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The West Garfield Park Coalition’s goal is to develop innovative strategies to reduce and prevent underage drinking and youth substance abuse in Chicago’s Garfield Park community. In 2012, the Coalition was awarded a Drug Free Communities grant to continue its work and it is currently submitting an application for years 6 through 10. The Coalition brings together educators, members of faith communities, business owners, law enforcement, mental health providers, state, county, federal government representatives and community organizations, partners, parents and young people in West Garfield Park to create a working Coalition.

Levy County's Youth Substance Use Prevention Grant, a project of the Levy County Prevention Coalition, will work to prevent and decrease underage alcohol, marijuana and prescription drug (and other drugs) use in Levy County, Florida through implementing various environmental strategies identified through the Strategic Prevention Framework model. The grant/project will decrease alcohol, marijuana and prescription drug use by enhancing, expanding and implementing new environmental strategies to all five communities within the County; establish, enhance and expand ATI Clubs (middle/high school clubs) to increase youth participation in community collaboration and drug prevention/reduction strategies; implement several social norming campaigns to educate youth, parents, and adults that underage alcohol, marijuana and prescription drug use has devastating consequences; fact sheets for parents will be developed/distributed to educate youth, parents and the community on current youth substance use as well as the risk/protective factors to decrease/increase; community members, stakeholders, youth and parents will be informed of ways to participate in collaboration and capacity building activities. The Youth Substance Use Prevention Grant will aim to ultimately increase awareness, increase collaboration, increase education, positively affect youth and community norms and ultimately prevent and decrease youth substance use.

The Allen County Drug and Alcohol Consortium, Inc. serves Allen County, Indiana, a community of 370,404*. 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 the goals of our project, Empowering Communities, by implementing strategies to build the knowledge, connection, and impact of community partners, parents, caring adults, and youth to reduce illegal and dangerous alcohol use and prescription drug abuse. Geographically, Allen County is the largest county east of the Mississippi River creating challenges in transportation. Allen County is the third most populous county in the state*, and is racially composed of* 80.5% Caucasian residents, 12.0% African American residents, 4.0% Asian residents, 0.1% Native American residents, and 7.3% Hispanic residents (with 3.0% in 2+ race categories). Fort Wayne and Allen County have served as a federally designated refugee center for the last 50 years, exploding with refugees in 2007. While there is a wide range of nationalities represented, as of 2010, approximately 5,000 of our citizens represent one of the largest concentrations in the world of immigrant Burmese. *as estimated for 2016 by the US Census Bureau The City of Fort Wayne comprises 71.4% of the county's population. Allen County's median age is 35.9 years old. As of 2016, Allen County had, by count and by percentage, 26,446 (7.1%) 0 - 4 year olds; 69,917 (18.9%) 5 - 17 year olds; and 33,973 (9.2%) 18 - 24 year olds. Households married with children comprise 19.5% and single parents comprise 11.2% of the population. The median household income (2015) was $50,017 and the unemployed rate was 4.3%. Indiana is at the heart of the Midwest with a historically strong work ethic born out of farming and companies that supported the Detroit auto industry. Generations of families have passed jobs down to the next. Fort Wayne is known as the City of Restaurants and also the City of Churches with a strong German Lutheran heritage. In our community, almost everyone is approachable and responsive, so we are able to work together through groups of people to get things done. Fort Wayne is also the "Crossroads of America," equally distant from Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and Cleveland, promoting commerce, including drug trafficking. The large refugee influx from 2007-2012 has impacted schools and students, burdening systems. Indiana currently ranks #1 in the country for pharmacy robberies. A few years ago a single physician, working out of Fort Wayne and in the region, had his license removed and was arrested. He was solely responsible for more than 90% of the state's opioid prescriptions. We have a medical crisis with 6,000-8,000 pain management patients scrambling to emergency rooms and heroin dealers for relief, and a plethora of youth with significantly greater access. We are targeting to reach at least 10% of 6th to 12th grade youth and their parents in year one, with a goal of 50% reach by the end of year five of this project.

