WORKSHOP #PC-2 Rooms 12-14
Title: Drug-Free Communities Application Workshop
Speakers: Gwen Williams, Mark Morgan & Shauna Stoneburner, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U. S. Department of Justice
The workshop will provide training in the grant application process.
Workshop participants will receive information on the purpose, background, goals, eligibility requirements and selection criteria used for the Drug Free Communities Support Grant Program. Guidance will be given on developing goals, objectives, project strategies, and project evaluation. Participants will also receive training in applying for the grant through the electronic process (Grant Management System).

WORKSHOP #PC-3 Room 5
Title: Evaluation 201 – Advanced Issues in Evaluating Community Anti-Drug Coalitions
Speakers: Paul Evensen & Jeff Stowell, Community Systems Group, Inc.
This four hour intensive workshop is designed to help coalitions demonstrate their contribution to improved outcomes. Participants should be familiar with the basics of evaluation and come prepared to the workshop with specific questions and current challenges. The first half of the course will offer specific techniques for demonstrating coalition outcomes taught through real case examples. The second half will help participants apply these techniques to their own coalitions through small group exercises and whole group workshops.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the essential differences between research & evaluation.
2. Identify “naturally occurring” experiments in their own community.
3. Understand three key strategies for credibly documenting their coalitions’ contribution to community health.
4. Complete an action plan for improving their existing evaluation efforts.

WORKSHOP #PC-4 Rooms 2-3
Title: You’re Asking Me To Be An Entrepreneur?
Speakers: Larry Clark & Debra Keene Bergeron, Comprehensive Health Education Foundation (CHEF) & Mike Oxman, Fairman Schmidt & Hurley
Each organization has its own unique gifts to offer: programs, products, and services. In this day of state, federal, and private funding cutbacks, we all need to think “entrepreneurially.” This workshop promises a good overview of a new revenue model and shows that even nonprofits can make a profit! Learn about “organizational branding” and evaluate your own organization for increased income possibilities. Participants will explore an effective product development model and will develop a list of “possible products” for their own organizations.
Learning Objectives:
1. Have a better understanding of a nonprofit revenue model.
2. Be challenged to rethink "revenue streams" based on state, federal, and foundation cutbacks.
3. Learn about organizational "branding" and will have the opportunity to evaluate their own organization and its current position.
4. Learn about the CHEF product development model and will have developed a short list of "possibilities" for their own organization.
5. Leave the workshop with a call-to-action, as they return to
their respective organizations.

WORKSHOP #PC-5 Rooms 8-9
Title: Systems for Strategic Planning
Speaker: Jane Callahan, CADCA & Matthew Chinman, RAND Corporation,
Since the inception of anti-drug coalitions in the 1980’s, local communities have struggled with perfecting methods of developing and carrying out comprehensive, strategic plans that lead to measurable, community wide reductions in substance abuse. During the last decade, researchers and developers have worked to assist communities by creating planning systems for local collaborative groups to adopt to support their efforts.

To help local communities learn about the variety of planning tools available to them, CADCA has invited prominent researchers and developers to present their planning systems. Invitations have been extended to representatives from: The Search Institute (Assets Model), Communities That Care, Pathways to Effective Programs and Positive Outcomes (Achieving Outcomes), Getting to Outcomes and the Community Tool Box (University of Kansas).
Learning Objectives:
1. Provide an overview of different planning systems to enable local coalitions to become informed consumers of these products.
2. Increase understanding of the differences and similarities of the various planning systems.
3. Help community coalitions decide if, and under what circumstances, their community can benefit from using one for these planning models.
4. Determine to what extent a coalition’s current planning efforts
are following essential strategic planning steps.


WORKSHOP #PC-6 Room 15
Title: Alcohol Advertising & Underage Youth: When Is Too Much Enough?
Speakers: Jim O’Hara & Julia Sherman, Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth
Alcohol companies rely on self-regulation to protect underage youth from possible negative effects of alcohol advertising. In this workshop, staff from the nation’s leading monitors of alcohol advertising placement will delve into how and where, despite the industry’s voluntary codes, youth are exposed to more of this advertising per capita than legal-aged audiences. The speakers will also talk about initiatives that are being taken or could be taken to limit the impact of alcohol advertising on youth.
Learning Objectives:
1. Introduce participants to the regulatory environment surrounding alcohol
advertising and youth, including alcohol industry self-regulation.
2. Raise awareness of documented levels of youth exposure to alcohol
advertising in various measured media.
3. Provide overview of federal, state and local level actions and policy options
to reduce youth exposure to alcohol advertising.

WORKSHOP #PC-7 Room 10-11
Title: Coalition/Researcher Panel
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is interested in what coalitions have to say! Be part of the audience for a discussion between coalition leaders and leading substance abuse researchers on topics suggested by coalitions via CADCA’s Coalitions Online. This discussion will be the basis for an article on collaboration between researchers and practitioners (in this case, coalitions) to be published in NIDA's journal, Science and Practice Perspectives, which reaches 25,000 readers.
Topic 1: Environmental Strategies
While coalitions are particularly well-suited to carrying out environmental strategies, many coalitions find that these are not well represented on federal program lists of “evidence-based” programs. This discussion will focus on how to effectively evaluate the impact an environmental strategy has on a community, an essential step in getting onto the lists.
Topic 2: Risk and Protective Factors
While the term, "risk and protective factors" is mentioned by many, there appears to be a disconnect between what these factors really are and how they can be matched to effective programs and outcome measures. This discussion will focus on better understanding how all these pieces - factors, programs, and outcomes - fit together.
Topic 3: What do coalitions need to do to demonstrate their "homegrown" programs/strategies are effective?
Many coalitions feel that programs or strategies they have developed on their own are better than those on “evidence-based” lists. This discussion will focus on the standards of evidence needed to demonstrate that a particular "homegrown" program, policy or practice is effective.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2004
10:30 – Noon

WORKSHOP #1, Intervene Room 2
Title: Addressing the White Elephant in Your Community
Speakers: Mary Jo Vazquez & Bill Patterson, Center for Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws at Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE)
This workshop will introduce the concept of environmental prevention and clarify the difference between individual focused prevention vs. environmental prevention as it relates to the big “White Elephant” in communities - underage drinking and youth access to alcohol. Presenters will give a brief overview of National Data specific to underage alcohol use and possible policy solutions.
A description of community-based efforts will be discussed within the OJJDP Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws Program. How community groups can recruit key community members and other resources including law enforcement will also be covered.
Learning Objectives:
1. Introduce the concept of environmental prevention and clarify the difference between individual focused prevention vs. environmental prevention.
2. Introduce the 4P’s of prevention as a tool for analyzing community alcohol environments
3. Provide participants the opportunity to assess or examine their community/ region from an environmental prospective.
4. Provide effective prevention strategies.
5. Discuss various ways to motivate and recruit local and state law enforcement.
6. Provide concrete examples of community alcohol policy reform.
7. Review the cost of alcohol-related problems.


WORKSHOP #2, Organize Room 12
Title: Strengthening the Local - State Connection: Establishing a Relationship with your State ATOD Office
Speakers: Alan Moghul, Ph.D., National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD), Inc. & E. Joe Wiese, Southwest Prevention Center/Southwest Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies
The session will inform participants on the components of establishing a successful linkage with the State ATOD office. Some of these components include:
· Contact information
· Developing an ongoing relationship
· Awareness of what the State ATOD office can provide (technical assistance, funding information, educational materials)
· How to establish linkages/partnerships with other community-based entities (law enforcement, schools, public health/safety)
The session will inform participants about sustainability that may:
· Financial, Message and administrative sustainability
Learning Objectives:
1. Educate participants on the different hierarchies that they will need to interact with.
2. Explain the expectations and obligations in reporting to state and federal oversight bodies.
3. Learn how to make contact with the appropriate people at your State ATOD offices.


