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SUSTAINABILITY: THE ULTIMATE MEASURE OF SUCESS: The Project SUCCESS and Reconnecting Youth Experience

Date: March 15, 2005, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

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I. Overview:
This audio conference is for prevention professionals and volunteers who are interested in gaining knowledge and skills on how to sustain evidence-based programs and conduct a comprehensive and successful strategic planning process.

For prevention efforts to be successful, schools and communities must think about sustainability. Sustainability raises questions such as, how can communities maintain the resources they need, including people, time, and funding, to continue and expand their prevention efforts?

Sustainability planning provides schools and communities with the opportunity to determine and take necessary action for ongoing success. Through this audio conference, participants will learn about key facilitators and barriers to sustainability such as:

• Putting Sustainability into Practice
• Defining Sustainability
• What Needs to be Sustained
• The Sustainability Process
• What Prevents Sustainability
• What Supports Sustainability
• Stages of Community Readiness
• Review of the Sustainability Process

The audio conference is an interactive learning event that provides participants with the opportunity to ask questions and learn from prevention experts as well as other individuals in the field of prevention. Through this event participants will have the opportunity to explore the role of prevention in sustaining effective programs and to conduct a comprehensive and successful strategic planning process.

II. Objectives:

Participants will:

• Increase knowledge of current and “out of the box” approaches to program sustainability
  
  
• Become aware of resources and tools for sustaining your program from field experts

III. Agenda:

• Welcome and Introductions - Carlos Pavao, Technical Assistance and Training Manager of CSAP's Northeast CAPT
  
• Overview of sustainability efforts and real life examples for sustaining Project SUCCESS program. Presenter: Ellen Morehouse, Executive Director of Student Assistance Services, and creator of and Project SUCCESS (Schools Using Coordinated Community Efforts to Strengthen Students)
  
• Overview of sustainability efforts and real life examples for sustaining Reconnecting Youth program. Presenter: Adam Valencia, Project Coordinator of Reconnecting Youth with Tulare County Office of Education, California
  
• Overview of lessons learned

IV. Presenters:

Ellen Morehouse

Ellen Morehouse is the executive director of student assistance services, a non-profit, corporation in Tarrytown, New York. She is the creator of three national model alcohol and drug abuse prevention and early intervention programs: the Westchester Student Assistance Program; the Residential Student Assistance Program; and Project SUCCESS (Schools Using Coordinated Community Efforts to Strengthen Students). The Westchester Student Assistance Program is currently being implemented in 37 high schools and 21 middle schools in Westchester County, and along with the two other model programs, is being replicated nationally.

Ms. Morehouse has been the recipient of grants from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the Centers for Disease Control, the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, the Department of Education, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. She has provided training and has presented at conferences in 43 states and taught at Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service.

Ms. Morehouse has published articles in professional journals. She has been the recipient of the NYS Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers Social Worker of the Year Award and the NYS Association of Prevention Professionals Prevention Professional of the Year, and was one of the founders and is an advisory board member of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics.

Carlos Pavao

Carlos Pavao is a training & technical assistance manager of CSAP's Northeast CAPT. Mr. Pavao is responsible for delivering the technical assistance and training services to CAPT clients within the New England and Mid-Atlantic states.

Mr. Pavao has over eight years of coalition development, community organizing, school reform issues, youth development, governmental relations, program analysis, and systems building with a particular interest in providing outreach strategies to multicultural populations and to new comers. Mr. Pavao has also worked extensively on public health prevention and outreach efforts (tobacco, HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, cardiovascular, pediatric obesity and nutrition).

Before joining the CAPT staff, Mr. Pavao was active in community planning, particularly building school/community partnerships and systems building within urban schools. Mr. Pavao has an M.P.A. from the Bridgewater State College. Mr. Pavao also has a B.A. in anthropology and history with a concentration in non-western cultures from Brandeis University.

Adam Valencia

Adam Valencia has over 10 years experience developing effective programs for youth, families and communities. In his current role as project coordinator of Reconnecting Youth with Tulare County Office of Education, Mr. Valencia oversees the Reconnecting Youth sites, including the effective implementation of the curriculum, the monitoring of outcome evaluation activities, ensuring administrative support and establishing and maintaining school and community relations. His prior experience includes: college administration, higher education and group home consultant.

V. Registration Instructions:

Register for the audio conference at https://ww4.premconf.com/webrsvp/ using confirmation code 4350618 or by calling 800-289-0579.

VI. Resources:

Web Site Resources

Center For Civic Partnership
http://www.civicpartnerships.org

Sustaining the Effort: Building a Learning Community by Tyler Norris and Joe Flower http://www.well.com/user/bbear/sustain.html

Community How to Guide On…Self Sufficiency
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov

The Finance Project
http://www.financeproject.org

Building Capacity and Sustainable Prevention Innovations: A Sustainability Planning ModelNortheast CAPT FAQs on Sustainability
http://www.northeastcapt.org/PRODUCTS/faq/sustainability.html

Tools

Tips from the Field on Financial Sustainability

Sustainability Checklist

Communications Planning Tool

Sustainability Worksheet

VII. Contact Information:

If you have questions or need additional information about this audio conference please contact Valda Grinbergs at VGrinbergs@edc.org or 617-618-2949.