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This course is designed to help you create and navigate accounts on some of the most popular social media platforms. You'll receive step-by-step guidance on how to engage with your audience across various platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, and YouTube. Read more

This course introduces professionals to a media binder, a tool that includes media platforms, contacts, a planning calendar and samples. These are a useful sustainability tool to create and share when there is staff turnover or when new people are added to the team. These binders can provide continuity in delivering media so that nothing is overlooked and prevention messaging stays consistent.  Read more

This course will go over how a bill becomes a law, what federally grant-funded prevention specialists can do and not do, and effective ways to interact with policy makers without crossing the "lobbying" line. Read more

Mentoring programs are considered an Alternative Activity for preventing negative outcomes and promoting resilience in youth populations. This strategy provides for the participation of the target populations in activities that exclude alcohol and drug use through the provision of constructive and healthy activities. Complete this course to gain a more in-depth understanding of the important role mentoring programs have in prevention.   Read more

In this course, you will learn the fundamentals for utilizing focus groups for assessment and evaluation purposes. Gain understanding of when to use focus groups for qualitative data collection along with guidelines for conducting a successful session. Finally, discover how to interpret the information collected to assist in your prevention efforts.  Read more

In this course learners will discover methods to pitch an evidence-based intervention to potential partners. Next, learn to prepare and host a meeting with interest groups, where you will "sell" the intervention by highlighting key points and benefits to the community. Finally, identify tactics to work alongside partners to select interventions that meet the needs of the community and will accomplish shared goals. Read more