Strengthen existing collaboration among established community stakeholders to support the Drug Free Idaho Coalition in it's efforts to prevent and reduce substance abuse among youth and affect community level change. Additionally, this project will target the reduction of substance abuse among youth, and over time, reduce substance abuse by adults by addressing local conditions that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting factors that protect against substance abuse.

The Waltham Youth and Community Coalition is comprised of 69 youth and adult members representing a broad array of sectors. The Coalition is committed to increasing community collaboration and reducing substance use among Waltham youth, with a specific aim to reduce E-cigarette and marijuana use by 10% of the next year. Our strategies include training a cohort of bilingual youth as health and wellness interpreters; completing community-based needs assessments, including a youth-led Participatory Action Research initiative in conjunction with Brandeis University; developing interactive educational materials, in-school curriculum, youth-directed multi-media campaigns, community events and presentations to shift cultural norms around substance use and the community on the negative impacts of vaping and marijuana on adolescent development; provide safe, substance free weekend programming to teens.

The Niskayuna Community Action Program (N-CAP) is an all volunteer coalition dedicated to reducing youth substance abuse using the grant funding to enact new initiatives, promote policy changes and support prevention education and training for students, parents, and community. N-CAP's goal is to reduce alcohol use by 9 -12th graders by 3% and marijuana use by 6 -12th graders by 5%. N-CAP serves the Town and Central School District of Niskayuna, NY. Primarily in Schenectady County, this also includes small parts of Albany and Saratoga counties. The total served population is approximately 25,000. 59% of adults have a Bachelor's Degree or higher. Median household income is $99,394 and the median value of a home is estimated to be $247,000. Unemployment is low. The Niskayuna Central School District ranks as a top academic performer as reported in the Capital Region Business Review, with a graduation rate of 94%. There is a high school, two middle schools and five elementary schools totaling just over 4200 students, with 2381 in our target grades 6 -12. It is a moderate-needs school district with 12% free or reduced lunch. The district is 75% white, 4% Black or African-American, 16% Asian, 3% multi-racial, and 3% Hispanic or Latino. Niskayuna High School students report 30-day usage rates for alcohol and marijuana that are higher than the national average. To achieve reductions in teen substance use, N-CAP will work closely with students to create campaigns for social norming, to develop student leaders and role models, and to provide education about risks and alternatives. We will collaborate with Town and School District partners to improve and enforce policy. To change community norms, N-CAP will target parents with an educational campaign including "Be a Parent Not a Friend," using statistics collected in the PNA Survey. We will offer educational forums and promote a consistent anti-drug message disseminated by our sector representatives. N-CAP will also focus on strengthening the Coalition, with an emphasis on sustainability through recruitment and retention. The goal is to increase Board of Directors membership by 3 adults and 2 students and expand active Coalition participation by 20. We will work with our Sector Reps to identify key leaders and build community partnerships. With the assistance of our prevention professional partners like OASAS and the National Guard Counter Drug Task Force, N-CAP will provide training to Coalition members so they can be knowledgeable participants in the effort to reduce youth substance abuse. Over the lifetime of the grant, N-CAP will work closely with hundreds of Niskayuna youth and community members and ultimately impact for the better the lives of over 3,500 students.

The Addiction Prevention Coalition's mission is to prevent and reduce youth substance abuse by facilitating student-led drug prevention programs, connecting individuals to recovery resources, and fostering community collaborations that aim to reduce stigma surrounding substance abuse. The DFC funding will allow us to enable and empower youth so that as community leaders, they can illuminate the impact of healthy, informed decisions and foster positive growth and development in the Birmingham area. Under this program, curriculum development for youth, community programs and projects aimed at providing support and enhancing skills, and pinpointed actions involving our Sectors such as law enforcement, businesses, parents, and youth will allow us to unite against the plague of substance abuse and stand together for our community's wellbeing. This is our Birmingham; and our Coalition Members, Sector Representatives, Working Group, School Chapters, Staff, and Volunteers are dedicated to the long and short-term goals of the Coalition and, moreover, its vision of Birmingham as a sanctuary for substance and alcohol abuse free living.

