Previous Training Events

Thank You

I now have a much deeper understanding of crafting a training in a very deliberate way, how to structure the objectives and purpose, and ways to incorporate interactive activities to engage the attendees (and a wide range of options for that). Thank you.

Phenomenal

I learned how to write clear and concise objectives that will guide the content’s direction. The Who, what, etc. was a pleasant surprise and has given me a guide of questions to ask when I am asked to present or train again. The examples of presentation title formulas and the handout were phenomenal!

WOWs

I appreciate having a tangible item (presentation) at the end of this interactive training.
I appreciated Mitch’s WOWs (Words of Wisdom) throughout the workshop, and assisting other trainers in tying the content all together

Engaging

I loved the engagement with other professionals who brought expertise and life-experience to the experience. I value the Interactive format and immediate use of tools.

New Information

I gained an understanding of SMART Objectives and how important they are to a great presentation or training. Also, new information about how to create a useful and meaningful evaluation/post-test. I am extremely satisfied with this training.

Biggest Takeaway

There are many skills that I have received from the training, but my biggest takeaway are the templates, activities to incorporate, interactive elements to make a workshop or conference multimodal, and how to develop the flow of the presentation.

Valuable

Being less instructor style and adding in a lot more learner – focused. Making the room comfortable, having things to touch, props, breaks, asking the participants to share what their needs are. Thanks for making this a vey reproduceable course. You all modeled exactly what you want us to do.

Lots of techniques

I learned lots and lots of techniques. Techniques on conveying information in multi forms, techniques on learning styles and teaching approaches and how to combine them all into one presentation, techniques on knowledge transferring and really being able to learn application of what your being taught.

Practical Strategies

The knowledge or skills I received from the training included practical strategies for creating engaging and inclusive learning environments, understanding adult learning principles like andragogy, and applying effective communication and facilitation techniques to support knowledge transfer.

Learner Centered

We explored the many ways that participants show up and how to Train, Instruct, and/or Present in a way that meets their needs. Instructor-led, Learner-centered,!!

Thanks

I received a wealth of knowledge and skills to use in my future endeavors as an instructor!

Confidence in presenting

Besides gaining confidence, I received a lot of knowledge about learning styles and being ultra-intentional about designing a learner-centered experience.

Thank You

I learned about the different teaching styles I didn’t know existed.

The ASK

Considering how many places I go in a month and I haven’t been sharing any opportunity for them to connect. I now have the ability to craft a concise, impactful elevator pitch about my program.

A.S.K.

Mitchell is a great presenter. Makes it clear and concise.
I needed this training. I have always had a hard time describing what it is I do for a living.

Sustainability

I learned how to continue with coalition efforts after federal funding has run it’s course. Thanks Julie

Micro Moments

Emphasis on micro moments really hit home! Affirmations about what I call Life-Fueling connections was empowering.

Thought Provoking

This training got me thinking about my why, which I want to think about and develop more.
This was very thought provoking. I not only learned the importance of storytelling, but the mechanisms for creating and effective story.

Action Planning

I enjoyed the exercise from the Tactical Capacity Action Plan

Empowerment

Really great session and trainer. Loved her vibes.

FUNd Raising

I appreciate your passion, commitment, and out of the box ideas for fundraising!
This was super helpful in starting the brain towards where we can gain support.

Great Conference

You have lit a fire under me to get our coalition going.

So compelling

Hey Mitch. I love love love you presentations always. So compelling. I really loved how you recommended the posterboard of all the other agency’s mission/vision statements, and how to tie them together with what we do to build those partnerships for sustainability.

Best Ethics Training Ever

This is hands down the best ethics training I have ever taken. Thank you!
I now have a greater understanding of the importance of ethics from a much wider purview and different ways to include it in our agency.

Love the energy from Mitch and Julie

This was a very thought out workshop and I learned so much over zoom thank you to the team who made this possible. The best ethics training I’ve ever taken! I will return in 2 years!

Much needed information to help better my career.

I have taken many Ethics training courses, this was the absolute best one I have attended.
The trainers were engaging and worked with each other so well.

Absolutely wonderful!

Better than I expected! Absolutely wonderful!
I am much more confident in what is expected and where I need to focus attention on when studying.

Above & Beyond

The facilitator went above and beyond facilitating the training. The way the facilitator explain everything and made it more interesting hooked me and I gained excitement in learning and had better understanding.

Very Applicable

There were valuable links provided for study prep and shared resources from those in the class. This is going to be super helpful moving forward!

Training Development

I loved hearing from so many different people working in various settings and how they approach training and training development.
I learned how to effectively breakdown the development of a training; specifically Bloom’s Taxonomy, to start from the last slide/objectives and move forward, the 4As, and how to apply simple to complex.

Knowledge & Experience

I appreciate your in-depth training on how to write measurable job descriptions and implement performance evaluations.

Facilitation Methods

I love the methodology of your training. You REALLY engage the participants.

