Extended Workshops @ 1:15-4:30pm; Friday, October 30, 2009

• Dave Shavel, CADCA Coalition Core Competencies
  • Workshop Description: The Coalition Core Competencies training focus on enhancing participant skills required to build strong coalitions and implement the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) including community assessment, logic models, comprehensive strategies and coalition evaluation. Participants will learn about and gain skills critical for coalitions to plan, implement and evaluate their coalition’s community-change efforts to reduce substance abuse.

   

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• Jim Campain, Team Fort Collins ACTUALITY Social Norms Marketing-Change Perception, Change Behavior

• Workshop Description: Today’s high school social conversation, popular media and attribution theory would lead one to believe that every high school student is drinking heavily, partying and playing it loose with the opposite sex. However, this is not the TRUE NORM and your own school’s data will confirm it. Social norms marketing is an environmental strategy that can be universally applied. ACTUALITY has assisted 60 schools/communities shine the light on the healthy TRUE NORMS that exist.

 

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• Victor Colman, Uncommon Solutions Policy Development: Moving from Theory to Action

• Workshop Description: Primary prevention demands attention to policy and systems change processes. This workshop demystifies the often complex and confusing world of policy development. Specific content includes understanding core public health frameworks, utilizing coalitions in policy development, a detailed, yet user-friendly framework for grasping policy development, and a case study. The participant should walk away from the training with a stronger comprehension of the many variables that must be addressed in any policy development process.