The Riverhead Community Coalition for Safe and Drug-Free Youth (RCC) has proposed a Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program project to strengthen and expand on the successes that the coalition has achieved since 2013. The goals of the coalition are to strengthen community collaboration in support of local efforts to prevent youth substance use. The target population consists of 41,500 people including 5,471 youth, residing within the geographical boundaries of the Riverhead Central School District, which at 90 square miles is the largest district on Long Island, NY. We expect to serve approximately 10,000 youth and adult community members annually throughout the lifetime of the project. The objectives we expect to achieve by September 29, 2019 are: increase coalition involvement of adult and youth members in grades 7-12 by 15% as measured by attendance at all coalition initiatives over the course of the year; decrease 30-day underage drinking rates by youth in grades 8, 10, and 12 by 3% as measured by PNA survey; and decrease 30-day marijuana use by youth in grades 8, 10, and 12 by 3% as measured by PNA survey. Early and regular use of these substances have been directly linked with addiction to these substances as well as others, including opioids and heroin, in adults. Environmental strategies to achieve these objectives include: strengthening adult coalition capacity through community outreach and training initiatives; increasing youth participation in coalition initiatives; decreasing access to alcohol by youth during prom and graduation season, at retail outlets, at public events, and use at parks and beaches; decreasing youth marijuana use during the school day, at parks, beaches and marinas, and access to marijuana paraphernalia in the community, including ENDS, which are advertised and used as a marijuana delivery mechanism. Alcohol and marijuana use is prevalent among our youth population; by the time youth are HS seniors, 61.5% report using alcohol and 32.5% report using marijuana in the past 30 days. The changing demographics of the Riverhead community require that all activities and initiatives address cultural competency. Our diverse student population is 48% Hispanic, 37% White, 11% African American, 2% Multiracial, 1% Asian, 1% Native American/Alaskan/Pacific Islander; 27% are new English Language Learners; 51% are male and 49% are female; and 53% live in poverty. The activities we will implement to achieve our objectives and strategies include ongoing technical assistance and training for community members and coalition members; strengthening membership and skills of the Riverhead Youth Coalition; collaboration with schools to implement and expand Pre-Prom prevention activities and promote a safe environment during the school day; law enforcement compliance checks; Sticker Shock campaigns; TIPS training; public event safety initiatives; and a comprehensive partnership with the Town of Riverhead and Riverhead Recreation to make our parks and beach safe and drug-free. We are focused on creating long-lasting community changes that will be sustained after our DFC funding has expired.

The Oregon City Together (OCT) coalition serves Oregon City, Oregon, a community of 36,286 people. The goals of the coalition are to establish and strengthen community collaboration in support of local efforts to prevent youth substance use, specifically alcohol and marijuana use among middle school and high school youth. The coalition plans to achieve its goals by providing information on the risks associated with youth alcohol and marijuana use as well as information on positive social norms. It also will change policies to decrease access to alcohol and drugs and increase consequences of providing alcohol or marijuana to a minor. Oregon City Together provides support and increase parents' and guardians' skills of talking to your kids about alcohol and drugs. Oregon City Together objective's include increasing youth collaboration, increasing the coalition's leadership capacity and increasing general community participation. Oregon City Together's objectives also include by September 2019, reducing by two percent the number of 8th and 11th graders using alcohol. The strategies to accomplish this objective include increasing youth and parent awareness of risks, norms and resistance skills; changing community norm to reduce social hosting and reducing commercial access to alcohol. By September 2019, OCT also plans to reduce by two percent the number of 11th graders who use marijuana while increasing the perception of harm by five percent among the same age group. The strategies to accomplish this objective include providing information to youth, parents and key influencers on adolescent brain development and the impact of drugs on this development; reducing marijuana advertising seen by youth; reducing youth access to marijuana; and addressing school policy to change the consequences of students' drug use.

