LowCountry Alliance for Healthy Youth The LowCountry Alliance for Healthy Youth serves Hilton Head & Bluffton, South Carolina, a community of 60,000 combined. The goals of the coalition are to establish and strengthen community collaboration in support of local efforts to prevent youth substance use. The coalition will achieve its goals by implementing strategies to reduce access, increase perception of harm and reduce approval of youth alcohol use, marijuana use, and misuse of prescription drugs within our communities. A combination of individual and environmental strategies have been identified, which include but are not limited to: community forums, a social marketing campaign, law enforcement efforts to reduce access, merchant trainings, trainings to increase the skills of organizations within the community sectors, advocating for changes in policies/legislation at the local and state levels, supporting youth driven initiatives.

The Berkeley County Prevention Board has applied for a FY 2020 Drug-Free Communities Support Program Grant in the amount of $125,000. The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, in cooperation with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services, gives this grant annually. The Coalition serves Berkeley County, SC, a community of 221,000. The goals of the coalition are to establish and strengthen community collaboration in support of local efforts to prevent youth substance use. The coalition will achieve its goals by implementing the following strategies: providing information and support through outreach, recruiting new coalition members, and conducting social and traditional media campaigns. The coalition will also build skills in the community by providing strategy training for the BEAT youth advisory team to support a drug-free community, and by providing the Drug Intervention Training for Education Professionals to school district personnel. The coalition will support compliance checks, party patrols and provide Merchant Education for retailers. The coalition will reduce access and enhance barriers to underage alcohol and tobacco by implementing environmental strategies and utilizing an anonymous Tip line. The coalition will also support increased enforcement of rural areas and waterways. Additionally, the coalition will work to modify policies and broader systems by reviewing existing school district and community policies.

The coalition will prevent and reduce youth and substance abuse by implementing the following strategies: providing information and support by outreach, recruiting new coalition members, and conducting prom safety campaigns. The coalition will also build skills in the community by providing youth groups with training on strategies to support a drug-free community and provide the Drug Intervention Training for Education Professionals training to personnel of the school district. Additionally, the coalition will support compliance checks, consequences , and incentives and also provide merchant education to vendors. The coalition will reduce access and enhance barriers to alcohol and tobacco by conducting environmental strategies such as sticker shock and an anonymous tip line. The coalition will also support increased enforcement of wooded areas, hunt clubs, and boat landings. Additionally, the coalition will work to modify policies and broader systems by reviewing existing school district and community policies.

The Berkeley County Partnership for Success Grant is to reduce and prevent underage alcohol and opioid use and misuse among youth in Berkeley County through enhanced prevention capacities. The lead agency The Ernest E. Kennedy Center is the designated county authority on alcohol and other drug abuse services by the SC DAODAS. The agency will work with existing coalitions and community leaders to implement a comprehensive plan to include evidence-based programs, policies and practices to address the underlying needs and conditions that contribute to reducing and preventing underage alcohol and opioid use and misuse. The identified population include those ages 9-20 who live and work in Berkeley County, totaling 221,000. Goal 1: To increase the capacity of the Berkeley County Prevention Board and identified community partners through training and community mobilization to reduce high risk behaviors among youth ages 9-20.Objectives: By Sept. 1, 2022 increase BCPB-PFS membership by 10%. By September 29, 2025, increase capacity by training coalition members on substance use and misuse prevention strategies. By September 29, 2025, increase capacity of law enforcement partners by providing training opportunities. By September 29, 2025, increase capacity of parents through educational sessions and information dissemination. By September 29, 2025, increase capacity of school district staff by providing training on youth substance access and misuse. By September 29, 2025, increase capacity of youth through recruitment and training regarding substance use prevention and peer counseling. Goal 2: To reduce and prevent alcohol use and misuse among youth ages 9-20 by implementing evidence-based prevention strategies. Objectives: By September 29, 2025, increase the perception of risk associated with underage alcohol use by working with local and state law enforcement to conduct Saturation Patrols and Party Dispersals. By September 29, 2025, decrease 30-day use of alcohol by 15% for high school and college students in Berkeley County. By September 29, 2025, increase peer social disapproval of underage drinking by 20%. By September 29, 2025, decrease underage access to alcohol by 15% among target population. By September 29, 2023, increase the number of schools in the district in which evidence-based programs will be conducted. By June 30, 2025, decrease impaired driving offenses by 10%. Goal 3: To reduce and prevent opioid use and misuse through evidence-based prevention strategies. Objectives: By September 29, 2025, decrease deaths involving opioids by 15%. By September 29, 2025, decrease opioid related overdose hospitalizations by 20%. By September 29, 2025, increase peer social disapproval of opioid use among youth/young adults by 24%. By September 29, 2025, decrease the opioids prescribed by 10%. By September 1, 2021, increase the ability to monitor results (including health disparities) by 100%.

