“All In” Clayton Coalition
“All In” Clayton Coalition is continuing to work to increase awareness on the ways in which alcohol and other drugs effects the teenage brain and body. Providing educational and informational materials, the coalition will attend community events in an effort to raise awareness of the substance use disorder and prevention, but also to continue working to establish itself as a trusted resource for the Clayton community. As the Clayton area waits to obtain a permanent rx drug drop box, the coalition will also be providing the community with drug disposal bags to encourage and advocate for the safe disposal of prescription drugs. Maintaining the coalition’s newly established social media platforms is also a priority in reaching the larger population of the Clayton community to share information and to raise awareness of the work and efforts of the coalition. The coalition will host educational forums throughout the school year on youth drug trends, as well as forums for parents to learn tips and protocol on talking with youth about substance use. In addition, the coalition will also be co-sponsoring Finals De-Stress event for high school students to promote wellness, healthy decision making, and stress management. Supporting growth in youth capacity within the coalition is also a priority this year for “All In”, fulfilled by supporting youth leadership opportunities.
Alliance for Healthy Communities
In the context of successful partnership with the Parkway School District Safe and Drug-Free leadership team, AHC has recognized the opportunity for continued capacity building specific to youth involvement in community prevention. Recent data collected reflect a large challenge in the reduction of incidence rates of underage drinking. To impact the scale of this challenge, AHC will grow the scope of youth involvement by developing their voice in community messaging and social norms strategies. Further, AHC will increase its capacities to empower youth voice by providing necessary technical support for transforming youth project visions into effective messaging tools.
Anne Marie Project
The Anne Marie Project was founded as a way to provide information and education in the areas of underage drinking, illegal drugs, mental health and faith to youth in the Jefferson City community. This education has been presented in schools to students,teachers,and parents to better inform as well as to assist adolescents who may be at risk as they grow into adulthood. The Anne Marie Project also manages its website www.annemarieproject.org as a vehicle to educate young people as well.
It is our desire to present the Effects of PTSD on students and how adults/teachers can work with these students in the classroom and home. This 2 hour program will be presented to both Cole and Boone County parochial and public schools in the 2017-2018 school year.The objectives are to learn how to identify behavioral, social,and mental health issues associated with trauma that impede students abilities to be successful in the classroom and at home; demonstrate helpful classroom behaviors when students experience PTSD; explain to parents and family members helpful techniques and activities to assist children with PTSD. We will supply a workbook, pen, FACT card for all participants.
Belton CARES
Encouraging youth to make Positive Decisions will support the Belton CARES mission to direct, support and
actively coordinate efforts of the community to significantly reduce substance abuse, promote youth safety,
reduce bullying, support mental health issues, and thereby improve the health and well-being of the community.
This project will encourage community engagement and support, while providing education and activities to
prevent youth use of ATOD and connecting the community with information and resources regarding mental
health and suicide prevention.
Benton County Youth Coalition
Benton County Youth Coalition is a subtance abuse prevention coalition focused on educating and giving prevention resources to the community in Benton County Missouri. The Benton County Prevention Movement Project will futher assist our mission to bring education and prevention resources to the public by using modern intutive campaign strategies. Reaching adults and youth alike by accessing untapped markets, like social media, that has never been used in our region.
Breathe Easy Kirksville
Breathe Easy Kirksville will: 1.) collaborate with the afterschool program to implement the NREPP evidence-based We’re Not Buying it 2.0 (WNBI) curriculum (Wellspring Prevention, 2016) to reduce early initiation of substances (especially tobacco) and bullying (including cyber-bullying) behaviors. Increasing awareness of messages in the popular (movies, TV, music) and social media, lessons explore new media consumption by youth, peer influence on choices, as well as media message deconstruction and media literacy skills. During six 45-minute-long units delivered by trained instructors over six weeks, the active-learning lessons mix short lectures with hands-on activities and discussions. Risk factors addressed will be: favorable attitudes of the problem behavior and early initiation of the problem behavior. Approximately 140 at-risk and disadvantaged afterschool program youth will be reached through activities and strategies implemented as a part of this curriculum. Outcomes: pre-post program increase in identification of pro-use message in media, increased media deconstruction skills, and increased refusal of pro-use and pro-bullying media messages (WNBI Survey)
Butler County We Can Be Drug Free Coalition
The Butler County We Can Be Drug Free Coalition’s mini-grant project involves hosting a drug-free, fun youth rally which promotes good choices among our youth ages 10-24. Multiple stations have games, refreshments and messaging regarding harm associated with drug use. The production of a 5-minute video of the youth rally is used as a recruitment tool for our Coalition to attract youth, parents and community leaders.
