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Erin Jamieson Day

MPH, CPS
CEO
Community Impact NC

Erin Jamieson Day, MPH, CPS
Chief Executive Officer
Community Impact NC, Inc.

Erin Jamieson Day joined Community Impact NC in October of 2018 and is the Chief Executive Officer. She holds a Master of Public Health degree from UNC Chapel Hill, a B.S. in Business Administration, and a B.A. in Religion & Philosophy from Barton College.

Erin has almost 20 years experience in the field of addictions. She has over 10 years experience in leading a community prevention coalition and training communities to begin community level prevention efforts. Erin is a Certified Prevention Specialist (CPS) by the North Carolina Addictions Specialist Professional Practice Board. She currently serves on the board of the NC Prevention Providers Association, as Immediate Past-Chair of the NC Substance Use Disorder Federation, and Immediate Past-Chair of The Coalition, representing SUD, IDD, and MH professionals.

Her experience spans on the ground direct services provision to literature reviews and policy analysis. Erin is seasoned in best practice policy language, evidence informed and community based strategies to protect our most vulnerable populations.

Erin is a recovery ally and has experience loving someone with a substance use disorder. She has personally helped navigate the behavioral health system in NC and she is a founder of Wilson’s Recovery Community Center, RC3. Erin works to be informed of public resources, underground resources, and legislation that impacts our most vulnerable and those living with a substance use disorder.

2027 Sessions

Primary Prevention Trends: Policy Priorities, Frameworks, and Community Choice

Session Description: Primary prevention continues to evolve as community prevention organizations evaluate new models, emerging practices, and changing policy priorities. This session examines trends in substance use primary prevention, including budgetary constraints, promotion of proprietary prevention packages, and federal prevention policy and funding priorities. The speakers will present the U.S. Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) and a widely publicized foreign prevention model as two process-oriented approaches to long-term, data-informed, community-based substance use prevention. They will describe the approaches' conceptual alignment across assessment, capacity, planning, implementation, and evaluation while identifying practical differences in cost, timeline, data collection, coalition breadth, and implementation flexibility. The session will also address how communities can employ coalitions to engage community institutions in three prevention strategies consistent with federal priorities: employers in Recovery Friendly Workplace initiatives, faith-based communities in youth-led activities, and law enforcement in age verification strategies and merchant education as an access-reduction strategy for alcohol, tobacco, and other retail-based mood altering products. Using both the Strategic Prevention Framework and a proprietary consulting-based prevention model as reference points, speakers will assess how each approach supports or constrains local decision-making based on coalition capacity, program inputs and design, and resource allocation. Participants will consider how fiscal and programmatic flexibility can allow communities to invest prevention dollars in local assets, such as prevention staff, data capacity, and evidence-based or experience-informed strategies. The session will conclude with practical takeaways for selecting, adapting, and sustaining primary prevention strategies, followed by Q&A.

Presenter

Wednesday, March 31 7:30–8:45 AM
1.25 Credits
Prevention
Faculty

Michael C. Barnes

JD
Managing Attorney
Sequel Health Law

Michael C. Barnes, Esq., is Managing Attorney at Sequel Health Law, where he practices health and drug law and policy. Mr. Barnes represents and advises commercial, professional, academic, and not-for-profit clients, and his practice covers the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government. His subject matter experience covers a broad array of health care topics, including drug development and compounding, clinical practice, insurance coverage and payment, substance use and mental health, privacy, AI, digital health, health information exchange, and correctional health care. Mr. Barnes is also Chairman of the Center for U.S. Policy, a member of the advisory board for the Rx and Illicit Drug Summit, the board of directors for the Legislative Analysis and Public Policy Association, and the editorial board for the Journal of Opioid Management.

Faculty

Erin Jamieson Day

MPH, CPS
CEO
Community Impact NC

Erin Jamieson Day, MPH, CPS
Chief Executive Officer
Community Impact NC, Inc.

Erin Jamieson Day joined Community Impact NC in October of 2018 and is the Chief Executive Officer. She holds a Master of Public Health degree from UNC Chapel Hill, a B.S. in Business Administration, and a B.A. in Religion & Philosophy from Barton College.

Erin has almost 20 years experience in the field of addictions. She has over 10 years experience in leading a community prevention coalition and training communities to begin community level prevention efforts. Erin is a Certified Prevention Specialist (CPS) by the North Carolina Addictions Specialist Professional Practice Board. She currently serves on the board of the NC Prevention Providers Association, as Immediate Past-Chair of the NC Substance Use Disorder Federation, and Immediate Past-Chair of The Coalition, representing SUD, IDD, and MH professionals.

Her experience spans on the ground direct services provision to literature reviews and policy analysis. Erin is seasoned in best practice policy language, evidence informed and community based strategies to protect our most vulnerable populations.

Erin is a recovery ally and has experience loving someone with a substance use disorder. She has personally helped navigate the behavioral health system in NC and she is a founder of Wilson’s Recovery Community Center, RC3. Erin works to be informed of public resources, underground resources, and legislation that impacts our most vulnerable and those living with a substance use disorder.
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