The Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Coalition of North Carolina seeks to eliminate teen pregnancy and support North Carolina communities through Advocacy, Collaboration and Education. This blog will share some ideas, upcoming events and tools to help teen pregnancy prevention and teen parenting programs improve and evolve.

Friday, January 4, 2008

Assessing Diverse Youth Populations Pilot Training!

Join ETR and Healthy Teen Network for a Training to Help You Match your Population with the Right Program!
Asessing Diverse Youth Populations - Pilot Training
(you will be asked to give feedback on the training at the end of the day)

Who: Healthy Teen Network and ETR Associates
When: January 23, 2008; 8:30 - 4:30
Where: APPCNC Training Room, 3708 Mayfair Street, Suite 310, Durham, NC 27707
How much: $55.00 (includes breakfast and lunch)
What: A training to increase skills of using needs and resources assessment as well as risk and protective factors to select the appropriate program to match the youth you serve.

Why? Because you want to maximize your impact on the youth you serve. Because you want to be sure that you're using the most effective program for the population you serve. Because you care about getting the most bang for your donors' buck.

Plus you get the unique opportunity to be one of the first to experience this training. Boldly go where no one has gone before! Explore strange new data! Seek out new determinants and new interventions!

Learning Objectives:

At the completion of this one-day training, participants will be able to:

  1. Describe the benefits of a needs and resources assessment;
  2. Explain how to establish a needs & resources assessment workgroup;
  3. Develop a data collection plan including how to:
    1. Identify assessment questions
    2. Access existing data
    3. Find new data
    4. Assess community resources
  4. Analyze data collected;
  5. Identify important sexual risk-taking behaviors and determinants that influence those behaviors among youth populations;
  6. Select priority population;
  7. Complete the first three columns of your BDI Logic Model (health goal, behaviors, and determinants);
  8. Identify where to locate information about science-based programs that you want to explore for your priority population.
Register online at www.appcnc.org. Spaces are limited, so register today!

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