Workshops

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) is NO LONGER accepting proposals for the conference. Thank you for your interest.

Poster Session

We are currently accepting proposals for the Poster Session area within the exhibit hall. If you have a great program, project or outcome that you would like to showcase, please send in a separate poster session application to be a part of our poster area. Information can be found at http://cadca.org/events/forum/forum17/PosterSessions.asp.

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Conference Tracks

Hot Topics- Workshops in this track are expected to address topics that are generating debate and discussion in the coalition field.

Collaborative Leadership- Regardless of what industry you work in, leadership is critical to the success of any organization. Workshops in this track should focus on areas such as collaborative techniques, building teamwork, leading in a changing environment.

Building Bench Strength- This track focuses on workforce development. Topic areas include how to recruit and manage staff, strengthening volunteers and the board, eliciting meaningful involvement from partner organizations and sectors and preparing the next generation of coalition leaders.

Strategies for Success- Coalition leaders present unique initiatives and how these initiatives impacted the substance abuse prevention field, locally, statewide and/or nationally. What was your goal and how did you get there? Coalitions are strongly encouraged to follow the SPF framework when presenting success strategies.

Communities of Interest and Experience- Although the core competencies for coalition success are universal, there are many features that distinguish one community from another. Community coalitions can customize their strategies based on unique local conditions thereby increasing the likelihood that they will show results. This track encourages workshop submissions that address communities of place such as frontier and rural areas, communities of interest such as methamphetamine and underage drinking or communities of experience such as American Indian populations or people in recovery.

Cutting Edge This track focuses on the newest ideas and practices in the field. For example: brain development, social norming, branding coalitions, using epidemiological data, recovery support services and prevention across the life span.

For a listing and description of all YOUTH workshops, please click here.

One of the new features of the 2007 Forum is the technology track and technology-focused pre-conference sessions, scheduled for Monday, February 12th, where coalition leaders will learn how to apply the latest media technology tools into their substance abuse prevention strategies. Workshops will cover topics including blogging, writing for the web, podcasting, interviewing, using video to tell community success stories and more. These sessions are advanced four-hour trainings conducted by expert trainers on issues that are important to coalition success. For a complete detailed desription, please click here.

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WEDNESDAY,

February 14, 2007

10:30am - 11:30am

Selecting and Implementing Evidence-based Practices: New Developments to Help Communities Choose Prevention Interventions that Meet Local Needs
Presenters: Carol McHale, SAMHSA/CSAP and Kevin Hennessy, SAMHSA/CSAP

SAMHSA recently approved new guidelines for selecting evidence-based interventions for use in SAMHSA's Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant Program. This presentation will describe the new guidelines and the thinking process recommended for selecting "best fit" prevention interventions to include in comprehensive community plans. Also new, is SAMHSA's recently updated National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP), reconceptualized as a decision support tool to help States, Territories, community-based organizations and other interested stakeholders identify mental health and substance use prevention and treatment interventions that may address their particular needs and match their specific capacities and resources. This presentation will both describe and demonstrate the components of the new NREPP, and answer questions that participants may have about the how this system differs from it's predecessor, the National Registry of Effective Prevention Programs.

Broadening Leadership Capacity for Coalitions

Presenters: Dona M. Dmitrovic, MHS & Johnny Allem,

Johnson Institute

Leadership is integral to the success of a community coalition. It is also imperative that the coalition is inclusive of all aspects of the community including those in recovery and their family members. This workshop is designed to engage participants in dialogue about this importance and how coalition members can be better equipped to facilitate this inclusion of the recovery movement.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify ways to include recovery community and their family members within coalitions as leaders.

2. Understand the importance of fostering leadership within the recovery community.

3. Develop techniques to bring the recovery community perspective to the leadership community.

Community Efforts to Fight Legalization

Presenter: Thomas A. Riley, Office of Public Affairs, Office of National Drug Control Policy

Coalitions are often the first line of defense for communities working to protect their young people from substance use and abuse. As such, coalitions often form the cornerstone of any effort a community undertakes to counter attempts to legalize marijuana and other drugs. In this workshop, coalition leaders will learn how to organize each sector of their coalition to effectively raise awareness of legalization tactics as well as how to design and implement public messages that use facts to counter legalization myths.

Learning Objectives:

How communities can organize to successfully combat drug legalization efforts.
How to create appropriate public messages to raise awareness of legalization efforts and use local and national data to refute legalization myths.
Examine successful efforts from the 2006 elections to see what worked and what didn't.

Let's Play Nice: How Schools and Coalitions Cooperate to Collect Data and Solve Problems

Presenter: Doug Hall, Pride Surveys

Schools and community coalitions need each other. Schools are where the youth are; communities are where adolescent problems mostly occur. This moderated panel discussion will feature experienced, school personnel and a management company executive, who are closely involved in community prevention activities.

Learning Objectives:

1. Overcoming barriers to implementing school surveys

2. Recognize data that schools need in formulating school improvement plans, determining school climate, and meeting the USDOE Principles of Effectiveness

3. Identify practical and successful ideas to collect, share and utilize data to everyone's benefit.

Young Worker Safety Issues

Moderator: Cheryl Neverman, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)

Presenters: Kathy Lusby-Treber, Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS) and representatives from other Federal agencies that are part of the Federal Network for Young Worker Safety.

This workshop will promote positive and safe work experiences for s by educating parents, teens, employers, and educators about the types of jobs teens can hold, the tasks they can safely and legally perform, the number of hours they can work, and how they can get to and from their jobs safely.

Discussion will include Federal regulations about driving on the job, but also address the issue of driving to and from the job. Rights and responsibilities of s and their employers will be provided. Employers of workers who have teen drivers in the family also have the opportunity through WorkLife materials, programs and other efforts to address the issue of teen driver safety.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to discuss the growth in youth employment and the need to reduce occupational traffic safety injuries facing s.

2. Participants will be able to identify traffic safety and alcohol and other drug abuse concerns for employers, s, and their parents.

3. Participants will be able to describe safety interventions.

4. Participants will be able to identify local, state and national organizations and resources available to assist in the enhancement of safety.

5. Participants will be able to identify local and state key stakeholders that should be involved in assuring safety.

6. Participants will be able to identify 3-5 major tasks involved in developing and implementing a local young worker safety effort. Participants will be provided with program development and operational resources to support their efforts to enhance young worker safety upon returning home to their local communities.

