Workshop 3 @ 9:15-10:45am; Saturday, October 31, 2009
LaDonna Coy, Learning for Change, Inc. From Faxes to Facebook: Emergent Social Media Tools for Prevention
Presenter Description: LaDonna Coy works with communities and provider networks using social media technologies to bring people together online in new ways. These methods enable people to connect, network, communicate, collaborate and learn socially. Coy specializes in the design, weaving, development and production of web-based learning sessions, online conferences, InteractionarsSM and virtual communities of practice. Formerly with Southwest CAPT, LaDonna has a master’s degree in Human Relations and is a Certified Prevention Specialist and Distance Learning Instructor.
- Kelly Lieupo, CADCA Creating Community Level Change Through Policy and Advocacy
- Presenter Description: Kelly Lieupo is the Director of Public Policy for Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA). In this capacity, Kelly tracks, analyzes and influences relevant legislation, specifically as it relates to policy and appropriations bills in the substance abuse prevention field. She also is responsible for grassroots activation and mobilization. Kelly holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in criminal justice and sociology from Virginia Wesleyan College and a Master of Arts degree in legislative affairs from George Washington University.
Dennis Donovan, Ph.D., and Lisa Thomas (pictured right), with co-presenters, Albie Lawrence & Kelly Baze, University of Washington Healing of the Canoe: the Community Pulling Together, the Strong People Pulling Together Presenter Description: Lisa Rey Thomas is Tlingit and her family is from Southeast Alaska. Dr. Thomas is a Research Scientist at the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute at the University of Washington and has over 20 years of experience working with Native communities. She is Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator on number of research partnerships with Tribes and serves on numerous committees and task groups that serve Natives in the Pacific Northwest and nationally. Albie Lawrence is Tlingit/Tsimpshian and Filipino, her family is originally from Southeast Alaska and Albie has lived and worked all over the Pacific Northwest including Alaska. Albie Lawrence has a Bachelors degree in Social Work from Eastern Michigan University. She has lived and worked in both urban and rural tribal communities her whole life. Albie is currently working for the Suquamish Tribe as the Healing of the Canoe facilitator. Kelly Baze is the Prevention Coordinator for the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe. She is a tribal member, a member of Tribal Council, the community coordinator for the Strategic Prevention Framework-State Incentive Grant, and manages the Tribe’s youth program and the community coalition on Substance Abuse which oversees the Healing of Canoe Project. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Central Washington University in Community Health Education and has worked for her Tribe for over 8 years.
- Linda Graves and Rhonda Stone, Students “Be(ing) the Spark”: Using Music for Prevention
- Presenter Description: Linda Graves is currently the Problem Gambling Program Manager, Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery, State of Washington. She came to this position in June 2005 after Washington passed legislation that set aside money for the prevention and treatment of problem gambling. As Program Manager, Linda is responsible for publicly funded awareness and outreach, prevention, treatment, research, and training.Rhonda Stone is currently the Community Education Coordinator for the Evergreen Council on Problem Gambling, formerly the Washington State Council on Problem Gambling, a private, not-for-profit organization devoted to awareness, training, and treatment for problem gamblers, family members, and others affected by problem gambling.
Rhonda is a 30-year veteran of journalism, public information, and community education who began working with and for Ph.D.s in 1999 to articulate two complex issues related to learning and brain development. The work resulted in two trade publications published by St. Martin’s Press and McGraw Hill as sole author and a co-author. Her present challenge is to take a little understood issue—gambling “addiction”—and advance understanding and awareness for children, teens, young adults, and adults throughout Washington State. Rhonda became involved in problem gambling awareness after a family member died at age 49 from a stress-induced stroke, later linked to compulsive gambling. Rhonda worked for weekly and daily newspapers from 1977 through 1984; served as public information officer for the Yakima School District in the mid-1980s through early 1990s; developed, authored, and edited public information for parents in the Yakima Valley in the mid- to late-1990s; served as grants coordinator working with regional child development and cancer centers for Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital from 1998 through 2002; conducted independent parent advocacy work including local, regional, and national presentations from 1999 through 2007; worked as a research and literary assistant to a business owner and Ph.D. in education from 2002 to 2007; and joined ECPG in 2008. She served on the National Council on Problem Gambling’s National Problem Gambling Awareness Week Planning Committee last year and has been invited to serve again in 2010.
- Elaine Johnson, Ph.D. Is Society Raising Violent Brains?
- Presenter Description: Dr. Elaine Johnson, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and Honorary Fellow of Huron University College, Canada, has long investigated how the brain learns best. Formerly a university professor, community college dean, and high school department chair, Johnson is currently Executive Director of MBM Associates. In her books and numerous presentations made throughout the United States and Europe, Johnson connects brain research to education and business.
