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The Great Lakes ROTA-RC offers a virtual learning community featuring opioid & other substance use, as well as mental health, treatment, recovery and harm reduction education events for professionals, para-professionals, volunteers, and students in a variety of fields supporting the Great Lakes community. These virtual learning opportunities will be hosted by Great Lakes ROTA-RC’s Cooperative Extension partners in Region 5, and feature a range of experienced professionals.
Building Impactful Programs: Using the Logic Model Framework for Program Design and Outcome Measurement
Designing programs to address community needs can be challenging. The logic model framework is a simplified illustration of the relationships among resources, activities, and the changes that have resulted. This session will increase participants’ understanding of the components of logic model and their use in program development and evaluation. After understanding this framework, participants will learn practical evaluation practices and explore long-term outcome measurement through the programmatic example of organizational development.
Learning Objectives:
§ Discuss why Logic Models are used
§ Increase understanding of Logic Model components (Inputs, Outputs, & Outcomes)
§ Learn evaluation practices to measure and communicate outcomes.
Presenter: Paul Roback
Date: Tuesday, August 6, 2024
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM CST/ 11:00 AM -12:00 PM EST
Location: online webinar
Please contact Amanda Coorough (amanda.coorough@wisc.edu) with any questions
The Harm Reduction Gap: Implications for Public Health and Medical Providers
According to the 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 60% of people over the age of 12 in the US used a drug in the past month – alcohol, nicotine, tobacco, and/or illicit drugs. In this session, attendees will be introduced to the concept of the ‘harm reduction gap”- the gap between conventional ‘just say no’ drug prevention and abstinence-only treatment where there are few to no services available to reduce the risks of drug use. In this gap in our continuum of care, the majority of people who use drugs, including social, experimental, and recreational users are otherwise disconnected from support or health services to stay safe. Beyond these groups, people with substance use disorders also fall into the harm reduction gap since over 90% will not receive specialty substance use treatment in any given year. Attendees will be introduced to harm reduction tools and interventions that can help keep the majority of people who use drugs safe while expanding our continuum of care to keep our communities safe.
Presenter: Sheila P. Vakharia
Date: Thursday, September 5, 2024
Time: 12:00-1:30 PM CST/ 1:00-2:30 PM EST
Location: online webinar
Please contact Amanda Coorough (amanda.coorough@wisc.edu) with any questions
About the Presenters
Paul Roback, Professor and Community Development Educator (Ozaukee County, WI), Division of Extension Affiliate, Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies, School of Human Ecology. For for over 22 years, Paul Roback has strived to connect individuals and communities to the University of Wisconsin. As a county-based community development educator for UW-Madison’s Division of Extension, he has provided organizational development programming that has built the capacity of 100+ nonprofits, community organizations, coalitions, local governments, and school districts.
Sheila P. Vakharia PhD MSW, Deputy Director, Department of Research and Academic Engagement, Drug Policy Alliance. Sheila P Vakharia is the Deputy Director of Research and Academic Engagement. In this role, she helps DPA staff and others understand a range of drug policy issues. Dr. Vakharia builds relationships with drug researchers and helps to advance policy-relevant research. She also mobilizes researchers in support of DPA policy campaigns and organizes conferences on key issues in drug policy. Dr. Vakharia is the author of The Harm Reduction Gap: Helping Individuals Left Behind by Conventional Drug Prevention and Abstinence-Only Addiction Treatment with Routledge