The Mercer Council on Alcoholism and Drug Addiction is applying for a Drug Free Communities Support Program grant on behalf of the Prevention Coalition of Mercer County (PCMC) to reduce underage drinking and the illegal use of marijuana by youth. The PCMC serves Mercer County New Jersey, a community of 371,023 residents. The goals of the coalition are to establish and strengthen community collaboration in support of local efforts to prevent youth substance use. The specific target population to be served annually will be all middle and high school aged children in the county (approximately 24,613 total). The approximate total direct to be served: 5,000; approximate total indirect: 371,023 (this includes approximate indirect youth target of 24,613) The demographics of this group are: 50.3% White; 21.5% Black/African American; 11.1% Asian; 17.1% Hispanic. The project goals and measurable objectives for our DFC Support Program are: Goal 1: Increase coalition capacity and community collaboration. Objective 1: By September 29, 2019, The PCMC will increase coalition membership by five adult members and three youth members as measured by coalition membership numbers. The strategies used to achieve this goal include enhancing access to the coalition by varying meeting times and activities and scheduling educational forums open to the entire community to increase coalition visibility. Objective 2: Institutionalize the PCMC by securing the commitment of 60% of the membership and increasing community resource utilization by 10% as measured by coalition member surveys. The strategies used to achieve this will include creating community expectation of coalition annual events. Goal 2: Reduce youth substance use. Objective 1: By September 29, 2019, the PCMC will reduce past 30-day alcohol use by 3% as measured by PRIDE survey data. In addition, the coalition will increase parental disapproval of youth alcohol use by 5% as measured by the coalition’s annual community survey. This will be achieved through the following strategies: providing information; enhancing skills; providing support; enhancing/reducing barriers; changing consequences; modifying/changing policies. Objective 2: By September 29, 2019, the PCMC will reduce past 30-day marijuana use by 3% as measured by PRIDE survey data. In addition, the coalition will increase parental perception of risk of youth use of marijuana by 5% as measured by the coalition’s annual community survey. This will be achieved through the following strategies: providing information; enhancing skills; providing support; enhancing/reducing barriers; changing consequences; modifying/changing policies.

The Yonkers Coalition for Youth serves the third precinct of Yonkers, NY, a community of 67,000. 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 these strategies: Coalition meetings and trainings, compliance checks, policies, youth engagement, prevention messaging and community collaboration. The coalition focuses primarily on underage drinking, marijuana use (including vape devices) and prescription drug misuse.

Reno County Communities That Care(CTC)will increase community collaboration through increasing youth membership and leadership trainings to engage them to be proactive in substance use prevention in Reno County. Coalition membership will grow by having a parent workgroup that activity involves parents with school, community, and civic presentations. CTC will reduce alcohol and marijuana use among youth by developing a "Speak Up, Lock it Up" Campaign to encourage parents to talk to their kids about alcohol and to lock it up to keep alcohol away from youth. Staff, coalition members and youth will work with many entities, such as schools, law enforcement, District Attorney's office etc.,in Reno County to change consequences for youth who have substance use. Youth will develop a peer to peer campaign highlighting why marijuana has social consequences such as drug testing at jobs, etc. Youth will be involved in all media campaigns. Staff will be trained in TIPS training in order to do work with community event organizers to train alcohol servers at the events.

IMPACT Youth for a Safer Spartanburg is a project of Impact Spartanburg, a community coalition serving Spartanburg County in South Carolina. This project with support through the Drug-Free Communities grant serves a geographic area mirroring County Council District Two through individual- and environmental-level strategies to (1) increase community collaboration and (2) reduce youth substance use with a focus on alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana (ATM). In total, the geographic area served by this project includes around 58,900 people. The residents within this area are predominantly Caucasian (78.5%) followed by African American (11.4%). The two main communities in this area include Boiling Springs and Chesnee. Boiling Springs is a wealthier community with the median income of $57,143 and 6.3% poverty rate. Inside of Chesnee city limits (population 868) the median income is $18,929 and 36.1% of individuals live below the poverty level. Outside of the city limits the larger Chesnee community of around 2,000 residents (zip code 29323) has a median household income of $37,426. Residents inside the Chesnee city limits are twice as likely to be eligible for food stamps compared to Boiling Springs residents (18% v. 9%). Current community characteristics that support adolescent substance use include high rates of social access, a long-standing history of smokeless tobacco use, and geographic isolation from substance-free spaces for teens. The objectives used to achieve the two DFC goals include addressing past 30-day use, perception of harm or risk, perception of parental disapproval, and perception of peer disapproval, the four core measures, as measured bi-annually in the Communities that Care Survey. Rate of change is customized to the objective, substance, and demographics. For example, Objective 5a: To decrease past 30-day use of marijuana by 10% in MS (3.2% to 2.9%) and by 5% in HS (7.3% to 6.9%) by 09/29/19 as measured in the CTC Survey. Through Drug-Free Communities funding, Impact Spartanburg has implemented an action plan developed around the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF). Strategies to address adolescent substance use occur within the schools and community. Spartanburg County School District Two has 5,226 students between three middle schools, the freshmen academy, and two high schools who will be reached annually through a number of strategies. Example of strategies include: Red Ribbon Week educational events, social media outreach, school-wide activities, Prom Promise, student clubs, and adult education (e.g., educators, guidance counselors, administrators). Additional environmental strategies include reducing barriers to accessing treatment resources, strengthening ordinances and policies regarding substance use, and identifying physical design issues that promote use. Annually, this project serves 7,000 people and through the lifetime of the project will serve 35,000.

