FOCUS Conferences and Symposiums

• FOCUS/ODAP 2008 Symposum - The Road Ahead: Communities at Work
• FOCUS/ODAP 2007 Symposium - Alcohol and Drug Connections: Chronic Disease, Injury Prevention and Mental Health
• FOCUS/ODAP 2006 Symposium- Building Blocks for Change - Putting the Pieces Together
• FOCUS/ODAP 2005 - Getting the Message: How Social Marketing Influences Social Norms
• FOCUS/ODAP 2004 - Evolving & Growing Stronger
• FOCUS/ODAP 2003 - Celebrating Partnerships
• FOCUS/ODAP 2002 - Survivor Challenge

Workshops

Below are a list of workshops either sponsored or created by FRC for FOCUS Communities and their partners. Once the workshop is complete supporting materials are also made available online, whenever possible. Workshop materials from workshops given at conferences are available on the individual conference pages.

2007

• Online Collaborations and Learning - Ways and Means

  • Presentation (pdf format)
  • Portals created to support this workshop (for each of these you will need to create a login and join the course/group)
    • Moodle portal - you will need to create a login and join the course
    • LearnHub portal - you will need to create a login and join the course
    • Discussion areas created for exploration of the topic
      • Yahoo
      • MySpace
      • Facebook

2005

(all 2005 presentations are in pdf format)

• Crystal Meth 101 - Nick Boyce, ACT Toronto and Wende Wood, CAMH
• Culture Counts: Best Practices in Community Education in Mental Health and Addiction with Ethnoracial/Ethnocultural Communities - Branca Agic and Marianne Kobus-Matthews
• Safer Bars - Larry Grand
• Best Practices - Nancy Dubois, DubFit Consulting

2004

FOCUS on Logic Models workshop - September 2004. Facilitator Nancy Dubois, The Health Communication Unit

• Powerpoint Presentation, 66 slides, please allow ample download time.

FOCUS on Alcohol as a Risk Factor in Chronic Disease - Workshop

• CDP Health Message Criteria Powerpoint Presentation - Nancy Dubois
• CDP Tooklit - Nancy Dubois

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