CADCA's National Coalition Academy, our year-long training course for coalition leaders, is being highlighted by the Leader to Leader Institute as its Innovation of the Week, a biweekly honor that celebrates an organization´s innovative strategy, service, product, partnership or collaboration employed to make a difference in the lives of the people it serves.
In partnership with the National Guard Bureau, CADCA's National Coalition Institute developed the year-long academy which is now offered at National Guard Regional Training Centers in Pennsylvania, Iowa and Mississippi. The Academy also is expanding to state-sponsored cohorts and to all first-year Drug Free Communities Support Program grantees.
Through collaborative training focused on developing assessment, action, intervention, evaluation and sustainability plans, CADCA’s National Coalition Academy is a model of innovation that, according to Frances Hesselbein, Leader to Leader Chairman and Founding President, can “make success travel.”
“This is a wonderful accolade for our National Coalition Academy,” said Gen. Arthur Dean, CADCA Chairman and CEO. “We are proud of the work that our National Coalition Academy is doing for communities. Through onsite classroom training, distance learning and Web support, communities are learning how to start anti-drug coalitions or increase their effectiveness so that they can successfully fight substance abuse.”
More than 100 coalitions around the U.S. are National Coalition Academy graduates--let other coalitions know why they should become NCA graduates too! If so, let us know about your experience. You can add a comment to this post; write your own blog post at Connected Communities; or drop an e-mail to institute@cadca.org and we will post the information for you.
This post was written by Sue Stine, Sr. Manager for Dissemination and Coalition Relations for CADCA's National Coalition Institute. You may contact her at sstine@cadca.org.