WORKSHOP #3, Intervene Room 13
Title: Building a Drug-Free Workforce: Strengthening Economies and Communities
Speakers: Elena Carr, US Department of Labor's Working Partners for an Alcohol and Drug-Free Workplace & Aleta Spicer, Occupational Enterprises, Inc.
This workshop introduces coalition leaders to a powerful, but underutilized, partner for community prevention efforts—the nation’s Workforce Investment System, in particular local One-Stop Career Centers and Workforce Investment Boards (WIBs). These entities help employers fill jobs and job seekers obtain and maintain employment. This includes individuals whose employment success has been compromised by substance abuse and addiction. A panel will present key issues and promising action steps for engaging the Workforce Investment System.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the role employment plays in preventing drug abuse and why a
strong workforce is key to a drug-free community.
2. Recognize why reaching out to One-Stop Career Centers/WIBs can help
coalitions further community drug-prevention goals.
3. Have a working knowledge of the nation’s Workforce Investment System and how it operates at the local level.
4. Learn how One-Stop Career Centers/WIBs can provide an additional means for engaging employers in the fight against drug abuse.
5. Be motivated and equipped to engage the Workforce Investment System as a prevention partner.


WORKSHOP #4, Advance Room 3
Title: Marketing to Coalitions – This is not your Mother’s PR Plan
Speaker: Gem Benoza, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, Jack Claypoole, LRADAC, The Behavioral Health Center of the Midlands & Others
Effective community coalitions integrate a variety of “communication” elements into their strategic plans to reduce substance abuse. However, it can be a daunting task for the non-communications professional to know when and how to employ different methods to achieve the desired results. In this workshop, practitioners will learn about different types of communications and marketing so they are better equipped to use the media and other vehicles to get results.
Learning Objectives:
1. Define and provide examples of: public relations, public awareness, media advocacy, media literacy and social marketing.
2. Learn how coalitions have used these communication methods to support strategies.
3. Increase participant’s ability to select appropriate methods to match the problem or issue being addressed.


WORKSHOP #5, Advance Room 4
Title: A Call to Action: Alcohol Marketing and Youth
Speakers: Stephanie Beougher & Kristen Gish, Ohio Parents for Drug Free Youth
This presentation will feature collaborative efforts between Ohio’s Statewide Prevention Coalition Association, recipient of CADCA’s 2002 State Coalition of the Year award, and the Ohio Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth. The collaborative efforts of these two initiatives are intended to increase advocacy efforts of community coalitions to affect policy change in the alcohol industry’s marketing practices to youth. Coalition members will discuss the successes and challenges of their collaborative efforts and how the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth’s resources have been utilized. Workshop participants will learn how this strategy can be replicated in their states.


WORKSHOP #6, Intervene Room 8
Title: Overview of America’s Drug Problem and DEA’s Teens in Prevention
Speaker: Special Agent David Monnette, Drug Enforcement Agency
Teens in Prevention (TiP) is a Youth Driven, community supported NETWORK of prevention advocates that focus on individual responsibility, positive peer pressure, and community mobilization to reduce substance abuse and violence. Multiple youth driven, school-based organizations (SBOs) form a Regional Chapter and each Regional Chapter becomes part of the greater NETWORK.
The Drug Enforcement Administration, El Paso Division (EPD), is responsible for managing and operating the NETWORK of SBOs and Regional Chapters. DEA Special Agents and support staff with the experience, commitment, and credibility to promote drug prevention and education within the community distinguishes the TiP NETWORK.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn how DEA’s TiP Network provides a unique multi-faceted solution to America’s Drug Problem.
2. Learn why the “War on Drugs Metaphor,” is inaccurate and misleading; and why America’s youth, community leaders and school officials must be mobilized to support DEA in mounting a comprehensive attack against substance abuse and violence.
3. Learn how TiP will provide support for parents; educate school-aged children to provide a drug-free message; raise public awareness; and assist DEA in establishing drug-free workplace programs.


WORKSHOP #7, Advance Room 5
Title: Leadership Styles in Community Coalitions
Speaker: Wendy Jill Krom, Community Consulting Services
Recognizing and developing new leadership in our coalitions has to be an on-going process. This workshop will help participants learn to identify different styles of leadership already in their groups. This will help in their efforts to recruit new individuals to the organization. In addition, exploring Balanced Leadership Theory will help participants discover how they can best regain their equilibrium as coalition leaders, when they begin to feel unbalanced in their own leadership style.
Learning Objectives:
1. Be able to identify three specific leadership styles, and recognize these styles in themselves and others.
2. Learn, through an interactive game, about Balanced Leadership Theory.
3. A Personal Preservation Plan will be introduced as a tool for maintaining balance and managing time as a community leader.

WORKSHOP #8, Intervene Room 9
Title: The Lewistown Buprenorphine Program Model
Speakers: Arlene Stanton, Ph.D. & Ruth Hurtado, CSAT/DPT, Cheryl Stayton, Ph.D & Brad Miller, M.D., Family Health Associates
South Central Pennsylvania recently experienced an “outbreak” of heroin abuse and trafficking. The absence of treatment options prompted a somewhat unique intervention – office-based buprenorphine treatment. This session will provide communities with an overview of a model that was developed in Central Pennsylvania to treat opiate patients with buprenorphine. Participants will learn how stakeholders (State, County, Local, Federal) established the program and how this model may be considered for other regions.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn how to establish a buprenorphine treatment model in your community.
2. Gain ideas on how to overcome obstacles as your community begins treating patients with buprenorphine.
3. Learn strategies on how to facilitate different leaders in your community (ie., law enforcement, family practitioners, counseling centers, etc.) to come together to establish an effective and successful buprenorphine treatment model.

WORKSHOP #9, Intervene Room 15
Title: Cultural Competency for Anti-Drug Coalitions
Speaker: Eduardo Hernandez, Ph.D., CADCA
This workshop will provide participants with an understanding of the key principles of cultural competency and outline ways that coalition leaders can integrate them into their plans, strategies, and activities. Participants will learn how to assess their organizational cultural competency and find out about interventions they can make to enhance the cultural competency levels of their coalitions. Finally, participants will learn about available federal and other national resources that can be of value to their coalitions.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand basic concepts of cultural competency and how they apply to their community mobilization work to prevent substance abuse.
2. Learn basic characteristics of culturally competent organizations.
3. Be able to assess their coalitions to ascertain their organizational level of cultural competency.
4. Learn about resources readily available to them to further their learning about cultural competency and their work with special populations.

WORKSHOP #10, Intervene Room 16
Title: The ABC's of Effective Advocacy
Speaker: Sue Thau, CADCA
This workshop will provide participants with the basic information they need to be effective advocates for prevention at all levels of government.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn the differences between education, advocacy and lobbying.
2. Learn the tools and techniques for effective advocacy at the local, state, and federal levels.
3. Learn how, when, and to whom to make your case.
4. Learn how to most effectively communicate with elected officials, policy-makers and their staffs to create better policies and more funding opportunities for prevention programs.
5. Learn how much lobbying 501 (c) (3)’s can legally do.


WORKSHOP #11, Plan Room 10
Title: Changing High-Risk Behaviors Using Social Norms Strategies
Speakers: Jeff Linkenbach, Ph.D., Montana State University
The social norms theory suggests that most people conform to their perspective of the majority. Social norms strategy attempts to change behavior by identifying and promoting actual and positive behavior of the majority.
The social norms theory has proven effective in increasing seat belt use, reducing tobacco use and harmful drinking. Evaluation of the Montana DUI project revealed that young adults who recognized the program message reported a significantly lower incidence of impaired driving compared to those young adults who did not recall any DUI prevention messages or those who only recalled fear-based campaigns.
Presented by well-known authorities, participants will gain knowledge on social norms theory, the basic structure for implementing the strategies, and various applications of the strategy.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn the seven-step social norms model used in Montana.
2. Learn about the various applications of the social norms strategies.
3. Learn how to initiate a social norms strategy.