Family Health Centers, Inc. is a federally qualified health center that provides comprehensive primary care integrated with behavioral health and oral health services, vision care 340B pharmacy services, and telehealth services to extend access to care to the medically underserved residents of rural Orangeburg, Bamberg, Calhoun and Upper Dorchester Counties in South Carolina. FHC is a subrecipient of Ryan White Part B funding from the state of SC to provide HIV primary care, including HIV prevention, testing and linkage to care. Substance abuse screening and treatment are provided using the SBIRT model. The service area covers approximately 2,500 square miles, and has a total population of 130,042. The majority of the service area population is African American. Nearly half of area residents live on income below 200% of Federal Poverty Guidelines. Most of the service area ;lies in designated Medically Underserved Areas (MUAs). FHC is the sole source of comprehensive primary care regardless of ability to pay in the service area, and operates seven freestanding health center sites, and six School Based Health Center sites to provide access to care for isolated rural residents. Many area residents are uninformed or misinformed about the risk factors for HIV; the availability of pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent HIV transmission; or the fact that it is possible to live a healthy life if HIV is detected and treated early. There is strong stigma associated with HIV, especially in rural portions of the state. Many cases of HIV in SC go undetected until the disease has progressed to AIDS. As a result, in spite of advances in prevention and treatment, SC has one of the highest HIV/AIDS incidence and mortality rates in the nation. The state adheres to abstinence only curricula in public schools for issues related to sexual health, thus many youth are ill informed about HIV risk, how substance use can increase that risk, or measures that they can take to reduce their risk if they choose to be sexually active. The population of focus for the Prevention Navigation program will be low income ethnic and minority youth between the ages of 13 and 24. SAMHSA funding will allow FHC to increase staffing to provide prevention education related to HIV and substance abuse to parents. Two rural school districts and the regional Healthy Start Program will coordinate with FHC to implement the SAMHSA Talk They Listen substance abuse prevention campaign for the 2,423 students currently enrolled, as well as their parents. Thirty facilitators will be certified to deliver an evidence based intervention to at least 270 high risk African American families. Outreach and education efforts will result in at least 1,080 referrals to FHC for HIV testing, substance abuse screening and treatment as indicated. At a minimum the program will provide substance abuse and HIV prevention education and services to 4,273 youth and their parents over the five year project period.

PFS Greenville County, the SAMHSA Partnership for Success (PFS) grant application intends a multi-layered approach for data-driven decision-making toward reducing community substance abuse problems. PFS Greenville County will address two priorities; namely, levels of underage alcohol and tobacco/nicotine consumption among persons aged 9 to 20. Key to the proposed plan is the Greenville County Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws (EUDL) Coalition, an over two decades-long, established collaboration. Due to past grant funding, collaborative efforts, and dedicated prevention staff, the Phoenix Center of Greenville County has made inroads around substance abuse misuse and abuse issues; however, the county still has challenges around the two priorities mentioned. PFS Greenville County will strengthen the Coalition to address substance abuse issues through a well-planned, data-driven approach. PFS Greenville County is built upon the foundation of past and present grant funding, including the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant, State Incentive Grant (SIG), and the CAST grant (which was a Strategic Prevention Framework [SPF]-SIG). Under CAST, the Phoenix Center took giant steps forward by working through the SPF steps, enabling prevention staff and the Coalition members to make decisions based on evidence and measurable outcomes. In 2011, Greenville was chosen as one of four sites in the United States to participate in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) high visibility enforcement source investigation demonstration project. The Phoenix Center served as the fiduciary agent for the funding and the program work was completed by the Greenville County EUDL Coalition. In 2016, capacity building has continued with Greenville County being selected by DAODAS again to fund county-level efforts through SAMHSA PFS-Empowering Communities through Healthy Outcomes (ECHO) funds to combat non-medical use of prescription drugs and opioids. The Greenville County EUDL Coalition and all key partner organizations, will continue as a strong advisory group providing guidance and assistance. We now propose to continue collaborative efforts and achieve a fully integrated, comprehensive, and cost-effective countywide prevention system that has one overarching aim – to greatly improve county residents’ quality of life by reducing the consumption and consequences of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. At the local level, PFS Greenville County will influence citizens in the county by implementing evidence-based policies and practices through the SPF process. This will ensure true collaboration is achieved at all levels so that county-level change is realized and the capacity to address local concerns is strengthened.

The EUDL Coalition with support of its opioid prevention subcommittee (e.g., ECHO Rx) will plan, implement and evaluate evidence-based prevention programming to reduce alcohol and opioid use among youth living in Greenville County. Specific goals will include enhanced community collaboration and a reduction in 30-day alcohol and opioid use among youth. The initiative will build on an existing coalition model that includes twelve sectors required for community change including law enforcement, schools, health care, families, and youth. The coalition’s activities will serve all of Greenville County, South Carolina, a community of almost 507,000. Specific objectives include reductions in youth and opioid use among youth, increased perceptions of risk of harm of alcohol and opioid use among youth, increased social disapproval of alcohol and opioid use among youth, and increased parental disapproval of these substances. Specific activities include environmental prevention strategies to reduce the accessibility and availability of alcohol and opioids by youth, high visibility law enforcement to enforce laws, traditional and social media campaigns and related dissemination, and meaningful youth involvement.

The Coalition will prevent and reduce youth substance use by implementing the following strategies: Increase outreach to community sectors; create opportunities for community collaboration; reduce access to substances through partnership with community sectors; ensure meaningful involvement of youth in planning and implementing prevention strategies to reduce drug use; promote parental participation in coalition trainings; and strengthen coalition efforts effect meaningful policy change to decrease drug use among youth.

The goal of this project is to prevent and reduce the abuse of opioiods and the abuse of prescription medications amoung youth ages 12-18 in Lexington County School District One.

The goal of this project is to prevent and reduce the abuse of opioids and the abuse of prescription medications among youth ages 12-18 in Lexington County School District One.