May 8-9 in Columbia, MO at the Stoney Creek Hotel and Conference Center
The Academy model provides coalitions with clear, practical steps they can use right away to make their collaborative efforts more effective, essentially giving them a roadmap for improving their coalition work.
Schedule
- May 8: 10am-7:00pm (breakfast at 9:30, lunch and dinner reception provided)
- May 9: 8:00am-4:00pm (breakfast at 7:30, lunch provided)
During this FREE two-day event, coalitions will use a Strategic Action Planning approach to improve your coalition work. Learn more about:
- Establishing priorities for assessment and problem identification
- Building capacity for prevention
- Coalition administration keys to success such as meeting facilitation, budgeting, and communication
- Strategic planning of activities
Each coalition is encouraged to bring 2-4 participants who are active in the leadership of the coalition.
Coalitions will participate in the two-day event along with a pre-Academy webinar and a post-Academy webinar. These webinars are scheduled on April 14, 2025 from 12pm-2pm CT and June 10 from 12pm-2pm CT.
This training will be facilitated by four national prevention field trainers. All four train for ONDCP’s National Coalition Institute, for CADCA’s signature events and webinars, as well as for the Opioid Response Network. Their dynamic energy and synergy, combined with their decades of experience in the prevention and non-profit fields will create a training that will leave you feeling encouraged, empowered, and educated! You will develop skills and practical tools to enhance your coalition’s substance use prevention efforts.
Tools Coalitions will Leave the Academy with include:
- A data-driven priority problems and root causes (assessment)
- A resource assessment including 12-sector worksheet
- A strategic action plan with strategies/activities
- Tangible coalition tools for meeting facilitation, agenda-setting, budgeting, and sustainability
Application deadline is March 31 and coalitions will be accepted for the Academy on a rolling basis.
For questions or to learn more about the Academy, please email Joan Masters at MastersJ@missouri.edu.