The Prevention Educators Network was launched in 2010 by Alayne MacArthur, founder of Circa Learning LLC.

Circa Learning's Mission

Circa Learning LLC designs and delivers premium, innovative professional development workshops and curriculum that change the way schools and communities teach and learn health and prevention education.

The Founder

Alayne MacArthur holds a Masters Degree in Education, Curriculum Design and Instructional Technology from the State University of New York at Albany, Graduate School of Education. Over the past 12 years, the focus of Alayne’s professional training and practice has been the translation of prevention research into practice, and prevention practice into research. Alayne achieves this by engaging prevention providers, researchers and funders in conversations and exercises that build capacity for adoption, implementation and sustainability of evidenced based health and prevention education programs and approaches.

Professional development, strategic planning, curriculum design and learning assessment are tools that Alayne employs in her work. She was an early adopter of evidence based prevention education programs and came to be interested in the dialogue between research and practice as a result of her classroom experiences.

Organizations for whom Alayne has consulted include National Health Promotion Associates, Washington, DC Public Schools, The Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth, National Association of Chronic Disease Directors, Centers for Disease Control, United Family Services Systems, The Tompkins County Youth Development Agency and the Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga Board of Cooperative Educational Services.