Blueprint for the States: Policies to Improve the Way States Organize and Deliver Alcohol and Drug Prevention and treatment. Recommendations from a National Policy Panel

Presenters: Roberta Leis & David Rosenbloom, Ph.D., Join Together & Patricia Kempthorne, Formerly the First Lady of Idaho

Discussion of the new Join Together report on what states can do to improve the delivery of alcohol treatment and prevention. The focus will be the recommendations on leadership, structure, resources – including skilled practitioners, measurement and accountability, legislation and particular emphasis on the role of coalitions and recovery organizations in sustaining attention and focus. Discussion will be about what coalitions can do to take action on these recommendations.

Learning Objectives:

1. Explain why the role of strong leadership at the highest levels of state government including governors, state legislators, and the judiciary is critical to a state's successful implementation of effective drug and alcohol policy.2. Discuss what coalitions can do to exercise leadership and advocate it at the state level and what coalitions can do to help carry out the recommendations to create an highly visible governor's advisory board led by civic leaders and individuals in recovery.

3. Discuss the recommendation for a network for community coalitions and recovery organizations, and the roles and responsibilities of these coalitions (monitor and report local problems and progress, mobilize local public and private groups).

The Art of Facilitation

Presenter: Cathey Brown, Rainbow Days, Inc.

Effective meeting facilitation is an art! The successful facilitator is flexible and observant, accepting and affirming, and can listen and lead while bringing a group of often diverse opinions to an agreed upon plan of action – sometimes in 30 minutes or less. The need for effective facilitation is not limited to just one type of group or setting and can involve a large group of people or just two to three people. Sometimes the situation may be a formal one – other times it may be an informal setting. No matter the number of people involved or the type of setting, there is no doubt that the effectiveness of the facilitator can have a profound impact on the outcome of the meeting or situation.

Participants attending this workshop will be given the opportunity to explore their personal facilitation skills and identify areas that need enhancement or new skills they need to acquire. This is a highly interactive workshop in which participants will discuss and practice facilitation skills while having fun.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify what the role of the facilitator is and is not.

2. Identify ways to facilitate conflict and intervene on difficult behaviors and resistance.

3. Understand meeting management fundamentals.

Risk and Protective Factors for GLBTQ Youth

Presenter: Robert A. Brex, MAT, CPP-R, Northeast Communities Against Substance Abuse, Inc.

The workshop will explore the factors which place Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (GLBTQ) youth at risk for use and abuse of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, the protective factors which can buffer GLBTQ youth from these behaviors and interventions which can be used to create a safer and healthier environment in their communities and schools for these youth to grow and learn.

Learning Objectives:

1. To increase knowledge of health and education professionals on the unique needs of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (GLBTQ) youth.

2. To increase knowledge of substance abuse prevention and its application to GLBTQ youth as an “at risk” population.

3. To empower health and education professionals to return to their communities to work to make that community safer, more accepting and healthier for GLBTQ youth.

Strategies to Combat Gangs and Drugs in Weed and Seed Communities

Presenters: Marshal Depew, Indianapolis Police Department & Ray Massi, United States Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey/Camden Office

Law Enforcement can't do it alone. Community-based partnerships with law enforcement are necessary to develop effective prevention and intervention strategies to address and reduce youth drug use and gang violence. Please join us to hear how others have developed partnerships to address these issues in Weed and Seed communities. What role should the partners, such as schools, community groups, outreach workers, faith-based groups, and law enforcement play in an effort to reduce drug use and gang violence?

Funding Opportunities and the Application Process

Presenter: Bryan Williams, Department of Education

This workshop highlights the various discretionary grants projected to be available this year through the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools. The presentation will highlight multiple aspects of each funding opportunity, including each grant's focus, eligibility requirements, estimated size of awards, and length of project periods. The presenter also will review grant proposal organization tips and discuss the process by which proposals are reviewed for funding consideration. Resources will be distributed to attendees.

Integrating Social Media into Prevention Programs

Presenter: Craig Lefebvre, Ph.D., Lefebvre Consulting Group

Changes in communication technologies have immediate impacts on different elements of our audiences in ways that parallel the diffusion on any new innovation. However, these technologies are no longer ‘in a box' that people use by themselves tethered to a wall. They often allow users to interact and create new content (blogs; podcasts; digital music, pictures and video mashups) and share them with others (such as Flickr and YouTube). Other social media offer enhanced social networking opportunities among people with similar interests and goals such as MySpace and FaceBook. The rapid penetration of mobile technologies, from simple SMS services on cell phones to wireless versions of social media and entertainment sites, have immediate implications for how people can connect with information and each other.

These new media can be seen as mere digital extensions of older forms of communication (e.g. promotional campaigns based on word-of-mouth, viral marketing, "narrowcasting," or "slivercasting"). However, thinking about these new media as just new promotion channels misses the essence of what the new media revolution is all about—using media to do new things, not using new media to do old things differently. These new technologies have implications for how we think about prevention, especially in how they bring to life the power of people and social networks and the ability to track and influence the diffusion of ideas and behaviors.

Learning Goals and Objectives:

1. Understand the implications of new technologies for creating social media networks and communities to support prevention behaviors and social change.

2. Know who are the core users of various new media

3. Be able to identify 3-5 examples of current uses of social and new media in prevention marketing and social change efforts.

Coalitions as Clans

Presenter: Don Coyhis, White Bison

This workshop will focus on creating a Healing Forest using the clan knowledge. This workshop will give insight into the teachings of the Four Laws of Change given by the Elders. These teachings are used not only to help organizations to function as coalition but also as clans.

Hepatitis Workshop

Presenter: Joanna Buffington, M.D., MPH, Prevention Branch, Division of Viral Hepatitis, Center for Disease Control (CDC)

Moderator: Fabian O. Eluma, M.D., Ph.D., SAMHSA

The primary purpose of this workshop is to enhance attendees' understanding of the basic concepts of hepatitis transmision, education, outreach activities, prevention and control of hepatitis infection. The workshop intends to increase awareness for hepatitis prevention, resources, delivering, implementation and evaluation of prevention services.