C.R.U.S.H. St. Charles
The purpose of this project is to raise awareness in St. Charles County regarding the dangers of prescription drug misuse, the link between prescription drug misuse and heroin use, the dangers of heroin use, and resources available in the community. This will be done by providing education through a variety of strategies targeting youth in the community and their families, along with local physicians and pharmacists.
Camden County Child Advocacy Council (CCCAC)
Child Advocacy Council is using the results of The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study which demonstrates a strong graded relationship between the exposure to childhood abuse, domestic violence, and household family dysfunction during childhood and multiple risk behaviors/diseases in adulthood. The risk behaviors/diseases in adulthood include alcoholism and other drug abuse, suicide attempts and depression, smoking as well as physical health problems. The Council has collaborative relationships with the Children’s Division, the Juvenile Office, the Horizons alternative school and with Compass Health who have agreed to serve as referral sources for high risk youth. High risk youth are identified as those who have met two of the seven categories established in the ACE Study. Each youth and a parent (bio or foster parent, guardian, or case worker) will have their admission paid to Windermere Camp’s The Edge Challenge Course in one of three experiential outdoor events through the year. Each event will include at least 16 participants, youth and parent, with activities designed to enhance team building, trust, and communication skills. The 3 hour program can include high ropes and low ropes courses, a zip line and free climb. This will be followed by a didactic on how ACEs can impact health and wellness in adulthood and will include parent/child relationship enhancement skills. A pre- and post- test will be designed to assess short-term changes in knowledge of ACEs. An assessment of change will be asked of the referring agency for each youth they have referred.
Carthage Caring Communities Coalition
The Carthage Caring Communities Coalition will be partnering with the Newton County Community Coalition, Joplin Area Coalition, and the McDonald County Coalition to develop and implement SAMHSA’s “Talk, They Hear You” media campaign with an underage drinking prevention focus.
Charleston C2000
The Project will implement a alcohol and drug prevention program for 60 at risk Charleston Youth ages 10 -14 and their parents, resulting in increasing youth, parent, and community awareness and decreasing the risk of youth alcohol and drug use. There will be a structured on-going educational component utilizing prevention videos, presenters from local, state law enforcement Departments, FCC professionals, Mississippi County Health Department and volunteer adult mentors as resources. Also, after school tutoring will expand to include remediation in math, science and reading; and a 7 week parenting class will be offered. There will also be a recreational activities component for the Youth and parents.
Communities Taking Action
With funding from this mini grant, CTA plans to continue the LifeSkills High School Curriculum during the 2017-2018 school year at the Teen Center during the afterschool tutoring, and host a Math and Literacy Family Fun Night. Lessons for LifeSkills will be taught by the LifeSkills Coordinator with help from the Student Mentor. LifeSkills is a highly interactive, skills-based program designed to promote positive health and personal development for high school youth. The program uses developmentally appropriate, collaborative learning strategies to help students achieve competency in the skills that have been shown to prevent substance use, violence, and other health risk behaviors.
A Math and Literacy Family Fun night will be hosted with the North Shelby School District in the fall to increase assets in Shelby County youth. The event will encourage parental engagement with youth, parental support of academic achievement, and provide a community event free of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. The coalition will also host other events throughout the year where 40 Developmental Asset Materials will be distributed and asset building will be the focus. Increasing CTA’s capacity is the secondary goal of these asset building events.
