When are they?
Pre-Conference Workshops I-IV will are scheduled for Monday, August 29, 2005; 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM. Pre-Conference Workshop V, a 2-part workshop, is scheduled for Monday, August 29; 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM and Tuesday, August 30; 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM. Lunch will be provided for each.

What are they?

• Workshop I: Diminishing the Fear Factor: Increasing Confidence with Interactive Strategies for Prevention Education Programs (NAHEC HIV Prevention Project)
• Workshop II: (Cancelled) Health Education Grants Without Grief
• Workshop III:(Cancelled) Sponsorship Bootcamp
• Workshop IV: Health Education Standards Curriculum Alignment Training
• Workshop V: Health Education Standards & Assessment 2-Day Workshop

How can I register?
Pre-registration is required. Please indicate on your conference registration form the workshop you would like to attend and include the registration fee.

Registration Deadline
Registrations for pre-conference workshops must be made by Monday, August 1, 2005.

Overview of Workshops

• Workshop I: Diminishing the Fear Factor: Increasing Confidence with Interactive Strategies for Prevention Education Programs
  (NAHEC HIV Prevention Project)
  
Sue McKenzie, M.A., Program Director, InHealth WI and Co-Director, NAHEC HIV Project; Tami Schlickman, B.S., President and Owner, Impact Strategies, Inc. and Co-Director, NAHEC HIV Project.

This pre-conference staff training will focus on strategies needed for effective prevention programming for upper elementary through high school youth. Although applicable to all health topics, the focus during this training will be HIV prevention education. The three strategies include; leading role-plays, asking engaging questions and dealing with difficult student questions. Often fear of unknown responses leads educators to avoid these interactive strategies. Learn and reinforce ways to implement these strategies for targeted outcomes. The interactive workshop will include opportunities to analyze and revise current program approaches as well as design new ones.


• Workshop II: (Cancelled) Health Education Grants Without Grief
  Lynn Miner, Ph.D., Founder/Owner, Miner and Associates, Inc.; Jeremy Miner, M.A., Co-Owner, Miner and Associates, Inc.
  http://www.minerandassociates.com
  
  Whether you are seeking the basics of grants or looking for advanced techniques, this workshop is for you, especially if your needs outstrip your available resources.
  
  In a six-hour, interactive format, you will learn the key components of proposal planning and writing to improve your success rate in winning grants from foundations, corporations and government agencies. This workshop develops your skills in designing successful grantseeking strategies and helps you gain confidence in your ability to obtain grants. Specifically, you will learn how to do the following:
  
  
• Find out what grantmakers are looking for
• Write more grants in less time
• Make essential pre-proposal contacts using a time-tested four-step approach
• Implement a “systems approach” to successful grantseeking
• Determine how much money to ask for
• Document your needs
• Write more persuasively
• Use a seven-step formula to write foundation and corporation grants
• Avoid common mistakes

Since computer skills are essential for successful grantseeking, this workshop will demonstrate funding sources and needs data using examples requested by the participants. Equally important, this workshop directly addresses some of the major barriers to getting grants – overcoming inexperience, insufficient time and conflicting priorities. Finally, you will receive a free three-year subscription to a bi-weekly electronic grants newsletter, a $400 value.

The Workshop Presenters, Lynn and Jeremy Miner, will use their books, Proposal Planning and Writing (2003, 3rd edition) and Models of Proposal Planning and Writing (2005) to help you successfully transfer the workshop strategies into your regular office routine. The Miner’s have trained over 10,000 grantseekers and been responsible for raising over $500 million in grants.

Over $240 billion were given away in grants in 2004; did you get your share?

• Workshop III: (Cancelled) Sponsorship Bootcamp
  Patricia Martin, President and founder of LitLamp Communications Group, Inc.
  http://www.litlamp.com

  This sponsorship sales training is an intensive course aimed at the professional who wants to get his or her sponsorship program to the next level, but is often frustrated by longer sales cycles, internal expectations and generating expensive proposals that seem to dead-end. Sponsorship Bootcamp teaches participants how to re-think their offerings and see them through a buyer's eyes, along with concrete direction on how to price, package and manage the pitch.

  Attendees learn:

  1. How to get past the gatekeeper;
  2. How to turn a buyer into a coach;
  3. How to focus on the relationships that deliver;
  4. A proven system for pricing and packaging an offer;
  5. Building a renewable revenue stream.

• Workshop IV: Health Education Standards Curriculum Alignment Training
  Jill M. Black, Ph.D., CHES, Associate Professor of Health Education, Department of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Cleveland State University; Judith Ausherman, Ed.D., CHES, Interim Associate Director of the Biomedical and Health Institute and Associate Professor, Department of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Cleveland State University
  http://www.csuohio.edu/coehs/departments/hperd/

  * Participation in this workshop is by invitation only.

  This workshop will provide an overview of an on-going innovative program designed to align the existing health curriculum at the participating Health Education Centers with the National Health Education Standards. Web-based application of the alignment process will be demonstrated.

  The National Association of Health Education Centers (NAHEC), HealthSpace Cleveland (HSC) and Cleveland State University (CSU) have joined forces in a new partnership aimed at aligning the curricula provided through the Health Education Centers (HEC) across the nation to improve the delivery of quality health education programming to all their constituents. Through this partnership, HECs will be better able to develop and teach curricula that meet National Health Education Standards in a creative, effective, proactive way. This effort will improve the HEC’s ability to market programs to areas that use the National Health Education Standards to develop their health education curricula.

  Curriculum alignment means assuring that the educational programs offered through the different Health Education Centers that are members of NAHEC match the standards and assessments set by the health education professional associations for the specific participants and community members who enjoy these centers. It is a way of "mapping" the curriculum onto the standards to be sure that the centers are delivering the skills and content that are expected.

  The National Health Education Standards focus on promoting and improving health literacy and offer a framework for the development and alignment of health education program instruction. Understanding how to use these standards will assist health education programs to offer programming compatible with the needs of their constituents. This workshop will provide practical training in the use of a web-based curriculum tool that will aid in the evaluation of existing programs, the development of a concept map to utilize in future planning, and introduction of a framework for the development of future programming that includes: a structured set of standards and performance indicators, goals and objectives, a uniform structure for lesson plans, rubrics for continued assessment and a comprehensive plan for on-going evaluation (process, impact, and outcome).

• Workshop V: Health Education Standards & Assessment 2-Day Workshop
  Deborah Fortune, PhD, CHES, Director, HIV & CSHE Project, American Association for Health Education; Terry O'Toole, MDiv, PhD, Health Education Specialist, Division of Adolescent and School Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  This workshop will provide health educators with the knowledge and skills for effective standards based teaching and performance-based assessment. The participants will receive a manual on standards-based health education and performance assessment entitled "Health Literacy: Teaching HIV Prevention Through Standards-based Health Education & Performance Assessment," and a CD-ROM which contains PowerPoint presentations, handouts, and overheads. The focus is on the preparation of teachers and how to train them to conduct standards-based education and performance assessment of student learning. The topic of HIV prevention is used as an example curriculum focus, however the concepts to be learned may be applied to any topic in health education.* Registration limited to 30 participants.

For more information:
Call (414) 390-2187 or send an e-mail to events@nahec.org.