Description:

The end of the calendar year is a perfect time to reflect on how far your prevention efforts have come and to plan for where you want to go professionally. Join us for an uplifting and forward-focused session to help you identify and set your 2025 goals—both for yourself and for your prevention organization. Explore best practices for setting SMARTIE (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Time-bound, Inclusive, and Equitable) goals. Participate in interactive exercises to take stock of your current professional experience and determine how to enhance their efficacy and satisfaction. Then articulate your action steps to support your goals for 2025.

Learning Objectives:

• Review best practices for setting goals
• Explore existing tools and resources to support goal setting activities
• Develop action steps to reach your identified goals in the next twelve months

Presenters and bios:

Sandra DelSesto -M.Ed., ACPS, is a consultant and master trainer in behavioral health and strategic planning for non-profits. She was the founder and for 30 years the executive director of Initiatives for Human Development, a statewide, multi-service prevention program, and a founder of CODAC, RI’s largest non-profit treatment program. She was also the founding director of the Institute for Addiction Recovery at Rhode Island College. She is a member of the advisory boards of the Prevention Technology Transfer Center; National Coordinating Office (PTTC-NCO), the New England PTTC, and was a member of the former Latino PTTC. She is a consultant to the Strategic Prevention Technical Assistance Center (SPTAC).

Jess Goldberg – MSW, MPH, CPS. Jess is a training and technical assistance specialist with Education Development Center. For more than 15 years, Jess has specialized in building capacity to improve behavioral health at the national, state, regional and local levels. Her areas of expertise include preventing youth substance use; promoting cross-sector collaborations; addressing health disparities; strategic planning, logic model development, and sustainability