WORKSHOP #12, Organize Room 17
Title: The Role of Faith-Based and Weed and Seed Communities in Fighting Substance Abuse
Speakers: Rev. Jesse C. Turner, Pine Bluff Arkansas Weed and Seed & Rev. Marcellete McKinney, High Point Weed and Seed
Weed and Seed sites, faith-based communities, community leaders, youth groups and law enforcement recognize the importance of “working together” to deal with the factors of reducing substance abuse. Weed and Seed sites have developed strategies to use both law enforcement and prevention techniques to reduce substance abuse in their neighborhoods. This workshop will demonstrate the positive effect of fighting substance abuse by the collaborative efforts of faith-based, law enforcement, and social service providers.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn about effective demand reduction initiatives that are being implemented by Weed and Seed sites in collaboration with faith-based organizations and law enforcement.
2. Learn step-by-step procedures for implementing faith-based initiatives within their communities.
3. Learn how to identify faith-based programs that will meet the goals and objectives of their strategic plans.
4. Learn the restrictions and requirements that accompany implementation of faith-based initiatives when using federal funding for those initiatives.


WORKSHOP #14 West Salon A
Title Town Hall Meeting
Speakers: SAMHSA


WORKSHOP #16, Plan West Room 11
Title: Drug-Free Activities, Drug Education, Community Service, Community Outreach: Coming Together with PRIDE Youth Programs
Speakers: Jennifer Kempen & David Hatter, PRIDE Youth Programs
Come and learn what makes PRIDE Youth Programs tick. PRIDE presents an interactive session designed to provide you with a thorough understanding of PRIDE youth programs and creative ways to incorporate drug education into other youth activities.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn about PRIDE Youth Programs’ programming for youth K-College.
2. Understand the core prevention principles that PRIDE Youth Programs are
based on.
3. Experience and take home fun drug prevention games used in PRIDE’s youth
trainings.


2:45pm – 4:45 pm


WORKSHOP #17, Intervene Room 10
Title: Ethical Fitness: An Exercise Plan for Community Coalitions
Speaker: Linda Verst, North Key Regional Prevention Center
Those of us who work together to address alcohol and other drug issues are often called upon to make critical decisions that can impact the future of individuals and communities. Ethical Fitness is designed to give coalition members clear, immediately useful tools for making fair and just decisions. An ethical decision-making model will be taught. Participants will engage in active community learning as they practice the decision-making model, using case studies.
Learning Objectives:
1. Recognize and understand six principles commonly identified as basic to ethical decision-making.
2. Practice using a six step Ethical Decision Making Model to resolve perplexing issues.
3. Be able to take the Ethical Decision Making Model and Matrix and use it in
their own coalitions, at work and at home.
4. Participate in and understand the importance of active learning for adults.


WORKSHOP #18, Intervene Room 12
Title: Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment
Speakers: Herman Diesenhaus, Ph.D., Jean Donaldson & Ann Mahony, SAMHSA/CSAT
Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral, and Treatment, or SBIRT, is a tested intervention in the alcohol continuum of care. The SBIRT intervention merges both alcohol and drug intervention in the generalist setting. The SBIRT program goals are to:
· Expand the State’s continuum of care to include, screening, brief intervention, referral, and treatment in the general medical setting and other community settings such as community health centers, hospitals, emergency departments;
· Support clinically appropriate treatment services for nondependent substance users, and for dependent substance users;
· Improve linkages among community agencies performing SBIRT and specialist substance abuser treatment agencies; and
· Identify systems and policy changes to increase access to treatment in generalist and specialist settings.
Learning Objectives:
1. To convey the link between prevention and treatment;
2. To convey the role of early identification of alcohol and drug problems;
3. To convey an understanding of the disease management approach to alcohol and drug treatment.


WORKSHOP #19, Evaluate Room 13
Title: Science-Based Community Friendly Prevention Tools
Speakers: Elizabeth B. Robertson, Ph.D. & Wilson Compton, M.D. (Panel Chairs)
Susanna Nemes, Ph.D., Linda Dusenbury, Ph.D. & Christopher Williams, Ph.D., National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institute of Health (NIH) & Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS)
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) supports the development and production of innovative prevention tools for community practitioners and policy makers. This workshop will present an overview of this program and what has been accomplished to date. Several NIDA-supported projects on assessment/evaluation, training, and programming will be described and demonstrated. Ideas for future products to enhance participants’ day-to-day work will be discussed.
Learning Objectives:
1. Provide an overview of research activities underway at NIDA to develop community-friendly prevention products.
2. Describe and demonstrate several assessment/evaluation, training and programming tools available to communities.
3. Identify products in need of development that would be useful to communities.


WORKSHOP #20, Sustain Room 2
Title: Bu$ine$$ $en$e for $u$tainability
Speakers: Nora Drexler, Drexler Associates, Inc. & Gloria Guy, Illinois State Chamber of Commerce
The first part of the workshop will be a presentation about Drug-Free Workplace Initiatives and how coalitions can become involved. The second part will be a sustainability workshop with a business link to coalitions.
This is a fast-paced, interactive workshop focused on several factors that help to determine the sustainability of an organization. Participants are encouraged to bring a "used" item worth $1-$2 dollars that they will "auction" using CADCA "simulated currency" at the end of the workshop. Examples of coalition and business partnerships will be shared, with a special focus on the Drug-Free Workplace. This is a "hands-on" workshop that will educate participants in the commonalities of business and social marketing, while demonstrating the creativity, flexibility and originality necessary for sustaining the efforts of the coalition. This is a fun and exciting workshop whereby participants "earn" simulated dollars for their own creative efforts and ideas.
Learning Objectives:
1. Provide an introduction to business practices, products, promotional strategies and a Business Plan.
2. Foster creativity, flexibility and risk-taking for entrepreneurial endeavors
3. Provide an opportunity for creative sustainability, collaboration and capacity building.


WORKSHOP #21, Assess Room 11
Title: Lessons from Columbia: Implications for Community Readiness and Capacity Building
Speakers: Thomas Kerss, Nacogdoches County Sheriff's Office & Shari Horton Ratliff, Nacogdoches Safe and Drug Free/Alcohol & Drug Abuse Council of Deep East Texas, Glenn Brooks, Justice Programs, Office of the Governor & Kathi Stalnaker, Nacogdoches Independent School District
Discover critical elements of community readiness and mobilization as demonstrated during an emergency response that can be applied to the process of capacity building in a community coalition.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn to identify various types of resources available within their community, and explore how these resources can affect the success of community-based processes. Types of resources to be discussed will include funding and capital resources, human resources, facilities and equipment, leadership and management resources, developmental assets, media and public relations networking, and even the social and cultural environment of the community.
2. Investigate additional resources outside the community, such as potential funding streams through grant-seeking; state and federal agency support; and access to web-based technology, training, research, and program management and evaluation.


WORKSHOP #22, Intervene Room 17
Title: Crank It Up! Implementing a Successful Community-Based Methamphetamine Prevention Project
Speakers: Cristi Cain, Kansas Methamphetamine Prevention Project & Lynn Currie Myers, Johnson County Sheriff's Office
Participants will learn about specific strategies that have been used to address the methamphetamine problem in Kansas. The strategies, which include involving retailers, youth, rural organizations, and law enforcement, are replicable in other communities. Materials will be provided to enhance successful replication.
Learning Objectives:
1. Increase their knowledge base regarding general methamphetamine information including statistics, dangers of production, social implications, effects on children, and issues from rural communities.
2. Learn specific strategies that have been used to address the methamphetammine problem in Kansas.
3. Learn what agencies are key partners in community meth prevention efforts.
4. Develop an action plan for implementation of meth prevention initiatives.


WORKSHOP #23, Organize Room 9
Title: Developing Strong Prevention Systems to Support Local Community Work
Speakers: Laurie Barger Sutter & Karen Abrams, Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services - Office of Mental Health, Substance Abuse and Addiction Services
This presentation will use Nebraska’s State Incentive Cooperative Agreement (SICA) as a case study to demonstrate the application of sustainable systems development theory to local prevention systems/infrastructures. Participants will leave the workshop with the skills and resources to:
· Identify community stakeholders and collaborators for inclusion in the coalition development and planning process;
· Apply the “Community Readiness” model to local communities;
· Use an assessment tool to effectively gauge existing levels of community prevention system collaboration and coordination;
· Apply the results of the assessment within an evidence-based planning process to plan for coalition development and prevention system strengthening.
Learning Objectives:
1. Promote collaboration and coordination within and between community coalitions and the members of their local prevention systems to support the selection of evidence-based strategies.
2. Develop knowledge of coalition and prevention system characteristics to assess and build the capacity of community coalitions and local substance abuse prevention infrastructures in order to successfully implement and sustain science-based strategies.
3. Engage communities and local prevention system infrastructures in comprehensive, evidence-based strategic planning processes to achieve prevention outcomes.


