Training Webinars

Youth-Led Collective Impact

October 30, 2025

This session, led by CARS, spotlights models and strategies for building collective impact initiatives that are led by youth, for youth. Participants will explore how to share power, avoid tokenism, center authentic engagement, compensate fairly, and co-create shared values and metrics that reflect community wellbeing. The session will also look at the importance of intergenerational partnerships, mutual accountability, and creating infrastructures that sustain youth leadership in the long term.

Youth-Led Collective Impact (PDF)

Youth-Led Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis

October 28, 2025

This workshop, led by Mirror Group, is an interactive session focused on culturally responsive evaluation (CRE) approaches and youth-friendly qualitative data collection methods, including talking circles, digital storytelling, and Ripple Effect Mapping.

Youth-Led Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis (PDF)

Cannabis and Youth – What are the Effects on Your Health?

October 23, 2025

This webinar, led by Public Health Institute, discusses the state of the evidence on the health and social adverse effects of cannabis use for youth.

Cannabis and Youth, What are the Effects on Your Health (PDF)

Facilitation of Youth Meetings and Listening Session Management

October 22, 2025

This webinar, led by Youth Leadership Institute, addresses the tools and skills necessary to ensure that all voices are heard within youth groups. Participants will gain insights on how to lead effective meetings and foster teamwork through active listening, techniques for productive group dialogue, and strategies to encourage participation and collaborative decision-making.

EYC Facilitation of Youth Meetings and Listening Session Management (PDF)

Funding Opportunities for Substance Use Prevention and Community- Centered Work in Underserved Communities

October 21, 2025

This webinar, led by Public Works Alliance, explores funding opportunities aimed at enhancing substance use prevention and community-centered initiatives. As the demand for sustainable and culturally responsive prevention efforts increases, understanding the available funding sources becomes crucial for achieving long-term impact. This session will provide an overview of current and emerging funding opportunities from federal, state, and philanthropic sources.

Funding for SUD Prevention and Community (PDF)

What’s a California Local Cannabis Policy Score Card?

October 2, 2025

This webinar, led by Public Health Institute, provides an overview of the California Local Cannabis Policy scorecard, including how and why it was created, the rationale behind the selected policies, how to locate your local scorecard, and ways to utilize it to advance better policies.

Whats a California Local Cannabis Policy Score Card (PDF)

Environmental Strategies

July 1, 2025

This webinar, led by CADCA, explores approaches to reducing risk and increasing protective factors through modifying policies, practices, procedures and systems.

Environmental Strategies (PDF)

Spitfire: Strategic Media Engagement

June 26, 2025

This webinar, led by Spitfire Strategies, supports organizations build stronger relationships with reporters to ensure youth substance use prevention stories call on advocates within the Elevate Youth California ecosystem as subject matter experts.

Strategic Media Engagement (PDF)

Spitfire: Strategic and Ethical Storytelling

June 18, 2025

This webinar, led by Spitfire Strategies, explores how to tell powerful stories about your work in ethical ways that consider who benefits, who is harmed and who is part of the story collection, writing and sharing process.

Spitfire: Strategic and Ethical Storytelling (PDF)

Youth Engagement for Adults

June 17, 2025

This webinar, led by CADCA, explores models of prevention and strategies to engage and equip young people to lead and participate in prevention work.

Youth Engagement for Adults (PDF)

Youth Leadership – Key Essentials for Adults

June 3, 2025

This webinar, led by CADCA, utilizes the Strategic Prevention Framework to build the capacity of young people to plan, develop and implement a process to address community concerns.

Youth Leadership – Key Essentials for Adults (PDF)

Spitfire: Narratives of Power and the Power of Narrative

May 29, 2025

This webinar, led by Spitfire Strategies, explores narrative elements of storytelling and provides ways to assess, use, and influence what is at play around the issues organizations work on and in their stories.

Narratives of Power and the Power of Narrative (PDF)

Cultural Humility

May 20, 2025

This webinar, led by CADCA, breaks down how to work with diverse populations and the impact of cultural competence on the five principles of SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework.

