SAMHSA’s 21st Prevention Day

Now Open: Call for Abstracts!

Share your substance use prevention successes, challenges, lessons learned, and insights with colleagues from across the country.

Deadline: September 4, 2024 (at 11:59 p.m. ET)

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SAMHSA’s Prevention Day brings together over 4,000 prevention practitioners, advocates, scientists, leaders (community, state, tribal, federal), and consumers at the largest federal gathering dedicated to advancing the prevention of substance use.

The event explores current, emerging, and innovative strategies, policies, programs, practices, and research.

The 2025 theme, "Telling the Prevention Story," underscores sharing the successes of prevention and inspiring action.

Discover key takeaways from SAMHSA's 2024 Prevention Day.

Event

SAMHSA's 21st Prevention Day: Telling the Prevention Story
February 3, 2025
Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center
National Harbor, MD (near Washington, D.C.)

This is a day-long, in-person event.

Event Focus

The event focuses on three aims:

• Preventing initiation of substance use
• Preventing progression of substance use
• Preventing harms associated with substance use

Event Tracks

The event offers six tracks:

• Youth-led Prevention
• Prevention Science, Public Health Research, and Evaluation
• Innovative Prevention Strategies
• Prevention Efforts in Public Health Policy
• Prevention Across the Lifespan and Continuum of Care
• Prevention Workforce