Council for Drug Free Youth
Council for Drug Free Youth (CDFY) plans to implement a multiple county facilitated drug prevention education program for at-risk youth, to include all 7th grade students. The Communication Offers Positive Enrichment (COPE) youth prevention program addresses, alcohol, marijuana, tobacco, and tobacco related products. The at-risk youth program will be combined with an adult and community education component. This multifaceted educational campaign will include all seven prevention strategies in the implementation to provide lasting environmental impact in the communities served. The Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) was used to develop this plan and is at the foundation of the work of CDFY.
Douglas County Community Health Assessment Resource Team (CHART) & Interagency Council
Council for Drug Free Youth (CDFY) plans to implement a multiple county facilitated drug prevention education program for at-risk youth, to include all 7th grade students. The Communication Offers Positive Enrichment (COPE) youth prevention program addresses, alcohol, marijuana, tobacco, and tobacco related products. The at-risk youth program will be combined with an adult and community education component. This multifaceted educational campaign will include all seven prevention strategies in the implementation to provide lasting environmental impact in the communities served. The Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) was used to develop this plan and is at the foundation of the work of CDFY.
Drug Responsibility Education & Advocacy Movement (DREAM)
Too many adolescent and young adults 18-24 believe that prescription drugs are easily available and pose a limited risk. The source of this supply is often a family member or friend and the pressure to imitate peers override any perceived harm. In an attempt to educate this population the DREAM coalition will continue it’s bi-annual take back initiatives, to reduce supply, and conduct an educational campaign, on the Campus of Missouri State University, using mass, print and other targeted media.
FOR REAL
The purpose of this mini-grant project is to provide youth from the Eastern Region an opportunity, education and practical application to advocate for issues that are important in their communities as they relate to underage drinking and other substance use prevention topics.
Greene County Alliance for Drug Endangered Children
The Greene County Alliance for Drug Endangered Children (GCDEC) has developed a comprehensive protocol, an easy-to-use smart phone app and an educational training program. GCDEC would like to take the foundation that has been created and organize, collaborate and engage the community. GCDEC will use this grant funding to sustain the app, increase community awareness of the coalition, hold trainings to increase capacity and expertise of community members, promote developed tools on social media, purchase supplies for training and create partner toolkits. There are two purposes to this project: to increase the protective factors through awareness for the intent to mitigate the effects of the risk factors presented in drug endangered children; and to decrease the parental favorable attitudes toward their problem substance abuse behavior, thereby decreasing community disorganization and the cycle of substance abuse.
Healthy Minds, Health Lives of Pike County
The purpose of this project will be to increase the knowledge of and initiate behavior change within the target population and the community in regards to the incidence and prevalence of drug use and mental health in Pike County. Additionally, the strategies and activities proposed will focus on prevention and increased awareness around mental health and substance abuse, changes in acceptance and social norm, increased knowledge of community services available, and reduction of stigma.
The project will address the need for prevention initiatives on issues surrounding substance abuse and mental health by developing strategies and actions that support consistent media campaigns, educational presentations, town hall meetings and focus groups, school presentations, and community outreach. HMHL will work with existing partners, new partners, local youth and community leaders to develop and implement a campaign that delivers messages from a unified voice on anti-substance use/abuse. Programmatic outreach will include presentations within local schools, conducting town hall meetings, representation of HMHL in existing community partnerships, and being present at local health fairs and community events.
Heartland Task Force
Heartland Task Force will: collaborate with the district afterschool program to implement the evidence-based Forest Friends curriculum. Forest Friends, a primary prevention intervention for elementary-aged students, focuses on improving students’ resiliency and coping skills related to substance abuse and violence. Through a life skills-based curriculum, the intervention aims to specifically improve conflict resolution, decision-making, and anger management abilities of participants. The intervention features realistic scenarios portrayed through puppets that teach students about the topics of emotions, decision-making, coping and resiliency, and general life skills. In addition, hands-on activities and discussion reinforce lesson objectives. Risk factors addressed will be: favorable attitudes/ toward the problem behavior and early initiation of the problem behavior. Approximately 250 afterschool program (early elementary) youth will be reached through activities and strategies implemented as a part of this curriculum. Outcomes: Increase participant interpersonal/developmental skills; increased appropriate emotional expression; improved decision-making behaviors (Pre-Post FF Assessment – Counselor/Teacher Version).
