Community Mobilizing and Organizing for Coalitions Part II
-- September 10, 2009, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time
This will be a continuation of the Community Mobilizing and Organizing for Coalitions Part I Session on May 21, 2009. If you were unable to attend the Part I session you may view it by clicking on the session recording under the Part I materials. The Powerpoint handout materials are also still available in the materials section. Everyone is welcome to register for this session whether you attended Part I or not.
Archive:
Community Mobilizing and Organizing for Coalitions Part I
-- May 21, 2009, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Community Mobilization for Coalitions will provide participants with step-by-step information on mobilizing neighborhoods and practical tips and tools to help coalitions communicate effectively with diverse audiences. Participants will learn the different forms of advocacy, why it’s important to research issues and build capacity to implement specific strategies, how to recruit allies and the different campaigns that coalitions may use in their communities. Participants will leave this session equipped with the tools and knowledge to gain support from many sectors of their communities.
Community Mobilizing and Organizing for Coalitions Materials:
Archive: Evaluation for Coalitions -- March 2009
Ready, Set...Evaluate Your Coalition!
In order to be successful, a coalition must evaluate its infrastructure, function and processes; its programs and strategies; and changes in health/social status or the community itself. This webinar is intended to demystify evaluation and help you assess
potential challenges and your readiness to evaluate. Answering the 4 “Ws” of coalition evaluation will prepare you to 1) choose appropriate methods and tools; 2) select appropriate short, intermediate and long-term indicators to measure outcomes; and 3) use evaluation make your coalition accountable to its stakeholders and improve its effectiveness. The take home message is “You can do it (evaluate) and CADCA can help!”
Evaluation for Coalitions Materials:
Archive: Environmental Strategies Series -- November 2008- January 2009
Managing Community Alcohol Risk Environments
When communities mobilize to address substance abuse issues, a comprehensive plan is essential to overall success. Communities can include environmental strategies as a means to reduce substance abuse, particularly with issues related to accessibility and
availability of alcohol to underage youth and illegal substances to the general population. This two-part series on environmental strategies starts from the beginning identifying what environmental strategies are and how
to plan for them. The sessions also will offer mechanisms for practical application and more in-depth discovery of how community mobilization and policy change come into play for communities engaged in environmental
strategies.
Environmental Strategies Materials:
- PowerPoint Presentation (slides in PDF format)
- Session Handout
- The Coalition Impact: Environmental Prevention Strategies (publication in PDF format)
The Roots of Environmental Strategies
It's all about managing and reducing the risks in alcohol environments.
Environmental Strategies Materials:
- Shannon Weatherly PowerPoint Presentation (handouts in PDF format)
- Kevin Grindstaff PowerPoint Presentation (handouts in PDF format)
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Archive: Social Media Series -- March - September 2008Social Networking: Building Your Virtual Neighborhood
When coalitions are asked, "What is the most important element of the conference experience?" they often say, "the networking". With social networks coalitions can deepen and broaden their "neighborhood", be exposed to diverse ideas and solutions and make new acquaintances--virtually. This Webinar introduces social networking and how it supports coalitions in making face-to-face networking experience even richer!
Social Networking Materials: Content Communities for Coalitions: Getting Started with Social Media
This Webinar introduced content communities--people organizing themselves around an object in which they share an interest. The session included information about how content communities are a resource, a place to belong and a useful tool for coalition marketing, presentations and networking. The current most popular content communities coalesce around photos (Flickr) videos (YouTube) and online bookmarks (del.icio.us).
Content Communities Materials: Blogs: Finding Your Coalition Voice, Expanding Your Coalition Channel
While blogging isn't new, the application to the work of community coalitions is. So just what is a blog? What does a blog have to do with community coalitions? This Webinar answers these questions and more. Join in to learn more about blogging and how it can be used as a free or low cost media source, information channel and all around narrative documentation of community interest and action.
