Foundations for Success

Foundations for Success:

Preventing Youth Violence 

How are we working to effectively prevent violence among today's youth? How can you verify if the strategies you and your agency are using are working and producing prevention gains? With the reality of budget cuts and the need to assure funders that programs are in fact working, agencies are in need of proven approaches to violence prevention.

Training series outline

Introduction to youth violence prevention

- types of youth violence

- how youth are being influenced to normalize violence

- risk and protective factors

Evidence based practices in youth violence prevention

- prevention of bullying; teen dating and community violence

-  how to determine a program's effectiveness

Needs assessment and evidence based review

- identify primary areas of needs assessment

- identify potential organizational barriers

Strategic planning and evaluation

- design effective goal and objectives statements

- difference between process and outcome evaluation

Implementation

- design evaluation plan

- describe the appropriate uses of different kinds of evaluation methods

Comprehensive review

-review and process strategic plan and follow up steps for implementation

Program objectives and coaching

This is an in depth organizational training series geared to train and coach a team of up to three staff (per organization) in the following areas:

1. increase participants knowledge on evidence-based and effective violence prevention strategies and techniques

2. implement a needs assessment and build a personalized strategic plan for an organization or program

3. develop and implement an evaluation process that is supported by data and will measure program effectiveness.

Details of the package

The program for a team of up to three staff includes:

- Six 3.5 hour trainings

- Two tailored on-site coaching sessions per organization

Up to three staff can attend for $300, and each additional staff member is $25

Why participate

- increase your knowledge of evidenced based practices in violence prevention

- build both your capacity and that of your agency's to effectively identify violence prevention strategies and services that are needed in your community

- increase your skill level, and also that of your agency or organziation to implement proven violence prevention strategies

- effectively evaluate implemented strategies

Who should participate

 Those interested in:

- Conducting a comprehensive needs assessment of individual organization

 - Identifying how to access evidence based practices used to prevent youth violence

 -Designing goals, objectives, and time lines for implementation of evidence based practices

 - Developing strategic plans for integration into their organization

 - Identifying phases of conducting a utility-focused evaluation

For Example:

- managers and program staff in violence prevention programs 

- social workers

- youth workers

- after school program workers

- educators

- youth and community workers

- case workers and counselors

Space is limited, register today!

More information

contact Karin Stortz:

Kstortz@ICVP.org

or

312.986.9200 ext. 239