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CADCA provides a variety of customized training (half-days to multiple days), training workshops and on-site or virtual coalition/development technical assistance opportunities. We tailor training to meet learning needs for beginners, intermediate, and advanced-level professionals and coalition members. We help you design your perfect training event!

The CADCA Customized Trainings & Services (CTS) team works with states, regional representatives and coalitions to identify specific learning needs that could improve prevention outcomes with substance misuse prevention and other public health issues. The CTS team designs customized learning experiences to match those learning needs and contracts with coalition experts in the field to facilitate training and technical assistance opportunities.

CADCA CTS learning opportunities are designed to:

• Improve coalition partnerships and performance
• Enhance coalition member satisfaction and morale
• Promote and strengthen coalition sustainability plans
• Increase productivity and fidelity to the community-based prevention process
• Explore social determinants of health principles and applications for health equity
• Advance innovation with new strategies and products
• Apply the prevention planning process to additional public health needs

Standard Training Topics

Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) – Core Essentials for Coalitions

The SPF Core Essentials training focuses on enhancing participant skills required to build strong coalitions and implement the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF), including community assessment, logic models, comprehensive strategies, coalition evaluation and coalition capacity building. Participants will learn and gain skills critical for coalitions to plan, implement and evaluate their coalition’s community-change efforts to reduce substance misuse.

Community Assessment

The Community Assessment training addresses collecting and analyzing local data, with an emphasis on monitoring the extent of substance misuse in a community.

Coalition Evaluation

The Coalition Evaluation training explains how to use logic models and community data, with an emphasis on evaluating short and long-term outcomes at the community level. This course also covers selecting and working with professional evaluators.

Sustainability

The Sustainability training focuses on how to develop and carry out a sustainability plan that ensures a lasting impact of a coalition’s initiatives, activities, programs and policies, long after current leaders move on.

Cultural Competence for Coalitions

The Cultural Competence for Coalitions training provides coalitions with an understanding of how to work with diverse populations and the impact of cultural competence on the five principles of SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework (assessment, capacity, planning, implementation, and evaluation).

Advocating for Policy and Systems Change

The Advocating for Policy and Systems Change training describes how legislation and policy affect changes at the community level. Examples of grassroots and media advocacy campaigns are provided to exemplify integration of multiple advocacy outlets.

Community Mobilizing and Organizing for Coalitions

The Community Mobilizing and Organizing for Coalitions training provides step-by-step information for mobilizing neighborhoods and communicating with diverse audiences. This opportunity gives information about the importance of defining local problem issues, implementing specific strategies, recruiting allies, and creating community-based campaigns. Participants obtain the tools and knowledge to gain support from a wide variety of community partners.

Prevention 101

The Prevention 101 training places special emphasis on understanding the role of coalitions in using evidence-based practices, programs and policies to achieve community-level change and provides an in-depth understanding of the history and research of substance misuse prevention.

Addressing the Pills to Heroin Epidemic from a Prevention Perspective

The Addressing the Pills to Heroin Epidemic from a Prevention Perspective training teaches coalitions how they can play a role in addressing this critical health epidemic and what strategies can be used to make the most impact.

Problem Gambling Prevention Bootcamp

The Problem Gambling Prevention Bootcamp is a customized version of the National Coalition Academy, specifically designed to address the prevention of problem gambling.

Other topics include but are not limited to:

• Organizational Management
• Strategic Implementation
• Communication Plans
• Youth Engagement
• Special Populations

CADCA is committed to meeting your unique training objectives. Customized training topics can be developed beyond the standard topics listed above. 

For more details or to organize a training, contact:
Doug Rice, Senior Manager, Training and Sales Operations
drice@cadca.org | 1-800-54-CADCA ext 243