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Collaboration: A Strategy for Prevention Practitioners

Target Audience: State-level and community-level prevention practitioners with an interest in collaboration and the best ways you might go about learning how to collaborate. This workshop is appropriate for participants with a basic level of expertise in this area.

Training Objectives: Participants will be able to:

• Describe key elements and stages of collaboration and apply this knowledge to a
prevention planning process.
• Identify levels and types of collaboration in the participant's prevention network.
• Assess the developmental stages of existing collaborations and identify methods
to improve coordination and collaboration.
• Determine what role each participant can take to make his/her collaboration
successful.
• Communicate the benefits and costs of being involved in collaboration.

Format of Training: This training explores the following topics: Establishing Ground Rules, What is Collaboration?; Continuum of Collaboration; Benefits and Costs of Collaboration; Benefits and Costs of Collaborating; Types of Collaboration; Stages of Collaboration; Stages of Collaboration Checklist; People Create Successful Collaborations

CSAP's Northeast CAPT trainers will use the following techniques throughout this workshop:
• Presentation of background material
• Small group work that challenges participants to examine the effectiveness of
real world cases of prevention
• Large group discussion designed to draw lessons and experiences from
participants

Timeframe: Approximately 3-3 1/2 hours

Number of Participants: Minimum of 10 up to a maximum of 50 participants

These trainings are available from CSAP’s Northeast CAPT. For more information please contact the Single State Agency in your state or call Deborah McLean Leow at 888-EDC-CAPT or email her at capt@edc.org.