Interactive Activities

I left this training with activities I can immediately implement into my weekly staff meetings.

This was such a great training.

In all of my 25 years of working in this field this has been by far the best. This is easily a 3 day event. Thanks for compiling all of the information into an excellent manual.

Excellent Facilitation

The best part of the training was the intimacy of the small groups and conversation. The presenters really listened to us and adapted the training to our needs.

Very informative, experiential training

I left this training with new tools and I am excited to implement them with my team!

Leadership Styles

I learned how to incorporate Transactional and Transformational Leadership Styles.

Using the SPF for Supervision

All the information and/or skills shared were excellent and very useful for my work. I will use the team meetings to do evaluations with staff and set goals.

Job Descriptions & Performance Evaluations

I learned the best way to be objective when evaluating staff based on their job description
and performance.

Job Descriptions & Performance Evaluations

So much great information. I took away many ideas on hiring and keeping people and ideas on
how to approach pay amounts.

Supervision of Prevention Professionals

I learned how to better prepare my team as they become successful specialist. I’m was very
intrigued with the Developmental Plan to become a Prevention Specialist

Supervision of Prevention Professionals

I took many excellent suggestions away from his presentation and may pursue more training for my staff.

Supervision of Prevention Professionals

Very engaging with the breakout rooms and visual examples.

Supervision of Prevention Professionals

I learned how to look at all components of people, process and product. I feel like as a supervisor I need to be a become more of a product person for our agency.

Supervision of Prevention Professionals

I appreciated the discussion on how to have the hard conversations.

Index Cards

I love learning so many activities that I can do with a pack of index cards.

Outside of the Box

I enjoyed how many activities were outside of the box. Many of the activities had multiple lessons to be learned. So many activities to take back to coalitions for team building, communication and cooperation.

Thought Provoking

The activities were thought provoking and gave me ideas to implement within our community.

Thought Provoking

This was one of the most thought provoking and enlightening training experiences I’ve had. I ‘m so excited to take back what I learned to my team.

Interactive

This training was hands on & interactive. All of the activities & techniques are so simple, but effective and can easily be used with all age groups in a variety of settings.

Good Points

This training was on point, relative, intuitive and career changing. Inspirational all the way through.

Excellent

This training was excellent and I feel honored to have been able to be trained by one of the persons that created the training!!! It doesn’t get much better than that!

Thanks

The trainers were very knowledgeable and I enjoyed learning all of their tips and tricks as my binder is marked up them and additional quips.

Great Resources

I really appreciated this conference and cannot wait to dig into the resources further! Great information and these topics are not at a lot of other conferences, so this is great

Excellent

Everything was excellent. The length of the presentations, break out groups, breaks and most important the information.

Action Planning

I liked creating an action plan for success, not just for corrective action

IC&RC

Julie always has the most up-to-date tips and information on the CPS exam process and IC&RC. After hearing her tips on completing the Practicum, utilizing the training/studying forms will be much easier going forward.

Ethics

I I didn’t realize that there was a new Ethics policy. I’m glad she shared that information.

Developing the Prevention Specialist

I really liked do the small things well and the big things will come. This will be really important for some of my staff to hear and put into practice.

Developing the Prevention Specialist

I took so many notes. This was a really good presentation.

Skill Set

Developing my skill set as a supervisor. Today’s session was great! They were very informative. I got some great ideas to implement in my organization.

On-boarding Process

I want to improve the on-boarding that my team goes through. My agency has one for the whole staff on-boarding, but to specify one for my team will help transition new hires effectively.

Supervisor Categories

I didn’t realize that other states have a ‘consultant’ category of certification or a ‘supervisor’ level certification. Texas needs that!

SPF

I loved learning how to incorporate the SPF in supervision

SPF

I hadn’t thought of SPF in supervision… but you really can use it anywhere.

Ouch!

A few things stood out: are we working the plan? Are we doing only what we like to do and none of the things that we don’t like or are more difficult? and the one that was personally convicting… ‘I know you’re working hard, but what did you get completed?!’ Ouch!

Foundations

I appreciated the can/can’t will/won’t discussion. Foundations for supervision are always appreciated

The Impact of Addiction on the Family System

Really well done, I learned so much about the different ways to understand addiction in the family and the ways to combat it.

CPS Prep Course

The test sample was extremely helpful. It allowed me to see that I know more than I give myself credit for..

CPS Prep Course

Julie and Mitch are such great trainers! Their style of presentation makes the info easy to absorb.

Thanks

I greatly appreciate the effort you all put in to assist us!

CPS Exam Prep Course

The references are great.
The Candidate guide as well as understanding the types of questions and Mitch’s technique of positive affirmations will be used.

Feedback

I liked getting feedback from the other participants in the training, and watching their delivery in their teach backs.

Thanks

I enjoyed collaborating with small groups for teach back experience and then getting to see the techniques and methods used by other presenters.

Great topics

Great topics; some of the speakers were very engaging; some redundancy in content that should be avoided in the future.

