Webinars
Webinars to Support Your Project or Program Success
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Instructional Webinars Archive
This is an archive of instructional webinars conducted by the Western Region TTA Center, ANA and ACF.
Project Planning and Development 6: Key Informant Interviews and Evaluation
January 27, 2021
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In this short, PPD Training vignette, you will learn about Key Informant Interviews and how to engage with your community one-on-one as well as how this insight can be used to develop an evaluation plan. This is video 6 in our PPD Training Series. We encourage you to access our Training Materials for this here. We also offer a descriptive transcript for this video, if needed.
Project Planning and Development 7: Organizational Capacity, Contingencies and Sustainability
January 27, 2021
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In this short, PPD Training vignette, you will learn how to leverage your asset mapping to identify your organizational capacity, contingencies, and sustainability plan. This is video 7 in our PPD Training Series. We encourage you to access our Training Materials for this here. We also offer a descriptive transcript for this video, if needed.
Project Planning and Development 5: Focus Groups and Approach
January 8, 2021
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In this short, PPD Training vignette, you will learn about Focus Groups, how they can help you pick important topics apart and design a community-based project Approach. This is video 5 in our PPD Training Series. We encourage you to access our Training Materials for this here. We also offer a descriptive transcript for this video, if needed.
Project Planning and Development 4: Steering Committees and Objectives, Outputs and Outcomes
January 8, 2021
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In this short, PPD Training vignette, you will learn about steering committees, their importance throughout the life of project planning and implementation, as well as how they can help design the building blocks of a project. This is video 4 in our PPD Training Series. We encourage you to access our Training Materials for this here. We also offer a descriptive transcript for this video, if needed.
Project Planning and Development 3: Community Surveys, Conditions and Project Goal
December 15, 2020
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In this short, PPD Training vignette, you will learn about the second of several community-based planning techniques: Community Surveys. You’ll also learn about the next Products of project design: Current Community Condition and Project Goal. Using community surveys can help to identify the conditions and goals of the community, which is the next step of a community-based project plan. This is video 3 in our PPD Training Series. We encourage you to access our Training Materials for this here. We also offer a descriptive transcript for this video, if needed.
Project Planning and Development 2: Community Meetings and Long-Term Community Goals
December 11, 2020
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In this short, PPD Training vignette, you will learn about the first of several community-based planning techniques: Community Meetings. You’ll also learn about the first of several Products of project design: Long-term Community Goals. Using community meetings to produce a long-term community goal is the beginning of a solid community-based project plan. This is video 2 in our PPD Training Series. We encourage you to access our Training Materials for this here. We also offer a descriptive transcript for this video, if needed.
Project Planning and Development 1: Facilitation
December 10, 2020
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In this short, PPD Training vignette, you will learn about community-based planning, its importance, and how to get started as a facilitator. This is video 1 in our PPD Training Series. We encourage you to access our Training Materials for this here. We also offer a descriptive transcript for this video, if needed.
Food for Thought: Eating your way to mental health
May 10, 2018
Diagnosable mental illness affects over 21% of the American Indian/Alaska Native population (SAMHSA). And while there is a general decline in rates of violence and drug abuse, rates of suicide, marijuana use and depression diagnosis are on the rise. Many factors play a role in mental illness, and in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we explored just one: Food. Healthy choices in food, improved food security and increased subsistence farming may play a role in improving mental health
Community Planning and Preparedness
April 26, 2018
The key to a well-developed project as well as a competitive grant application is to have a firm foundation in community-based planning. Community planning and preparedness will enable you to easily move forward on projects and funding opportunities that align with your community’s long-term goals.
Effective Community-Wide Native Language Strategies
February 15, 2017
For many years, native language projects have been making strides in increasing the fluency of their students with the assistance of ANA funding. But how do we go about increasing language use within the entire community? In this webinar, we showcase Native Language projects that have been successful in affecting change in language awareness and use within their communities.