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WORKSHOPS
WORKSHOP #2 1:30 PM THURSDAY • 10:30 AM SATURDAY • MIAMI 3
Building and Sustaining Cross-System Training Programs
OBJECTIVES—Participants will learn:
1. To identify strategies for building a training initiative around system of care values and principles, system
improvement and expansion, and healthcare reform
2. To describe practical approaches for utilizing existing human service training products and building new products
for a training initiative
3. To employ practical strategies for collaboration expansion and social marketing through training activities
4. To describe design and funding strategies for sustaining a training initiative over time
This Workshop will focus on combining three core functions—social marketing, training, and data-driven
improvement—into a system-wide training initiative. This strategy has the potential to bring partnering agencies
together, develop effective working relationships, and build and sustain an improved service system. Drawing on the
successful experiences of the Our Children Succeed Initiative system of care in NW Minnesota, this presentation will
identify principles and strategies for creating consensus among partnering agencies, reaching out to include new
agencies and service sectors, and establishing change within a region or collaborative group. The vehicle for these
changes is an effective and efficient training initiative that not only leads to the promotion of system of care values and
principles, but includes data-driven practice and performance improvements.
Faculty will emphasize the effectiveness of system-wide training initiatives in creating paradigm change, vision-driven
activity, and system improvement using not only training activities but marketing tools and data-driven activities. The
context for the training strategies will be shared including: 1) the priorities of changing paradigms and promoting
vision-driven activity to bring about sustainable and effective system improvements, 2) the need for practical methods of
engagement to foster vision growth and effective system improvements, and 3) combining social marketing, training,
and data-driven improvement activities to achieve system change goals.
Specific topics to be covered include:
• Building a training initiative around system of care values and principles, system improvement and expansion, and
healthcare reform
• Utilizing existing human service training products and developing new products for the training initiative
• Implementing strategies for collaboration expansion, quality improvement, and social marketing through training
• Identifying strategies for sustaining a training initiative over time, including financing strategies
Participants will have an opportunity to engage in dialogue related to the topic material, emphasizing the application of
these approaches to their particular locations and collaborative partnerships. Participants will take home specific
examples of budgeting, training topics, and off-the-shelf resources for use in designing a training initiative. The
presenter brings extensive experience in training, as well as experience in community engagement and change initiatives
involving school districts, colleges, faith-based organizations, social services, and law enforcement. The presenter brings
extensive experience as a trainer and director of nonprofits and will incorporate perspectives including training, social
marketing, and data-driven improvement activities across multiple service sectors.
MODERATOR/PRESENTER: Timothy Denney, M.S., C.R.C., Training Director and Internal Evaluator,
Northwestern Mental Health Center, Crookston, MN
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