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Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery Building Support and Growing Prevention

Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery Building Support and Growing Prevention Prevention Redesign Initiative (PRI ) Purpose-Objectives-Community Selection Process December 15, 2010. Purpose.

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Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery Building Support and Growing Prevention

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  1. Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery Building Support and Growing Prevention Prevention Redesign Initiative (PRI) Purpose-Objectives-Community Selection Process December 15, 2010 Washington State Department of Social & Health Services

  2. Purpose • To provide effective prevention services to reduce alcohol, tobacco and other drug use by our state’s youth, and the related negative consequences. • To leverage resources and concentrate our efforts. • Build on what works, have a deeper impact, better measure those impacts, and build support for additional investments in prevention. Washington State Department of Social & Health Services

  3. PRI Objectives Selected communities will: • Have a community coordinator • Implement proven strategies through a prevention coalition • Use evidence-based capacity building • Implement environmental and targeted direct services (programs, policies and practices). Washington State Department of Social & Health Services

  4. PRI Objectives Selected communities will: • Partner with school-based prevention/intervention specialists • Evaluate chosen programs, policies and community-level change, and participate in statewide evaluation. • Support state efforts to reduce youth access to tobacco and comply with federal Synar regulations Washington State Department of Social & Health Services

  5. PRI Objectives State level objectives include: • Distributing funding statewide to communities working with county governments , OSPI and educational service districts (ESDs) • Establishing performance-based contracts • Workforce Development • Providing Technical Assistance • Preparing for Health Care Reform Washington State Department of Social & Health Services

  6. Defining Communities • Communities must be described in geographic terms or at-risk populations • Have baseline data about substance abuse risk, and ability to measure community-wide change in risk and protective factors and prevalence • Be small enough to make an impact with existing funding and measure change Washington State Department of Social & Health Services

  7. Minimum criteria for community participation • Have a community coalition established by July 1, 2011. • Participate in the Healthy Youth Survey • Have a half-time community coordinator • Have a full-time prevention/intervention specialist Washington State Department of Social & Health Services

  8. Community Selection Process • Communities and schools must show a level of readiness to benefit • Schools are committed to support communities • County must submit an overall community profile Washington State Department of Social & Health Services

  9. Community Selection Timelines • November: Discuss data and community selection/ readiness. • December: final community selection packets provided to participants, community selection process • January: Community selection documents due to DBHR, discuss project deliverables at K20 meeting • February: DBHR review of selected communities, meeting with Cohort 1. Washington State Department of Social & Health Services

  10. Additional information • For forms, maps, data and community selection packet: www.TheAthenaForum.org • Contact: Washington State Department of Social & Health Services

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