Sallisaw NOW Coalition is a drug free communities community coalition serving Sallisaw,OK. Our coalition is focused on strengthening collaboration throughout the community and implementation community-based prevention strategies to address alcohol, marijuana, and prescription drug misuse among youth.

Through this project, the Drug Free Marlboro Coalition will strengthen community collaboration around the prevention of youth substance use. The target population is all citizens of the 29512 zip code with an emphasis on adults and youth passionate about addressing the serious youth substance use problem here. The Drug Free Marlboro Coalition will achieve its goal of reducing youth use of alcohol and marijuana by building collaborations to: 1) Help adults to increase (a) barriers to youth access to alcohol and marijuana, (b) consequences of youth drinking alcohol and using marijuana, and (c) positive adult-child communication to promote/support sober behavior in youth; 2) Partner with School District to increase barriers to drinking alcohol & marijuana use, increase consequences for being intoxicated at school, and increase enforcement of current policy/laws; 3) Enhance substance use prevention components to programs that increase access and reduce barriers to education and/or increase knowledge about the harmfulness of adolescent drinking; 4) Enhance enforcement of current ordinances/laws and/or modify them to reduce youth “hanging out in the high school bathroom smoking marijuana or with adults under a tree.” The Strategic Prevention Framework(SPF) and the Seven Strategies for Community Level Change are the methodological processes that will be utilized and are embedded in all program strategies and evaluation processes. The project will specifically focus on utilizing strategies contained in the 12 Month Action Plan to reduce alcohol and marijuana use among youth. The project will implement environmental prevention strategies which will facilitate multi-agency and systems collaboration, with the intent of enhancing the local substance use prevention system, the efforts of other local coalitions, community based organizations, educational institutions, and social service agencies, so that collectively we can utilize our professional expertise and resources to reduce youth substance use, improve system collaboration and facilitate sustainability. The impact of this should be a healthier and safer community where youth thrive and do not yield to substance abuse.

The Somerset County Safe Communities Coalition Drug Free Communities program will engage a coalition of diverse community sector representatives in implementing environmental strategies to prevent substance abuse among youth age 18 and under, with emphasis on addressing underage drinking, marijuana use and prescription drug abuse. Efforts will be concentrated in Somerset County, New Jersey, and particularly in the municipalities of Belle Mead, Bound Brook, Franklin Park, Hillsborough, Manville, Rocky Hill, Skillman, Somerset, Somerville and South Bound Brook.

Working with its diverse stakeholders, OCADA (Our Community Against Drug Abuse) will establish and strengthen collaboration to prevent and reduce youth substance use by building the community capacity to implement environmental strategies. OCADA objectives are to increase in the number of active participants across the sectors, ensure coalition membership will be representative of the racial and ethnic groups residing within the community and reduce alcohol and marijuana use and increase perception of harm regarding prescription drugs. OCADA serves the approximately 25,000 residents in six villages and hamlets located in Rockland County, New York (Central Nyack, Nyack, South Nyack, Upper Grandview, Upper Nyack and Valley Cottage) which represent a diverse community that includes 40% minorities who speak multiple languages including Spanish and Haitian Creole. Where high school youth have a higher than national and county average alcohol and marijuana use, and a low perception of harm regarding marijuana use. To achieve its goals and objectives, OCADA will employ a variety of strategies including holding workshops and trainings to provide information, enhance skills and understand the consequences of substance use; provide support at school and in the community to enhance access to services and reduce the access to substances; and modify policies such as increasing the age for tobacco purchase.

