Community organizing training

The Art & Science of Community Organizing

January 27-29, 2009 and March 18-19, 2009

Location: Homewood Suites by Hilton
6955 Fort Dent Way
Tukwila, Washington 98188

Sponsored by the Washington State Department of Community, Trade, and Economic Development (CTED).

Free Prevention Workshops

The Washington State Tobacco Prevention Resource Center offers many free trainings for the prevention community.

Among the upcoming trainings being offered in western Washington that would help with underage drinking prevention, as well as tobacco prevention, are:

Strategies for Community Level Prevention & Change -- Dennis Embry of the PAXIS Institute will be the trainer. He is an expert on low-cost, evidence-based prevention "kernels" that have been proven to influence behavior;

Motivational Interviewing -- a style of interacting founded on the belief that people are more persuaded by what they hear themselves say than by what someone else says or tells them to do;

The Impact of Stereotypes on Ethnically Diverse Groups -- exploring how people have been socialized to think about differences and to increase understanding of how oppressive experiences shape the racial identity of people of color.

It's easy to register online . . . register soon, though. Trainings usually fill up quickly!

Free parenting workshops!

Free Guiding Good Choices parenting workshops will be offered throughout the winter and spring of 2009 in northeast Seattle. Thanks to the University Family YMCA, Children's Hospital, and Seattle Public Schools, we are able to sponsor the workshops at different times and places.

Guiding Good Choices is an evidence-based substance abuse prevention program for parents of children in grades 4-8. It was developed by J. David Hawkins and Richard Catalano of the University of Washington's Social Development Research Group.

While these workshops are for families living in zip codes 98105, 98115, and 98125 and/or who have a child attending Eckstein Middle School, if space is available, other families may register, as well.

Visit www.PreventionWorksInSeattle.org for more information.