CADCA Mid-Year Training Institute to Feature Environmental Strategies Clinic

As a community coalition, you're probably more than familiar with environmental strategies, but how can you be sure that you're using the right one for you specific community needs? Here's your chance to find out. At the 2010 Mid-Year Training Institute in July, CADCA will offer an Environmental Strategies Clinic where you can discover when and why a specific environmental strategy is the right choice for your local condition based on documented science.

In a rigorous application clinic format, participants will enter into the "how" zone for implementation of four evidence-based environmental strategies. Content will be co-facilitated by an experienced researcher and community practitioner team. Participants will be required to attend and participate in all components of this "group experiential learning" clinic.

Here are a few highlights of the courses offered in the Environmental Strategies Clinic:

• To successfully implement alcohol policies associated with environmental strategies, coalitions require a strong community foundation, a well articulated theory of change (logic model) and a carefully articulated work plan. In this half-day course, Principles of Effective Coalitions, these critical elements will be described in relation to policy work.
• Alcohol Policy Clinic: Increasing the Price of Alcohol, will explore the options and strategies communities are using to impact the price of alcohol as well as ways to build state-level efforts to raise alcohol excise taxes.
• Alcohol Policy Clinic: Outlet Density, will explore the options and strategies communities are using to address outlet density and associated problems.
• Alcohol Policy Clinic: Enforcing Alcohol Laws, will explore the range of enforcement strategies and the challenges associated with their implementation.
• Alcohol Policy Clinic: Responsible Beverage Service (RBS), will explore how communities are implementing RBS and the associated challenges of bringing the training to scale as well as what results are reasonable to expect.
• To close out this dialogue-rich track, an Alcohol Policy Roundtable will occur in which there will be broad discussion about specific alcohol policies currently being considered and/or implemented by coalitions.
CADCA’s Mid-Year is the only intensive, coalition-specific training opportunity of its kind, offering in-depth courses on everything from how to run a coalition to how to implement environmental strategies. The theme this year is “Coalitions Rising: Reaching New Heights,” with the goal to provide coalitions with the knowledge and skills to take their efforts to a higher level.

The Mid-Year will be held at the beautiful JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort in Phoenix from July 26-29, 2010. Register today!

Want to see what else will be offered at CADCA’s 2010 Mid-Year Training Institute? Visit the Mid-Year Event Website to learn more.