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The crossroads where Prevention Treatment and Recovery come together can make this amazing goal a reality..... We Are!

Scholarships are available for this amazing conference! Apply now before it is too late!

Join us on 4 consecutive Wednesdays (from 12-1230), beginning April 14, for our "Prevention Week Lunch Breaks". Each day will consist of PW activities, contests, prizes, short videos, & a social media boot camp! #WeArePrevention #PreventionHappensHere #PAPrevention

Please submit your applications for this award along with the Early Career Prevention Professional and Coalition of the Year Awards!

2021 Lecture on Compassion Developed and funded by Mark Greenberg at the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center at Penn State and Christa Turksma, curriculum developer and teacher of mindfulness skills. Don't miss the lecture on Wednesday, April 14, 4-5:30 pm... "Self to Cell: A Biological View of Stress, Safety, and Flourishing Through the Lifespan" with Elissa Epel, Ph.D. For more information and to register for this virtual event visit: https://www.prevention.psu.edu//2021-compassion-lecture-se The forum is intended to showcase the findings and perspectives of outstanding researchers and practitioners in the areas of awareness, compassion, and empathy. "Aging is both the biggest predictor of morbidity and mortality, and yet there is great plasticity in people’s rate of aging, within any age group. I will ask what our cells can tell us about identifying the important drivers of healthy and slower aging. By looking at cellular aging mechanisms (telomeres, epigenetic clocks, inflammation), we can examine influences in midlife, before disease onset and can even identify influences on aging trajectories in newborns. I will discuss how both historical contextual and proximal factors including individual differences in stress processes shape rate cellular rate of aging, focusing on telomeres, within an individual’s life and for offspring."

Join us in continuing to celebrate SEL tomorrow! Governor Tom Wolf has proclaimed tomorrow, March 27th, 2021 as Pennsylvania's Social Emotional Learning Day! #SEL See the proclamation here: https://www.center-school.org//governors-proclamation-penn