OR Discretionary Funding Fiscal Year 2014

The Integrated Trauma Care Project will provide evidence-based Child/Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) services to children at risk of abuse/neglect. The Project will serve children ages 0-5 and their caregivers who have experienced or are at high risk for abuse and/or neglect. This may include families living at or below the poverty level; caregivers who themselves were abused and/or neglected; caregivers with high levels of stress; caregivers with drug/alcohol abuse histories; caregivers with anger management issues; and families with histories of domestic violence. The project will serve 150 unduplicated children and their caregivers in 120 families annually, and 600 over the entire four years. This number includes 32 children of military families. The Project will train 12 clinicians in a year-long intensive Learning Collaborative in the first year; 24 per year for the next three years. The project will train at least 240 unduplicated service providers and other interested individuals annually, and 960 over the entire four years.

The PeerLink Technical Assistance Center (PeerLink) will focus on a developing peer delivered and person-directed workforce in Idaho, Washington, Utah, and nationally. Technical assistance strategies will include the development of new materials, individual telephone assistance, a project website, webinars, and other social networking tools. Special emphasis will be placed on insuring materials and technical assistance materials and approaches easily accessible to and appropriate to the unique issues of culturally and linguistically diverse groups, as well as Veterans, transition-age youth and young adults, elders, gender, and sexual orientation and identification.
Key PeerLink Project Goals: Goal 1: Increase consumer capacity related peer-delivered, person-directed services in two program areas. Goal 2: Strengthen consumer community capacity & infrastructure development, & leadership in three States. Goal 3: Outreach Center's resources nationally. Goal 4: Reach culturally diverse populations with Center resources and insure easy access of these resources. Goal 5: Continue project after funding ends.

The Multnomah LAUNCH project will assure that all young children, ages 0-8, in Multnomah County will thrive: 56,050 children will benefit from increased pediatric primary care use of developmental and behavioral screenings, and increased community coordination around service provision, and 1,200 children particularly at risk of negative outcomes will receive mental health consultation support and improved care environments.
Project strategies and their measurable outcomes in terms of numbers of individuals served are as follows:
o Increase system capacity and coordination through hiring a Young Child Wellness Coordinator and enhancing the existing Early Childhood Council to act as a Young Child Wellness Council. Complete Environmental Scan and Strategic Plan to guide efforts.
o 211 info/Parent Helpline will provide up-to-date inventory of community resources, provide on-the-phone assistance and referrals for callers, and track referral results. At least
5,000 calls will be answered annually (1,350 calls from organizations; 2,650 from families); 25,000 total calls over life of grant.
o START training will be provided for pediatric primary care providers on use of evidence- based developmental assessments and screenings and strategies for linking to community resources. At least 60 PPCPs will be trained annually, resulting in 15,360 screenings for at least 7,560 unduplicated children; 37,800 children total.
o Mental Health Consultation, Positive Behavior Support and Incredible Years will be provided to one Healthy Start home visiting program and two child care centers serving a high proportion of children experiencing risk factors for negative outcomes. At least 50 staff will be trained, resulting in improved care for at least 240 families each year; 1,200 children total.
o A community outreach and education campaign will reach at least 100,000 people.
o Workforce development activities will result in the training of at least 100 organizations and 1,000 staff.

The Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center (YTHC) proposes to expand the current fragmented system of care to create culturally-responsive trauma- informed practices across their child-serving systems to address the complex needs of tribal children birth through 21 with significant trauma issues. The project will enroll 50 participants in year one with a minimum of 400 served throughout the grant period.

The YTHC is the fully accredited ambulatory care facility for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR). The Yellowhawk System of Care Expansion Project is a four year initiative designed to implement a trauma-informed behavioral health system for children with emotional disturbances from birth to age 21 and their families. Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center, which is the tribe's fully accredited medical facility, currently serves 1,170 Native American youth, many of whom suffer from historical trauma and PTSD that is not being effectively addressed by the existing system of care. The long term goal of the project is to ensure that tribal youth affected by trauma related mental illnesses receive the services they need to overcome these experiences. On a short term basis the CTUIR are committed to establishing a sustainable infrastructure that provides all needed mental health and recovery support services for children with serious emotional disturbances.

