The Goals of the Youth Track:
- Provide an opportunity for innovative & interactive student leaders (age 13 - 18 years of age) to network
- Discuss alcohol and drug issues and promote creative, interactive problem solving
- Learn from nationally acclaimed speakers that will provide skills you can use to better your local community
Prom and Graduation Stipend
The Northwest Alcohol Conference Youth Track is offering up to ten $300 stipends to support Safe and Sober Prom activities and alcohol and drug-free graduation parties in 2024. The application process is simple! All you have to do is fill out the application form and email it to our Youth Track Coordinator, Billie-Jo Nickens at nowacyouth@yahoo.com.
Guidelines to apply:
- Funds MUST support a safe and sober prom or alcohol and drug-free graduation party held before June 30, 2024.
- Only one stipend per school will be awarded.
- Coalitions and/or booster clubs must work with their local schools to apply for the funds.
- Promotion of the event must include messaging highlighting that the event is drug and alcohol-free. Promotion should also include at least one educational message which could be a local, state, or national statistic, prevention tagline, etc.
- Applications must be emailed to the Youth Track Coordinator by May 15, 2024, and funds must be expended by July 30, 2024.
- Successful applicants must submit a program report to the Youth Track Coordinator via email no later than July 15, 2024.
- A limited number of stipends are available and will be awarded on a first-come, first-serve basis in the order of completed applications.
- Stipends are REIMBURSABLE funds. Checks will be issued within 30 days of receipt of the program report.
Supporting Idaho Youth to cadca STIPEND
GUIDELINES TO APPLY:
- To be eligible for a stipend, the organization/group applying MUST be based in Idaho and MUST be planning to send Idaho youth to attend the CADCA Mid-Year Training Institute.
- Groups/organizations are only eligible to apply for one stipend.
- A limited number of stipends are available and will be awarded on a first-come, first-serve basis in the order of completed applications.
- Applications must be emailed to the Youth Track Coordinator by June 15, 2024, and funds must be expended by July 25, 2024.
- Successful applicants must submit CADCA Mid-Year Training Institute Proof of Attendance to the Youth Track Coordinator via email no later than August 31, 2024.
- Stipends are REIMBURSABLE funds. Checks will be issued within 30 days of receipt of CADCA Mid-Year Training Institute Proof of Attendance.
Northwest Alcohol conference youth track is back!
The Northwest Alcohol Conference Youth Track is excited to announce the return of the in-person Youth Track being held in conjunction with the Northwest Alcohol Conference at the Riverside Hotel on July 14th and 15th, 2025!
Thanks to a partnership with Idaho Office of Drug Policy, we are able to bring in some dynamic speakers for this two day event. Presentations will focus on helping youth discover their leadership style and realize what skills they bring to the table. Youth participants will also attend sessions on media literacy, social media safety, resources available to take back to their communities and at the conclusion of the two days, each team will have developed an action plan for a media campaign.
Youth who attend the Youth Track will automatically be eligible to request a stipend to assist them with the completion of a youth guided project in their communities.
Youth Track Registration is free for youth aged 13-18 but does have some requirements. Each group registered will need to have one adult mentor per ten youth, who registers and attends the youth track in its entirety. In addition to the adult mentor, each team must have an adult from their coalition or organization who is also registered to attend the Northwest Alcohol Conference. This cannot be the adult mentor who attends the Youth Track.
A Parent/Guardian waiver is required. The waiver is due by June 18, 2025!
If you have any questions, contact the Youth Track Coordinator: Billie-Jo Nickens at nowacyouth@yahoo.com.