An Asset Coordinator will conduct the research-based Search Institute 40 Developmental Asset Initiative (educational programs, asset-building events, media, health fairs) through culturally competent (addressed to low- SES, rural populations) programs and resource provision community-wide. To increase protective factors and promote the 40 Developmental Assets in area youth, risk factors addressed will be: community laws and norms favorable toward problem behaviors. Approximately 6000 families will be reached through the asset-building initiative. Outcome: Increased mean assets scores (Attitudes Towards Assets Survey).
Joplin Area Coalition
The Joplin Area Coalition will be partnering with the Newton County Community Coalition, Carthage Caring Communities, and the McDonald County Coalition to develop and implement the SAMHSA “Talk, They Hear You” media campaign with an underage drinking prevention focus.
Kearney-Holt CAN
Being a student today can be really tough and Kearney-Holt CAN, a coalition working to reduce youth substance use, is concerned that area youth are attempting to solve their problems by coping with alcohol and other drugs. Kearney youth engage in substance use (tobacco, alcohol, marijuana and prescription drug use) as a solution to their problems because they lack healthy coping and resiliency skills. In order to address this need, Kearney-Holt CAN members plan to build coping skills and resiliency skills among youth through a multiple prong approach that involves education presentations and a media campaign.
Laclede County Drug Council
Our project will help continue a program of drug awareness and education for Laclede County. The Choices Unlimited Program targets students primarily in the fourth and fifth grades, making sure there is adequate preventive education in our community and county of the harmful effects of drug and alcohol abuse. Teachers utilize a video curriculum that includes the use of high school students, who many of the younger children look up to and admire.
Ladue Coalition Against Underage Drinking
This purpose of this project is to address underage drinking in the Ladue School District. This will be done by engaging parents and students with communication campaigns to reduce underage drinking through a website and a texting program called “Thursday Night Talks” (aka TNT). TNT is a thought-provoking approach for parents to stimulate regular conversation with teens in their household related to underage drinking and overall health-risk behaviors. The project will provide education to parents, students and educators with the goal to help parents become more aware of the problem of underage drinking and the risks to their children, and to change the cultural tolerance and acceptance for underage drinking among the members of the community. And finally, to work with local governments to strengthen local social hosting laws and engage in other community-level interventions to prevent underage drinking at parties/events in the Ladue area.
Lawrence County Prevention Team
The Lawrence County Prevention Team (LCPT) believes Drugs or Alcohol + Kids = Risk. Through the continued collection of data, the team’s purpose and goal upon receipt of this grant will be to increase community awareness of the harmful effects of marijuana use and prescription/over-the-counter abuse (RX/OTC), and reduce the use and misuse of these substances by children and young adults age 10-24. While this program has seen success in accomplishing this mission, continued work is needed to ensure the youth and young adults who have overcome these problems stay clean and those who have yet to cease these harmful behaviors are given the information and tools needed to break the addiction.
Lebanon Positive Choices
The 2018 Positive Choices Legacy Mural uses the PhotoVoice project as a vehicle to deliver positive-youth and character-development education for at-risk summer school students 9th-12th grades. This project will empower youth to have a voice and create a lasting mark on their community. Students will create a PhotoVoice website and host an exhibition to illustrate social and cultural trends depicted in the community. Students with guidance from adult leaders will be encouraged to analyze trends and develop problem-solving strategies tied to interpersonal and community resources.
Lee’s Summit CARES
Lee’s Summit CARES is a 30-year-old community coalition whose mission includes preventing youth substance use. Part of the agency’s strategy to achieve this goal is by convening diverse community partners to assess the development assets of local youth, celebrate successes, identify gaps and areas of improvement, and address youth substance use through a coordinated plan of action. The State of Lee’s Summit Youth project features four components: training for youth and those who work with youth; community education that builds upon the data from the most recent Search Institute Developmental Assets Profile/Substance Use and Perceptions survey; student implementation of the Celebrate Sober message throughout the school year; and recognition of youth and adult volunteers involved in these efforts
Maternal, Child & Family Health Coaltion (Perinatal Resource Network)
Provide annual Professional Development Series to support providers who serve perinatal women and families in behavioral health concerns. This years topics include didactic workshops, quality improvement in multi-sector providers and a panel discussion with parents receiving services on their experiences, supports needed to deal with behavioral health concerns and referrals. Perinatal Behavioral Health in this project covers mental health, substance use, trauma and intimate partner violence. The Perinatal Behavioral Health Initiative covers these four topic due to the high correlation for perinatal women.