WORKSHOP #24, Evaluate Room 3
Title: Diffusion of Innovation: Are We Moving to Science-Based Programs?
Speaker: Carlton Hall, Channing Bete Company, Inc.
This workshop is designed to help community coalitions and prevention/youth development practitioners apply the research on diffusion of innovations to their local efforts. According to Everett Rogers, preeminent diffusion researcher, “Diffusion is the process by which an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among the members of a social system” (Rogers, 1995). The diffusion research base derives from the study of diffusion across a wide range of innovations.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn how the four components of diffusion: innovation (technology), communication, time and social system are applied to the diffusion of tested, effective prevention/youth development approaches.
2. Address how an understanding of the five categories of adopters identified by Rogers – Innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority and laggards-can help community coalitions mobilize diverse stakeholders to support youth development.


WORKSHOP #25, Intervene Room 4
Title: Taking Back Our Culture
Speakers: Jovita Juarez, North City Prevention Coalition & Karen Pfeiffer, SAY San Diego/North City Prevention Coalition
This workshop will involve members of Latinos and Latinas for Health Justice who will involve the participants in the overall design of the Cinco de Mayo Campaign. Speakers will be present the history, research, community passion and the strategies that we use to develop a statewide movement for the Cinco De Mayo Campaign.
Learning Objectives:
1. Increase Community Capacity: how skills developed by community members translate into action to reduce alcohol-related violence and injury to be incorporated into local health and prevention initiatives.
2. Multicultural understanding and coalition building: will emphasize the importance of recruiting communites that have been traditionally marginalized, building coalitions across diverse regions, addressing soci-cultural barriers at the core of the local alcohol problem.
3. Youth and community participation: how involvement with youth and community will foster increased participation in local decisions to promote healthy alternatives to alcohol outlets and cultural celebration revenues.


WORKSHOP #26, Evaluate Room 5
Title: Empowerment Evaluation: Methods and Tools for Coalitions to Achieve Results
Speakers: Pamela Imm, Ph.D. & Barry Lentz, Action Research Associates, John Duncan, U.S. Attorneys Office, Tamara Henry-Kurtz, Syracuse Onondaga Drug and Alcohol Abuse Commission, Abraham Wandersman, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, Kim Wardlaw Smith, Lexington/Richland Department of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services & Xiaoyan Zhang, Ph.D., KIT Solutions
Community coalitions are faced with significant pressures to outline their evaluation plans with specific strategies to document their outcomes. There are many strategies to help coalitions document their results. This presentation will focus on the utilization of an empowerment evaluation model/strategy that involves participation across the whole range of stakeholders involved in community coalitions. The core principles and practices of empowerment evaluation strategies will be discussed with straightforward examples from the experience of the presenters. Participants from two Drug-free Communities Coalitions in New York and South Carolina will be included to provide input from community-based groups. A demonstration of the Interactive Getting to Outcomes System (iGTO) system will also be conducted to show how these methods can be utilized using a web-based system.
Learning Objectives:
1. Provide an overview of the values and practices of empowerment evaluation.
2. Provide methods and tools for implementing empowerment evaluation strategies.
3. Increase participants’ awareness about how empowerment evaluation strategies can be used at the local level through experiences from the community panel.


Workshop #27 Room 15
Title: The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools: Funding Opportunities and the Application Process
Department of Education- Safe and Drug-Free Schools
Presenters: Robyn Disselkoen, U.S. Department of Education, Paul Kesner, Character, Civic, and Correctional Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education, & Richard Lucey, Jr., U.S. Department of Education
This workshop highlights the various discretionary grants projected to be available this year through the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools. The presenters will highlight multiple aspects of each funding opportunity, including the grant’s focus, eligibility requirements, estimated size of awards, and length of project periods. The presenters also will review grant-writing and proposal organization tips and discuss the process by which proposals are reviewed for consideration. Several resources will be distributed to attendees.


WORKSHOP #28, Plan West Salon A
Title: Free to Grow Program at Columbia University
Speaker: Michael Sparks, Columbia University
Free to Grow is a 15-site national substance abuse prevention demonstration project designed to strengthen families and the communities in which they live to improve outcomes for children. The program interventions target young families in some of the most vulnerable and diverse communities in America. This presentation will describe the work of three Free to Grow sites. Presenters will be representing Lincoln Nebraska, Orange California, and Franklin, Louisiana. Emphasis will be placed on the importance of working in partnership to achieve family and community outcomes. Faith-based community partnership will be explored in the context of the Free to Grow framework. The value of logic models as a planning tool and tracking mechanism in relation to developing realistic outcomes will be discussed.
Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will better understand the process of implementing a
comprehensive integrated family and community initiative built on a
risk and protective factors framework;
2. Participants will better understand the importance of logic models to shape outcomes and how they can be used as a planning tool;
3. Participants will better understand how to build partnerships in which all members have key roles and are actively engaged in implementing the initiative.


WORKSHOP #29, Intervene Room 8
Title: Drug Impairment Training for Educational Professionals
Speakers: Dean Kuznieski & Melissa Vittrup, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
NHTSA in cooperation with the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) developed the Drug Impairment Training for Educational Professional (DITEP) Course. The DITEP training provides teachers, counselors, administrators, school nurses, and others that have contact with youth with a systematic approach to recognize the impaired student. This training will identify techniques that will serve as a drug and/or alcohol prevention and intervention tool. The goal is to reduce the likelihood of the drug- and/or alcohol- impaired students from injury and instances of driving while impaired.
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify the seven (7) categories of drugs that can impair a student’s ability to function normally.
2. Recognize the indicators of drug and alcohol impairment in students.
3. Identify and apply the techniques for handling intervention regarding drug and alcohol students.


WORKSHOP #30 Room 16
Title: Nizhooni Hoghan: Multicultural Action for Home and Community
Speaker: Ray Daw, Na’nizhoozhi Center, Inc.
This workshop will provide description on development of the McKinley County Health Alliance, a broad coalition addressing a myriad of health initiatives in one the poorest counties in the United States. The community-based Alliance is in a rural county with a population comprised of 70% Native Americans and has been able to effectively support affiliated coalitions addressing DWI, substance abuse, maternal childcare, and domestic violence, for example. McKinley County has been a national model for development of environmental policy approaches towards substantially reducing mortality and morbidity due to substance abuse.
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe a rural multi-cultural coalition.
2. Identify factors resulting in the coalition’s longevity and effectiveness.
3. Provide evaluation indicators that describe current successes.


WORKSHOP #32 Room 14
Title: Working Together to Prevent Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in the Nation's Capital and Beyond: A Public Awareness Campaign
Presenters: Fred Donodeo, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism & Kathy Tavenner Mitchell, LCADC
The workshop will give an overview on fetal alcohol syndrome along with a description of a localized public awareness campaign in Washington, DC targeting young African American women of Child-bearing age. The National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS) is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization committed to raising public awareness of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) and to developing and implementing innovative prevention, education, intervention and advocacy programs in communities throughout the nation by developing prevention and education messages and strategies for implementation among diverse populations nationwide; providing referrals, resources and information on a broad range of alcohol and pregnancy services and issues through a national clearinghouse; and collaborating and partnering with prevention, education, advocacy and research agencies, organizations, and universities to promote the awareness and understanding of FAS, and for the purpose of coordinating activities.

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Thursday, January 22, 2004
1:00 – 2:30 pm Faith-Based Track Workshop (including SAMHSA and EOWS Workshops)-
First Session


WORKSHOP #33 Room 10
Title: Faith-Based Prevention Model: A Promising Program with Proven Success
Speakers: Mary Sutherland, Ph.D., Florida State University & Gregory Harris
HPPI Inc./Council on Church-Based Health Programs, Inc.
The Universal, Faith-Based Prevention Model, a CSAP Promising Program, is a constellation of planning and program strategies, which, when combined have a positive impact on youth, church members, and the community. The model is implemented in four different phases: (1) community development, readiness, and empowerment; (2) church leader training and action planning; (3) program implementation and evaluation; and (4) program redesign. Prevention strategies utilized include life skills, drama, alternative activities, recognition, family/intergenerational activities, and data collection. Positive evaluative results have been obtained from several rural sites.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn to apply the faith model developmental processes within their home communities;
2. Apply the faith model data collection plan within their home communities;
3. Apply the faith model sample instruments to their home communities.


