TRAININGS
Target Underage Drinking with Environmental Strategies (TUDES) Contact OS, Inc. at 217.528.7335 x. 18 or mpeavy@iadda.org to discuss hosting a training. |
Communities have the power to come together and fight underage drinking. By working together, you have the opportunity to approach the underage drinking problem in a targeted and organized fashion. Resources are available to assist communities to mobilize around difficult issues. Environmental Prevention is an approach based on the premise that in order to affect maximum impact in preventing underage drinking, strategies must be designed and implemented that engage and change shared community values, cultures, and systems. Because individual behavioral choices regarding substance use is shaped by norms, regulations and accessibility of the substance, prevention strategies should be developed that address these behavior shaping influences. |
Best Practices for Implementing Operation Snowball Contact OS, Inc. at 217.528.7335 x. 18 or mpeavy@iadda.org to discuss hosting a training. |
This training is for all new chapters or new chapter directors. Participants will learn the characteristic of an effective alcohol, tobacco, and other drug prevention program and how to use the Operation Snowball leadership development model to empower youth to lead drug-free lives. |
Snowball Staff Training Contact OS, Inc. at 217.528.7335 x. 18 or mpeavy@iadda.org for more information and for technical assistance with your training. |
The primary objectives of staff orientation and training are to ensure that volunteer staff are comfortable with their roles and prepared with knowledge and skills necessary to be an effective facilitator. The OS model training experience creates an atmosphere that promotes positive risk taking and unconditional positive regard for others. The feelings and the energy created at a training experience are positive motivators and should carry over to the actual event. Staff orientation and training should be mandatory for all staff, regardless of skill and experience level. Each chapter should have a staff training DVD and co-facilitator manual to assist with facilitating staff training. |
Media Literacy Contact OS, Inc. at 217.528.7335 x. 18 or mpeavy@iadda.org to discuss hosting a training. Teaching Media Literacy is also available. |
Media literate individuals are better able to decipher the complex messages they receive from television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books, billboards and signs, packaging and marketing materials, video games, and the Internet. Media literacy skills can help one understand not only the surface content of media messages but the deeper and often more important meanings beneath the surface. Media literacy education seeks to give media consumers greater freedom by teaching them to analyze, access, evaluate and produce media. |
Meth: Stopping the Epidemic Contact OS, Inc. at 217.528.7335 x. 18 or mpeavy@iadda.org to discuss hosting a training. |
As one of several strategies to address the meth crisis in Illinois, Operation Snowball in partnership with the Illinois Attorney General developed Meth: Stopping the Epidemic, a curriculum that engages young people as community leaders in the struggle against this deadly drug. The curriculum provides valuable information about meth and grassroots strategies to fight its spread. |
Gambling Prevention Contact OS, Inc. at 217.528.7335 x. 18 or mpeavy@iadda.org for more information. |
Operation Snowball purchased several copies of gambling curricula to loan to its member chapters as program resources. The curricula that Operation Snowball purchased were researched and developed by universities and institutes. These curricula address the issues of youth gambling and problem gambling and contain video segments, lesson plans, discussion guides and activities that will enable Operation Snowball to provide accurate, quality and up-to-date programming to youth and adults state-wide. Click here for a list of available curricula. |