Missing Link: Connecting National Organizations Locally

Presenters: Deacon Dzierzawski, The Community Partnership & Catherine Thatcher Brunson, Metropolitan Drug Commission

Having problems getting involvement from key sectors in your community? Fear not, coalition leaders from across the country have developed relationships with national organizations and a toolkit you can use, to assist you in making those connections locally.
Learning Goals and Objectives:

1. Participants will gain an understanding of what national organizations are present in thier community.
2. Participants will obtain tools necessary for the development of local relationships with affiliates of national organizations.
3. Participatants will obtain knowledge on key concepts on how local affiliates of national organizations can paicipae in local coalitions.

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION:

Large Urban Areas: The Complex Solution

Facilitators: Gwen Brown, Genesis Prevention Coalition,

Cheryl Guthier, Community Prevention Partnership of Berks County

The complexities of working in large urban areas can, at times, be overwhelming. The unique opportunities and challenges that come with working in big cities or portions of major cities are vast. This roundtable provides an opportunity for Forum participants from urban areas to come together and discuss issues of common concern.

WEDNESDAY,

February 14, 2007

1:00pm - 2:15pm

Federal Partner Town Hall Meeting

WEDNESDAY,

February 14, 2007

2:45pm - 3:45pm

Youth Court: A National Youth Justice Movement

Moderator: Brian Chodrow, National Highway Traffic Saftey Administration

Presenter: Scott Peterson, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Youth courts, also called teen, peer, and student courts, are rapidly being implemented in communities and schools throughout the nation. In these programs, youth sentence their peers for crimes, offenses; and other problem behaviors. This interactive workshop will provide participants with information on youth courts from a national perspective, as well as provide tips for establishing or enhancing a youth court.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to discuss the growth in youth courts over the past decade.

2. Participants will be able to identify common offenses heard and sentencing options used in youth courts.

3. Participants will be able to describe four primary youth court program models.

4. Participants will be able to identify local, state and national organizations and resources available to assist in the development and enhancement of youth courts.

5. Participants will be able to identify local and state key stakeholders that should be involved in assisting in establishing or enhancing a youth court.

6. Participants will be able to identify 3-5 major tasks involved in developing and implementing a youth court. Participants will be provided with program development and operational resources to support their efforts to establish or enhance a youth court upon returning home to their local communities.

Revisiting Charitable Choice: Understanding the Benefits & Significance, Part 1

Prsenter: Jeremy White, Restore Hope, Inc.

This workshop revisits this important piece of legislation, how it has evolved, the significance of its policy implementations for faith and community based organizations, and the national impact it is having across the country on many congregations.

Presenter: Jeremy White, President of Restore Hope, Inc. (Former Associate Director, White House Office of Faith Based Initiatives)

Magnitude and Prevention of Underage Drinking Problems
Presenter: Ralph Hingson, ScD, Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

This workshop will review the current statistical information on the magnitude of various problems associated with underage drinking and the types of prevention and intervention strategies commonly used to address it. Multiple types of interventions will be discussed, including those targeting individuals, families, schools, environmental issues, and comprehensive community partnerships, as well as the degree of evidence supporting them. Audience members are encouraged to bring questions and comments for a spirited discussion following the formal remarks.

Hospitality and the Young Adult

Presenters: Alan Moghul, National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors, Rusty Worley, Urban Districts Alliance & Ruth Esteban-Muir, Office of Research and Program Development, Impaired Driving Division, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)

With the high school class of 2009 projected to be the largest in US history, downtown districts can expect to be swarming with an increasing number of young adults for the next two decades. Building coalitions that include downtown development organizations, hospitality businesses, safety agencies and community networks working together to create safe and vibrant places to socialize can prevent underage drinking, reduce intoxication and assure safe transportation for the late night activity common among young adults. This workshop will showcase a Hospitality Resource Panel in Springfield , Missouri seeking to balance the interests of all groups, develop enlightened public policy, and engage hospitality businesses and law enforcement to collaborate on compliance in the sales and service of alcoholic beverages.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand how downtown development and hospitality businesses are important perspectives to be part of a community Coalition

2. Recognize the emerging generation of young adults is more social and enjoy the vibrancy of a downtown district

3. Learn how hospitality businesses can be an important front line defense to underage drinking and intoxication when provided with the proper tools and incentives

4. Develop strategies for coordinating a late-night integrated transportation system to reduce impaired driving

Maintaining Balance as a Community Leader

Presenter: Wendy Jill Krom, Community Counseling Services

Recognizing and developing new leadership in our coalitions and community groups has to be an on-going process. This workshop will help participants learn to identify different styles of leadership in their groups already. This will help in their efforts to recruit new individuals to the organization. In addition, exploring Balanced Leadership Theory will help participants discover how they can best regain their equilibrium as coalition leaders, when they begin to feel unbalanced in their own leadership style.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to identify three specific leadership styles, and recognize these styles in themselves and others.

2. Participants will, through an interactive game, learn about balanced Leadership Theory.

3. A Personal Preservation Plan will be introduced as a tool for maintaining balance and managing time as a community leader.

Striking a Balance: How to Effect Broad Public Policy When Policy Makers Have Tunnel Vision and You Have Big Picture Vision

Presenters: Stephanie Soares Pump, Governor's Council on Alcohol and Drug Programs & Judy Cushing, Oregon Partnership

Meth is the drug of the day yet we all know that underage drinking is a far bigger problem. How do you affect public policy in an environment where one drug is sensationalized? How do you change the culture of the media or the legislature or the business community to recognize root causes vs. the politically popular position? The Oregon Governor's Council on Alcohol and Drug Programs wrote The Domino Effect: A Business Plan for Rebuilding Prevention, Treatment and Recovery. This tool and three others shared during the workshop will illustrate the power of the pen in effecting public policy.

