Webinars

CADCA’s Public Policy team is hosting a Capitol Hill Day webinar on January 9th, 2012 at 2:00 pm (EST) to help you make the most out of your visit to our nation’s capitol! The webinar will help prepare you in advance for your meetings with your members of Congress. The public policy team will walk you through the steps on how and why to schedule appointments with your Representatives and Senators, what to bring with you and how to best conduct your meetings on Capitol Hill Day.

Civil nuisance abatement strategies engage citizens, neighborhood groups, and coalitions to use civil law procedures as a way to tackle nuisance properties. Using civil law policies, citizens, business owners and neighborhood groups file civil law complaints in small claims court to address nuisances not covered by criminal laws. These strategies empower people to make change in their communities without relying solely on law enforcement and criminal proceedings. Presenters will train participants on how to regain control of their communities by holding those creating public nuisances accountable and reducing the feelings of frustration and powerlessness community members may feel.

Sponsored by CADCA’s National Coalition Institute, the Got Outcomes! Coalition of Excellence Awards provides coalitions an opportunity to highlight their outcomes and embark on a guided and intensive examination of their strategic plan. While the ultimate goal for an applicant is to win the award, the process is useful for coalition planning and sustainability. In this webinar, participants will learn how applicants work closely with CADCA staff to revisit and refine their logic models, identify gaps in assessment and evaluation, and improve their data presentation skills.

The introductory webinar “Evaluation 101: The Fundamentals of Coalition Evaluation,” will provide coalition leaders and members with a critical framework for learning the basics of coalition evaluation and the ways in which evaluation can be used to enhance coalition effectiveness.

Comprehensive community interventions have shown significant reductions in alcohol problems, including driving after drinking among adolescents and adults. These community based efforts focus on environmental initiatives targeted at changing community systems (policies and practices) to better support and institutionalize underage drinking and problem consumption reduction. In this interactive workshop, participants will review current research about the problem of impaired driving and the strategies that have been found to be most effective in addressing the problem.

Campus-community coalitions are vehicles used to prevent substance abuse and other community health issues at the population-level across college campuses and in the surrounding community. By bringing together key on-campus and off-campus sector representatives, invested individual stakeholders, and other organizations affected by the problem, coalitions can implement a comprehensive set of strategies to change conditions in the community that contribute to local substance abuse problems. Campus-community coalitions act as change agents by leveraging shared resources to bring about new or modified programs, policies and practices.

Listening: What's the Buzz was the second in a 6-part Webinar series on social media conducted by CADCA's National Coalition Institute.