Professional Development & Events
Explore opportunities designed to help campus health and safety professionals grow, start conversations, and make a lasting impact on their campuses.
By participating in our professional development events, you will stay informed, inspired, and connected with peers dedicated to promoting healthy and safe campus communities.
CHASCo Membership Meetings 2025-2026
CHASCo meetings educate and inform its members about new and pressing issues in the field of campus health and safety, including issues of substance use and misuse and violence prevention. You will receive an updated agenda for each meeting after you are registered.
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Please join us for our CHASCo Membership Meeting scheduled for Friday, November 14, 2025! This meeting will take place virtually and is scheduled from 11:00-1:00 Central. Register Here.
Adopting a Healthy Mental Health Culture: Cultivating Resilience Within Today’s Complex Arena: The global and campus mental health crisis is bearing down on educators, leaders, and students alike. Today’s times call for innovative strategies to respond to a wide range of learners during stressful, traumatic times. Institutions can seize opportunities to support students to cultivate resilience that helps sustain them in their academic, professional, and personal pursuits. The science of human flourishing reveals that aligning values with behavior can lead to better individual and collective outcomes. This keynote by international speaker Dr. Kris Lee provides a “double dip” toolbox of interactive, practical, evidence-based strategies to cultivate resilience and a build a culture of connection and positive impact.
Dr. Kristen Lee, Ed.D., LICSW, is a renowned behavioral science educator, best-selling author, and clinical social worker from Providence, Rhode Island who has reached millions with strengths-based resources that foster connection and advance science and solidarity. As lead faculty for Behavioral Science at Northeastern University, Dr. Kris’s research and teaching interests include individual and organizational well-being and resilience, particularly for marginalized and underserved populations. Dr. Kris works with organizations and leaders around the world on how to use the science of behavioral change and human potential to build healthy relationships and mental health cultures that help prevent burnout and promote organizational and human sustainability. She operates a clinical practice devoted to social impact and health professionals.
She is the author of RESET: Make the Most of Your Stress, winner of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards Motivational Book of 2015, best-selling Mentalligence: A New Psychology of Thinking-Learn What it Takes to be More Agile, Mindful and Connected in Today’s World and Worth the Risk: Learn to Microdose Bravery to Grow Resilience, Connect More, and Offer Yourself to the World, a 2022 Next Big Idea Book Club nominee and Nautilus Book Award Silver Medal Winner, and Clean Slate: How to Make Change Happen, named “a witty, easy to follow approach to personal transformation” by Kirkus Reviews. She is the host of Crackin’ Up: Where Therapy Meets Comedy and is a regular contributor to Psychology Today and Thrive Global. Dr. Kris’s work has been featured at Harvard Medical School, Brown University, and on NPR, Fast Company, Forbes, and CBS radio. In 2022, she received a First Place MVP award from EdTech for her work on addressing mental health challenges in higher education; in 2023, an honorary doctorate for her work in mental health. Her TedX talk, The Risk You Must Take (427K views) is featured on Ted.
Connect, Share, and InnovateOur CHASCo Chat Series offers an opportunity for members to exchange ideas and connect with AOD professionals across the state. Modeled after the water cooler chats initiated by the Higher Education Center in 2020, these sessions are exclusively for CHASCo members.
CHASCo Chat Series
CHASCo Chat Schedule:
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Join us for a virtual CHASCo Chat, on October 24, 2025, from 9am-10:30 Central. During this session, we will introduce our Elevate Naturally resources for addressing cannabis prevention. These resources include an overview of the new Cannabis Prevention Toolkit and our Elevate Naturally social media toolkit for your use and distribution. These materials have been developed with a focus on implementing strategies featuring natural ways to boost mood and elevate our mental health without using substances.
In addition, our friends with the Missouri Partners in Prevention Coalition will share a Cannabis 101 presentation that participants will be able to edit and tailor to use with your campus populations.
Register here.
Partners in Prevention
Partners in Prevention is CHASCo’s annual prevention training event, bringing together Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) professionals from across the state for two days of insightful discussions, informative workshops, and networking opportunities. Each year, the event focuses on a theme relevant to current challenges and innovations in the field of campus prevention.
SAVE THE DATE for Partners in Prevention ON MAY 18 & 19, 2026Check out our website at piptennessee.com for registration and details.
We're planning another exciting conference filled with informative sessions, networking opportunities, and innovative strategies to promote healthy and safe campus communities.
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By uniting our efforts, we can create a safer, healthier educational environment for all students. Join CHASCo today and be part of the solution! Download our membership application and email it to our Director at matthews@ticua.org.