The coalition will prevent and reduce youth substance use by implementing the following strategies: Increase coalition and sub-committee members; develop awareness on social media Facebook and website; provide prevention education and empower leadership; reduce Underage Drinking by providing Liquor License and ID checking education, minor decoys, enhance the ATOD Protocol Public Policy, positive media messaging campaigns, Prom Perfect, Red Ribbon Week and support ATOD-free Senior grad party; reduce Marijuana Use and increase perception of harm among youth and adults by developing a factual media campaign to dispel myths, and monitor businesses to assure synthetic urine products designed to falsify a UA are not being sold in our community; reduce Prescription Drug abuse among youth and adults by developing factual media campaigns in partnership with our medical community, expand MedReturn Rx drop off equipment to a third site within Jefferson County and increase capacity for Jefferson County Sheriffs office to accept needles; and increase coalition income by pursuing new grants, in-kind support, and fundraising.

The Jefferson County Prevention Task Force is a strong community coalition that serves the culturally diverse areas of Madras, Culver, Metolius and the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Jefferson County, Oregon.

Jefferson County is a highly diverse, rural area with a population of approximately 22,865 people, with 27% being under the age of 18 (6,097 are children ages 0 to 17) (Children First for Oregon 2011). Our County is home to the largest Native American reservation in the state of Oregon, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs.

Our coalition's recent community needs assessment in July of 2012 determined our focus areas to be: Underage Drinking, Marijuana, Prescription Drugs, and Bullying. The Jefferson County Prevention Task Force is focused on strengthening its community collaboration with the following environmental strategies:

--Build capacity of the Youth Prevention Task Force (YPTF) at 509J and Culver School Districts in order to empower youth leaders in planning and implementing environmental strategies targeted for underage drinking prevention projects;

--Reduce barriers and increase access for ID Checking/Liquor Law Classes and the OLCC Responsible Vendor program for clerks, businesses and liquor license vendors;

--Increase compliance through enhancement of Minor Decoy Compliance Operations utilizing the Youth Prevention Task Force under the supervision of Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) and/or local law enforcement; and

--Enhance the Jefferson County Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug (ATOD) Protocol through Town Hall educational meetings and consistent enforcement of underage drinking. Expand ATOD Protocol across county lines in partnership with Crook and Deschutes Counties.

The Clackamas County Prevention Coalition (CCPC) will strategically integrate a community approach to reducing underage drinking in the communities of Sandy, Canby, North Clackamas School District and Clackamas Community College in Clackamas County. They will address the Surgeon General's call to action by addressing misperceived community norms about underage drinking. The CCPC has identified these communities as having readiness to engage in the Social Norms project. The Social Norms campaign will be a five step process. 1) Collect and analyze baseline data; 2) Social Norms implementation in schools and communities; 3) Create youth lead Social Norms prevention planning teams; 4) Implementing media campaigns to schools and community and 5) Evaluation. The project will strengthen collaboration among the community by engaging stakeholders in prevention strategies that address and support no use messages as well as change perception of parents and government officials towards underage drinking to prevent and reduce alcohol use among youth. The project will be measured using Oregon Student Wellness Survey data, pre and post test data from Social Norms presentations and online surveys to fill in any areas where data is lacking from the school surveys.

The coalition will prevent and reduce youth substance use by implementing the following strategies: Improving collaboration among Walton County Prevention Coalition's partner organizations and across the county as a whole by providing leadership training for key local organizations who are involved in prevention; training key leaders in prevention on effectively using electronic media and social marketing; and implementing a social norming campaign utilizing media advocacy to prevent youth alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use that targets youth aged 11-17 and their parents with positive social norms messages through local media and social networking.

The coalition will prevent and reduce youth substance use by implementing the following strategies: (1) Build the Coalition's strength, capacity and effectiveness. (2) Alter community norms that are favorable to substance use, and particularly underage drinking. (3) Proactively engage the community to reduce the incidence rate of early onset substance use by children.

Support for the Grant County Safe Communities Coalition