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**Please
note that CEU Credits will be offered and that the appropriate forms will
be available at the conference.
Workshops
CADCA
is NO longer accepting workshop proposals for the annual National Leadership
Forum.
This
year's conference is scheduled to take place in Washington, DC on February
14-16, 2006 at the Washington, DC Convention Center.
CADCA was soliciting proposals
that addressed the following learning tracks for the conference:
- Building a Strong Foundation -
Workshops in this track are expected to address the set of core competencies
(what you need to know) and essential processes (what you need to do)
for an effective coalition. Topic areas include community assessment,
strategic planning, evaluation, creating partnerships, leadership (work/life
balance), advocacy, and sustainability.
- Demonstrating Return on Your Investments
- This track focuses on evaluation techniques and principles.
Topic areas : how to conduct focus groups, evaluation methods, evaluation
sources.
- Voices From the Field -
Coalition leaders present unique initiatives and how these initiatives
impacted the substance abuse prevention field, locally, statewide and/or
nationally.
- Investing in our Future -
This track focuses on issues surrounding the youth in America . Presentations
can be submitted by youth leaders, college students and in topic areas
such as involving youth in coalitions, underage drinking.
- No Man is an Island - This
track focuses on partnerships within your community, with the National
Guard, law enforcement, school districts and local and statewide leaders.
Presentations in topic areas including: advocacy, how to build strong
partnerships, examples of successful partnerships.
- It's
a Good Idea but How do I Fund it?- This
track focuses on how sustainability and resource development. Topic
areas include: how to obtain sponsorships, direct mail campaigns, major
giving, foundations: where to find them, how to reach them, meetings
and special events and grants.
- Cutting
Edge- This track focuses
on the newest ideas in the field and emerging issues. Topic areas include:
relationship marketing, environmental strategies, social marketing,
community mobiliz ation techniques and methamphetamine issues.
Proposal submission
deadline
The
deadline has already passed. Any concerns, please contact gmoniba@cadca.org.
In addition to Workshops,
CADCA will provide a series of Roundtable Discussions
Roundtable Discussion... If you are
looking for an exciting alternative to attending a regular Forum workshop,
consider participating in a Roundtable Discussion. Each Roundtable provides
an opportunity for Forum attendees to “have a conversation” with their
peers around current topics of interest in the coalition field. Each Roundtable
is staffed by two experienced coalition leaders from the CADCA Institute
Leader/Mentor pool. They act as discussion facilitators and recorders.
According
to one of the 2005 Forum Roundtable attendees, “I attended the Roundtable
on meth because I wanted to learn how other communities were getting a
handle on the problem. I came away with a wealth of ideas.”
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