1. PREVENTION & WELLNESS PRACTICES
IN A 21ST CENTURY ENVIRONMENT;
WHAT WE HAVE & WHAT WE NEED
Frank G. Magourilos, MPS, CPS, ICPS
February 24, 2012
2. Big Picture—
• Prevention science has advanced faster than our
ability to disseminate, fund, and implement
prevention.
• Prevention & Wellness has to always include
the Individual & their Environment.
• Effective long-term prevention approaches
must include a Systems Thinking Construct.
3. Big Picture—
• Professional Workforce Development is
paramount to the future success of prevention
as a scientific field.
• A Systems Thinking, Coordinated Planning, that includes
Federal, State, and Local Governments in partnerships
with all the National, State, and Local Private and Non-
Profit Sectors, is the best way to have population level
change.
4. Evidence-based prevention
characteristics—
The field of prevention is immersed
in a disciplinary approach that
utilizes many theories and models
from many other sciences such as;
psychology, sociology, public health,
and environmental sciences.
5. Systems thinking; how other systems
influence prevention—
• Systems thinking is the process by which we attempt to
expose the conditions supporting the problem or symptom
rather than merely reacting to it.
• All these systems are open, perpetually changing, and
interconnected; every time anything is changed at any one
system it affects all the other systems.
• It is far easier to get caught in the reactive trap of
addressing symptoms when one is focused on a small part
without the context of the bigger picture.
• Rather than breaking a problem into small pieces,
arguably it is more useful to study the entire problem or
prospect.
6. PREVENTION LANDSCAPE
NEEDS A PARADIGM SHIFT—
• Flavor of the month approaches—we have the tendency
of collectively over reacting to any new trend that comes
along without strategically thinking the impact funding
and other resources would have by diverting from one
area of prevention
• Coordinated Statewide Prevention—we need Statewide
prevention coordination that will largely eliminate political
agendas, unwarranted interference, and individual power plays
at the local level. If there is to be a systems wide prevention
integration approach, federal and state coordination is
absolutely critical.
7. Prevention and systems integration—
• The National Prevention Strategy
LEADERSHIP:
• 17 Heads of departments, agencies, and
offices across the Federal government.
• The National Prevention, Health Promotion,
and Public Health Council.
NM LEADERSHIP
• NMPN-PA-NMIPC-NMCBBHP-
• BHSD-DOH-DFA-CYFD-NMBHC-
8. PROFESSIONAL
WORKFORCE
DEVELOPMENT—
Arguably, this is the most important area that needs to
be addressed and brought forth to individual and
community needs of the 21st century.
EXISTING BARRIERS
• Inadequate knowledge and expertise of the competencies the workforce
needs to meet current and future challenges.
• Lack in Identifying, Classifying, and Enumerating the Public Health Prevention
Workforce.
• Lack of clear, concise, public health prevention profession classification
categories.
• An absence of consistent public health professional credentialing
requirements.
• A lack of a professional workforce education and expertise in advance
specialization areas and disciplines.
9. PROFESSIONAL
WORKFORCE
DEVELOPMENT—
• More critically, recent findings have exposed that
today’s members of the prevention workforce
regularly struggle with the ambiguity of the rules,
regulations, standards, and procedures that manage
service delivery, and which sometimes conflict with
one another. These rules may also not be grounded
in an evidence base.
• Members of the workforce have repeatedly described their low
morale and low levels of commitment to their organization and
to the field because of low pay, the absence of career ladders,
excessive workloads, tenuous job security, and an inability to
influence the organization or system in which they are working.
10. WORKFORCE POTENTIAL
SOLUTIONS—
We need to expand the current workforce capacity by
utilizing a system or a number of strategies that allow for
a very broad-base empirical prevention knowledge base
across multiple disciplines. One way of accomplishing
this would be to infuse prevention core principles into
existing curricula for teachers, doctors, nurses, social
workers, psychologists, and other human services
professionals. This would allow new professionals
entering these fields to be equipped to utilize evidence-
based prevention practices into their sphere of influence.
11. WORKFORCE POTENTIAL
SOLUTIONS—
There are also numerous prospects for increasing
the knowledge base of the existing human
services workforce. Professional associations of
teachers, school administrators, social workers,
nurses, doctors, psychologists, child welfare
administrators, juvenile justice administrators,
and the public health field as well, can include
information on evidence-based prevention
practices within their national conferences and
continuing education training courses.
12. CULTIVATE AND MULTIPLY PREVENTION
RELATED PARTNERSHIPS AND
COALITIONS—
• A critical part of workforce development and expansion needs to
come from outside the normal boundaries of the behavioral
health field. There are simply not sufficient financial and human
resources to address such a complex problem as adverse human
behaviors and the environmental factors involved by simply
doing what the current prevention field has been doing
• Having said this, the solution is imbedded in the simple premise
that health and wellness, including behavioral health, is in the
best interest of everyone and every sector of our social
environment. Promoting prevention and wellness initiatives are
attractive because they impact all aspects of societal functioning.
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