McDonald County Coalition
The McDonald County Coalition will be partnering with the Newton County Community Coalition, Carthage Caring Communities, and the Joplin Area Coalition to develop and implement the SAMHSA “Talk, They Hear You” media campaign with an underage drinking prevention focus.
Morgan County C.L.E.A.R. (Community Leaders Educating About Resistance)
Morgan County CLEAR’s 2018 goals are to raise awareness about the risks of youth substance use, reduce youth substance use, and build a commitment to change the social norms that encourage youth substance use and favor attitudes of low perceived risk of harm of youth using substances of abuse. A variety of activities are planned with the targeted population of 10 to 18 year olds and their parents: a media campaign; educational presentations; collaboration with parent and youth groups; public forums, town hall meetings; and partnerships with local organizations/businesses will be a part of our actions to achieve our goals. Substances to be targeted are alcohol (including binge), marijuana, prescription drugs, and tobacco including e-cigarettes, vapor products, cigarettes and smokeless tobacco (chew).
Newton County Community Coalition
The Newton County Community Coalition will be partnering with the Joplin Area Coalition, Carthage Caring Communities, and the McDonald County Coalition to develop and implement the SAMHSA “Talk, They Hear You” media campaign with an underage drinking prevention focus.
Northland Coalition
N.C. members are excited to address youth substance use by increasing resiliency, reducing self-medication, and building coping skills. To address ATOD use by youth, we will spend the next fiscal year implementing a comprehensive education and skill building campaign. Activities include: 1) Resiliency Toolkits, 2) Education Presentations, 3) Prevention Conference, and 4) Media Campaign.
Osage County Anti-Drug Community Action Team
Remember the old saying,” You cannot have one without the other”. Underage drinking is an accepted vice in our county. The old school German culture here is “I did it and survived”. Combine that with all the open spaces in our county to hold a “field party” and those together are a formula for disaster.
So changing the mindset of our community is our goal. We also strive to continue to educate our youth on the positive aspects of living a drug free and alcohol free life until they are of age to make better choices. We are planning on using our local newspaper for a print ad campaign to address the legal issues as well as the serious problems incurred when consuming alcohol while the young brain is still in its developing stages. Our Prosecuting Attorney will continue to write Pearls of Wisdom to be shared on social media as well as in print. These will concentrate on the legal aspects of providing or selling to a minor along with the consequences of providing a place for minors to party with alcohol. We also are working on a series of murals going up in our county. One in each school district, as this is the way our county seems to be divided. These will be positive up beat murals that are depicting a positive drug free life. We are holding contests in our High Schools and the winning design will be painted by students and a professional artist. All these murals will be located in a place that will be viewed daily by school buses, our college students, our community on its way to work, and by those truck drivers that use our local highway on a daily basis. We also want to start a student of the month contest, that will feature a high school senior that has chosen to be drug and alcohol free throughout their high school careers. This will feature a photo and an article in the paper on the good choices they made and why.
Park Hill Community Alliance for Youth
Park Hill Community Alliance for Youth proposes to work with a local DECA student group to develop and implement a peer-to-peer social marketing campaign in order reduce ATOD use by increasing resiliency and problem solving skills.
Pemiscott Coalition for Alternative Youth Involvement
The project will expose youth ages 10-24 living in Caruthersville, Mo to a structured and safe environment that will provide alternative activities that promote academic achievement, physical activity, life skills and information about the prevention of tobacco, alcohol, and substance use. Through this project, we will improve social skills and mental and emotional well-being for high needs youth by increasing access to out of school settings (after school and summer) and assisting in the implementation of an evidence-based Reading Plus Program.
