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Dave Shavel Bio

Dave. Shavel has extensive experience in the substance abuse prevention field at the community, state and federal levels as a community organizer, coalition director, trainer and technical assistance provider, researcher and state prevention manager for the State of Wyoming.

He specializes in technical assistance and training in the areas of strategic planning; needs, resource and readiness assessment; prevention program planning, implementation and evaluation; promoting youth involvement; and community and state capacity building.

Dave served as the Training and Technical Assistance Team Lead for the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention's Data Coordination and Consolidation Center in Bethesda, Md., from 2005-2007. There he was responsible for managing the training and technical assistance component of a large-scale prevention information systems project. He led the design, development and delivery of training and technical assistance materials for Web-based prevention applications using the Strategic Prevention Framework.

Dave works with CADCA’s Coalition Institute to provide training and technical assistance to increase the knowledge, capacity and accountability of community anti-drug coalitions throughout the nation.

He holds an M.B.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle, School of Business Administration and a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the California State University, Fresno.