| CADCA's
Mid Year Training Institute
July
28 - 31, 2003
Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel
San Francisco, CA
COURSE
DESCRIPTIONS
1.
Show Me the Money: Grant Writing
Course Duration: 4 Days
Course Description: This course is designed to enhance the skills
of program developers and proposal writers in the competitive
grant solicitation process. The course covers the key steps to
preparing a winning proposal including program planning, developing
measurable outcomes, budget planning and program accountability.
Participants attending this course will produce an actual grant
draft.
2.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Prevention But Were Afraid
to Ask: Substance Abuse Prevention Specialist Training
Course Duration: 4 Days
Course Description: This course will provide a general overview
of the prevention field using facilitator instruction and interactive
exercises. Course topics include: history of substance abuse prevention
efforts; prevention research and theory; program planning; pharmacology;
culture and ethics; human development; media and evaluation.
3.
A Change Will Do Your Community Good: Effective Advocacy
Course Duration: 4 Days
Course Description: This course provides the fundamentals of effective
prevention advocacy at different levels of government and describes
how legislation and policy form part of a strategic framework
to effect changes in your community prevention efforts. In addition,
this skill-building course will provide coalitions an understanding
of the social determinants of health and substance abuse and how
they can be leveraged to reduce and prevent substance abuse and
related problems. Participants will also learn about the use of
commercial marketing concepts and tools for prevention programs
designed to influence individuals' behavior to improve their well
being and that of society as well as specific environmental and
underage drinking strategies useful in effecting change in their
communities.
4.
Reentry, Recovery, Rehabilitation and Restitution
Course Duration: 4 Days
Course Description: In this intensive four-day workshop, coalition
participants will learn how to mount a successful initiative aimed
at increasing community safety by decreasing the likelihood that
non-violent drug offenders who have been incarcerated will re-offend
when they come home. Learn how public safety, treatment, rehabilitated
offenders and other coalitions members are carrying out reentry
initiatives on the community level. In addition to learning about
state of the art research and practice on “what works”
in the field of offender rehabilitation, CADCA has arranged for
“site visits” to model programs in the Bay Area.
5.
Coalition Boot Camp
Course Duration: 4 Days
Course Description: This course is designed for anti-drug coalition
leaders, community leaders, drug prevention personnel, education
professional or those who want to launch a community anti-drug
coalition in their environment. This training will feature both
didactic instruction and small group exercises. Course topic areas
include reviewing the history and evolution of the coalition movement,
the public health model, assessing risk and protective factors,
stages of community readiness and associated strategies and the
seven basic steps to starting a coalition. The course also covers
the steps in developing a coalition strategic plan, building organizational
structure, recruiting and maintaining volunteers, developing a
leadership plan and steps to strengthening and sustaining the
coalition infrastructure and resource base.
6.
Don’t Judge a Book By It’s Cover: Building Cultural
Competency
Course Duration: 2 Days
Course Description: This course provides an introduction to the
theory and practice of cultural competency, reviews cultural competence,
the elements needed to work with diverse populations and the national
standards of cultural competency. It will also help participants
recognize when cultural factors may be influencing interpersonal
dynamics. Participants will also learn how to communicate effectively
across cultures and how to resolve cross-cultural conflict constructively
through a variety of group exercises and activities.
7.
You Can’t Steer a Boat Without a Rudder: Setting a Course
for Evaluation
Course Duration: 2 Days
Course Description: The course is roughly divided into four working
time blocks (day one morning. day one afternoon, etc.). Block
one involves convening the group, introducing the attendees and
mapping the two days of work for participants. After introductions,
the remainder of time block one will be devoted to logic model
development. Time block two focuses on learning the five functions
of evaluation and a step-by-step guide for creating evaluation
plans. Each time block is roughly divided into a presentation
and introduction of tools (e.g., orientation, modeling and how
to) and then a working session (i.e., produce it). Time block
three is devoted to team presentations of products and group critique
and feedback (e.g., trouble shooting and critical reflection).
Time block four will involve participants revising their plans
and models based on the feedback received and creating an action
plan for implementation. The workshop concludes with a celebration
of skills mastered and products created.
8.
Getting Through the Clutter: Effective Coalition Media Relations,
Marketing and Public Relations Strategies
Course Duration: 2 Days
Course Description: This course reviews the essential steps to
developing a successful communications plan to raise public awareness
and ensure community buy-in. Course highlights include how to
work with the media to further your coalitions goals, how to gain
public support for coalition efforts, how to market your coalition
to various audiences and how to deal with crisis media situations.
Participants will be provided with the framework to produce an
active media relations plan, marketing plan, and overall communications
strategy.
9.
Building Strategies To Breed Success: Leadership Development
Course Duration: 2 Days
Course Description: Research increasingly shows that leadership
is a key ingredient to successful coalition building. This interactive
course will help you develop effective leadership skills through
presentations and exercises on the following topics: concepts
of leadership, evolving leadership styles, motivation and teamwork.
This course will help you better understand and develop your leadership
abilities.
10.
Defending Your Life
Course Duration: 2 Days
Course Description: So, you think you are ready for an advanced
class in coalition operation? Are you ready to take your coalition
to the next level of sophistication and effectiveness? Then this
is the class for you. For this advanced level course, CADCA has
assembled key national leaders who make substance abuse policy
and evaluate coalition effectiveness. Each participant will have
the opportunity to present his/her coalition’s strategic
plan and outcomes for critique and constructive feedback and learn
how to better deal with coalition management and sustainability
issues.
11.
Environmental Strategies & Alcohol Policy
Course Duration: 2 Days
Course Description: This skill-building course is designed to
provide coalitions an understanding of the social determinants
of health and substance abuse and how they can be leveraged to
reduce and prevent substance abuse and related problems. Participants
will be introduced to specific environmental strategies that can
be used in their communities, how these strategies can become
a critical approach in their coalition’s response to current
needs and processes for determining the social norms about substance
abuse in their communities.
12.
Involving the Recovery Community
Course Duration: 1 Day
Course Description: The recovery community plays a vital role
in advancing the work of community coalitions. However, it is
often ignored and stigmatized. Most coalitions address substance
abuse issues primarily in terms of prevention and are unaware
of the issues of the recovery community. This course will provide
strategies and examples of how your coalition can involve people
in recovery at all levels of your coalition and be actively involved
in reducing stigma and discrimination and advocating for treatment
services. Participants will also learn about the new national
recovery movement, the National Treatment Plan and how they can
link their local efforts to a larger, national agenda.
13.
Finding the Spirit: Working with the Faith Community
Course Duration: 1 Day
Course Description: This course will provide participants with
a broad overview of the issues of faith and spirituality as protective
factors, outline the significant assets religious organizations
possess and describe how they can be mobilized to reduce substance
abuse problems. Participants will learn about some of the challenges
of working with the faith community and hear about how several
CADCA coalitions have successfully partnered with congregations
in their communities.
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