SPCA Fall Fest
Featuring Kristina Clark delving into Sustainability for Coalitions
SPCA Fall Fest Meets DFC Coalition Training!
The final session of the nine-part training series, designed to equip coalition leaders with the tools and knowledge to secure a Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Grant, will be held in person during this year’s SPCA Fall Fest. This session will focus on sustainability—an essential principle woven into every step of the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF), from Assessment to Evaluation.
When discussing sustainability in strategy implementation, we’re referring to your coalition’s ability to carry out a specific strategy to completion, even after initial funding runs out. Sustaining the entire coalition, however, is more complex. We define sustainability as the coalition’s ability to maintain the human, social, and material resources needed to achieve long-term goals and create lasting community change.
Don’t miss this chance to strengthen your coalition’s capacity and improve your odds of securing the DFC Grant. Join us and take the next step toward making a lasting impact in your community!
CEUs Offered: P1
Trainer
Kristina Clark
President and Founder, KM Clark Consulting Group
Kristina Clark is the President and Founder of KM Clark Consulting Group, a consulting company dedicated to developing and sustaining non-profits. Kristina Clark served as the Executive Director of the Coffee County Anti-Drug Coalition from 2007-2016 before transitioning to Grant Writer and Sustainability Consultant for the coalition, a position she still holds today. Ms. Clark has dedicated herself to non-profit work since graduating from Middle Tennessee State University in May of 2006 with a Bachelor of Science in psychology and minors in mental services and sociology.
Before serving as the Coalition Executive Director, Kristina held positions as a domestic violence court advocate and in-home counselor for at-risk youth. In 2012, Ms. Clark earned her Certified Prevention Specialist II and now trains on a national level as a trainer for the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America’s (CADCA) National Coalition Academy. She also trains nationally on the prevention of alcohol and drug abuse as well as non-profit management and capacity building.
Under her leadership, the Coalition achieved several awards and grants, including Drug-Free Communities funding (Years 1-10), the National Got Outcomes! Coalition in Focus award 2013, Tennessee Department of Health’s Injury Prevention award 2012, and a 2014 Patriotic Employer Award from the Office of the Secretary of Defense Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve. With community collaboration and staff teamwork, Ms. Clark has been able to achieve community-level change regarding substance abuse behaviors on a county-wide scale, including successfully advocating for local and state policy change.
As an advocate for diversifying funds for non-profit sustainability, Ms. Clark led her community coalition in trademarking and marketing a successful comprehensive prescription drug prevention campaign, Count it! Lock it! Drop it!®, which will provide the non-profit foundation with money for the future and assist counties throughout the country in reducing prescription drug abuse. Kristina Clark is also an executive board member for the Prevention Alliance of Tennessee, a statewide prevention legislation advocacy organization.
Kristina Clark was raised throughout the United States as a proud Air Force brat. Ms. Clark has now made Tennessee home base with her husband and best friend Michael Clark, their black lab Sammie “Trainwreck” Clark, and beautiful toddler Michael Joseph.
Additional Sessions
You don’t have to attend every session of the DFC grant coalition training to participate. Our flexible format allows you to choose the sessions that best suit your coalition’s needs and schedule. Below are the other 8 sessions/topics covered in the boot camp. We encourage you to check them out!
- DFC Boot Camp Session 1: Prevention Fundamentals | Tuesday, September 24th, 9:30 AM – 11 AM
- DFC Boot Camp Session 2: Cultural Competence | Tuesday, September 24th, 12:30 PM – 2 PM
- DFC Boot Camp Session 3: Community Assessment | Tuesday, October 8th, 9:30 AM – 11 AM
- DFC Boot Camp Session 4: Logic Models | Tuesday, October 22nd, 12:30 PM – 2 PM
- DFC Boot Camp Session 5: Coalition Capacity Building | Tuesday, October 22nd, 9:30 AM – 11 AM
- DFC Boot Camp Session 6: Strategic Action Planning | Tuesday, October 22nd, 12:30 PM – 2 PM
- DFC Boot Camp Session 7: Advocacy and Policy | Tuesday, November 5th, 9:30 AM – 11 AM
This training series is made possible by funding from:
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