Community Organization: Engaging Community Stakeholders

Description: This training session will go over Community Organization and how to engage Community Stakeholders to share our Prevention Message. Participants will be able to understand the need to engage with community stakeholders, identify who your community stakeholders are, as well as increase networking, collaboration, and creation of new partnership skills.

CEUS: Prevention, CHES
Hours: 1.5
Domains: P4: Community Organization

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will understand the need to engage with community stakeholders.
2. Participants will Identify who your community stakeholders are and where to find them.
3. Participants will increase networking, collaborate and create new partnerships skills.

Presenter: Takiyah Anderson OCPC

Presenter Bio: Takiyah Anderson is an Ohio Certified Prevention Consultant (OCPC) and is a Project Director with Youngstown Urban Minority Alcoholism And Drug Abuse Outreach Program (YUMADAOP) where she has worked in the prevention field for over 10 years.  As Program Director she’s managed Drug Free Communities and Partnerships For Success Grants, working with coalitions, schools, and the community using the Strategic Prevention Framework and Strategies for Community Change. Takiyah has a Bachelor Degree in Accounting from Youngstown State University.  She is a Pax Tools Community Educator and certified in QPR Suicide Prevention.