You both Rock!

This was one of the best sessions that I have attended. Thank you Mitch and Julie! You both Rock!

Good Conference

There seemed to be a lot of session on self care and social media…
I’m fairly new and was hoping to find more on meth, alcohol and marijuana topics

This was a great conference.

This was a great conference, and that is saying something for a virtual conference!!! Maybe more out of seat moments, even 3-5 minutes ones once per session?

Wonderful-thank you so much!

The Zoom platform seemed to work well. I liked that there were no breakouts to have to choose from so that I could attend everything!

Wonderful

Great conference, great speakers, and very useful workshops!!

Thanks

Above an beyond my expectation

Great conference

Enjoyed the laid back feeling of the conference and all the interactive components.

It was engaging

One of the best virtual conferences. despite the length of each day.
It was engaging enough that I wanted to keep coming back and loved break out rooms and such.

Enjoyed the training.

I remained engaged.

Excellent

I loved it overall. It was engaging and fun!

Thank you

I thought It was well thought out and great attendance

Nice job, and really great people

This was a great conference! I hope to return next year. It was quite long, however, and I think that it might be better to do a 2.5 day conference twice per year. Nice job, and really great people, both the conference organizers/support and the attendees.

Congrats!

Thanks to all the presenters and coordinators for making this a successful, informative, and empowering conference!

Our team enjoyed it so very much and proclaimed it to be the best virtual event of 2020.

Great Information

Great information about the Risk factors around the lifespan development for both young people and old.
I found the discussion very interactive regarding the affects of alcohol and substance use on the older adults

Thanks

Today’s information was very helpful ! I feel inspired.

VIP!!!

Thank you for stating the importance about including young people in the decision making process!!!
I really like the fact that the need to involve the population served more was highlighted.

Assets

I plan to use the developmental assets framework and getting feedback from the youth as well for program development. This is also important for treatment interventions.

Language

I learned to learn to change the vernacular surrounding substance use disorders. People are more likely to admit that they have been out of order due to their substance use.

Thank You

I appreciated the varied activities in the presentation: breakout groups, video clip illustrations and self-questionnaire. Helped to keep attention and engaged during the 3 hours.

Well Done

The presentation was well done. Contained a wealth of information and the videos helped to keep it interesting and engaging.

Excellent

This was mind provoking.

Renaming of Conference

The conference may need to be renamed The National Prevention “Youth Centered” Specialist conference.

High Quality

One of the best conferences I have ever attended, high quality presentations throughout.

There were none that I wanted to skip even though I have a lot on my plate right now and none of the presenters disappointed!

Thank you so much

I am so very happy with the entire conference. I will be gleaming so much of everyone’s presentation.

Excellent

Great range and great presenters with the right credentials.

Excellent line-up of speakers

I so wish each presenter had more than an hour to speak!

Great Diversity of Presenters

I really loved some of the speakers we listened to.
They came from very different backgrounds.

Variety of Topics

This was a well ran conference.
Easy to access and use for virtual learners.
Variety of topics.
I enjoyed it so much and learned so much.

Enough Said !

My head if full but my heart is fuller, enough said !

Everyone Matters

Everyone Matters in Prevention

Great Conference

All presenters were very engaging and exciting.

V.I.P.

Oh my goodness, there were so many gems! VIP – Your value, your identity, and your purpose! It was very though provoking and made me not want to waste another minute.

Ethics and Social Media

Good information about ethics and social media and how to conduct myself personally and professionally. Some great talking points.

Health Disparities

Considering disparities when working in communities and how that should frame the work of our future was very eye opening.

Great Presentation

Managing volunteers was a great one!
Some of the points he brought up about interviewing volunteers and having them sign forms was interesting.

Great Presentation

I loved the way cultural competency was presented.

Great Job

Loved the unique ways that each presenter addressed topics that I was expecting to be review, when in fact they offered fantastic perspectives and resources!

Thank You

I have learned so much. These sessions have been great!

Great Conference

Thank you for everything. All of the presenters were amazing. I have learned so much!!

Great Information

I learned about powdered alcohol and how to be more aware of things that people of color may need.

Thank You !

Thank you all for such an amazing conference! Fantastic job! Very useful information personally and professionally.

Excellent

This training was super awesome!!

Great Conference

Everything was very informative and very interesting.

Supervision of the Prevention Specialist Training

This was a great training. There was an abundance of great information provided.

Supervision of the Prevention Specialist

This was a great training. There was an abundance of great information provided.

Excellent

Excellent instructor, great presentation skills and utilization of different techniques.

Marijuana Myths

Thanks for teaching us new ways to combat arguments against marijuana use.

Prevention Ethics

The trainer kept Ethics interesting and very interactive.
I enjoyed having the opportunity to practice these decision making skills for ethical dilemmas.

Excellent presentation

Great training with up to date examples

Excellent training

Very engaging and informative trainer

Top Notch

Very engaging.

Fantastic

Fantastic training