An Enhanced Prevention Learning Series

Series Overview:

This 7-week series offers a unique interactive experience that provides participants an opportunity to learn more about the key organizational elements that assist coalitions of all types to operate efficiently and effectively. This series will have a special focus on coalitions that promote healthy youth development to reduce substance misuse and other related problem behaviors.

Participants will explore a variety of organizational principles that will assist them in the overall development of their coalition by learning more about how to engage and sustain the involvement of key stakeholders and members over time, how to utilize dynamic group-development strategies, and how their efforts can connect with other coalition efforts in their area.

The learning series is structured to provide online consultation, skill-based learning and practice, group and self-study activities, reading assignments, and discussion on topics essential to an effective community coalition structure when focusing on primary prevention.

Participants will have the opportunity during the course to discuss specific “next steps” questions.

Series Objectives:

By the end of the EPLS, participants will be able to:

• Explore diverse community sectors and ways to engage them in your prevention efforts
• Showcase effective strategies to key leader engagement and sustaining their continued support
• Discuss the importance of member engagement and ways to strengthen the relationship over time
• Demonstrate the importance and key elements of group goal directedness
• Describe the elements of efficient meetings and group development
• Explore the importance of understanding the prevention landscape and determining how to make connections

Audience:

Community-level substance misuse prevention practitioners and community coalition coordinators located in the Northwest (HHS Region 10) states of Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.

Prevention practitioners who would like to become a Certified Prevention Specialist or need to continuing hours of education to meet re-certification requirements.

Please note: This training is reserved for prevention professionals working in HHS Region 10. Prevention professionals interested in this course but who work outside of HHS Region 10 are encouraged to contact their region’s PTTC to learn about similar courses available to them.

Dates and Times:

Tuesdays, January 14, 21, 21, February 11, 18, 25, March 4, 2025*

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Alaska
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Pacific
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Mountain
(view in your time zone)

*There will be no session on February 4, 2025.

Facilitator:

Elizabeth Eckley Winder, Ph.D.

is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Services and Restorative Justice at The Pennsylvania College of Technology. She earned her PhD in Administration and Leadership: Nonprofit and Private Sectors from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Arts in Applied Sociology from Lehigh University.

Her areas of focus include evaluation utilization and nonprofit management. Because of her specializations, Dr. Winder has worked with the University of Notre Dame's Nonprofit Professional Development Department and has been a recipient of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)'s Diversity Award. Furthermore, as a consultant, she has worked with numerous counties and statewide organizations providing evaluation and strategic planning services.

Prior to joining The Pennsylvania College of Technology, Dr. Winder served as a Training and Technical Assistance Coordinator for the Pennsylvania State University’s Evidence-based Prevention and Intervention Support Center (EPIS). In Dr. Winder’s position, she was part of a team responsible for providing strategic planning training and technical assistance to communities throughout Pennsylvania in their implementation of the Communities That Care risk-focused model for preventing and reducing youth delinquency and substance use. She is a graduate of the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America's (CADCA) Coalition Institute and holds a Communities That Care Plus Coaching Certification through the University of Washington's Center for Communities That Care.

Certificates:

Participants who complete the entire course will receive a certificate of attendance for 16.5 hours. Partial credit will be considered if a participant completes over 80% of the course and submits completed prep packets to the course facilitator for review for any missed session. Participants will need to confirm with their certification board to determine if these certification hours are accepted towards their specific certification requirements.

Register Here:

Effective Coalitions EPLS Registration

Cost is Free!

Questions?

Please contact Holly Simak ([email protected]) if you have questions related to registration. For any other questions, please contact Britany Wiele ([email protected]).