WORKSHOP #34 Room 11
Title: Faith-Based Strategies for Coalitions
Speaker: Eduardo Hernandez, Ph.D. & Kareemah Hafiz Abdullah, CADCA
Ann Comiskey, Troy Community Coalition, Gwendolyn Brown, Genesis Prevention Coalition, Inc. & Rhonda Ramsey Molina, Coalition for a Drug-Free Greater Cincinnati
The moderator/coordinator will recruit and select anti-drug coalition leaders from various types of communities that have successfully partnered with faith-based organizations to conduct prevention activities. Each panelist will describe the essence of their collaborative activities with the faith community. The emphasis will be on describing effective prevention strategies and programs involving the faith community that can be replicated by other coalitions. Further, each panelist will provide a written fact sheet for participants that will describe their faith-oriented activities in greater detail and list contacts who would be available to answer questions from participants. After the panel presentations, Dr. Hernandez and Ms. Abdullah will moderate a question and answer session and provide information about CADCA and other national resources.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn about specific prevention activities involving faith-based organizations that they can use in their local communities.
2. Learn about CADCA and other national resources available to them regarding faith-based activities.


WORKSHOP #35 Room 17
Title: The Role of Faith and Community Initiatives in Re-entry Programs
Speakers: Wayne Rawlins, National Community Justice Consultant & Michael Zavala, Fresno Weed and Seed
The Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs (OJP), has recognized the value of partnering with faith and community-based organizations to stop violence in the community. These partnerships are committed to working together to identify resources for lack of services for the high-risk youth and adult populations that are returning to their neighborhoods following incarceration. The goal of the program is to reduce crime and violence in communities and provide a “second chance” for the high-risk returning offender. The collaborations between police departments, probation and parole departments, community services, schools and faith-based organizations play a vital part in building the social, spiritual and economic health of neighborhoods.
Learning Objectives:
1. Recognize the value of faith and community-based organizations and the
roles they can play in providing necessary training, counseling, and other services.
2. Become familiar with the various types of effective services that faith-based organizations can provide to the re-entry population.
3. Learn techniques for improving collaboration and cooperation between police departments, probation and parole departments, community services, schools, and faith-based organizations with emphasis on the latter.
4. Learn the pitfalls to avoid and the policies that must be adhered to in partnering with faith-based organizations.


WORKSHOP #36 Room 8
Title: The Role of Faith-Based and Weed and Seed Communities in Fighting Substance Abuse
Speakers: Rev. Jesse C. Turner, Pine Bluff Arkansas Weed and Seed; Rev. Marcellete McKinney and Diana Cotton- Williams, High Point Weed and Seed
Weed and Seed sites, faith-based communities, community leaders, youth groups and law enforcement recognize the importance of “working together” to deal with the factors of reducing substance abuse. Weed and Seed sites have developed strategies to use both law enforcement and prevention techniques to reduce substance abuse in their neighborhoods. This workshop will demonstrate the positive effect of fighting substance abuse by the collaborative efforts of faith-based, law enforcement, and social service providers.
Learning Objectives:
5. Learn about effective demand reduction initiatives being implemented by Weed and Seed sites in collaboration with faith-based organizations and law enforcement.
6. Learn step-by-step procedures for implementing faith-based initiatives within their communities.
7. Learn how to identify faith-based programs that will meet the goals and objectives of their strategic plans.
8. Learn the restrictions and requirements that accompany implementation of faith-based initiatives when using federal funding for those initiatives.


WORKSHOP #37 Room 14
Title: Spiritual Issues for the Native American Community and Their Role in Effective Substance Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Mental Health
Speakers: Dr. Boris Aponte, Division of Knowledge Applications and Systems
Improvement, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Dr. Dale Walker, Center for American Indian Health, Education and Research, Oregon Health and Science University, & Don Coyhis, White Bison, Inc.
Native American spiritual values and behaviors should be understood and considered while planning services for Native Americans.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn about core spiritual values for Native Americans and how they relate to the Medicine Wheel.
2. Learn how to integrate Native American spiritual values and behaviors into substance abuse and mental health services.


WORKSHOP #38 Room 16
Title: CSAP Resources for Faith- and Community-Based Organizations
Speaker: Charles Reynolds, Division of Workplace Programs, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
CSAP has many resources to offer faith- and community-based institutions for planning and implementing substance abuse and mental health services at the community level. In this session, a panel of leaders will present five of CSAP’s resources including:
1. Mapping faith- and community-based cooperation
Geographic information systems are a resource that faith- and community-
based organizations can use to plan and develop coalitions to work together
to provide a wide variety of services to community residents.

2. Cutting Edge Research and Evidence-Based Programming
Speaker: Nelia Nadal, Division of Prevention Education, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
SAMHSA’s National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information is the
largest resource of alcohol and drug information in the world. Along with its
franchised RADAR Network Centers, it provides both research information
and public awareness materials in print, electronic, and video formats. The free
materials and information provided can enhance any and all faith- and
community-based substance abuse prevention and mental health programs.

3. Training and Technical Assistance to Sustain Your Efforts
The Centers for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPTs)
Speaker: LaVencia Sugars, Division of Knowledge Applications and Systems Improvement, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention

4. Get Connected Toolkit: Linking Older Adults with Medication, Alcohol, and Mental Health Resources
Speaker: Jennifer Solomon, Office of Program Analysis and Coordination (OPAC), Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
There is a growing need for materials that help aging services organizations collaborate with substance abuse and mental health providers to better address these issues among older adults. The Get Connected Toolkit provides aging services organizations with information about:
· Prevalence, signs/symptoms, risk factors, and consequences of substance abuse and mental disorders among older adults
· Types of services that may be needed by older adults who have these problems
· The role aging services providers play in identifying older adults who may have these problems and connecting them with appropriate substance abuse and mental health services.

5. Unlocking the Potential of the Web
Speaker: Dr. Lewis D. Eigen, SAMHSA’s National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
An overwhelming amount of health information is available on the Internet and the quality of this information varies widely. To assist faith- and community-based organizations, SAMHSA makes available many of its resources via the Web. Learn practical strategies for how to use these free resources and integrate the use of the Web into your program activities.


WORKSHOP #39 Room 7
Title: Core Competencies for Clergy and Other Pastoral Ministers in Addressing Alcohol and Other Drug Dependence and the Impact on Family Members
Speakers: Sis Wenger, National Association for Children of Alcoholics
TBD
Expert leaders in seminary training and pastoral care will introduce the newly developed Core Competencies for Clergy and Other Pastoral Ministers in Addressing Alcohol and Other Drug Dependence and the Impact on Family
Members, a set of 12 competencies that present a specific guide to the core knowledge, attitudes, and skills which are essential to the ability of all clergy and pastoral ministers to address the needs of persons with alcohol or other drug dependence and their affected family members. These competencies provide the base from which appropriate pre- and post-ordination education can develop and against which adequate knowledge and skills can be assessed.


WORKSHOP #40 Room 12
Title: Critical Underpinnings for Effective Community Treatment and Recovery Services: Counselor Credentialing and Addiction Program Licensure Requirements and Understanding Charitable Choice
Speakers: Ken DeCerchio, Department of Children and Families (Florida)
Shirley Jackson Beckett, NAADAC (The Association for Addiction
Professionals), Jean LaCour, NET Training Institute, Inc., Chris MacDonnell, Continuing Care Accreditation Commission, Susan Farah, Second Chances
This session will provide an overview of counselor certification and program facility licensing requirements as well as provide a general discussion of the newly enacted SAMHSA Charitable Choice Legislation provisions as it relates to faith-based treatment service providers.


