CADCA National Coalition Institute

Moving Your Coalition into a Web 2.0 World

CADCA National Coalition Institute — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:47:05 -0400

Everybody's talking about it. Are you on Facebook? Do you Twitter? Did you see the latest viral video on You Tube? And now CADCA asks have you seen Connected Communities? The choices are endless and just when you think you're getting a handle on what's out there--BANG!--a dozen new tools have been introduced. So how do you navigate in a Web 2.0 world when you feel like you're just mastering e-mail? First, remember that Web...

Knowing the Difference between Community Mobilizing and Community Organizing

CADCA National Coalition Institute — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:52:31 -0400

Often we hear about community organizing and community mobilizing. I never knew there was a difference between the two. Although the two terms seem synonymous, I recently found out that there are some significant differences. Learning the distinction between the two caused me to open my eyes to the intricacies of the many important processes and steps that successful coalitions find innate. I realized that in order to implement strategies to achieve population-level reductions in...

La importancia de un mapeo comunitario

CADCA National Coalition Institute — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:43:29 -0400

As CADCA's International Programs expand, we will, from time-to-time, reprint an English blog in Spanish or Portuguese. This is a Spanish-language version of Eduardo Hernandez' April 6, 2009 blog post titled "Why you should consider an environmental scan."Las coaliciones anti-drogas deben precisar modificar los entornos problemáticos existentes en la comunidad. Pero para realizar esa meta, primero se tiene que identificar las zonas o lugares de alto riesgo donde ocurren la mayoría de los problemas relacionados...

Why you should consider an environmental scan

CADCA National Coalition Institute — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:15:00 -0400

Coalitions are well-positioned to change the problem environments that exist within their communities. But to do so, they first must discover the high risk areas that cause alcohol and other drug problems. However, I have noticed that when conducting their community assessment coalition leaders often focus primarily on epidemiological data that provide AOD consumption rates. Such data, as important as they may be, will not give you information on the context or place of substance...

Academy Dubbed Innovation of the Week

CADCA National Coalition Institute — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:00:00 -0500

CADCA's National Coalition Academy, our year-long training course for coalition leaders, is being highlighted by the Leader to Leader Institute as its Innovation of the Week, a biweekly honor that celebrates an organization´s innovative strategy, service, product, partnership or collaboration employed to make a difference in the lives of the people it serves. In partnership with the National Guard Bureau, CADCA's National Coalition Institute developed the year-long academy which is now offered at National Guard...

Increasing Coalitions' Social Media Presence

CADCA National Coalition Institute — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:57:58 -0500

Does your coalition have a blog? Are you on Facebook or MySpace? Have you posted videos to YouTube or photos to Flickr? Do you Twitter? If so, CADCA's National Coalition Institute wants to know about you! Whether for a training event or technical assistance session, we often are asked to provide examples of how coalitions are using various social networks and media and we love to highlight the great work that our coalitions are doing....

Connect...Communicate...Collaborate

CADCA National Coalition Institute — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:09:27 -0500

CADCA's National Leadership Forum XIX wraps up today. It's been an exciting, hectic week filled with excellent presentations, new and renewed friendships, significant learning and lots of food! The Forum (aka CADCA) offers coalition leaders from around the country an incredible opportunity to network--with CADCA staff, federal project officers and, most importantly, one another. And over the years, many participants have expressed the desire to continue that networking beyond the Forum. We've heard that request...

I Need a Recipe Environmental Strategies...PLEASE!

CADCA National Coalition Institute — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:00:00 -0400

(This is part 1 of a 2-part series of posts in preparation for the Institute’s Webinar series on environmental strategies. Click here for more information or to access the registration page.) A recipe for environmental strategies is what you want? Unfortunately, no such thing exists. Let me explain further using some examples of technical assistance calls and e-mails that I get from coalitions across the United States. Shannon, this is... from the... coalition in ......