Join us for the Research and Design Fellowship Symposium, featuring three new products around the topic: Advancing Applied Prevention Skills and Engagement Through Innovative Formats and Approaches.
Three new resources will be launched at this symposium and participants will have the first acsess to them, as well as an opportunity to learn about the resources and ask questions of the developers.
About the three products featured this year:
For prevention leaders working with Faith Communities: A training guide and the slide decks for a four-part training series that can be implemented as a Training of Trainers for prevention leaders or directly with faith leaders after some adaptation. This product was created with the goal of helping prevention leaders to build the capacity of local prevention specialists, outreach workers, coalition members, and other frontline staff and volunteers to engage and prepare faith leaders and faith communities to be part of local community-led initiatives.
For prevention practitioners looking to strengthen the human side of their work: A scalable menu of trauma-integrated workforce supports designed to build trust, belonging, and relational capacity within substance use prevention teams and organizations. Choose from five practical options — peer support pods, reflective supervision, prevention practice labs, micro-learning, and restorative repair circles — that help prevention professionals stay grounded, connected to each other, and rooted in their values, even in high-stress or low-trust work environments, so they can show up more fully and sustainably for the communities they serve.
For preventionists looking to lead high impact, connection forward programming: A guide on how to utilize connection as a prevention strategy and more than a program outcome. Explore real world examples of how every opportunity to increase belonging, strengthen relationships, foster trust, and encourage participation helps create a community where people are supported, valued, and less vulnerable to substance misuse.
More about the RAD Fellowship:
The New England PTTC RAD Fellowship aims to promote the career development of 3-6 advanced-level substance misuse prevention specialists who work in New England; while increasing the regional data and resources available to the entire Substance Misuse Prevention workforce in the region. The Fellowship will focus on a priority area of Substance Misuse Prevention during each fellowship term. The 2026 Priority area is Advancing Applied Prevention Skills and Engagement Through Innovative Formats and Approaches.
Fellows will contribute new, relevant and innovative research on the priority subject area and an accompanying tool or product which will be available to members of the substance misuse prevention field following the conclusion of the Fellowship term. This research will be presented by the Fellows in a symposium to which prevention specialists in the New England area will have priority access. Each Fellow chooses their contribution to the priority area.
The program will has fellows from different New England states and each fellow receives compensation of $10,000 upon completion of milestones in the program and after the program has concluded for their contributions to the field.
The Fellows meet four times during the Fellowship Term (February, April, June, August) to coordinate their research so that each product supports a collective whole without being duplicative. Information about new Fellowship program terms and priority subject areas becomes available in mid January.
With questions, contact Sarah Harlow at SHarlow@Adeptme.org