Learning Objectives:

1. To learn how to apply social norms theory to public policy.

2. To develop a strategy to change public policy at the state level.

3. To apply collaboration principles between your coalition and decision-makers.

Forces United: A Prevention Initiative for the Military and the Surrounding Community

Presenters: John Redman, Californians for Drug-Free Youth(CADFY), Major Kim Oliver, California National Guard's Drug Demand Reduction Team & Master Sergeant Scott Gaukel, California National Guard

This workshop presents an innovative initiative, Forces United, which provides a forum to build partnerships between members of the military community, local law enforcement, and community based organizations to 1) reduce substance abuse issues within the military and community and 2) increase volunteers and mentors for youth in the surrounding communities. Attendees will learn how the, Californians for Drug-Free Youth in partnership with California National Guard, used the Strategic Prevention Framework to facilitate dialogue and strategies to build capacity between the military and their surrounding communities.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand how to use the Strategic Prevention Framework in the development of a coalition where members of the military community can connect with other branches of the military and their local community “outside the gate”.

2. Learn how to use military personnel to increase capacity for volunteers and mentors for youth in schools and local youth-serving CBO's.

3. Identify key strategies to ensure sustainability of the partnership and ultimately, advance prevention efforts both within the military community as well as in the surrounding communities.

Integrating the Getting to Outcomes Model with Developmental Assets: Strategies for coalitions to focus on Asset-Building

Presenters: Matthew Chinman, Ph.D., Pam Imm, Ph.D., Loretta Novince Ph.D. & Abe Wandersman, Ph.D., LRADAC, The Behavioral Health Center of the Midlands

The topic of this workshop is to provide information and relevant examples of the blending and braiding of the Getting To Outcomes Accountability Model with the Search Institute's Developmental Assets model. Getting to Outcomes is based on 10 accountability questions that promotes a results-based accountability approach which is critical for coalitions as they work to evaluate their coalition's programs and community-level strategies. The Search Institute and its national Healthy ommunities • Healthy Youth initiative, a network of over 600 community organizations, has developed and researched a youth developmental model of promoting assets (i.e., developmental assets) through a combination of research and mobilization strategies. This workshop will discuss the integration of these two models with a focus on providing specific examples of how to activate all community sectors through the use of collaboration to implement multiple strategies including effective asset-building and evaluation.

Learning Objectives:

1. The key elements of the Getting to Outcomes Model and the Developmental Asset Framework.

2. The principles that communities can use to integrate these two models to focus on asset-building.

3. Examples of how to utilize the models for prevention programming at the community/coalition level including

a review of data to inform programming and continuous quality improvement.

DWI Treatment Court

Presenters: Danny Smith & Joseph L. Waitz, Terrebonne Parish District Attorney's Office

This intensive workshop is designed to help coalitions understand the problem of drinking and driving and what can be done to reduce the number of alcohol related crashes. Our presentation will introduce DWI (DUI) statistics, rational for a DWI Treatment Court, state police involvement, National Highway Safety Commissions top three priorities, law enforcement goals, public information campaign, compare prison costs vs. treatment costs, discuss other DWI Courts nationwide and introduce a new approach to an age old problem with Louisiana's first DWI Treatment Court for first and second offense DWI offenders. We will explain the year long treatment model, the operation of the court and explain how to start a DWI Treatment Court.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the rational for a DWI Treatment Court for first and second offense DWI's.

2. Identify the key components to implementing a DWI Treatment Court in your community.

3. Understanding the treatment model.

Coalition Blogging: Publish, Amplify, Connect and Learn

Presenter: Quinn McDonald, Trainer, Speaker, Artist and Life/Creativity Coach, Alexandria, VA

Blogging is a great way for coalitions to share experiences and learn from others doing similar work in prevention. They make hosting a web conversation and linking to others achievable for anyone who has a browser and access to the Internet. This no-cost solution is far underutilized and with a little thoughtfulness, could become one of preventions greatest sources of networking, information, and peer-to-peer learning. This workshop will provide an introduction and enough guidance and resources to get you started. Then stop in the cyber café for additional support from the tech team and link your blog to CADCA's to expand the net.

Learning Objectives
1. Know what a blog is and how coalitions can use them

2. Know about the power of blog syndication

3. Become informed about cyber cafe support and free online follow up session

A Dose of Prevention: Engaging the Community to Prevent RX and OTC Medicine Abuse

Presenter: Pat Snyder, Producer and Writer, Cooper Communications

According to a recent survey of CADCA's membership, 77% of respondents felt that medicine abuse is or probably is a major problem in their community, and 90% stated that there is a need to further address this issue and that their coalition would welcome more information. In response to the growing trend of medicine abuse and the demand by community coalitions for more tools to fight it, the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) and CADCA have developed a new educational toolkit to help coalition and prevention leaders mobilize their com munities and educate key stakeholders about the dangers of prescription and over-the-counter medicine abuse. During this conference session, Snyder will provide an overview on trends in prescription and over-the-counter abuse (particularly Dextramethorphan, the active ingredient in cough medicine) and demonstrate how the toolkit can be used to implement community-level strategies to prevent RX/OTC abuse.

The Dimensions of Sustainability

Presenters: Alyson Parham, Partec Consulting Group, Inc., Terrie Patterson, Athens-Clarke County Police Department, Hancock Corridor Weed and Seed, Athens, GA & Brenda Butler, Rockwood Weed and Seed, Gresham OR

Sustainability needs to be built into operations early on, both in terms of resources and commitment to the long term strategies being implemented. The Community Capacity Development Office (CCDO) has learned that sustainability planning extends beyond a single dimension for Weed and Seed sites. The three dimensions of sustainability are identified by CCDO as: tructural Effort (the roles and impact of the Steering Committee, subcommittees and site coordinator working together), Community Impact (coordinated delivery of services and activities that support community priorities and achieve impact) and Resource Development (securing diverse and reliable resources to support ongoing activities). All three are necessary pieces to sustain efforts after grant funding is gone.

School-Based Student Drug Testing Grant Program

Presenter: Sigrid Melus, Department of Education

School-based student drug testing is an important strategy of substance abuse prevention. In 2002 the U.S. Supreme Court broadened the authority of public schools to test students for illegal drugs, voting to allow random drug tests for all middle and high school students participating in competitive extracurricular activities. This ruling expanded the scope of drug testing which was allowed only for student athletes. Many local education agencies have adopted student drug- testing as a method to protect students from drug use and addiction. This workshop highlights the School-Based Student Drug Testing Grant Program to be available this year through the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools . The presentation will highlight the focus of the grant, eligibility requirements, estimated size of the awards, Frequently Asked Questions, selection criteria, and the submission of grants using the E-grants system . Important tips will be provided on preparing and submitting the application.

