Professional Development & Events

Please plan to join us for our September Membership Meeting scheduled for Friday, September 26, 2025. The meeting will take place at the Smyrna Campus of Motlow State Community College and is scheduled from 11:00-2:00 Central. Lunch will be provided. CHASCo members are encouraged to invite colleagues who may be interested. All are welcome to join us. Please register by Friday, September 19, to confirm your attendance.

Professional Development: Prevention 101: Things to Know when Prevention was NOT your Training Background: Prevention has become a hot topic in national conversations around mental health, substance use, and general healthy lifestyles; yet many people do not realize that prevention has been an evolving science for centuries.  This workshop will aim to be a primer for individuals now tasked with prevention work who have previously received no formal training in the discipline.  Led by a presenter with an advanced degree and credentialing in prevention, as well as over two decades of work experience in the field, the workshop will open with an overview of the history of prevention and the progress it has made over time.  This section will include information on theories and models such as the Health Belief Model, Stages of Change, Social Ecological Model, and others that document what is known about the behavior change process.  Next, there will be a guided discussion around the prevention activities attendees remember from their own adolescence and young adulthood as a segue into current best practices like environmental interventions, social norms, motivational interviewing, and bystander intervention.  Lastly, the workshop will address the research tools currently available which help document the effectiveness of the many prevention strategies currently in use on college campuses.  These include the Okanagan Charter, Guide to the Eight Professional Competencies for Higher Education Substance Misuse Prevention, College AIM, and SAMHSA’s Evidenced-Based Practice Resource Center. 

PRESENTER BIO: Dr. Lisa Schrader is a Public Health faculty member at Middle Tennessee State University and currently serves as Emeritus Member of the CHASCo Executive Committee.  She has worked in college health prevention for over 20 years and has been at MTSU since 2008.  She is passionate about college health and loves talking with other campuses about their prevention and promotion work.  In her free time, you might find her watching her kids play sports or participate in community theater productions, walking her dog around the local greenway system, and/or planning her next family vacation.

Educational & Prevention Items for Distribution: During this meeting, we will have several items to give out for educational and prevention purposes. We will have medication disposal packets, BAC Cards from the Gordie Center, flash drives with prevention education preloaded, and more.