National Youth Leadership Initiative

CADCA's National Youth Leadership Initiative (NYLI) is a component of the National Coalition Academy developed by the Community-Anti Drug Coalition Institute at CADCA. The NYLI helps coalitions build their capacity to foster youth leadership in the design, implementation, and evaluation of action strategies addressing community problems. In these sessions, both youth with their identified advisors will learn how to help community coalitions be more effective in producing community change.

This training builds the relationship between the youth leader and the adult coalition leader by focusing on the strategic prevention framework, identifying their community's needs and resources, as well as analyzing problems and goals. They will also learn about logic models, interventions, evaluation, and sustainability. This highly interactive training teaches what is required to create and nurture the growth of committed leaders and their work within coalitions. It will better equip youth and adults to develop a strategic action plan that clearly defines the strategies that young people will carry out to address the problems and goals that the coalition is striving to effect.

Note: In order to participate in the National Youth Leadership Initiative, both youth and adult attendees must participate all four days of training together and can not attend any other workshops during the CADCA Mid-Year. Adults must attend with at least one youth and pay the adult rate. If you have any further questions, please contact Ariléa deCarvalho at adecarvalho@cadca.org or at 703-706-0560 ext 225.
All NYLI attendees must complete the NYLI Form.

Schedule of Events

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