Workshop 2 @ 3:00-4:30pm; Friday, October 30, 2009

• Kittitas County Community Network Growing Leaders Training
  • Workshop Description: What is youth culture? How can you bridge the gap between the generations and improve your coalition? The Growing Leaders Training is designed as a template that can be adjusted to fit your community needs. Because thriving community outreach depends on successful cultural competency, Growing Leaders was developed to help coalitions, boards and organizations understand the culture of today’s youth. This training was designed and facilitated by youth and adult community members implementing the philosophy that youth are the leaders of today as well as tomorrow.

   

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• Cathy Finck, The Cobb Alcohol Taskforce The Community Profile Project: A Community Action Guide

• Workshop Description: Upbeat, fun, interactive, action packed and focused on successful local replication. See how 21 youth teams and adult advisors were trained to go out into their communities and document, map and analyze environmental alcohol and tobacco risk factors. View film clips from The Cobb Tobacco and Alcohol Review, highlighting youth voice for recommended change based on documented local risk profile. Explore lessons learned, policy and practice outcomes. Use sample tools available in comprehensive action guide.

 

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• Don Gordon, Family Works, Inc. Parenting Skill Training to Reintroduce Teen Behavior Problems via Computer and Online

• Workshop Description: The Parenting Wisely program for parents of teens with disruptive behaviors, including substance abuse, is described and demonstrated. This very brief program (2-3 hours) is supported by numerous well-controlled studies, is implemented in a variety of settings in group or individual formats, and can be either stand alone or a component of other interventions or prevention programs. Current revisions to the program extend its use among different cultures and increase skill practice opportunities.

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• Michael Chavez, Duke Corporate Education Working in a Connected World: Leveraging Social Networks for Impact
• Workshop Description: In this interactive session, participants will learn how the field of social networks, which has been applied widely in business, can be adapted to improving the success of community prevention initiatives. Participants will learn the fundamentals of social networks, how to “see” networks as critical structures operating in the community and how to leverage relationships for greater impact. Participants will then apply this knowledge by rethinking actual community strategies with networks in mind.

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• Gail Farmer, Central Washington University Alcohol Electronic Check-Up to Go for Higher Education
  • Workshop Description: The Electronic Check-Up-To-Go is a NASPA recognized, evidence-based, on-line alcohol intervention and personalized feedback tool developed at San Diego State University. It is designed to motivate individuals to assess their alcohol consumption using personalized information about their own drinking and risk factors. This session will provide an overview of the program, the research that supports it and how it is being used in Washington State.