The Miami Gardens Drug Free Coalition will use the Strategic Prevention Framework to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive population approach that is design to reduce youth substance abuse

The Community Coalition for Family Wellness will achieve its goals of reducing substance use among youth by implementing strategies to increase coordination of community shareholders and coalition partners. The Coalition will work with the high school to sustain the After Prom Party, work with the community to increase prescription drug disposal, provide youth empowerment and leadership opportunities, address social norms around substance use, organize parent education events, and educate families and youth about the dangers of substance use and finding healthy alternatives. The Coalition will assist teens in the development of healthy decision making skills necessary in substance use disorder primary prevention. This coalition, in South Glens Falls, in upstate New York, serves approximately 40,000 residents.

The Bethel Coalition will:(1) establish and strengthen collaboration among Prevention Coalition's partner organizations in support of the community's effort to prevent and reduce youth substance use; and (2) reduce substance use among youth in San Antonio, Texas, and over time, reduce substance abuse among adults by addressing the issues in our community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse. The coalition will achieve its goals by implementing increased community collaboration by expanding and enhancing the membership of the coalition, enhancing the leadership skills of the steering and action committees, strengthen collaborations with other DFC coalitions in San Antonio, conduct community outreach to increase visibility of the coalition and awareness of the problem. Secondly, increase perception of risk or harm, increase perception of peer disapproval of use, decreased past 30-day use, and increase perception of parental disapproval of use.

The mission of the Scituate FACTS Coalition is to reduce teen drinking and underage substance use in Scituate, Massachusetts. The goals of the Coalition are to strengthen community collaboration in support of local efforts to prevent youth substance use, to reduce rates of underage drinking, marijuana use, prescription drug misuse, and drinking and driving. The Coalition will achieve its goals by implementing the following strategies: Increasing the Coalition's capacity and sustainability by strengthening relationships with regional boards, increasing Coalition membership, and collaborating with regional and neighboring prevention coalitions. Reduce past 30 day binge drinking of alcohol among Scituate High School students (ages 14-18) from 27% (2017) to 25%. Reduce past 30 day use of marijuana by Scituate High School students (ages 14-18) from 23% (2017) to 21%. Reduce the rate of riding in a car with a driver who had been drinking from 25% (2017) to 22%. Reduce prescription drug misuse and vaping. The Coalition will also continue work to reduce the risk factors for overdose, and increase perception of parental disapproval of underage drinking or drug use. The Coalition will communicate with the community by sharing data and prevention efforts at community trainings, through press releases, and at coalition facilitated meetings and seminars.

ADAPT is a coalition located in Essex County, New Jersey. This DFC project will be used to expand the coalition’s efforts and the use of environmental prevention strategies with local youth leaders, parents, educators, and other sector representatives located in three specific areas of the county, which have six towns, East Orange, Orange, South Orange, Maplewood, Livingston, and Millburn. Our focus with this project is to expand substance abuse prevention efforts to reduce the instances of underage drinking and prescription drug abuse. ADAPT’s underage drinking prevention efforts will include Sticker Shock Campaigns at liquor stores throughout Essex County during strategic times when youth attempt to purchase alcohol (i.e., Prom/Graduation season, summertime, and Thanksgiving; implementing mandatory certification trainings for all employees of establishments that have liquor licenses; educating retailers on proper ID Checking procedures; and, a youth-driven Public Service Announcement (PSA) called “Break the Cycle, focusing on intergenerational alcoholism. ADAPT’s prescription drug prevention efforts will include working with local college students and organizations on a prescription drug abuse PSA program throughout local colleges and universities; expanding permanent prescription medication disposal locations throughout Essex County; expanding the use of mobile prescription medication disposal sites at community events throughout Essex County; partnering with local pharmacists and law enforcement on localized prescription medication take back day programming in senior centers, community centers, senior housing, among other locations; a youth-driven PSA partnership with local pharmacists to educate residents on proper methods to monitor, secure, and dispose of their prescription medication; and, trainings specifically for local realtors to decrease prescription medication theft during events with individuals trying to sell their homes.