Cultural Humility (PDF)

Harm Reduction and Prevention Strategies

May 16, 2025

This webinar, led by Youth Leadership Institute, explores the environmental prevention framework and strategies that work to change settings, conditions, and messages that influence the behaviors of individuals and/or address root causes of community concerns.

Harm Reduction and Prevention Strategies (PDF)

Social Media Prevention Messaging

April 22, 2025

This webinar, led by CADCA, discusses how social media marketing can be used to address substance use and misuse prevention.

Social Media Prevention Messaging (PDF)

“The Ripple Effect” Examining alignment of program and organizational structures to build youth evaluation and assessment tools

April 17, 2025

This webinar, led by Mirror Group, examines how to build evaluation tools in alignment with grant requirements, program goals, and organizational mission.

The Ripple Effect (PDF)

The Ripple Effect Resource Guide (PDF)

Community and Team Building

March 27, 2025

This webinar, led by Youth Leadership Institute, explores key processes and structures that help groups to work together productively, foster safety and trust, and create shared accountability.

Community and Team Building (PDF)

Planning Your Work, Working Your Plan

March 25, 2025

This webinar, led by Mirror Group, focused on participatory methods for youth-led data sensemaking and dissemination using Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) and Facilitating Intentional Group Learning techniques.

Planning your Work, Working Your Plan (PDF)

“There are Layers to This”: Youth-Led Data Sensemaking and Advocacy

March 13, 2025

This webinar, led by Leverage Point explored strategies to put plants into action and how to monitor and measure progress for success.

“There are Layers to This” (PDF)

Leverage Point Development – Organizational Goal Setting

February 6, 2025

This webinar, led by Leverage Point Development covers practical tools to set strategic goals that align with organizational mission.

Organizational Goal Setting (PDF)

Mirror Group – “Can You Feel My Vibe? Youth-Led Survey Development”

January 16, 2025

This workshop, led by Mirror Group focused on participatory methods for youth-led data sensemaking and dissemination using Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) and Facilitating Intentional Group Learning techniques.

Can You Feel My Vibe? Youth-Led Survey Development (PDF)

Can You Feel My Vibe? Resource Guide (PDF)

Say What? Youth-Led Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis

December 5, 2024

This workshop, led by Mirror Group, focused on implementing Culturally Responsive Evaluation and youth-friendly qualitative data collection methods and the strategies for writing strong narratives.

Say What? Youth-Led Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis (PDF)

Centering Youth Leaders in Data and Evaluation Practices

November 12, 2024

This workshop, led by Mirror Group, introduced culturally responsive and asset-based approaches to the youth evaluation process and the Equitable Evaluation Framework.

Centering Youth Leaders in Data and Evaluation Practices (PDF)

Strategic Planning Toolkit

November 7, 2024

This webinar, led by Leverage Point Development, provided resources and tips for planning and writing organizational strategic plans.

Strategic Planning Toolkit (PDF)

Strategic Planning Fundamentals

October 24, 2024

This webinar, led by Leverage Point Development, focused on the benefits of organizational strategic planning, the planning process, and engagement strategies.

Strategic Planning Fundamentals (PDF)

Environmental Prevention Strategies for Change

October 8, 2024

This webinar, led by Youth Leadership Institute, discussed the Environmental Prevention (EP) framework and outlined strategies, conditions and messaging to address root causes of community health concerns.

Environmental Prevention Strategies for Change (PDF)

Elevate Your Nonprofit Accounting – Part 2

October 3, 2024

This webinar, led by Your Part-Time Controller, concluded a two-part series covering topics of accounting, revenue recognition, taxation, internal controls, and best practices for nonprofit management.

Elevate Your Nonprofit Accounting with these best practices – Part 2 (PDF)

Elevate Your Nonprofit Accounting – Part 1

September 5, 2024

This webinar, led by Your Part-Time Controller, covered accounting concepts, revenue recognition, taxation, internal controls and best practices for establishing an accounting system for grant management.