Perry County Community Task Force
The Perry County Community Task Force is looking to sustain and expand a mentoring program that helps at-risk youth restore their belief in their human dignity, learn positive life skills, associate with positive role models, avoid substance use, and work toward their full potential. The target population is youth in grades K-12 in Perry County, with a special emphasis on at-risk youth who are inclined toward high-risk behavior, including substance use/abuse. This project will entail weekly, one hour mentoring sessions with an adult mentor. These sessions will incorporate life skills lessons on topics of getting along in society, self-esteem, bully prevention, and setting and achieving goals; healthy alternative activities such as bowling, crafting, and culinary arts; a summer service project which will help the youth see the value of helping others an working together in a drug free environment; and also a Family Fun Day activity which will allow the youth to interact with their families. The family event will have a prevention presentation incorporated which allow for families to discuss with one another the consequences of substance use. These activities will allow the youth to build up their self-esteem and resistance skills when faced with the situation of substance use.
Phelps County Child Advocacy Network (PCCAN)
The coalition is collaborating with the Rolla and St. James School Districts to implement a prescription drug misuse prevention project with the primary focus of reaching parents of ninth grade students with information and resources. Parents will be contacted through a series of five, professionally produced, over-sized postcards and local radio messaging. Classroom prevention presentations will also be done with ninth graders in each school to coincide with the mailings to parents. The postcards will provide brief prevention information to increase parents knowledge and encourage discussions with their kids and also provide connections to online prevention resources. Radio messages will be recorded using youth voices and directed to parents.
Platte County Prevention Coalition
Platte County Prevention Coalition (PC2) members are concerned with students using alcohol and marijuana as well as misusing prescription drugs. In an effort to understand why youth are using, coalition members conducted youth focus groups, with students who had attended the Sept. 2016 Northland Youth Leadership Summit. Youth identified a lack of coping and stress management skills as well as a lack of general resiliency skills. As such this proposal includes a social marketing campaign to focus on those specific risk factors while encouraging positive, healthy choices through a Safe and Sober program.
Ray County Coalition
According to Ray County 2016 MSS data, students are using significantly higher levels of alcohol, cigarettes/chew tobacco, e-cigarettes and misuse of prescription drugs than surrounding counties. All but marijuana is considerably more than state averages. Overwhelmingly, data points to a lack of parenting skills and good role models as major contributors to area youth drug use. Through education programs targeting adults: Social Marketing, Parent Education and a Community Forum, the Ray County Coalition will work to reduce youth use of ATOD.
Ray-Pec CARES
Ray-Pec Cares has historically taken a mental health approach to prevention. In their efforts, they have found great success in providing opportunities for the Raymore-Peculiar School staff to engage in social-emotional learning training with the Conscious Discipline program. Recent survey data suggests that since staff has engaged in this training, school culture has improved and bullying has decreased. We are requesting funding to continue these efforts.
Rockwood Drug Free Coalition
With the likelihood that Missouri will see medicinal and perhaps recreational Marijuana on the ballot in November of 2018 coupled with the fact that Eureka already has a “hemp” farm, the Rockwood Drug-Free Coalition plans to provide an intensive educational campaign that will focus on students at all grade levels and their parents. We will create a targeted student and parent campaign to educate about Marijuana, with a goal of reducing Marijuana us e and increasing the perception of harm for both teens and parents.
St. Francois County Community Partnership
The Prevention Toolkit for Parents will address underage drinking in St. Francois County by targeting prevention messages to the parents of all seventh graders in two school districts. A series of five professionally produced, over-sized postcards will be sent over a five month period to parents. Postcards will contain prevention information and links to additional resources for parents to help them prevent underage drinking. In addition, radio ads will be created using youth voices and directed to parents providing information to support the content of the mailed postcards. The postcards will also be placed on the school websites for parents to continue to view.
Staley Teaching & Reaching Youth – T.R.Y.
The social marketing campaign will be developed by the high school DECA club (comprised of high school students who have demonstrated interest in a career of marketing and/or advertising) as peer-to-peer education on the harms of marijuana.
The Community Forum will expand the new social marketing campaign into the community so that parents and students will learn of the harm of marijuana use, especially on the developing adolescent brain, mind, and body. The Community Forum will target Staley-area parents and interested community members and will provide attendees with resources, current information, and research about marijuana use, other ATOD issues, as well as information regarding instilling resiliency in their children.
