Marcus A. Bouligny — State Coordinator for Training/Technical Assistance
Marcus A. Bouligny serves CSAP's Southeast CAPT as State Coordinator for Training and Technical Assistance for the states of Alabama and Georgia. He has 12 years experience in creating and directing youth development programs with an emphasis on ATOD prevention. Marcus has helped many youth and adult coalitions develop and implement local ordinances and policies. His work with numerous grassroots coalitions, youth and adults, helped them realize their goals and objectives and resulted in successful milestones and other major accomplishments. Organizations Marcus has worked with include: Bay Area Regional Tobacco Education Resources, Stop Tobacco Access to Minors Project (STAMP), San Mateo County Public Health Department, American Lung Association, Sonoma County Office of Education, State of California, Youth Leadership Institute, and the Gateway Program. He has created many youth development programs from the “ground up,” and has conducted trainings in substance abuse prevention education and provided technical assistance to youth and adult groups nationwide. Other areas of expertise include: design and implementation of youth development framework; experiential team building and training activities; building local political alliances, and strategic program and participant evaluation methods. Marcus conducts a workshop entitled, “The Nuts and Bolts of Program Design and Implementation,” which allows participants to identify and find solutions to programmatic issues and barriers. Upon completion of the workshop, participants have clear objectives, time lines, and tasks they can use to move their programs forward and achieve desired outcomes. Marcus’ other popular and successful workshops include: working with youth to pass polices and ordinances, recruitment and retention of participants, training of peer to peer trainers, building school alliances, skill setting for youth development programs, motivating young people to do their best, and youth and adult partnerships.
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