Blogging Session Materials:
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Archive:
Sustaining
the Effort Webinar Series
Session 1 materials:
- PowerPoint Presentation (revised slides in PDF format)
- Coalition Sustainability Checklist (Word)
- DFC Sustainability Plan Guidelines (Word)
- Coalition Leader Sustainability Functions (Word)
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Hosted by the Community Anti-Drug
Coalitions of America (CADCA)
and its National Coalition Institute
www.cadca.org/www.coalitioninstitute.org
Drug-Free
Communities Reporting Requirements:
How to use this information to improve your coalition
Moderator: Evelyn Yang, Manager, Evaluation and Research, National Coalition Institute
Presenter: DeWitt Webster, Ph.D., Drug-Free Communities Support Program National Evaluation team
This call will help DFC grantees by providing an overview of the evaluation plan, including guiding questions, the data collection and analysis strategy, and what can be learned from the effort. A key component will be a focus on helping grantees accurately collect data on the four core measures required by SAMSHA. There will be facilitated discussions on adapting existing questions, including measures in existing school based surveys, selection of target areas, shared learning, and general group problem solving. Time will be allocated for a discussion of the value of conducting student surveys to guide coalition planning and inform the coalition evaluation. The call will address the key questions of "Why do a survey?" "When is the best time(s)?" and "How do we begin?"
Listen Now!
using Windows Media Player
(broadband connection recommended)Materials for the Audio Conference:
Drug-Free Communities Reporting Requirements: How to Use This Information to Improve Your Coalition (PDF)
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Strategies for Effective Evaluations
Moderator: Evelyn Yang, Manager, Evaluation and Research, National Coalition Institute
Presenters: Paul Evensen, Senior Consultant, Community Systems Group, and
Diane Galloway, Ph.D., Deputy Project Manager, CDM Group, Inc;
former administrator, Department of Health Substance Abuse Division, Wyoming
A comprehensive evaluation producing credible results is an invaluable coalition product. This audio conference will provide information on the concepts and tools necessary for producing useful and credible evaluations.
This call will show the importance of evaluation and introduce some of the key processes of monitoring and evaluating coalitions and local efforts. The session will also assist coalitions in matching strategies to long and short term outcomes, selecting appropriate evaluation designs, and providing examples on how to effectively use and share evaluation findings.
Listen
Now! using
Windows Media Player
(broadband connection recommended)
Materials for the Audio Conference:
Strategies
for Effective Evaluations (PDF)
Note
Taking Guide (PDF)
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Social Marketing for Coalitions
Moderator: Eduardo Hernández-Alarcón, Deputy Director, Dissemination and Coalition Relations, National Coalition Institute
Presenter: Sue Stine, Manager, Dissemination and Coalition Relations, National Coalition Institute
Social Marketing may surprise you. Effective social marketing programs include more than a message or a mass media campaign and much of what it takes to put together a comprehensive social marketing program is already being done by coalitions around the country. This session will outline the steps for developing a strategic social marketing plan. Discussion will include the differences between social and commercial marketing, use of logic models, the importance of research and evaluation and tactics that social marketers use to implement behavior change.
Listen
Now! using
Windows Media Player
(broadband connection recommended)
Materials for the Audio Conference:
Social
Marketing for Coalitions (PDF)
Social
Marketing for Coalitions (PDF of slides in handout format)
Participant's
Notebook (PDF)
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The Differences between a Coalition and a Program
Moderator: Eduardo Hernández-Alarcón, Deputy Director, Dissemination and Coalition Relations, National Coalition Institute
Presenters: Jane Callahan, Director, National Coalition Institute, and
Carlton Hall, Senior Training Manager, National Coalition Institute
Most of us know where to begin when we’re managing a program. But what about a coalition? The National Coalition Institute has identified three key differences: 1) Scale: Coaltions measure success by examining community level indicators. This applies to all coalition outcomes (short- and long-term). 2) Addresses multiple causes: Coalitions seek to insure that all causes of identified problems are addressed. 3) Actors: Action in coalitions is diffused and taken by all members with staff playing a coordinating and supportive role.
Materials for the Audio Conference:
The
Difference between a Program and a Coalition (PDF)
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