Step Up
StepUp! will be increasing awareness on the harmful effects of alcohol and other drugs by committing to attending community events and maintaining active social media presence to share educational and informational materials, as well as advocating for the safe storage and disposal of prescription drugs by providing medication lock pods and drug disposal bags. To fulfill the objective of supporting Lindbergh students, StepUp! will also be sponsoring a PSA contest for students to create short films on the risks of youth substance misuse, as well as continuing to support the middle school TREND club in the efforts to increase capacity and leadership development in their programming.
The Brighter Futures Lafayette County Team Coalition
The Brighter Futures Consortium is looking to build on our existing services relating to drug and alcohol prevention, education and intervention. With the ACT Missouri Grant we will be able to provide additional speakers and educational resources to over 5000 students Lafayette County Missouri. We also plan to provide intensive services to a select few students through a Drug and Alcohol Education and Intervention Group. The assessment that is conduct throughout this group will allow us to refer students to support groups within their district as well as, individual therapeutic services.
The One-Eighty Prevention Coalition
This grant will allow the coalition to increase awareness about the 40 Developmental Assets among adults in St. Charles County. Presentations will be provided to specific resource providers who interact with parents, grandparents, and others who care about youth. Presentations will also be scheduled for the general public. Participants will leave empowered with information and tools to become asset builders, and to help prevent substance use among young people in St. Charles County.
Tri-C (C2000 Conception)
The purpose of this proposal is to continue to reduce the “high-risk environment” in our community that contributes to underage drinking, tobacco addiction, and illegal and other drug use contributing to violent acts and other risky behaviors. The Tri-C Community Coalition is targeting the school-aged children that attend Jefferson C-123 Schools in Nodaway County, Missouri. In addition to providing prevention-based community forums and educational correspondence, the Tri-C Community Coalition has chosen research-based projects, consistent with our Logic Model. We will provide annual mentor training, monthly alternative activities for mentors and their assigned youth involved in the Tri-C Mentoring Program, and substance abuse education programs. This will give the at-risk youth an opportunity to participate in new experiences and in turn promote bonding between the mentors, the families of the at-risk youth, and the community as a whole.
Voices of the Youth
Voices of the Youth have been the only youth prevention organization in Benton County for 6 years and they are in their capacity building stages to bring more youth into the organization as well as changing substance abuse norms with youth in the Benton County region. VOY Inspire project will generate enthusiasm and help create counter alcohol / tobacco ads that target youth each day.
Wayne Inter-Agency Network (W.I.N.) Coalition
The Clearwater WhyTry After-School Program targets at-risk middle school students ages 10 through 15. Students who participate in the program have had academic difficulty due to a number of life issues, which interfere with their ability to achieve without intervention. The Clearwater program has a three-pronged approach:
1) To teach goal-setting, problem-solving skills, and resilience when faced with challenges, whether at school, at home, or with peers, through use of the WhyTry materials;
2) To address academic shortcomings, including study habits and organizational skills, through tutoring and mentoring by program staff;
3) To provide parent education to address issues commonly facing middle school youth.
Webster County CommUNITY Partnership
This project is about developing a video series with which the public will eventually be invited to participate in to show the strength of the community against youth smoking and drinking and the movement toward a smoke-free environment. The video series will encompass the effects of smoking and alcohol along with statistics. It will also prepare the community for participation in a final video which will be geared toward showing as many people as possible who stand against youth substance use.
Youth With Vision
Youth With Vision members are concerned with the rapidly growing rate of their peers misusing prescription drugs (MSS data – 4.8% in 2014 to 7.8% in 2016). To address this concern they will implement a four-prong approach: Develop a social marketing campaign targeting their peers to educate them on the harmful effects of misusing prescription drugs;
Develop and conduct presentations for peer and community-based venues (i.e. the Northland Youth Leadership Summit and health classes, school staff and civic group in-services, etc.); and develop and implement a Lock Your Meds campaign, working directly with 30 pharmacies across Clay, Platte and Ray counties. This campaign will also include a companion community-focused message that serves to educate the public on safeguarding current medications and the proper disposal of unwanted medications.
