Center for Community Action & Training (CCAT)
CCAT provides quality training, technical assistance and coaching about the most effective evidence-based and culturally appropriate strategies to help build and strengthen prevention capacity at the local level that supports healthy communities and long term changes in norms, prevention practice and policies.
Sharon O'Hara
Sharon O'Hara, M.S., is the Director of the Center for Community Action and Training (CCAT), a project of Community Action Resource Exchange, Inc. In this capacity she coordinates technical assistance and training for communities throughout California through a variety of funding sources, including a subcontract from the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs. Sharon is also a trainer for the Coalition Institute of Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA), providing training and technical assistance across the United States to coalitions seeking to reduce alcohol and drug-related problems in their communities.
Angela Goldberg
Angela Goldberg, M.A. is a consultant and trainer with the Center for Community Action and Training (CCAT), a project of Community Action Resource Exchange, Inc. In this capacity she provides technical assistance and training for communities throughout California through a variety of funding sources, including a subcontract from the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs. Angela had worked in a similar role as a regional trainer with Prevention By Design, affiliated with the University of California at Berkeley, working systematically with county prevention agencies to improve planning and implementation to achieve stronger prevention outcomes.
Michael Browning
Michael Browning is currently a consultant with the Center for Community Action & Training (CCAT) under a CARS-CPI technical assistance and training contract. He provides direct training, technical assistance and planning support to county and community-based alcohol and drug prevention departments and programs. Previously, he was a senior administrative analyst for the University of California, Berkeley - Institute for the Study of Social Change, Prevention by Design.
Browning, a former executive director of a non-profit anti-drug coalition, has over 20 years of local, state and national youth services, community organization, substance abuse prevention, violence prevention, cultural proficiency development, program planning, development and evaluation, public policy advocacy, and strategic planning experience. He has served as an executive director, deputy director, and interim director on loan to collaborations across Southern California. His former employers include community-based programs in Pasadena, Inglewood, Los Angeles, and Michigan.
Michael Sparks
Michael Sparks is an Alcohol Policy Specialist working with communities across the country to reduce alcohol-related problems, prior to moving to a consultant role he served as an Associate Director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded Free to Grow initiative at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. During the period 1992 - 2003, he was the Interim Executive Director and Project Director for Community Programs at Vallejo Fighting Back Partnership. He was the first Executive Director of the Marin Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems and one of four founders of that organization in 1987.
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