Institute Home

Training

"Until this training I honestly did not take the mission of the coalition very seriosly. It was here that I had my "ah-hah!" moment and it was through these sessions that I realized the real work I need to do to make everything we put in our grant a reality for the community we are working in and with."

The CADCA National Coalition Institute offers a wide range of training and technical assistance to help increase the effectiveness of community anti-drug coalitions across America. Click here for a matrix of training courses offered by the Institute.

2008 Training Schedule

National Coalition Academy

The National Coalition Academy is a year-long training program combining three-weeks of classroom training, distance learning and Web support to help communities start and/or sustain a highly effective anti-drug coalition. Coalitions learn about creating and maintaining partnerships, sustainability, cultural competency, assessment, prevention planning and implementation, and evaluation. The Academy is conducted by CADCA’s National Coalition Institute through a partnership with the National Guard Bureau.

Mid-Year and Regional Trainings

CADCA’s Mid-Year Training Institute focuses various aspects of coalition operation and sustainability. Each year, the Mid-Year Training Institute offers a coalition-specific theme presented in small work group sessions to allow for in-depth, hands-on training.

In 2005, CADCA’s National Coalition Institute expanded its regional training programs to include two-, three- and four-day courses throughout the United States. The workshops are designed focus on 15 corecompetencies that help build participant skills required to manage an effective coalition and implement the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF). During the training events, participants will assess their own competencies to determine their strengths and opportunities for future learning. Participants will learn about the core competencies and essential processes critical to coalition success.

National Youth Leadership Initiative

CADCA's National Youth Leadership Initiative (NYLI) is a component of the National Coalition Academy developed by the Community-Anti Drug Coalition Institute at CADCA. The NYLI helps coalitions build their capacity to foster youth leadership in the design, implementation, and evaluation of action strategies addressing community problems. In these sessions, both youth and their advisors learn how to help community coalitions be more effective in producing community change. This training builds the relationship between the youth leader and the adult coalition coach. They will learn about the strategic prevention framework, logic models, interventions, evaluation, and sustainability. This highly interactive training teaches what is required to create and nurture the growth of committed leaders and their work within coalitions. It will better equip youth and adults to develop a strategic action plan that clearly defines the strategies that young people will carry out to address the problems and goals that the coalition is striving to effect.

For more information please contact Ariléa deCarvalho at adecarvalho@cadca.org or at 703-706-0560 ext 225.

Workstation/Online Classroom

Training Resources and Links

National Coalition Institute and White Bison Partnered to Help American Indian Communities

Satellite Broadcast Archives
CADCA and the Multijurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training (MCTFT), a partnership between the Florida National Guard and St. Petersburg College, host regular satellite broadcasts throughout the year. A complete archive of the broadcasts is available on the MCTFT Web site.

Webinar/AudioConference Series