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National Coalition Academy
“The Academy doesn’t cost a dime, but you get back
a ton of change.”
The National Coalition Academy, a comprehensive training program developed by CADCA’s National Coalition Institute and offered without charge through a partnership with the National Guard Bureau at facilities in Pennsylvania, Iowa and Mississippi. Coalitions participating in the Academy learn about creating and maintaining partnerships, sustainability, cultural competency, assessment, prevention planning and implementation and evaluation.
In 2010, a new “low cost” Academy will be offered in Denver, CO. Enrollees will be responsible for paying their own lodging, meals, travel and transportation costs with all other expenses absorbed by the National Coalition Institute and its National Guard partner. This Academy will be conducted at a hotel site, not a National Guard Regional Training Center.
The National Coalition Academy is a year-long innovative training program that combines three-weeks of classroom training, distance learning and Web support to teach your community what it needs to know and what it needs to do to start and/or sustain a highly effective anti-drug coalition.
“The concrete examples and directions on how to build coalitions and create logic models has helped our organization,” says participant Cathy Stout, Director of Operation UNITE in Somerset, Kentucky. “If you are a new coalition, the Academy will give you the background and expertise to build all the way through to evaluate and sustain.”
By the end of the training, your coalition will have developed a community assessment, logic model, action plan, intervention plan, evaluation plan and a sustainability plan.
There is no charge for tuition, or for lodging or meals during the three week-long, on-site classroom sessions at National Guard facilities. Participating communities are required to pay for all other expenses, including travel.