WORKSHOP #41 Room 9
Title: Addressing Community Substance Abuse Problems Through Collaborative Partnerships, Coalitions, and Systems of Care
Speakers: Kevin Monroe, We Care America, Inc., Gregory Alex, Coalitions for Community Renewal Interdenominational Ministries, Daphne Walker-Thoth & Rabbi James Stone Goodman, Committed Caring Faith Communities
This session will explore strategies, models, and processes for mobilizing grassroots faith and community groups to respond to community substance abuse and related problems.


WORKSHOP #42 Room 13
Title: Recovery Support Communities: Providing a Continuum of Care for Individuals in Recovery
Speakers: Ronald Simmons, Free-N-One, David Whiter, Recovery Consultants of Atlanta, Inc. & Mike Harden, No Longer Bound
Panelists will examine and discuss the value of appropriate faith based recovery support programs and share effective models that are being used throughout the United States to address the needs of individuals recovering from addictive disorders.


WORKSHOP #43 Room 4
Title: The President’s Faith-Based and Community Initiative (FBCI)
Speaker: Bobby Polito, Director for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
President George W. Bush’s Faith-Based and Community Initiative represents a fresh start and bold new approach to Government’s role in helping those in need. Too often, the Government has ignored or impeded the efforts of faith-based and community organizations. These compassionate efforts to improve communities have been needlessly and improperly inhibited by bureaucratic red tape and restrictions placed on funding.
The White House and the Centers for the Faith-Based and Community Initiative—located in seven Federal agencies—are working to support the essential work of these important organizations. Their goal is to make sure that grassroots leaders can compete on an equal footing for Federal dollars, receive greater support, and face fewer bureaucratic barriers.

This session will provide an in-depth overview of the components of the Faith-Based and Community Initiative—including the FBCI Executive Orders and Charitable Choice. Special emphasis will be on discussion of the FBCI within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.


WORKSHOP #44 Room 5
Title: Youth Violence Prevention
Speakers: TBD
This session will inform participants about the youth violence programs and initiatives of SAMHSA’s Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS). It also will include a presentation by a successful faith-based grantee.

In October 1998, in response to widely-publicized incidents of violence in schools, Congress appropriated $40 million to CMHS “to improve mental health services for children with emotional and behavioral disorders who are at risk of violent behavior.” This enabled CMHS to launch a major Youth Violence Prevention Initiative, a significant part of which is the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative (SS/HS). SS/HS is a collaborative grant program of the Departments of Education, Justice, and Health and Human Services. A major goal of SS/HS is to help students develop the skills and emotional resilience necessary to promote positive mental health, engage in prosocial behavior, and prevent violent behavior and drug use.

With the status of a moral authority in many communities, religious institutions, organizations, and specific religious leaders are an important part of broad-based community campaigns to reduce and prevent youth violence. Religious or “faith-based interventions” have been shown to be effective in many communities.


WORKSHOP #45 Room 15
Title: President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
Speaker: Betsy Schwartz, Mental Health Association of Greater Houston
This session will review the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health’s recommendations and goals for transformation of mental health care in America. The possible relationships between mental health service organizations and faith communities will be explored as mechanisms to help meet the goals of the Commission. A programmatic example of mental health service system and faith-community collaboration will also be presented.

On April 29, 2002, President George W. Bush announced the creation of the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. The Commission was charged with the study of the mental health care delivery system and to provide recommendations that would enable adults with serious mental illness and children with serious mental disturbances to live work, learn, and participate fully in their communities.

On July 22, 2003, the Commission on Mental Health delivered its thorough and thoughtful report in response to the President’s call. This historic report, Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America, marks an important milestone in Federal efforts to fulfill the goals of the President’s New Freedom.


3:00 – 4:30pm Faith-Based Track Workshop (including SAMHSA and EOWS Workshops)- Second Session- REPEAT OF FIRST SESSION

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Friday, January 23, 2004
8:30 – 10:00 am


WORKSHOP #47, Assess Room 2
Title: The Link Between Prevention and Treatment
Speakers: Erika Miles Edwards & Carol Girard, Join Together
This session is designed to help coalitions make the link between prevention and treatment. It will cover definitions and examples of the spectrum of treatment services, and will highlight community-based efforts to increase treatment options using examples from Demand Treatment!, a national initiative to increase effective treatment for substance use disorders.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the spectrum of treatment
2. How treatment methodologies relate to prevention efforts
3. How community coalitions nationwide can increase treatment.


WORKSHOP #48, Intervene Room 3
Title: Drug Diary Study: Exploring Drug Messages in Youth Culture
Speakers: Robert Denniston & Gem Benoza, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign
This National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign workshop will share results from a “day-in-the-life” qualitative study examining the drug-related messages that surround teens in urban, suburban and rural areas.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn to better understand the myriad of pro-drug messages that teens interact with on a daily basis and how the prevalence of these messages can make it more difficult for anti-drug advertising and messages to be heard.
2. Hear about the scope of the Media Campaign and the latest developments in its ongoing Marijuana Initiative.
3. Learn about results of new youth research and how these findings impact developments of the Media Campaign’s Marijuana Initiative.


WORKSHOP #49 Room 8
Title: Community: The Vital Link between Public Health and Public Safety
Speakers: Jack B. Stein, Ph.D., Redonna Chandler, Ph.D. & Faye Taxman, Ph.D., National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institute on Health (NIH) & Department of Health Human Services (DHHS)
This workshop will inform participants about the vital role community agencies play in moving forward public health and safety by linking the criminal justice and drug abuse service systems. Presentations will address the intersection between public health and public safety. Research underway by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) on models for successfully linking community resources, services, and treatment providers with the criminal justice system will also be described.
Learning Objectives:
1. Provide an overview of the connection between public health and public safety.
2. Describe criminal justice and community-based efforts to link and enhance treatment services for drug-using criminally involved adults and juveniles.
3. Describe NIDA-funded efforts to determine “what works” when developing systems-level models of community-based service delivery for drug-using criminally involved adults and juveniles.


WORKSHOP #50, Intervene Room 11
Title: The Workplace and Evidence-Based Wellness Programs: A New Trend in Coalition Building
Speakers: Dr. Royer Cook, Center for Workforce Health - The ISA Group & Dr. Joel Bennett, Organizational Wellness and Learning Systems
Last year, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration inaugurated the first two evidence–based workplace programs that have positive capacity for dissemination in work settings. Team Awareness and Healthy Workplace being named “Model programs” is a significant step toward the shifting paradigm in the prevention fields requiring programs to pass the test of scientific rigor. This presentation will highlight both programs and discuss:
1) the reason why workplace programs have a diversity of appeal, 2) the range of appeal for implementation of each program, 3) the critical connection for reaching parents in the workplace while at the same time involving the business community. Presenters will lead an informative discussion regarding the future of substance abuse prevention and health promotion in the workplace.
Learning Objectives:
1. Discuss reasons why workplace programs have diversity of appeal.
2. Outline the range of appeal for implementation of each program.
3. Describe the connection for reaching parents in the workplace and how this translates to healthier children and families.


WORKSHOP #51, Plan Room 17
Title: Achieving Community Results: A Process for Strategic Community Planning
Speaker: John Carnevale, Carnevale Associates LLC
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn the basic principles of community-based strategic planning.
2. Understand how to develop goals, objectives, and performance measures for community based prevention efforts.
3. Learn how to develop logic models and action plans to achieve and document outcomes.


WORKSHOP #52, Intervene Room 7
Title: Community Policy Strategies to Fight Gateway Drugs: Alcohol & Tobacco
Speakers: Sam Becknel, Jr, American Medical Association, SmokeLess States National Tobacco Policy Initiative & Cynthia Serna, New Mexicans Concerned About Tobacco
Partnering with alcohol abuse prevention advocates – or anyone else, is one thing in THEORY, yet another thing in PRACTICE. Mr. Becknel will share the theory behind Alcohol and Tobacco policy and its subsequent affect on youth behaviors. Ms. Serna will cite some examples from her experience in New Mexico organizing at the grassroots level for both prevention and policy efforts, as well as collaborating with activists in both tobacco and alcohol issues on planning and strategy for policy change at both the local and state level.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the theory and reasons to support collaborative efforts of community coalitions to enact responsible public policy to change community norms.
2. Be aware of specific examples from New Mexico of collaborative coalition’s use of tobacco and alcohol policy change.
3. Understand the differences and similarities in addressing specific substance abuse issues (ie., tobacco, alcohol, illegal drugs) and learn ways to capitalize on the similarities and minimize the differences to achieve shared goals.


