Johnny's Ambassadors

Helping Teens and Families Utilize Mental Healthcare Featured expert:Jay Voigt MBA, LPC, CAC III ORIGINAL WEBINAR: FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 2021 WEBINAR Handouts athttps://johnnysambassadors.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/210115-Jay-Voigt-handout.pdf Description 
What do you do when your child has a Cannabis Use Disorder? This session is designed to give caregivers information on how to effectively navigate America’s complex behavioral healthcare system. Common challenges include identifying the correct service or provider, transitions of care, cost, and planning a course of treatment. Behavioral health issue are pervasive and can be extremely disruptive to family systems. Objectives At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will learn: • Identify various entry points into healthcare to address behavioral health concerns. • Articulate an understanding of continuums of care and the role of a continuum in treating chronic illnesses • Consider elements of a productive therapeutic relationship. Speaker Bio 
Jay Voigt is a seasoned behavioral health clinician and dedicated leader with nearly 20 years’ experience working in complex systems and serving vulnerable populations. His clinical interests include family systems, trauma, attachment, and co-occurring disorders. Jay has experience working in various systems including schools, homes, jails, hospitals and outpatient settings. Jay is the Executive Director of Mount Saint Vincent, a treatment center serving children and families impacted by substance use and trauma. Jay completed an MBA in Healthcare Administration at the University of Colorado-Denver and he earned a master’s degree in Counselor Education from Pennsylvania State University. He is a licensed professional counselor and certified addictions counselor. He has experience serving on multiple nonprofit boards and advocating for policy change before the Colorado state legislature. Jay lives in Westminster, Colorado with his wife Marcy. He enjoys the Colorado outdoors and spending time with family. Questions? 
Email Founder & CEO, Laura Stack, at Laura@JohnnysAmbassadors.org Who's Johnny?https://johnnysambassadors.org/johnny
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Today’s High-Potency THC: Harming Our Most Vulnerable Citizens Featured expert: Dr. Libby Stuyt, MD ORIGINAL WEBINAR: SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 2021 Handouts available at https://johnnysambassadors.org/ja210102/ Description Do you understand what low vs. high potency marijuana products do to our children? Come learn the science of what’s happening today vs. when you were a kid with a medical doctor. Understand the problems seen in Colorado since marijuana legalization due to regulatory gaps. Understand how the government is conducting a grand science experiment on our children’s brains to make tax revenue. Speaker Bio Dr. Stuyt is a board-certified Addiction Psychiatrist and has worked in the addiction/behavioral health field since 1990. She was the Medical Director for the Circle Program, a 90-day inpatient treatment program, funded by the state of Colorado, for persons with co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse who have failed other levels of treatment since 1999. She retired from this position in 2020 and is currently motivated to educate as many people as possible on the un-intended consequences seen from the commercialization of marijuana in Colorado, focusing primarily on the deleterious effects of high potency THC on the developing brain and mental health. Questions? Email Founder & CEO, Laura Stack, at Laura@JohnnysAmbassadors.org Who's Johnny?https://johnnysambassadors.org/johnny
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A Briefing on the Status of Marijuana in America Featured expert:Ed Shemelya TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 2021 – ANTI-420 DAY CONFERENCE Handouts available at https://johnnysambassadors.org/ja210420shemelya/ Description
 We will examine the history of marijuana legalization in our country as well as looking at the current status of legalization. We will explore what can and may happen in the next few years, and well will discuss some of the common issues and concerns that marijuana legalization has brought. Learning Objectives • Educate as to the history and trajectory of legalization in America • Current status of legalization in America • Comprehensive review of marijuana legalization moving forward • Discuss and explain the most common issues and concerns regarding legalization Speaker Bio
 Ed Shemelya is the National Marijuana Initiative Coordinator for the HIDTA Program. He has a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice. He has been speaking on Legalization in America, Understanding Hemp and Marijuana, and Current Affairs in Marijuana since 2013. Questions? Email Founder & CEO, Laura Stack, at Laura@JohnnysAmbassadors.org Who's Johnny?https://johnnysambassadors.org/johnny