Coalition Communications: "Can You Hear Me Now?"

Presenter: Jack W. Claypoole, APR, Drug-Free Communities, Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)

Are you having challenges engaging your community? Tough time getting them to believe you have a drug problem? One of the most difficult challenges for any coalition is effectively educating the community out about problems, solutions, and how to get involved. An effective communications strategy will help you recruit for your coalition, improve the community's support for your efforts, improve your outcomes and form the foundation for effective environmental change.

This fast-paced interactive workshop will provide you an overview of the skills you need to form your message, chose your communications channel, and effectively communicate with each sector of your coalition. The results for you? A better informed and more supportive community environment and a more successful coalition effort!
Learning Objectives:
1. How to determine the best message(s) for your coalition.
2. How to match your message with your audience in a language they can hear and understand.
3. How to tie your communications strategy into your overall coalition planning and evaluation process.

Connecting with your Local District Attorney's Office -

How Community Prosecution can be an Effective Strategy

for Environmental Change

Prsenters: Steven Jansen, National Center for Community Prosecution (NCCP), National District Attorneys Association (NDAA), Alexandria, VA & Andrew Wright, Drug Prosecution and Prevention Program, (DP³), National District Attorneys Association (NDAA), Alexandria , VA

This session will include a discussion of the basic components of community prosecution– community engagement, partnerships and problem-solving. It will also offer examples of collaborative efforts between prosecutors' offices and community anti-drug coalitions across the nation.

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION:

Trials and Joys of Having a Fiscal Agent

Facilitators: Willie Mitchell, San Antonio Fighting Back, Inc.

Ann Comiskey, Troy Community Coalition

Does your coalition have a fiscal agent? Does the arrangement work for your coalition? Are there aspects that place your coalition at a disadvantage? Do you sometimes wish you could find another fiscal agent? Should your coalition create its own nonprofit corporation? This discussion will help identify the common problems and advantages of having a fiscal agent. Share your experiences and gain some useful knowledge on how other coalitions handle specific situations.

WEDNESDAY,

February 14, 2007

4:00pm - 5:00pm

ep·i·de·mi·ol·o·gy . . . . . need translation?

Presenters: Paul Evensen, Community Systems Group & Diane Galloway, Ph,D., CADCA

Epidemiology. . the scientific study of factors affecting the health and illness of individuals and populations, and, in this capacity, it serves the foundation and logic of interventions made in the interest of the public's health. . .

You've probably heard the buzz about epidemiology (EPI). State prevention offices have established State Epidemiology Outcomes Workgroups. But what does EPI mean for coalitions and how does differ from evaluation and needs assessment? What and where are the state and community sources of EPI data? How can a coalition talk the language of EPI? We'll answer these questions and provide real examples of how communities have utilized information such as hospital emergency room admissions, police calls, county coroner drug related deaths and local public health data to assess the impact of drugs in their community. We'll also show how communities have utilized EPI data as a powerful motivator for public officials to work together on the drug problem.

A SILENT EPIDEMIC: Kids and Pharmaceutical

Abuse

Presenter: Shannon Argetsinger, U.S. Drug Enforcement

Administration, Columbia District Office, Columbia SC

This workshop is created for an array of professional disciplines as well as students… and community leaders. The presentation discusses popular influences upon youth drug use, pharmaceutical drug use trends, and community-based strategies to counteract the impact of pharmaceutical abuse. This presentation is interactive and employs numerous media sources (i.e. video clips, music, and animation) to engage the audience. This presentation is designed to promote an awareness of the problems created by youth pharmaceutical use as well as stimulate the development of a strategic community response. Each attendee will leave with a new strategy, handouts, and a list of resources to take back and utilize in their community.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify at least three pharmaceutical drug use trends of American youth (i.e. which prescription drugs are being abused most by youth)

2. Describe at least two conditions that contributed to the rise in pharmaceutical abuse in America (i.e. changes to FCC regulations regarding marketing of prescription products in TV media)

3. Characterize at least two community-based strategies to combat the impact and use of pharmaceutical products ( i.e. Teen campus based information forums regarding the impact of pharmaceutical abuse)

Revisiting Charitable Choice: Understanding the Benefits & Significance, Part 2

Prsenter: Jeremy White, Restore Hope, Inc.

Presenter: Jeremy White, President of Restore Hope, Inc. (Former Associate Director, White House Office of Faith Based Initiatives)

Mapping Coalition Organizational Assets: Seeking Synergy

Presenter: Eve C. Pinsker, Ph.D., International Center for Health Leadership Development (ICHLD), University of Illinois, Chicago-School of Public Health

This hands-on workshop is designed to help collaborative leaders of existing coalitions to identify a broad range of resources that member organizations (from grassroots groups to more formal organizations) can potentially contribute, including local knowledge and networks as well as technical expertise and material assets. Participants should come prepared to reflect on and discuss the assets of organizational members of their existing coalition. They will use the results of their discussion to expand their action plan by recognizing opportunities for creating synergy through fitting together complementary assets from their member organizations: for example, building on the local networks of some members to expand the cultural competence of the coalition as a whole. Planning based on assets mapping can help to realize the potential of a coalition for becoming much more than the sum of its parts.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the value of complementarity and building on differences in creating synergy from coalition organizational relationships, going beyond respecting or “managing” diversity. 2. Identify the multiple resources that your organizational members bring to the coalition, including knowledge, networks, tangible resources, personnel, and existing activities. 3. Use the identified resources to recognize opportunities for achievable next steps in your action plan for your coalition.

Media and the Message: New Tools for Recovery Advocacy

Presenters: Pat Taylor, Faces & Voices of Recovery & Dona Dmitrovic, MHS, Johnson Institute

Media directly affects how people feel, think, and act. Growing numbers of people in long-term recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs, their family members, friends and allies are in the media and speaking out – as individuals or as members of recovery community organizations.

Learn about Faces & Voices of Recovery's research-based messaging about long-term recovery. The messaging helps the public and policymakers understand that people can and do recover from addiction. Sharpen your skills as a recovery communicator, strategize with other leaders, then take home new tools that you can use in your community.

