Adult Workshops, Session 3

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
    • Workshop Description: Have you joined Facebook? Did you dig that article? Aren’t you going to “tweet” that? While we’ve all had our heads down working in the content of prevention, a remarkable shift happened. In this workshop you’ll have the opportunity to explore what’s changed, learn about the thinking and tools shaking things up and where and how you can join the social media revolution.
     
  • Kelly Lieupo, CADCA Creating Community Level Change Through Policy and Advocacy
    • Workshop Description: Learn how to break through to the next level of coalition work by effectively advocating for environmental change and substance abuse prevention issues at all levels of government. Through active participation and role playing, participants will learn how, when and to whom to make their advocacy case. Participants also will learn how to most effectively communicate with elected officials, policy-makers and their staff to create better policies and more funding opportunities for substance abuse prevention programs.
  • Dennis Donovan and Lisa Thomas, with co-presenters, Albie Lawrence & Kelly Baze, University of Washington Healing of the Canoe: the Community Pulling Together, the Strong People Pulling Together
    • Workshop Description: American Indian and Alaska Native communities have always had the knowledge and the expertise to keep their communities healthy. The Healing of the Canoe project is a partnership between the Suquamish Tribe, the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe, and the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute at the U of WA that builds on this knowledge by blending conventional and traditional science to develop community based and culturally grounded prevention and intervention programs that promote good health.
  • Linda Graves and Rhonda Stone, Students “Be(ing) the Spark”: Using Music for Prevention
    • Workshop Description: We will share the amazing outcomes of three groups of students that were challenged to use the arts to create prevention awareness messages that described the risks associated with youth gambling. Additionally, music from a second project, The Tribal Youth Music Academy, will be performed. The Music Academy gave tribal youth an opportunity to use music for positive messaging about prevention of risky behaviors. Fifty tribal and nontribal youth learned how to use their voice, form a rap song, perform it, and have it recorded. Youth became better acquainted with native customs, bonded as friends, as well as reinforced positive prevention messages through song and activities.
  • Elaine Johnson, Ph.D. Is Society Raising Violent Brains?
    • Workshop Description: Experience changes the brain’s physical structure. When young people’s brains are immersed in violent images, words, and behavior, their brain cells form new connections. Should we care?
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