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21st Century Understanding of Marijuana & Prevention Using The New One Choice 5: A Prevention Framework for Parents Featured expert:Debbie Berndt ORIGINAL WEBINAR: Thursday, April 20, 2023 Description
 Parents can be confused and overwhelmed when it comes to Prevention.The One Choice 5 offers a simple and straightforward framework to help parents integrate prevention into their thinking and parenting.Substance use disorder is now understood to be a pediatric-onset disease, underscoring the importance of both prevention and parental influence as one of the strongest protective factors against substance use. There are important generational differences in drug and alcohol use – both in the substances themselves and how they are used. Come find out the latest - you will be surprised by much of it, and you will leave equipped with knowledge and helpful resources to support the kids in your life. Learning Objectives • Be among the first to see this new work that frames the imperative of reducing under-age • substance use in an approachable and actionable way • Hear information that really changes the way parents think • Get tips and techniques for yourself or to share with others • See how you can use the One Choice 5 with your community Speaker Bio
 Debbie Berndt has worked with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), a division of the US Department of Health & Human Services as a Marijuana Subject Matter Expert on several of their projects and now hosts the podcast, What Parents are Saying, part of the nationally recognized Talk. They Hear You. prevention campaign for parents. She is also the Director for Parent Movement 2.0 and Substance-Free Athletics, both educational programs designed to assist in reducing underage substance use through highly targeted curriculum and messaging, and she is a co-creator of The One Choice 5 Framework for Parents. Questions? Email Founder & CEO, Laura Stack, at Laura@JohnnysAmbassadors.org Who’s Johnny?https://johnnysambassadors.org/johnny Johnny’s tribute video:https://www.JohnnysAmbassadors.org/tribute Educational offerings:https://johnnysambassadors.org/education/ #StopDabbing walk:https://www.stopdabbingwalk.com About Johnny’s mom, Laura:https://johnnysambassadors.org/speaking What is a dab?https://johnnysambassadors.org/types-potencies Expert videos on demand:https://www.JohnnysAmbassadors.org/recorded-webinars Upcoming weekly webinars:https://www.JohnnysAmbassadors.org/webinars Subscribe to our RUMBLE account:https://rumble.com/c/johnnysambassadors Research database:https://www.JohnnysAmbassadors.org/research Online teen marijuana curriculum (in development):https://johnnysambassadors.org/curriculum Toolkits:https://www.JohnnysAmbassadors.org/toolkits Graphics:https://JohnnysAmbassadors.org/graphics Onesheets:https://JohnnysAmbassadors.org/onesheets Videos:https://www.JohnnysAmbassadors.org/videos Parent resources:https://johnnysambassadors.org/parents Sign up for weekly articles via newsletter:https://www.JohnnysAmbassadors.org/blog Facebook group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/JohnnysAmbassadors Get involved:https://johnnysambassadors.org/join Donate:https://johnnysambassadors.org/donate

Vision is Victory: Why Vision Builds Family Unity and Improves Adolescent Mental Health Featured expert: Carey Conley ORIGINAL WEBINAR: FRIDAY, JULY 31, 2020 Handouts athttps://johnnysambassadors.org/ja200731/ Description 
For over 25 years, Carey Conley has been teaching people how to put their vision (their hopes and dreams) on to paper with such clarity that it guides their life and career decisions. Having a vision essentially helps them discover their God-given purpose, which can inform the struggles they face in all areas of their lives. This webinar shows parents how to apply this exercise not only for themselves but for their children as well. You’ll learn how to create a shared vision as a family. By teaching our children at a very early age that they have purpose, they will be set up to be positive, confident, healthy adults. Learning Objectives • Why having a clear, written vision improves every area of your life • How to write it in a very simple way that you can teach it to your children • Why vision starts in the home • How to create a family vision for better unity and communication Speaker Bio 
Carey Conley is dedicated to helping you identify your dreams and goals through Vision building and to achieve those goals through discovering your Purpose.She believes that success in life is about following your true passion and knowing what impact you are here to make in the world. Carey draws from more than two decades of experience in growing two businesses, decades of being a wife and mom, and her personal journey of life tragedies that she shares with her audience.She not only can relate to her audience why having a clear vision and purpose is the bottom line to professional success, but how it becomes the anchor in all the storms of life. It is through her joy and pain, through her success and struggles, that she offers you the greatest opportunity to create a clear path to your destiny by living in your Purpose. Questions?
