2017 Positive Culture Framework & Communications Training June 15-16
Alaska Wellness Coalition invites you to a 2-day training including: an overview of the Positive Culture Framework & Communications Skills Training! Learn how culture influences behavior, how to begin cultivating community transformation, the benefits of a comprehensive prevention approach and developing skills to plan a variety of communications.
Coalitions from around Alaska are working on or planning on doing communications campaigns for Be [You], Marijuana education campaigns, Opiate education, parent/family educational campaigns or suicide prevention campaigns. This is an outstanding training that will be tremendously beneficial to your work and we would love for you to attend!
For further information about the Positive Cultural Framework, please check out the information page at the Center for Health & Safety Culture at Montana State University. 
AWC is excited to have Katie Dively, M.S., CHES, facilitate the training event. Katie has been working with Alaska Wellness Coalition for over three years with the initial Positive Community Norms training, held in Anchorage prior to original development and launch of the Be [You]. Positive Community Norms media campaign. She is familiar with Alaska and some of the public health issues Alaskans face.
If you have further questions about the training event, please contact Stephanie Allen, Executive Director, United Way of Mat-Su at sallen@unitedwaymatsu.org, or 907-745-5821.
The training will be held at Alaska Garden Gate B&B and Cottages, 950 N Old Trunk Road
Palmer, Alaska 99645.
John brought some really nice equipment with him to make this commercial, such as a RED camera which has been used to film many Hollywood movies. It is super clear and has a million different options to film with. John and I started in Wasilla, filming the Air Force JROTC program at Wasilla High School. After John and I finished that shoot, we headed out to Palmer to film teenagers in the area hanging out. Then John and I came back to Anchorage to film a couple more scenes. That all happened in day one.
Day two started bright and early with a plane ride to Ketchikan. Once in Ketchikan, John and I immediately started filming high school students at Ketchikan High School. The shots we took in Ketchikan were at a dock, at a coffee shop, and at a house with a few inspirational outdoor shots as well (weather permitting). The second day John and I were in Ketchikan it rained sideways and everyone and everything got drenched to the bone. But even with the bad weather I still had a great time during the making of these commercials and learned a lot from John.