WORKSHOP #53, Intervene West Salon A
Title: Community Coalitions and Student Assistance Programs: Building the Bridge Between Schools, Families and Community
Speakers: Lee Rush, M.Ed., CAC & Rodger Dinwiddie, National Student Assistance Association
This session highlights the framework of Student Assistance with emphasis on the nine components of a Comprehensive Student Assistance Program (SAP). Special emphasis will be placed on the value of a SAP collaborating with their community’s anti-drug coalition. Join us to learn an activity that will help bridge the gap that often exists between schools and the communities they are located in. Learn how to map appropriate steps to take to create a good working relationship between SAPs and Coalitions.
Learning Objectives:
1. To demonstrate the value of building strong relationships between SAP’s and Coalitions.
2. To provide an experiential activity to deepen the learning about the reality of the public school environment in the “No Child Left Behind” era.
3. To show particiapnts ways to connect with specific tasks of building the bridge between SAPs and Coalitions.


WORKSHOP #54, Advance Room 4
Title: Social Marketing - Changing Lives in Wyoming
Speakers: Diane Galloway, Ph.D, Substance Abuse Division, Wyoming Department of Health & Bill Sniffin, The Institute of Social Marketing and Wyoming, Inc., WCS Corporation
Learning Objectives:
1. How “Social Marketing” can be used to change bad behaviors on a statewide basis.
2. Will be demonstrated how other states and other coalitions can duplicate the strategies and programs being employed in Wyoming.
3. Ways of measuring the success of such programs will be demonstrated, which can readily be used by other coalitions.
4. Unique ways to employ Social Marketing will be demonstrated, to help other coalitions accomplish similar goals.


WORKSHOP #55 Room 15
Title: National Academies of Science Report: Implications for Coalitions
Speakers: Judy Cushing, Oregon Partnership & Mary Ellen O'Connell, National Academies of Science
The National Academies of Science's National Research Council recently released the most comprehensive, science-based federal study on underage drinking entitled: Reducing Underage Drinking: A Collective Responsibility. Underage drinking in America is widely underestimated in both its prevalence and the toll it takes on society. This ground-breaking report provides Congress, federal agencies, states and communities with policy recommendations to reduce the harmful effects of underage drinking. Participants will learn about the National Academies of Sciences' scientific review process, the report's findings on evidenced-based environmental, educational, and public policy strategies effective at the community level, and a comprehensive overview of the report's ten recommendations.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the genesis of the National Academies of Science
Report on Underage Drinking and the scientific review process.
2. Learn about the findings of the 2003 report and the creative partnerships required at the community level to address the many economic,
public health and educational challenges.
3. Hear about current scientific research, community trials, and
innovative strategies on how to weave prevention disciplines and education to address underage drinking at the community level.


WORKSHOP #56, Advance Room 5
Title: Speaking Out Against Drug Legalization
Speaker: Kevin Sabet, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
Learning Objectives:
1. Gain a better understanding of the tactics of drug legalizers
2. Better equip coalitions with knowledge to confront the issues of drug legalization, medical marijuana, and harm reduction in the media.


WORKSHOP #57 Room 16
Title: Social Entrepreneurship: Sustaining your Organization and its Programs
Speaker: Harry Kressler, Pima Prevention Partnership
This workshop will help participants identify if their organizations are ready to begin social entrepreneurship ventures. Aside from learning about non-profit social entrepreneurship trends, this workshop will also present frameworks for leaders to build earned income businesses for their respective organizations.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn the core requirements for starting a social entrepreneurship project.
2. Assess their organization's capacity for starting social entrepreneurship ventures.
3. Gain knowledge about their non-profit industry and it responds to emerging market needs.


WORKSHOP #58 Room 12
Title: The Role of Faith and Community Initiatives in Re-entry Programs
Speakers: Wayne Rawlins, National Community Justice Consultant & Michael Zavala, Fresno Weed and Seed
The Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs (OJP), has recognized the value of partnering with faith and community-based organizations to stop violence in the community. Collaborations and partnerships with the criminal justice system and faith-based community are committed to working together with each other to identify resources for lack of services for the high-risk youth and adult populations that are returning to their neighborhoods following times of incarceration. The goal of the programs within OJP departments and the faith-based community is to reduce crime and violence in communities and provide a “second chance” for the high-risk returning offender. The collaborations between police departments, probation and parole departments, community services, schools and faith-based organizations play a vital part in building the social, spiritual and economic health of neighborhoods throughout our communities.
Learning Objectives:
1. Recognize the value of faith and community-based organizations and the
roles they can play in providing necessary training, counseling, and other services to the high-risk youth and adult re-entry population.
2. Become familiar with the various types of effective services that faith-based organizations can provide to the re-entry population.
3. Learn techniques for improving collaboration and cooperation between police departments, probation and parole departments, community services, schools, and faith-based organizations with emphasis on the latter.
4. Learn the pitfalls to avoid and the policies that must be adhered to in partnering with faith-based organizations.


WORKSHOP #59 Room 9
Title: Town Hall Meeting on Youth Substance Abuse hosted by
Presenter: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Take this opportunity to meet with federal officials to inform them of the successes and challenges in your community with regard to addressing youth substance abuse.


WORKSHOP #60 Room 14
Title: Community and Criminal Justice Partnerships
Speaker: A. Elizabeth Griffith, Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice
The Community and Criminal Justice Partnerships presentation will provide an overview of the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, which sponsors many community based crime prevention and public safety programs. This session will provide coalition members will information about criminal justice activities happening in their communities which could provide opportunities for communities to be involved in. The session will discuss programs such as Project Safe Neighborhoods (seeking to prevent and reduce gun violence); Reentry of offenders from prison; specialty Courts such as Drug Courts and Mental Health Courts; Community Prosecution and Policing activities; and Neighborhood Watch efforts. The session will also discuss recent efforts of OJP to better engage community and faith based organizations in their work
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn about opportunities for community coalitions to partner with criminal justice agencies on critical public safety issues;
2. Learn about the structure and activities of the Office of Justice Programs, the arm of the U.S. Department of Justice that supports state and local criminal justice agencies; and
3. Learn about activities sponsored by the Office of Justice Programs to support community and criminal justice partnerships.


WORKSHOP #61 Room 10
Title: Too Smart To Start
Presenters: Alvera Stern, SAMHSA & Tia Clark, University Research Co.
Facilitator: Linda Bass, CSAP
Too Smart To Start: an underage alcohol use prevention initiative for parents, caregivers, and their 9- to 13- year-old children. The workshop will train professionals using materials from the new Too Smart To Start Community Action Kit for Prevention Professionals and Volunteers from SAMHSA. The workshop will cover the research and practice on alcohol use and the 9 -to 13- year- old. Each participant will be given a kit containing an implementation guide, a data book, two publications for parents, posters, a game and a CD-ROM with materials that the participant can personalize for their own community.


WORKSHOP #62 Room 13
Title: National Alcohol Screening Day 2004: How You Can Draw the Line in your Community Through Collaborative Efforts?
Presenters: Anton C. Bizzell, MD, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) &Ann Mahony, MSW, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
National Alcohol Screening Day is a program that is funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NASD is an event that takes place each April during National Alcohol Awareness Month and it offers the first broad-scale, science-based education, screening and intervention program for alcohol problems. The program uses screening and brief intervention to empower Americans to reassess and change their drinking patterns to safeguard their health, and/or to get evaluation and treatment to prevent the progression of an alcohol problem. NASD delivers an important public health message by focusing public awareness on alcohol as a determining factor in overall health and fitness, not only for those who drink at risky levels, but for all individuals who drink any amount. A major outcome of the program is to decrease stigma by promoting the effectiveness of alcohol screening as a simple, routine and effective health care practice for all Americans. Through community coalitions and collaborations with Federal, state, local and over 40 professional organizations, NASD has proven to be a success in the communities and states where it is offered.