This session is an abbreviated version of Faces & Voices of Recovery's 2-day Recovery Advocacy Train the Trainer media Training and will focus on:

Faces & Voices of Recovery's message and the research behind it; Nuts and Bolts of Working with the Media Putting the Message to Work

Learning Objectives:

1. Understanding Messaging and why it's important

2. Faces & Voices of Recovery's messaging

3. Honing media skills

Got Outcomes? Learn What it Takes to Become a CADCA Coalition of the Year

Presenters: Evelyn Yang, CADCA Institute,

Maryann Bowman, Genesee County Drug-Free Communities Coalition, Cheryl Guthier, Community Prevention Partnership of Berks County, Penny Jenkins, Santa Barbara Fighting Back, Margaret Polovchak, Maine Community Youth Assistance Foundation (MCYAF) & Vicky Ward, Tri-County Northland Coalition

Learn what it takes to nominate your coalition for the annual Got Outcomes! Coalition of the Year Awards. This workshop will take you through the application process, familiarize you with the application criteria, and provide opportunities to hear from this year's Got Outcomes! winners and learn from their experiences. Seize the opportunity for your coalition to tell its own story and receive the recognition it deserves, while helping CADCA demonstrate to the nation that coalitions are effective in addressing their local substance abuse issues.

LinkedIn

Presenter: Tee Morris, Speaker, Web designer and award-winning Author, Bristow, VA

Wouldn't it be handy to have an online network where you could find and connect with others in prevention doing similar work? Where you could get access to their network and you share access to yours? This workshop describes and demonstrates a free online resource that will do exactly that. You will learn about this resource, how to sign up, and how to connect with others for information, knowledge, resources, jobs and just about anything else you might think of. For hands-on assistance setting up your account, stop in the cyber café and see a tech team member for assistance.

Learning Objectives:
1. Illustrate the power of social networks and connections

2. Familiarize participants with LinkedIn as a tool for social networking

3. Understand the fit and importance of a social network for prevention

4. Become informed about cyber cafe support and free online follow up session

Building Community Support Networks for Military Kids and Families In Our Own Backyards

Presenters: Mona M. Johnson, MA, CPP, CDP, Student Assistance Prevention/Intervention & Operation: Military Kids, Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction & Darrin Allen, U.S. Army Family & Morale, Welfare and Recreation Command

Operation: Military Kids (OMK) is a national initiative designed to support geographically dispersed National Guard and Army Reserve children and youth currently impacted by the Global War on Terrorism. Under leadership provided by the USDA/Army Youth Development Project, state & local partnerships comprised of key school and community personnel are working together to create replicable and sustainable support networks for geographically dispersed military youth in schools and communities before, during, and after the deployment and reunion of a parent or loved one. Operation: Military Kids goals include building capacity within existing networks of school, community, and military personnel to increase awareness and create linkages that support youth and families of deployed and reunited soldiers. National OMK project components to be discussed specifically in this training include Ready, Set, Go! Awareness Training, Speak Out for Military Kids Youth Speakers Bureaus, Hero Packs Initiative, and Mobile Technology Labs.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn about the unique developmental impact of the current Global War on terrorism on “suddenly military” children/youth of National Guard and Army Reserve Soldiers.

2. Receive information on a wide variety of national, state and local resources available to assist coalitions in building partnerships and increasing community capacity – including OMK Ready, Set, go! Awareness Training, Speak Out for Military Kids, Hero Pack Initiative, and Mobile Technology Labs. 3. Identify specific strategies to assist coalitions in actively linking with the Operation: Military Kids national initiative in their state as a part of their overall local prevention efforts.

Launching the Faith Community: One Coalition's Success

Story

Presenters: Drew Brooks, Rush Center of the Johnson

Institute & Robyn Rossbach, Coalition of Congregations

Presenters will provide an overview of initiating Faith Partners

alcohol and other drug prevention teams in multiple

congregations in a community through collaboration with a Drug

Free Community Coalition. In one Maryland county twelve

congregations – Catholic, Protestant and nondenominational –

are benefiting from this partnership. Participants will learn about

an approach utilizing the strategic prevention framework that

moves people of faith from rarely having the conversation about

this subject to active commitment and involvement.

Learning Objectives:

1. Illustrate a coalition's role in preparing the faith community for effective involvement.

2. Understand how the strategic prevention framework has been used in working with this network of congregations.

3. Describe the tools, steps, and strategies of the Faith Partners congregational team ministry approach to assure success in addressing alcohol and other drug use issues.

Writing for the Web

Presenter: Quinn McDonald, Trainer, Speaker, Artist and Life/Creativity Coach, Alexandria, VA

Got a website? Got a blog? Do you ever struggle with what to say there? Writing for the web is not like writing for publications. This workshop will help guide you as you think about and develop content for the online environment. You will receive tips, tidbits and techniques for making your blog or website a great place to visit and interact. Following the workshop, stop in the cyber café for assistance.

Learning objectives:

1. Demonstrate how writing for the web is different than other types of writing

2. Gain tips and techniques for writing a great blog

3. Become informed about cyber cafe support and free online follow up session

The Genes, Environment, and Development Initiative in Addiction: The GEDI Approach

Presenters: Joni L. Rutter, Ph.D. & Kevin P. Conway, Ph.D., National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Prior research has established that genetic, environmental, and developmental factors all contribute to vulnerability to substance abuse and related phenotypes. Studies of heredity have shown that 40-60 percent of the predisposition to abuse of addictive substances can be attributed to genetics—not just the risk conveyed by genes themselves, but also the added impact of the environment on how those genes function or are expressed. Promising candidate genes for substance abuse are now being identified. But genes are just part of the story. Environmental and developmental factors are important variables to consider because they can moderate the genetic effects. Until recently, research has focused on how each of these components relate to substance abuse individually. An understanding of how these paradigms work in concert is crucial to yield a richer understanding of the relative contributions among genetic, environmental, and developmental factors in the etiology of substance abuse, and ultimately lead to improved and tailored preventive, diagnostic, and treatment interventions for drug addiction. The GEDI is a new program at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to revolutionize our understanding of addiction, leading to scientific-based solutions to the common, complex, and costly public health burdens related to addiction.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the roles of genes in addiction

2. Understand the environmental factors contributing to addiction

3. Understand the developmental trajectories important for addiction

4. Understand how addiction manifests through the interplay of these factors

Collaborating with Atlanta-Based African-American Churches: A Promising Means for Reaching Inner-City Substance Users with Rapid HIV Testing

Presenter: David Whiters, MSW, Recovery Consultants of Atlanta, Inc.

