Youth Summit

2007 Youth in Action

What you will find at the Youth Summit are youth from all across the nation working to keep their communities safe, healthy and drug-free! Youth participants will have the opportunity to increase their skills and knowledge by listening to plenary speakers and attending interactive workshops. The Youth Summit will be held in conjunction with the Forum at the Washington D.C. Convention Center.

To download the Youth Summit Registration form, click here.

National Youth Leadership Initiative

CADCA's National Youth Leadership Initiative (NYLI) is a component of the National Coalition Academy developed by the Community-Anti Drug Coalition Institute at CADCA. The NYLI helps coalitions build their capacity to foster youth leadership in the design, implementation, and evaluation of action strategies addressing community problems. Participants are selected through an application process. In these sessions, both youth and their advisors learn how to help community coalitions be more effective in producing community change. This training builds the relationship between the youth leader and the adult coalition coach. They will learn about the strategic prevention framework, logic models, interventions, evaluation, and sustainability. This highly interactive training teaches what is required to create and nurture the growth of committed leaders and their work within coalitions. It will better equip youth and adults to develop a strategic action plan that clearly defines the strategies that young people will carry out to address the problems and goals that the coalition is striving to effect.

Participants are selected through an application process.

To download the National Youth Leadership Initiative (NYLI) form, click here.

The Bulletin Board

Both of these Youth Pieces will be held on February 12-15, 2007 at the Washington , DC convention center. We encourage all youth to secure their hotel rooms at the Washington Renaissance Hotel and to arrive Sunday evening February 11, 2007. For the conference registration fee, click here.

Dress Suggestions:

Monday-Thursday morning - Comfortable (within taste)

Monday Night, Meet "N" Greet - Casual (Jeans and T-shirt)

Tuesday "Capitol Hill Day" - Business Casual

Wednesday Night, HBO Premier and Youth Dance-

Dress to Impress (Not Jeans and T-shirt)

Thursday Luncheon- Business Casual

Need Sponsorship?

CADCA has developed a sponsorship kit loaded with places to go for sponsorhip within your community, example letters, cost charts, and follow up calls. Download the sponsorhip kit today and get started!

There will be an emphasis on “Advocating for Change” a Pre-conference session equipping youth in becoming better communicators on Capitol Hill. We highly recommend that if you have an ipod or camera to bring it to capture your experience on Capitol Hill.

Pictures are needed for the ”Youth Make a difference” project. If your coalition has pictures depicting youth making a difference in their communities please email them to adecarvalho@cadca.org.

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