10:30 am – 12:00 pm


WORKSHOP #63, Intervene Room 2
Title: Moving Research and Practice into Every Community through MADD's Protecting You/Protecting Me
Speaker: Kappie Bliss, Mothers Against Drunk Driving
This workshop will include an overview, goals, objectives and intended outcomes for a SAMHSA Model Program, Protecting You/Protecting Me (PY/PM). This program, developed by Mother Against Drunk Driving (MADD), is an innovative, five year, classroom-based substance abuse prevention intervention for students in grades 1-5. PY/PM was developed by and is based on the latest brain information and the impact of alcohol on the developing brain. An overview of Adolescent Brain Development and special risks posed to brain development by exposure to alcohol during adolescence will be presented. An overview of the curriculum scope and sequence and sample activities will also be provided as well as a review of Evaluation studies and outcomes. Additionally, PY/PM has done extensive cultural tailoring for the Native American population, which will be discussed. Program replication and expansion will also be presented.
PY/PM utilizes the complementary and reinforcing mechanisms of risk reduction, resiliency and protective factor enhancement. It also incorporates the "Developmental Assets" framework, which provided concrete strategies for initiating, developing, and strengthening protective factors for children, families and communities and incorporates the "Principles of Effectiveness" established by the U.S. Department of Education.
Learning Objectives:
1. Be able to articulate the impact of alcohol on the adolescent brain.
2. Learn how the latest brain research was used to develop PY/PM.
3. Learn the various implementation models for PY/PM and assess what would work best in their community.


WORKSHOP #64, Organize Room 3
Title: Vermont’s New Directions Project: Reducing Youth Substance Use Through Coordinated Community Efforts & Use of Research-based Practices
Speakers: Robert Flewelling, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation & Melissa Liebig, Vermont Department of Health, Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs
In 1997, Vermont was one of the 1st five states to be awarded a federal State Incentive Grant (SIG). Vermont’s grant, called “New Directions,” supported 23 community coalitions across the state in coordinating efforts within their communities to select and implement comprehensive youth substance use prevention strategies. New Directions represented a major shift in Vermont’s approach to substance abuse prevention through its funding of community coalitions rather than individual programs, its emphasis on the use of research-based prevention programs and strategies, the relatively high level of training, technical assistance, and financial support provided to coalitions, and the collaborative involvement of multiple state agencies in the oversight of the project.

This workshop will describe both the supportive framework that was established for grantee coalitions as they planned and implemented their prevention efforts, and the positive community-wide outcomes that were achieved. The process evaluation revealed a number of important lessons regarding strategies and conditions that promote effective coalition functioning. With respect to outcomes, greater reductions in student substance use prevalence were achieved among students in schools served by New Directions coalitions, relative to the remainder of the state, for all nine substance use measures examined. Statistically significant reductions were observed for marijuana and cigarette use. Findings from the evaluation suggest that collaborative community-based efforts implemented within a supportive framework such as New Directions can have a real impact on the community-wide prevalence of substance use behaviors and related risk/protective factors among youth. In addition, the project demonstrated the importance of providing sufficient training and technical assistance, networking opportunities, and other supports to coalitions in order for them to effectively coordinate and implement comprehensive substance abuse prevention efforts in their communities.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn the importance of supportive infrastructure for coalition activities and
sustainability, and recommendations for providing this support.
2. Learn the rationale for shift to research-based prevention practices and
recommendations for facilitating this shift in communities.
3. Learn the evaluation designs that adopt a community-wide focus and the importance of including multiple communities in such designs.
4. Learn of the positive impacts on youth substance use that were achieved through Vermont’s New Directions Project.


WORKSHOP #65, Plan West Salon A
Title: Selecting Prevention Programs…..logically
Speakers: Deidra D. Dain, Consultant, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) & LaDonna Coy, Southwest Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT)
When communities make decisions about selecting one or more evidence-based programs, they make a significant investment that theoretically leads to achieving desired prevention outcomes. But to what extent have the community’s contextual conditions and assessment data been considered? How congruent are these programming decisions with larger comprehensive planning activities for the community? Are the community’s and other long-term visions within the State system incorporated in the selection process?

This workshop presents a logic model for making those strategic selection decisions. Participants will walk through the methodology for analyzing and assessing their selection process that results in selections that are truly responsive to their unique needs and conditions and that more reliably lead to desired outcomes.
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify ways in which decisions about selecting an evidence-based program can be congruent with comprehensive planning activities of the community, region and States levels.
2. Identify ways to incorporate the community’s and other long-term visions within the State prevention system into the process of selecting an evidence-based program.
3. Identify evidence-based program selection as the last step in a strategic prevention planning process so that the real needs of the community are met.
4. Integrate a strengths-based approach to evidence-based program selection


WORKSHOP #66 Room 10
Title: Victims & Community - Who, What and Where?
Speaker: Deborah S. Augustine, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
This workshop will focus on who the victims of drug-related crime are and the available resources. Information about victims at clandestine lab sites, identity theft, child abuse, domestic violence, and more will be shared. A victim of drug-facilitated sexual assault is scheduled to share her story and the importance of community awareness in reducing risk. It will be stressed that a victim of drug related crime is not just who you typically think --- drug users or traffickers out on the street. A victim can be a family member, friend or neighbor.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn who are the victims of drug related crime.
2. Learn what a victim’s rights are and some prevention tips on reducing the risk of victimization you can incorporate into your program.
3. Learn where victim resources are in the community.


WORKSHOP #67, Organize Room 17
Title: Creating a Confederation of Coalitions: Working Together To Develop Healthy Communities
Speakers: Theresa Mungioli & Ann Comiskey, Coalition of Healthy Communities
This presentation will focus on how the Coalition of Healthy Communities collaborated with the Oakland County Office of Substance Abuse Services to identify a need for a countywide confederation of all countywide of local coalitions and how this confederation was created.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn different strategic planning techniques that can be used with your coalition in expanding, developing and planning programs.
2. Learn how to develop a confederation of coalitions and identify the need for a confederation of coalitions, how to bring all the parties to the table and what key elements are necessary for the effort to go forward.
3. Learn what information will be necessary to obtain in order to make the case for establishing a confederation of coalitions in your area.


WORKSHOP #68, Plan Room 4
Title: An Innovative Framework for Action: Developmental Assets
Speaker: Tim Duffey, M.Ed., Vision Training Associates & Linda Davich, Search Institute
This presentation will highlight the developmental asset framework of Search Institute. The impact of the framework components on thriving behaviors and risk-taking behaviors among North American young people will be examined. Extensive research by the Institute since the late 1980’s utilizing this model as a guiding principle has consistently shown that young people experiencing higher levels of the skills, opportunities, values and relationships are more likely to engage in thriving, health enhancing behaviors and less likely to engage in risk-taking behaviors.
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify the categories of developmental assets and their impact on thriving and risk-taking behavior.
2. Describe how individuals, organizations and communities are utilizing the developmental asset model to strengthen their prevention and youth developmental strategies.
3. Describe the impact of a sustained developmental asset initiative within one particular community, and make application of those findings to other locations.
4. Identify ways in which the framework might further strengthen their programs and/or other youth development and prevention initiatives.


WORKSHOP #69, Intervene Room 5
Title: Prisoner Reentry Program: Coordinated Community Response to Prisoner Reentry
Speakers: Lt. Reginald T. Garcia, City of Vallejo Police Department, Violet Barton-Bermudez, Kaiser Permanente Hospital & John Allen, Fighting Back Partnership/Vallejo
This workshop will showcase an innovative and community-based model for
prisoner re-entry. This workshop will describe how the community attempts to
provide substance abuse treatment and chronic disease management of serious
medical conditions that is not provided to incarcerated individuals. It will also
describe how a community can reduce recidivism among parolees, reduce the number of parolees at large, and how such a Police and Corrections program can lead to overall reduction in crime and calls for service while simultaneously achieving community stabilization. This workshop will showcase the highly successful parolee alumni association (BASN) and how community reconciliation has been achieved.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn and understand how to design a coordinated community response composed of a proactive police and corrections team made up of police, corrections, and 22 other service providers from education, job skills, mental health, substance abuse treatment, housing, medical care, faith community, DMV, and family support officials.
2. Hear from individuals who were once caught