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The
National Coalition Academy, a comprehensive training program developed
by CADCA’s National Coalition Institute and offered without charge
through a partnership with the National Guard Bureau will expand classes
to Mississippi and Iowa in 2009.
Coalitions participating
in the Academy learn about creating and maintaining partnerships,
sustainability, cultural competency, assessment, prevention planning
and implementation and evaluation.
The National Coalition
Academy is a year-long innovative training program that combines three-weeks
of classroom training, distance learning and Web-support to teach
your community what it need to know and what it needs to do to start
and/or sustain a highly effective anti-drug coalition.
“The concrete
examples and directions on how to build coalitions and create logic
models has helped our organization,” says participant Cathy
Stout, Director of Operation UNITE in Somerset, Kentucky. “If
you are a new coalition, the Academy will give you the background
and expertise to build all the way through to evaluate and sustain.”
Academy participants
will learn how to:
- Create and maintain partnerships
- Assess community needs and
resources
- Analyze problems and goals
- Develop a framework or model
of change
- Increase participation and
membership
- Build leadership
- Enhance cultural competence
- Improve organization management
and development
- Develop strategic action
plans
- Develop interventions
- Advocate for change
- Influence policy development
- Write grant applications
for funding
- Evaluate initiatives
- Sustain projects and initiatives
By the end of the
training, your coalition will have developed a community assessment,
logic model, action plan, intervention, evaluation plan and a sustainability
plan.
There is no charge
for tuition, or for lodging or meals during the three week-long, on-site
classroom sessions at National Guard facilities. Participating communities
are required to pay for all other expenses, including travel.
Apply
today!
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