Email Founder & CEO, Laura Stack, at Laura@JohnnysAmbassadors.org Who's Johnny?https://johnnysambassadors.org/johnny
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Driven: Rules of the Road to Success Featured expert:Cara Filler ORIGINAL WEBINAR: TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2022 Description 
Cara Filler believes youare not defined by your “story” or the events that happen in your life but by the meaning we give those events that control the steering wheel of our lives. Which direction are you driving? The road hasn’t always been ‘easy’ for Cara. The day after their 18th birthday, Cara’s world was devastated when her identical twin sister, Mairin, was killed in a high speed car crash. From that day forward, Cara committed to helping others put life and its challenges in perspective. She is a dedicated Safety Spaz and encourages everyone no matter your age to listen to your inner voice, stand up to a bully, get out of a speeding car, take the keys from a friend who has been drinking, ask for help or make a hard decision. It could just save a life!! Cara’s entertaining and powerful keynote presentation will equip students with a G.P.S. (Game Plan for Success) todesign a life by choice not by chance,and navigate the speed bumps and road blocks of school and life. Speaker Bio
 Cara Filler is Driven to Inspire. For the past 25 years, Cara has shared her powerful positive leadership and traffic safety programs with more than 2 million students in 5 countries. Drawing from an immense personal tragedy in her own life, Cara’s inspiring presentations focus on dealing with peer pressure, traffic safety, and being YOU-nique. Cara keeps it real. She’s an incredible storyteller, a bad dancer, and totally unashamed to make a fool of herself. Using humor and touching stories, Cara captivates her audience and leads them on an emotional roller coaster ride. But most of all, you will remember her for a little dance that just might save your life! Questions? Email Founder & CEO, Laura Stack, at Laura@JohnnysAmbassadors.org Who's Johnny?https://johnnysambassadors.org/johnny
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Workplace Wellness Means Whole Family Health Featured expert:Jo McGuire TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 2021 – ANTI-420 DAY CONFERENCE Handouts available at https://johnnysambassadors.org/ja210420mcguire/ Description
 Jo McGuire will discuss how employees are negatively affected by family addiction and how today’s legal marijuana plays a role in wreaking havoc in the workplace. Conversely, she will describe how to help parents of struggling teens to remain engaged, productive and consistent in their ability to perform their duties through support during these difficult times. Learning Objectives
 At the end of this 45-minute webinar, participants will learn how to: 1. Understand the impact on families struggling with substance use in the home 2. Recognize the challenges contemporary marijuana presents 3. Discover how workplace support can contribute to family wellness Speaker Bio
 Jo McGuire is an advocate for safe and drug free workplaces, families, and communities. She was invited to serve on the Taxation, Banking, and Civil Law workgroup for the Governor’s Task Force to regulate Amendment 64 in Colorado due to her expertise in the field of workplace drug and alcohol testing. Jo is the Executive Director of the National Drug and Alcohol Screening Association.She is a national conference speaker, published author, and the President and CEO ofFive Minutes of Courage. Jo is also the mother of an addict and shares her story with parents of loss, love, hope, and healing. Questions? Email Founder & CEO, Laura Stack, at Laura@JohnnysAmbassadors.org Who's Johnny?https://johnnysambassadors.org/johnny
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