Elevate Your Nonprofit Accounting – Part 1 (PDF)

Grant Writing Toolkit

July 30, 2024

This webinar, led by Leverage Point Development Inc., provides resources and tips for seeking funding opportunities aligned with organizational values and ways to prepare for application submission.

Grantwriting Toolkit (PDF)

Grant Writing Fundamentals

July 24, 2024

This webinar, led by Leverage Point Development Inc., explores key components and critical tools for crafting an effective grant proposal.

Grantwriting Fundamentals (PDF)

Partner Session: Brightlife Kids and Soluna Informational Session

July 11, 2024

This webinar, led by Brightlife Kids and Soluna, is an overview of two CalHOPE programs delivering private, virtual behavioral health coaching and resources for youth ages 0-25.

Pioneering Behavioral Health Support for Young Californians (PDF)

Nonprofit Finance Fund: Understanding Cash Flow Planning Webinar

March 26, 2024

This webinar, led by the Nonprofit Finance Fund, covered how to create a cash flow projection, strategies to manage cash flow, and ways to avoid common missteps in cash flow planning.

Nonprofit Finance Fund: Understanding Cash Flow Planning Webinar (PDF)

Nonprofit Finance Fund: Financial Planning Part 2

February 27, 2024

This webinar, led by the Nonprofit Finance Fund, explored assets, liabilities and net assets and understanding how each of these influences organizational budgeting goals.

Nonprofit Finance Fund: Financial Planning Part 2 (PDF)

Nonprofit Finance Fund: Financial Planning Part 1

February 20, 2024

This webinar, led by the Nonprofit Finance Fund, covered concepts of financial analysis, planning and best practices for nonprofit budgeting.

Nonprofit Finance Fund: Financial Planning Part 1 (PDF)

Nonprofit Finance Fund: Linking Money to Mission

January 23, 2024

This webinar, led by the Nonprofit Finance Fund, is a skill-building training for nonprofit leaders on organizational financial management, nonprofit financial structure and storytelling.

Nonprofit Finance Fund: Linking Money to Mission Presentation (PDF)

Community Organizing for Change, Youth Leadership Institute

October 31, 2023

This webinar, led by Youth Leadership Institute (yli), explored the power of relationship building and community engagement for affecting change.

Elevate Youth Community Organizing (.pdf)
Power Mapping Jamboard (.pdf)
Google Jamboard (jamboard.google.com)

Strategic Planning Fundamentals, Leverage Point Development, Inc.

October 24, 2023

This webinar, led by Leverage Point Development, Inc., identified fundamental practices of the strategic planning process and key indicators of successful planning.

Strategic Planning Fundamentals (.pdf)

Design Thinking Techniques (Part 2), Leverage Point Development, Inc.

October 17, 2023

This webinar, led by Leverage Point Development, Inc., continued the conversation on Design Thinking techniques by diving into ways to develop intentional creativity within program design.

Design Thinking Techniques Webinar slides (.pdf)

Design Thinking/Human-Centered Design Fundamentals (Part 1), Leverage Point Development, Inc.

September 19, 2023

This webinar, led by Leverage Point Development, Inc., explored human-centered design fundamentals, design thinking technology and analysis tools.

Design Thinking/Human-Centered Design Fundamentals (Part 1) Webinar slides (.pdf)

Issue Identification, Youth Leadership Institute

August 31, 2023

This webinar, led by Youth Leadership Institute (YLI), presented strategies to identify a community-based social justice issue and change campaign.

Issue Identification Webinar slides (.pdf)
Roots and Branches Activity (.pdf)

Leadership and Management Fundamentals, Leverage Point Development, Inc.

August 22, 2023

This webinar, led by Leverage Point Development, Inc., explores concepts of leading versus managing, leadership styles and practices of exemplary leadership.

Session 4 – Leadership and Management Fundamentals slides (.pdf)

Grant Writing Fundamentals, Leverage Point Development, Inc.

August 8, 2023

This webinar, led by Leverage Point Development, Inc., explores nine key components of grant submissions and critical tools to support crafting proposals.

Session 3 – Grant Writing Fundamentals slides (.pdf)