In spite of the success of the rapid test, difficulties associated with testing large numbers of individuals with behaviors considered high risk for HIV infection continue to exist. One such group includes inner-city substance users. Recovery Consultants of Atlanta, Inc., a SAMHSA/CSAT funded HIV prevention and Recovery Community Services Program, in collaboration with 6 Atlanta-based African American churches, developed a peer-led, faith-based coalition that over a 3 year period has tested more than 5,000 inner-city substance users, most of whom have been homeless.

This workshop will demonstrate RCA, Inc.'s ability to lead a coalition of Black churches, identify and recruit community leaders for involvement in this program, raise HIV awareness among inner-city substance users, and link those in need with HIV care and drug and alcohol treatment services.

Challenge by Choice – Prevention Leadership Training

Presenter: David Monnette, Drug Enforcement Agency

Prevention Leadership Training involves training a cadre of youth and community leaders that are responsible for conducting prevention programs and activities in a targeted area. The training is based on the premise that individuals change when faced with new obstacles and opportunities that are challenging yet achievable. At the end of the training – participants develop a prevention plan that provides alternative activities, early intervention, education and awareness activities to all school-aged children.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn why developing a youth-driven, community- supported, school-based organization is critical in reducing drugs and violence in a targeted area.
2. Learn how involving Teens in Prevention (TiP) will facilitate teamwork, cooperation, problem solving, and support/compliment pre-existing prevention programs.
3. Learn that creating personal change is more effectively accomplished by doing as opposed to being told.

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) in Youth Involved in the Juvenile Justice System: Why is it important to recognize

Linda Chezem, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

There are many youth in our juvenile justice system who seem to “just not get it.” They are often diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder, or Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Many of these youth come from families with a history of substance use or abuse, and may have a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. They are often picked up as accomplices in crimes, commit similar crimes multiple times, and frequently break probation. Their behavior often looks purposeful but is based on brain damage due to prenatal alcohol exposure. They are often very verbal and bright, so we miss the underlying FASD. Many of them may also have a co-occurring substance use disorder.

This session focuses on how we might identify youth who may have an FASD in our juvenile justice system. Why these youth keep getting into trouble is discussed, and strategies for improving outcomes for these youth, their families, and our agencies and systems will be highlighted.

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION:

Mentoring New Coalitions for Mentoring Grantees

Facilitators: Greg Puckett, Community Connections, Inc. & Cheryl Davenport, Troy Community Coalition

Are you actively engaged in helping to start coalitions in new locations? This session is designed for coalitions with a Drug-Free Communities mentoring grant. It will provide an opportunity for mentor coalitions to discuss their experiences and share ideas. What mentoring approaches are most effective? When are you helping TOO much? Come sort through some of the issues faced by mentoring grantees.

WEDNESDAY,

February 14, 2007

7:30pm - 9:30pm

Special Screening of HBO's Documentary "ADDICTION"

THURSDAY,

February 15, 2007

10:45am - 11:45am

Community Data Dashboard: A Powerful Change and Mobilization Strategy for Community Coalitions

Presenter: Dennis D. Embry, Ph.D., Paxis Institute

Thousands of coalitions are addressing substance abuse and related problems. But how does a coalition know that they are on the right track and making a difference? Can a coalition have a data dashboard that will guide actions and mobilize the community to achieve results? Just like a dashboard of a car to help you get where you're going, coalitions need a data dashboard to avoid going round in circles or wind up lost. This workshop explains the value of a data dashboard that goes beyond the standard evaluation models. You'll learn how to re-purpose existing archival data at a municipal, county or state level and how to use scientific designs of collecting data to prove prevention effects. A community level databoard will enhance compliance with federal and state mandates such as No Child Left Behind and the Strategic Prevention Framework and mobilize funders, policymakers, media and volunteers. You'll also learn how to combine a community data dashboard with evidence-based prevention strategies to give coalitions maximum mileage for their efforts.

A Dialogue to Save Lives

Moderator: Nancy J. Davis, Ed.D., SAMHSA/CMHS

Presenters: Gayle Jaffe, M.S.W., M.P.H., Suicide Prevention Resource Center, Education Development Center, Inc. &

Jane R. Wiggins, Ph.D., Central Shenandoah Youth Suicide Prevention Program, James Madison University

Would you recognize the warning signs of someone contemplating suicide? The first step in preventing suicide is to identify and understand the risk factors, and one of the top three risk factors for suicide is substance abuse. Sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), this special panel will begin an essential and potentially life-saving dialogue between community substance abuse counselors and suicide prevention experts.

Building a Solutions Culture from a Lamentations Culture

Presenters: A. Kay Clifton, Ph.D., Elissa Pogue & Jen Campbell, Coalition for a Drug-Free Lower Price Hill

The Strategic Prevention Framework is a widely-recognized problem-solving process (assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation), PLUS a very wise addition: capacity-building. Efficacious problem-solving assumes a ‘solutions culture' and capacity-building is essentially the development and employment of both human capital (personal skills and assets) and social capital (interpersonal and organizational mobilization across two dimensions: horizontal and vertical). Capacity building is different enough in inner city, as compared with suburban coalitions, that we seek dialogue with others in similar contexts in order to augment our analysis and actions. Our analysis identifies the culture as a ‘lamentations culture' rather than a ‘culture of poverty,' still a culture that needs to be transformed into a ‘solutions culture.' We identify grassroots leadership characteristics, several that reflect a ‘lamentations culture,' and suggest how to assist these leaders in building greater solutions capacity for the coalition.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand some differences between coalition capacity-building in inner cities, as compared with suburban areas

2. Understand the differences between a culture of poverty/failure and a lamentation culture.

3. Begin to identify steps to move lamentations culture leaders toward solutions culture actions.

Developing Effective Working Relationships with Small

Communities

Presenters: Andrea Tyler, M.S., C.P.S. & Lawrence Piper,

B.S.W., C.P.S., Wallowa Valley Together Project, Inc.

