the role of critical life skills proven to reduce the abuse of these products.
Participants will gain insights into current trends in youth vaping and emerging nicotine products, along with practical strategies and life skills through the LST programs. The presenter will demonstrate how this highly effective program helps schools and communities prevent vaping, smoking, and other substance abuse/misuse among today’s youth.
The presenter will highlight critical life skills and demonstrate how the Botvin LifeSkills Training (LST) programs can reduce youth vaping, smoking and other health-risk behaviors. In addition to current trends among middle and high school students, the presenter will highlight how elementary students can also benefit from the skills taught in LST.
Presenter:
Craig Zettle
Sr. Vice President
Efficiency Meets Impact: Advancing LifeSkills Training Through a Hybrid Digital Approach
Dates and Times:
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Description:
The increasing demands on instructional time is challenging many educators and leaders to achieve more in the same amount of time. This is very evident in the context of prevention education. It is imperative that prevention educators and health teachers seek effective and efficient instructional delivery systems to teach students critical life skills.
In this dynamic presentation, the presenter will introduce an innovative instructional delivery model designed to address challenges in program delivery while maintaining high-quality, effective life skills training for students. The presenter will highlight how this innovative model aims to bridge instructional efficiency with effective prevention education. The presenter will demonstrate how the Botvin LST hybrid programs strategically combine interactive e-learning modules with targeted in-person skills practice sessions to maximize engagement, fidelity, and outcomes.
Participants will explore practical applications of this innovative model. The presenter will demonstrate how it can improve implementation fidelity and increase opportunities for behavioral rehearsal and peer-to-peer interaction, thereby strengthening critical competencies such as decision-making, communication, coping, and refusal skills.
Join us to discover how this new hybrid prevention education delivery model can support flexible, efficient, and scalable implementation of the Botvin LST programs to build life skills and reduce health-risk behaviors among adolescents.
Presenter:
Craig Zettle
Sr. Vice President
These workshops prepare teachers, school counselors, prevention specialists, police officers, community youth educators, mental health professionals, social-emotional learning SEL staff, and other program providers to effectively implement the state-of-the-art prevention education activities & teaching strategies found in the LST program.
- Elementary Workshop - Online
- Middle Workshop - Online
- High School Workshop - Online
- Transitions Workshop - Online
- Parent Program Leader Training - Online
- Training of Trainers (TOT) Workshop
Elementary School
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