Along with additional core measure data, the SATIRA Coalition will pay close attention to 30-day use of tobacco and marijuana and also the perception of harm for marijuana of both middle and high school youth. SATIRA is aiming to see the high school 30-day use rate drop by 5%. SATIRA will gauge its impact on educating students based on the perception of harm for marijuana with targets to increase the rates associated with marijuana by 10% among high school youth. If successful in raising students' perceptions and educating youth through prevention initiatives, SATIRA expects to see a correlation in increased perceptions of harm among both middle and high school youth connected to tobacco and marijuana, and consequently, a decrease in overall usage.

Warrick County Cares (WCC) is a prevention coalition in suburban Warrick County, Indiana, situated in Southwest Indiana. The largely rural service area includes the towns of Boonville, Chandler, Elberfeld, Lynnville, Tennyson and Newburgh. The mission of the WCC is to assess the risk and protective factors impacting local youth, support existing services and implement evidence-based strategies in the identified service gaps, to promote positive youth development. WCC proposes a comprehensive action plan with objectives and strategies aimed at reducing youth alcohol and marijuana use, and prescription drug abuse. Strategies will build on an 8-year successful foundation and complement the WCC’s existing momentum to reduce youth substance abuse and promote positive youth development. Strategies encompass strengthened membership capacity and youth engagement, environmental prevention, community education, Photovoice (a student community-based participatory research opportunity), Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED), strengthened data gathering and policy changes. Goal 1: Increase Community Collaboration. Objective 1: Increase cross sector membership by 25% from 53 to 66 members by 9/29/2019. Strategies include: assessing coalition membership, make presentations to community organizations, update awareness materials. Objective 2: Conduct a member feedback survey to gain understanding on attrition. Strategy 3: Conduct Cultural Competency training, team building and leadership training. Strategy 4: Identify data keeper stakeholders to address data gaps. Objective 2: Increase youth engagement by 25% from 18 youth members to 23 by 9/29/2019. Strategy 1: Meet with school staff to identify student groups and update student groups on WCC work/mission. Strategy 2: Deliver program to 9th grade students to receive social service support. Strategy 3: Conduct skill training and Photovoice. Work with high school graphic design classes to design posters, etc. for Social Norms campaign and plan and promote Red Ribbon Week activities including middle school dance. Goal 2: Reduce youth substance use. Objective 1: Decrease past month alcohol use by 10th grade students from 2017 baseline of 23.6% to 21.2% by 9/29/2023. Strategy 1: Participate in Red Ribbon Week, meet with student groups, plan and implement positive social norm survey, present survey to school administration, coalition members and community. Distribute social norm messages. Strategy 2: Expand Parents in Partnership registry to provide support to parents and promote no alcohol parties. Strategy 3: Work with law enforcement with youth focus group concerns and research Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design. Objective 2: Decrease past month marijuana use by 10th grade students from 2017 of 16.9% to 15.2% by 9/29/2023. Strategy 1: Work with healthcare stakeholders to create educational messaging strategy. Research existing local ordinances and conduct an analysis of policy decision makers. Objective 3: Decrease past month prescription pill drug use by 10th grade students from 2017 of 5.1% to 4.6% by 9/29/2023. Strategy 1: Meet with council on aging and other groups to plan education campaign, plan and implement community survey to assess prescription drug use, hold town hall on prescription drug use prevention and plan medication disposal campaign. Strategy 2: Talk to local pharmacists about medication disposal strategies and work with law enforcement for take back days and to increase take back day opportunities.

North Pacific County Washington - Drug Free Communities Support Program: Dedicated to collaboration, Teen Advocacy Coalition serves rural coastal communities for all youth to be safe, healthy and valued. A strong network of members from all sectors, TAC supports and strengthens teen mental health and reduces substance use. We do this by creating community connections, promoting pro-social activities and providing access to and increasing the utilization of resources.