Multi-disciplinary approaches are among the most effective for achieving long-term outcomes. This presentation will address how small and rural communities need to be key stakeholders when urban communities and government entities address prevention issues and how connecting communities of varying populations and geographic locations can result in successful, sustainable partnerships. This presentation is appropriate for anyone with the goals of improving programs, enhancing service delivery, and ensuring long-term effectiveness for their community. Participants will be engaged in this interactive presentation through open discussion and activities, small group exercises, and Powerpoint display.

Learning Objectives:

1. Discover practical tools to establish and sustain effective partnerships

2. Identify existing gaps in local infrastructures

3. Increase awareness and understanding of rural concerns

Producing Results Through Training Events

Presenter: Robin Fouche, Clatskanie Together Coalition

This vibrant and imitatable seminar is designed to help coalitions get the most out of their investment in training events and conferences. Frequently conference attendees are given such a wealth of new information over so short a span of time that they often leave training events more overwhelmed than organized. Whether coalition members are attending CADCA's national conference, a statewide event or a small local training, the information and reproducible, copyright free tools provided in this workshop will help ensure that no matter what the training event, attendees will come away, more focused, excited and ready to implement new information immediately. This workshop is a great way to start your CADCA experience and put some of the tools to work today.

Learning Objectives:

1. Bring a winning team together ~ Pre-event assessment and planning 2. Keep your team focused ~ Capacity building and implementation throughout the event.

3. Move forward by building up new leadership ~ Evaluating and sustaining the rewards

The Road to Success is Paved with Collaboration

Presenters: Sandy Spavone, National Organizations for Youth Safety, Hilda Crespo, ASPIRA & Cheryl Neverman, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)

National Organizations for Youth Safety (NOYS) brings together organizations that focus on youth safety and health to work jointly on common efforts. In every collaborative effort each party brings to the cause different sets of expertise, experience, excitement, and external outreach potential. This workshop will highlight some of the successful collaborative efforts of the National Organizations for Youth Safety (NOYS) and how these collaborations have led to greater successful outcomes that would not have been possible without networking through the NOYS membership. The second half of the workshop will allow attendees to hear about the work being done by the workshop participants

and discover where the needs are and how the paths to collaborative success can be found in any environment.

Learning Objectives:

1. Recognize that each party in a collaborative effort provides a valuable piece to the total success of the cause.

2. Understand that to work collaboratively one must recognize the needs and learn to make the connections to the right partners.

3. Identify the potential opportunities for collaborative efforts represented by the attendees who are present.

The Changing Face of Addiction and Older Adults

Presenters: Carol Colleran & Juan Harris, Hanley Center

Older adults and addiction now and in the next few decades bring an urgent need for collaborative programs in social services, housing, education and heath care. Prevention of late onset addiction as well as age-responsive treatment can stem the huge toll in financial and human terms that addiction causes among aging baby boomers and current older adults.

Learning Objectives:

1. Recognize the prevalence and trends in older adult addiction and their relevance to social services, healthcare, education and treatment needs now and in the future.

2. Identify the symptoms of older adult addiction and the elements of assessment and brief intervention.

3. Relate the new demographic in older adult addiction to new prevention and treatment protocols, including successful collaborative initiatives.

ACTUALITY ™ – Social Norms Projects Getting Results Across All Age

Presenter: Scoot Crandall, Team Fort Collins

The primary goal of our presentation will focus on the very practical, practitioner centered skills needed to implement a successful social norms campaign. Information presented can be applied to many prevention/health promotion efforts ranging from reducing gossip at the middle school, reduced drinking and driving at the high school, healthy transition to the college/university setting, and community building. The value of this workshop is the credibility of these efforts showing demonstrated positive results. Activities incorporated in the presentation will include exposure to and dialogue around the ACUTALITY™ process, and understanding of the articulation of the social norms approach to stakeholders, exposure and discussion of a variety of successful ongoing campaigns, evaluation process and how to move forward.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to clearly articulate the social norms approach as prevention to a variety of audiences.

2. Participants will gain a complete understanding of the process and elements that lead to positive outcomes. From building the stakeholder foundation to data collection and implementation.

3. Participants will learn of successful, ongoing campaigns that are showing positive outcomes, and ask questions of concern or clarity.

The Neurobiology of Addiction

Presenter: Lucinda Miner, Ph.D., National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

In the past 30 years, advances in science have revolutionized our understanding of drug abuse and addiction. Powerful research tools and extraordinary science advances have shown us that addiction is a complex brain disease expressed as a form of compulsive behavior whose development and recovery are shaped by behavioral experience and social context. Advanced neuroimaging technologies are fueling our understanding of addiction and allowing us to literally see that addiction occurs as a result of the prolonged effects of abusable drugs on the brain, and that addiction can produce long-lasting changes in brain structure and neurophysiological function. The fact that addiction is tied to changes in brain structure and brain function is what makes it fundamentally a brain disease. Addiction, however, is not just a brain disease. It is a brain disease expressed as a compulsive behavior. Both developing and recovering from it depend on biology, behavior and social context. Although addiction is a disease that is chronic and relapsing in nature, we know from research that it can be successfully treated. Advances in science continue to suggest new targets for anti-addiction medications development, and to provide us with a vast array of science-based approaches to both prevent and treat the public health problem of drug abuse and addiction and the myriad of health and social consequences it brings in its wake.

Learning Objectives:

To understand the brain mechanisms that are involved in drug addiction
To understand risk factors leading to drug abuse and addiction
To understand the principles of effective drug addiction treatment

Aligning Prevention and Treatment Strategies Through Community Celebrations

Presenters: Ivette A. Torres, M.Ed., M.S., & Michele Westbrook, SAMHSA/Center for Substance Abuse Treatment

National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month ( Recovery Month ), observed each September for the last 9 years (and for 8 years as Treatment Works! Month) is a unique national health promotion initiative that involves a partnership of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and more than 75 national and local organizations involved in the addiction treatment and prevention field. Recovery Month highlights the societal benefits of treating and preventing alcohol and drug addictions. This workshop will demonstrate how Recovery Month can be used as a vehicle to support community-based addiction treatment and prevention strategies aimed at stopping or reducing alcohol and drug problems in communities nationwide.

Learning Objectives:

• Gain understanding on how to use the print and web-based materials provided for planning and executing a Recovery Month event

• Learn how to bring