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"Keeping the Faith In Drug Prevention"
A FREE, Public Domain Video Program
Available as a C-Satellite Downlink and/or as an On-Demand Webcast
Thursday, January 28th, 2010: 1:00-2:00 PM ET; 12 Noon-1:00 PM CT; 11:00-12 Noon MT; 10:00-11:00 AM PT
Sometimes the most difficult part of drug prevention is getting the message to the people who need it the most. The faith community can help. Faith brings people together and that's what anti-drug coalitions need, another way to reach people where they are.
Involvement in religious activities is a protective factor for substance use. Research from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health has shown youth who are highly involved in religious activities are less likely to use cigarettes, alcohol, or other drugs. The numbers are similar for adults.
During this hour-long CADCA-TV broadcast called Keeping the Faith in Drug Prevention, you'll see how the faith community and coalitions can work together to reduce substance abuse. Hear about ideas that are working and how you can adapt them to meet your needs. We'll see how one organization is taking a unique approach to helping faith communities.
Key Points:
- Learn how coalitions and faith organizations can work together
- Find out how to avoid common pitfalls
- Hear how smaller congregations can play a very large role in
coalition efforts
Hosted by:
Mary Elizabeth Elliott, Vice President of Communications & Membership,
CADCA
Content Providers:
Rev. Cheryl Mitchell Gaines, Senior Faith Based Technical Specialist with McFarland & Associates for SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse and Prevention National Faith and Community Based Support Initiative
Rev. Cheryl Mitchell Gaines brings to this discussion more than two decades of experience and education in helping children and families realize their potential. She is both an attorney and an ordained pastor. Rev. Gaines has worked at both the State and community level to provide faith and life enhancing support to children, youth and families.
Formerly appointed by Governor Pataki to work as a Community Relations Specialist in nine counties in upstate New York, she coordinated the faith- and community-based outreach efforts of the New York State Office of Children and Family Services. Her professional and ministerial work has included every facet of intervention at the legal, faith and community-based levels of service and advocacy.
Rev. Gaines has represented both children and parents in efforts to ensure that their rights are protected, and that they receive the highest level of professional advocacy. She has also been a Chaplain who has worked with juveniles within two correctional facilities to build bridges between youth offenders and faith and community stakeholders. Her ministry in the community involves strengthening the total person, which includes the family, social, physical, mental and spiritual growth and development.
Her approach to human development addresses both the individual and collective needs of vulnerable individuals while engaging the faith and other community stakeholders in efforts to improve the quality of life for God's children. Much of her strength lies in her passion and ability to connect people to resources while ensuring full accountability for performance and outcomes.
Rev. Gaines is a native of New Orleans, and completed her undergraduate degree in Political Science from LSU in Baton Rouge, her Juris Doctor of Law from Tulane University Law School in New Orleans, and her Masters of Divinity in Theology from Colgate Rochester Divinity School in Rochester, New York. Currently she is the Senior Faith Based Technical Specialist with McFarland & Associates for SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse and Prevention National Faith and Community Based Support Initiative. This initiative is designed to provide financial and technical support to faith and community based groups around the nation that are engaged in HIV/AIDS prevention, substance abuse prevention and prisoner reentry services.
This program is appropriate for general audiences including treatment providers, coalition members, educators, and prevention specialists and others who wish to understand how faith-based organizations can help in the prevention of drug abuse. This program is also suitable for public, educational or general access television distribution. This program is sponsored by the Community Coalitions of Amercia (CADCA) and produced by the Multijurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training Program (MCTFT) at St. Petersburg College in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Availability: This no cost, commercial-free broadcast is available on C-Band Satellite downlinks and/or as an On-Demand Webcast. C-Band analog satellite downlinks can be found at many schools, libraries, hospitals, colleges, public health agencies and other organizations. The program will also be available on the DETN Federal/Military Satellite Networks. This program WILL NOT be available on subscriber satellite networks such as DirecTV or Dish Networks.
For viewers without satellite access, the program is available the day of the satellite feed via On-Demand Webcast. It will also be archived for later on-demand online access.
Registration: All new and returning sites MUST register for this program to receive the necessary satellite coordinates, and/or webcast link instructions, and reference links.
To register, click here or call DLNETs, at 877-820-0305 or 888-820-4898.
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