Satellite Broadcast  Expanded Description

“Classrooms, Coalitions & Collaboration”

A Pre-Recorded Satellite &Webcast Program 

 Thursday 24 April 2008; 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET

No CE Credits

a.  Sponsors:  This program is made possible through a partnership with the Multijurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training (MCTFT) Program at St. Petersburg College and the Florida National Guard, the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) with the technical support of the Air Technology Network (ATN) at WPAB, Dayton, OH. 

b.  Availability:  This free, public domain broadcast will be available on the GETN Military/Federal/Warrior digital CDV satellite networks and on C-Band Analog satellite networks.  (There is NO KU analog or digital coverage.)  Other private and public satellite networks may also carry the program, check with your satellite provider.  (Note: This program WILL NOT be available on small digital dish networks such as DirecTV or Dish systems.) 

Will this program be Webcast?  Yes; details will be sent in the final coordination message to all registered sites.  A live and achieved version of the program will be available.

c.  Target Audience Statement:  Primary target audiences for this program will include CADCA Coalition leaders, law enforcement officials, drug prevention specialists, Drug-Free Communities Act grantees, administrators, school drug counselors, high school athletic officials, treatment providers, drug court members, policy makers, business leaders, coalition volunteers, drug demand reduction coordinators, criminal justice professionals, members of the religious community and other community partners who may be interested.  This program is also suitable for Public Access television distribution.   

d.  Program Summary and Objectives:  We're all trying to raise a drug-free generation and spread prevention messages effectively.  To do so, we need access to many kids at once.  One great place to have this kind of access is a school.  But as many coalitions have found out, getting inside a school isn't always easy.  Coalitions and schools don't always work so well together and it's often difficult for the two sides to realize what frightens the other. 

Coalitions need data to target their prevention messages and to satisfy funders.  School administrators are sometimes afraid of what the data might show. 

During this hour-long CADCA TV program, we’ll hear why some schools are leery of participating in drug surveys and how you as a coalition can try to calm those fears.  Survey experts will teach how to get things organized before approaching a school.  You’ll also learn about a coalition in Hartford, Connecticut that forged a strong partnership with local schools, and how this partnership has helped strengthen the coalition’s mission.  Also, see how one coalition formed its own school to help a part of the population that was underserved.  

Learning Objectives: 

-      Learn how to approach schools about data collection
-      Find out why schools are often leery about surveys
-      See how a coalition formed its own school to help and underserved part of the population

e.  Content Providers: 

Paul Evensen, Vice President and Chief Science Officer at Community Systems Group, a national public health consulting and evaluation firm  -  Mr. Evensen has worked with hundreds of local partnerships to address a wide variety of health issues including substance abuse, teen pregnancy, literacy, youth suicide, immunization, nutrition, physical activity and HIV prevention.  Mr. Evensen holds a master’s degree and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Community Health and Development in the Department of Applied Behavioral Science at the University of Kansas.  Paul has been involved in nearly every aspect of coalition work as a former executive director, evaluator, board member and volunteer.  He was the executive director of the Upstate HIV Prevention Coalition in Greenville, SC and has been the volunteer evaluator for Safe Streets of Topeka Kansas for the past eleven years.  Mr. Evensen is the co-founder of two non-profit organizations and currently lives in St Louis, Missouri.  

Doug Hall, Pride Surveys, Senior Vice President  -  Doug Hall was a daily newspaper editor in 1975 when he became involved in Drug and Alcohol Prevention Advocates, one of the first community anti-drug coalitions in the United States.  Under his guidance, the newspaper adopted adolescent drug use as a civic journalism project, championing public funding for DAPA, running a weekly column on drug prevention and giving front page attention to ATOD issues.  In 1987, Doug’s experience with DAPA led to a second career when he joined the National Parents’ Resource Institute for Drug Education (PRIDE).  In the early 1990’s he was appointed by HHS Secretary Donna Shalala to the National Advisory Council of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP).  In 1998, PRIDE founder Dr. Thomas J. Gleaton retired from the organization and established International Survey Associates, which does business as Pride Surveys.  Doug joined ISA as a consultant and worked in that capacity until 2006 when he joined ISA/Pride Surveys full-time as senior vice-president. He became president of the company in January 2008.  Since 1982 Pride Surveys have been administered in more than 32,000 schools in the US and other countries.  More than 10 million students, parents and faculty members have responded to a Pride Survey.  Doug is an accomplished cook, speaks English and Spanish, and has traveled extensively. 

Andrew Woods, Executive Director, Hartford Communities That Care, Hartford, CT  -  Woods is the founder of the Stump the Violence Youth Leadership Institute that began in 1998 to address the issues of drug use and violence in Hartford.  He is also a state certified substance abuse counselor. Woods has a Bachelor of Human Services from Springfield College in Springfield, MA.  He serves on several community and school boards dealing with drug and violence prevention issues and is a grant reviewer for both the CDC and SAMHSA. 

f.  CEUs, CMEs and Certificates:  There are No CEUs, CMEs, or completion certificates available for this program. 

g.  DVD Availability:  You can usually watch any of these programs plus many others from the past via a Webcast if you have hi-speed internet access, see: http://dlnets.com/mctft_webcasts.htm  …or you can order a DVD for a small shipping and handling fee of $13..more details here: MCTFT DVD Order Site. 

Note that they usually do not post DVD availability for any given program until sometimes several weeks after its broadcast date.  If the program date you are interested in is not posted, please book mark the site and check back in a week or so. 

h.  Videotape release (if taping from broadcast):  This FREE program is unclassified and non-scrambled.  There are no copyright restrictions on this program, however it MAY NOT be videotaped and re-broadcast where fees are attached to its showing.  No portion of this program may be used for commercial purposes or for-profit purposes without additional permission of the sponsors.    

i.  Web Site Support:  Support materials, if any, are expected to mounted on the Internet to support this program.  Final details will be sent via email to registered sites as part of the satellite coordinates message.    

j.  Satellite Coordinates:   If known at the time of your initial registration, a copy of the satellite coordinates will be returned to you as part of your registration confirmation.   A second confirmed coordinates copy will be sent to all registered sites 5-7 working days prior to the broadcast.   This second copy is sent in blind group copies of 50 addressees each.  We know that some spam and military filters will block this message.  So Site coordinators and technicians whose sites are registered and who have not received the coordinates by the Monday preceding the broadcast date should contact our office immediately.   Please do not wait until the day before or the day of the program to confirm your coordinates. 

k.  Registration:  All new and returning sites MUST register for this FREE, public domain program to receive the necessary satellite coordinates (C/KU) or illumination authentication (GETN/Warrior dishes) and Site Materials Website.  Sites may register at: CounterDrug Registration or by calling Ed Kronholm’s Office, the Satellite Registrations Coordinator, toll free at 877-820-0305 or 888-820-4898.    

l.  Future Programs:  For future information on MCTFT satellite broadcasts (subject to change due to satellite availability and other scheduling issues) please visit this web site: http://www.mctft.com/telecasts/upcoming_telecourses.shtml.  (Information changes periodically; please refresh your browser upon each visit.)  Additional information may also be posted here: http://www.dlnets.com/mctft.htm. 

A complete listing of available programs can be seen here, Interagency Schedule.  Note that some programs are available only to military and federal sites. 

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