1) CADCA SATELLITE BROADCAST ON INTERGRATING FAITH-BASED PROGRAMS MAY 16
It's not too late to register
for CADCA's "Leap of Faith: Bringing Faith-Based Programs into Your Community
Coalition" satellite broadcast! The expert panel will include:
Rev. Jacqueline Thompson,
Executive Director, Shiloh Family Life Center
Tune in Thursday, May 16, 2002, from 1:00-2:30 p.m., EST to
You can join these live training sessions at no cost to you from any site with a satellite dish that has C-band or KU band capabilities (schools, colleges, local access/cable television stations, National Guard armories, etc.,). All viewing sites must register in advance to receive the necessary satellite coordinates.
Three ways to register with
Ed Kronholm, downlink coordinator:
Phone: 877-820-0305
Email: dlnets@aol.com
Web Site: www.dlnets.com/MCTFT2nd.htm.
Please direct all questions
to Tanyanic Brown, CADCA's director of distance learning, at tbrown@cadca.org.
2)
NEW
ONDCP APPOINTMENTS CONFIRMED
Congratulations to Mary Ann Solberg, Scott Burns, and Barry Crane on their recent confirmations! Last week, the Senate confirmed Scott Burns as the Deputy Director of State and Local Affairs at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). On Monday, April 22, the Senate confirmed Mary Ann Solberg as Deputy Director of ONDCP and Barry Crane as Deputy Director of Supply Reduction. Each of these individuals will be an asset to ONDCP and the substance abuse prevention field; CADCA would like to extend special thanks and congratulations to Mary Ann Solberg for her years of service and dedication to community coalitions and to CADCA.
3) REGISTER NOW FOR CADCA'S MID-YEAR TRAINING INSTITUTE, AUGUST 6-9
Registrations are quickly coming in for CADCA's first-ever Mid-Year Training Institute in Seattle, Washington, August 6-9; call or register online now to secure your space. This exciting event will feature 12 of CADCA's most requested trainings for community coalition members, prevention specialists, and other interested individuals. Faculty for the Institute will include leading experts in the field of substance abuse prevention teaching subjects including grant writing, achieving outcomes, leadership, public policy, cultural competency, and media relations. CADCA will offer CEUs for the four-day Institute, which will culminate in a commencement exercise. For more information on how to register for this event, contact Nana Elliott at nelliott@cadca.org or 1-800-54-CADCA, ext. 256, or visit www.cadca.org and click on "Training Institute." Seating for each class is limited, so sign up today!
4) NEW NATIONAL AD CAMPAIGN QUESTIONS PHILIP MORRIS' PROPOSED NAME CHANGE
A new national advertisement sponsored by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, American Cancer Society, American Heart Association and American Lung Association features a photo of a slithering snake and a headline that reads "No matter how often a snake sheds its skin… it's still a snake." It is running in national newspapers as Philip Morris' shareholders prepare to vote on a name change to The Altria Group at their annual meeting in Richmond, Virginia on April 25. The point of the ad is that the tobacco giant is trying to hide from its past by changing its name, but it has failed to change its harmful marketing practices that result in more youth smoking its Marlboro cigarettes than all other brands combined. To view the ad, go to http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/philipmorris/ad.pdf.
According to the 2000 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, which provides the most recent data on cigarette brand preference among youth, 54.8 percent of youth smokers prefer Marlboro as their usual brand. A recent poll by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, conducted March 6-10, found that youth are far more likely to recall advertising for Marlboro than for other cigarette brands and that teens are three times as likely as adults to recall Marlboro advertising.
The public health groups'
new ad directs readers to a website, www.PhilipMorrisCantHide.org,
where they can learn more about the company's deadly habits and take action
to hold Philip Morris and the rest of the tobacco industry accountable for their
harmful practice of targeting children. Visitors to the website can send a fax
to President Bush urging him to fully fund and aggressively pursue the federal
government's lawsuit against the tobacco industry, which is scheduled for trial
next year.
5) 7th ANNUAL NATIONAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION ON ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUGS
The National Leadership Institute for Higher Education on Alcohol and Other Drugs provides a focused professional development time for campus drug/alcohol coordinators and others working with prevention issues in higher education. The seventh annual National Leadership Institute will be June 4 - 8, at George Mason University's Johnson Center in Fairfax, VA.
Registration information
is available at www.caph.gmu.edu.
6) FUNDING AND HELP FOR COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AVAILABLE
For 30 years, the National Training and Information Center (NTIC) has helped local neighborhood groups win fights on issues through direct-action community organizing strategies. NTIC has formed a partnership with the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, which provides the funding for this program, and together they are prepared to provide both funding and strategy assistance on securing funding for new and emerging local grassroots groups who are attempting to engage in community organizing.
NTIC defines community organizing as a process of building powerful, community-controlled, democratically run, grassroots non-profit organizations capable of producing social change. NTIC will not fund social service programs, since these do not fit within their definition of community organizing.
In order to apply, a non-profit must meet the following guidelines:
A two-page proposal is required. For more information on the requirements of the proposal or on the program, contact Joe Mariano at (312) 243-3035 or mariano@ntic-us.org. The deadline for proposals is Wednesday July 31, at 5 p.m.
7) SAFE SCHOOLS CONFERENCE SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 19-21
The Hamilton Fish Institute will host its first national conference, "Safe Schools for the 21st Century," in Monterey, CA, June 19-21.
The results of a five-year, seven-university study on school violence prevention will be announced at the conference, which will serve as a forum for researchers and educators seeking to learn what programs and strategies have been proven effective in reducing violence in schools.
Scheduled speakers include Joan Burstyn, Syracuse University; Dr. Catherine Blaya-Debarbieux and Dr. Eric Debarbieux, European Observatory of School Violence at the University of Bordeaux; Michael Furlong, University of California at Santa Barbara; and Jim Griffin, Morehouse School of Medicine; among others.
To obtain further information about the conference or to register online, visit the conference Web site at http://www.hamfish.org/events/10.
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APRIL QUESTION OF THE MONTH Are you planning to
attend CADCA's Mid-Year Training Institute, August 6-9 in Seattle? If
not, do you need more information about the Institute? What do you need
to know about the Institute? Please email your answers and comments to Kay Green at kgreen@cadca.org. |
OTHER USEFUL CADCA LINKS
If you are not a regular member of CADCA, or would like to learn more about our services, please visit: http://www.cadca.org/JoinCADCA/JoinCADCA.htm
Interested in the latest progress on legislation that affects coalitions and anti-drug efforts? Then go to: http://www.cadca.org/CoalitionToolkit/PublicPolicy/PublicPolicy.htm
To find out what’s going on with community anti-drug coalitions and events related to the substance abuse field, check out: http://www.cadca.org/Events/Events.htm
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