Prevention Storytelling for Impact

Please register below to attend this virtual event! Once we’ve received your RSVP, you will receive an email confirmation with the Zoom Link. 

Description:
Prevention Storytelling for Impact is an interactive web-based training designed to help prevention professionals translate their coalition’s and organization’s work into clear, compelling stories that demonstrate measurable impact. Participants will learn how to use their mission, vision, goals, and outcomes to identify meaningful wins, both large-scale outcomes and everyday moments, and frame them in ways that resonate with funders, partners, and the community. Through a guided exercise and practical tools, attendees will leave with an understanding of effective story structure, and a repeatable, step-by-step process to create a success story and communicate prevention impact across multiple platforms.

Learning Objectives:
By the end of this training, participants will:
1. Connect coalition and organization activities and outcomes to their mission and goals to surface meaningful stories of prevention impact.
2. Identify their organization’s unique impact strategy—its “Midas touch”—that shapes how prevention work creates change.
3. Differentiate between big and small impact stories and determine how each can be used to communicate progress to diverse audiences.
4. Translate one prevention success into tailored stories across multiple communication formats, including social media, newsletters, public announcements, and video.

Note: All participants will need to bring their organization's vision/mission statement, goals and one successful activity/outcome.

Presenters:
Anna Gasinski, BS, CPS
Prevention Specialist

Sharece Sellem-Hannah, MS
Creative Community Health Educator & Advocate
TEDx Speaker, “What is Human Services Missing?”

This training is eligible for 2 CEU upon completion.

Questions? Contact Jennifer Jacobsen at [email protected]

The Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (CT DMHAS) with funding from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) supported this TTASC activity.