2025 Arkansas Prevention Summit
Dates: June 24-25, 2025
Meets: Tu and W from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Location: Benton Event Center
NO FEE: $0.00
There are 3 openings remaining at this time.
There are 3 openings remaining at this time.
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Speakers and Sessions
- Dale Quigley: Keynote - Cannabis in 2025: Things You Should Know
- Melissa Moore: Got Drugs? Now What! - Investing in 'What Works' (Old Drugs, New Threats®)
- Ashley Frazier, Ph.D.:
- Effective Community & School Based Prevention
- Fentanyl & Substance Adulteration
- Mitchell Moore: Completing Your Prevention Puzzle: Identifying Changeable Risk and Protective Factors, Parts 1 & 2
- Alison Oliveto, Ph.D.: Adolescent Nonmedical Prescription Drug Use Prevention: Focus on Opioids
- Jo McGuire: Marijuana in the Work Place
- Rafael Morales: Why D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) - Today's D.A.R.E. Program
- Rodney Wambeam, Ph.D.: Keynote - Prevention and the Youth Mental Health Crisis: Preliminary Findings from Focus Groups with Arkansas Teenagers
- Derek R. Slagle, Ph.D.: 2021-2024 Findings from the Arkansas Collegiate Substance Use Assessment
- David Deere: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: What Are They, How Do They Affect Individuals and Families, and What Can Preventionists Do About Them
- Shaneca Smith, Kimberlyn Bynum, Cierra Grant, Tiffany Lepard, Amy Smith: Living with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD): Learning from the Experts
- Lisa Perry, Ph.D.: Narcan Training
Notes:
| Fee: | $0.00 |
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| Hours: | 16.00 |
Benton Event Center
bentoneventcenter.comMelissa Moore
Melissa Moore has worked in Public Health for over 23 years, leading substance abuse prevention and coalition efforts in multiple diverse communities. Emphasizing the need to go beyond education to address the factors that contribute to substance abuse, Moore has helped lead assessment, planning, implementation, and grant writing efforts to transform the way communities tackle this daunting burden. An expert in engagement and communication, Moore is always looking for opportunities to take great ideas and move them into tangible actions, answering the age-old question: "We recognize this is an issue, now what can we do about it?" She is a certified prevention specialist and the owner/trainer of M Consulting, LLC: Moving Ideas to Action®.
Dale Quigley
Dale Quigley is the National Coordinator of the Marijuana Impact Group (formerly known as the National Marijuana Initiative) for the HIDTA program in the United States. He is responsible for providing information and education on issues surrounding marijuana. Prior to this role, he served at the Rocky Mountain HIDTA in Denver from 2011 - 2016 as the Manager of Intelligence and later oversaw their training program.
Deputy Quigley holds a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice and has been a peace officer in Colorado since 1979. In January 2016, he retired as a Sergeant from the Aurora Police Department. In his experience, Deputy Quigley notes his most rewarding assignments have been related to drug enforcement. He has an extensive background in narcotics investigations and supervising drug units, which includes supervising a gang-oriented drug task force for the FBI.
Recognized as a subject matter expert in several aspects of drug enforcement, he regularly speaks at regional, national, and international drug conferences on the impacts of drug usage. Additionally, he has instructed drug law at the Community College of Aurora (Colorado) and a series of drug enforcement classes for the Rocky Mountain HIDTA program.
| Date | Day | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06/24/2025 | Tuesday | 8 AM to 5 PM | Benton Event Center |
| 06/25/2025 | Wednesday | 8 AM to 5 PM | Benton Event Center |
