2005 Pulaski Community Prevention Planning Meeting

1. 2005 Pulaski Community Prevention Planning Meeting May 13, 2005

2. Drug prevention is science when: • It is based on measured substance use rates. • It matches community risk profiles with proven ways to decrease risks. • It measures progress made in strengthening protective factors, decreasing risk factors and decreasing substance abuse.

3. Risk and Protective Factors • Risk factors: Factors associated with greater potential for drug use/abuse • Protective/resiliency factors: Factors associated with reduced potential for drug use/abuse

4. Risk and Protective Factors • Can affect children’s developmental trajectory or pathway • Can appear at any developmental transition • If not addressed can lead to additional risks and substance use/abuse • Risk and protective factors exist in 5 domains: • Individual, Family, Peer, School, Community

5. Risk and Protective Factors

6. Prevention Planning Principles • Principle 1: • Enhance protective factors and reverse/reduce risk factor • Principle 2: • Address all forms of DA alone or in combination, including underage use of legal drugs • Principle 3: • Address the type of DA problem in the community • Principle 4: • Address risks specific to population characteristics (e.g., age, gender, ethnicity)

7. Prevention Planning Principles • Principle 5 – Family • Family-based programs should enhance family bonding/policies/education, parenting skills, • Principles 6-8 – School • Preschool: Address aggressive behavior, poor social skills • Elementary: Address academic/reading support, self-control, emotional awareness, communication, problem solving, • Junior High: Address study habits, academics, communication, peers, resistance skills, anti-drug attitudes

8. Prevention Planning Principles (cont’d) • Principles 9-11: Community • Programs for general populations at key transition points • Example: junior high progs impact high/low risk youth • Multi-sector approaches • Example: combine family-based, school-based progs • Offer consistent, community-wide, multi-setting programs • Example: deliver same message through clubs, schools, faith-based orgs, media, policies

9. Universal – all persons in a particular group Growing evidence that universal interventions have greater effectiveness for high than low risk populations Selective – groups at high risk Indicated – individuals at high risk LEVELS OF RISK

10. Program Delivery Principles (contd) Research-based programs are cost-effective • $1 investment in prevention = $ 10 savings in treatment

11. Planning for Drug Abuse Prevention • Assessment of • Drug-related and other community problems • Community resources including existing programs • Use of existing data to assess problems and progress • Awareness of community level readiness can help determine next steps

12. Goal 1: Reduce the percentage of PCHS students who report using alcohol, cigarettes, smokeless tobacco and marijuana once or more in the past 30 days by 10% between 2001 and 2006 as reported by the Youth Risk Behavior Survey.

13. Goal 1: Reduce the percentage of PCHS students who report using alcohol, cigarettes, smokeless tobacco and marijuana once or more in the past 30 days by 10% between 2001 and 2006 as reported by the Youth Risk Behavior Survey.

14. During the past 30 days, on how many days did you have 5 or more drinks of alcohol in a row, that is, within a couple of hours.

15. During your life, how many times have you taken prescription medication (Xanax, Lortabs, Oxycontin, Methadone) that was not prescribed for you?

16. During the past 12 months, has anyone offered, sold, or given you illegal drugs on school property?

17. Goal 1: Reduce the percentage of PCHS students who report using alcohol, cigarettes, smokeless tobacco and marijuana once or more in the past 30 days by 10% between 2001 and 2006 as reported by the Youth Risk Behavior Survey. • Community • Maintain, update and implement Pulaski Community Prevention Plan • Sustain Pulaski Community Partners Coalition School • “ALL STARS” in 6th and 7th grade PE/Health classes • “DARE” in all 5th graded classes • “TOO GOOD FOR DRUG” at PES After-School Program • “TOWARD NO DRUG USE” in 9th grade PE/Health classes • “PROJECT CHARLIE’S HOME TEAM” and “PASSPORT” offered to parents/families in every elementary school

18. Goal 1: Reduce the percentage of PCHS students who report using alcohol, cigarettes, smokeless tobacco and marijuana once or more in the past 30 days by 10% between 2001 and 2006 as reported by the Youth Risk Behavior Survey. • Families • “STRENGTHENING FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN 6 – 10”(SFP) • “STRENGTHENING FAMILIES FOR YOUTH 10 – 14” • “PROJECT CHARLIE’S HOME TEAM” AND “PASSPORT” Individual • Provide “booster” skill development and alternative activities during summer to SFP participants • Continue teen activities at Pulaski County Libraries, Pulaski YMCA and Randolph Park • “INTERVENING WITH TEEN TOBACCO USERS” AT PCHS

19. Goal 2: Reduce the rate of founded child abuse and neglect cases in Pulaski county by 10% (from 15.3 per 1000 children ages 0-17 in FY2001) to 13.8 per 1000 by 2006 as reported by the VA Department of Social Services.

20. Goal 2: Reduce the rate of founded child abuse and neglect cases in Pulaski county by 10% (from 15.3 per 1000 children ages 0-17 in FY2001) to 13.8 per 1000 by 2006 as reported by the VA Department of Social Services. • School • “PEACELINE” (domestic violence education by the Women’s Resource Center) in 6th and 9th grade classes Family • Continue Child Health Initiative Partnership (CHIP), providing family support for enrolled families • Explore avenues of increasing avilability of current parenting classes and other science-based programs addressing parenting skills • Continue MOMS, POPS, and TOTS program at Pulaski County Library • Explore offering “GRANDPARENTS as PARENTS” program

21. Goal 3: Reduce the rate of teenage pregnancy in Pulaski County by 10% from 42.6 (per 1000 females ages 15 – 17) in 2001 to 38.3 per 1000 in 2006.

22. Goal 3: Reduce the rate of teenage pregnancy in Pulaski County by 10% from 42.6 (per 1000 females ages 15 – 17) in 2001 to 38.3 per 1000 in 2006. • Community • Encourage the utilization of the Family Planning Clinic at Pulaski County Health Department School • Continue Teen Parent Support Group at PCHS Individual • Continue services to pregnant and parenting teens provided by the Resource Mothers Program (Pulaski County Health Dept.) • Continue “GIRLS EMPOWERED TO MEET SUCCESS” sponsored by the Resouce Mothers Program

23. Goal 4: Reduce the rate of disciplinary incidents in all Pulaski County Schools by 10% (from 11.7% in school year 2002/03 to 10.5% by 2005.06) as reported on the Annual Report of Discipline, Crime and Violence from the VA Dept. of Education. • Community • Explore development of bullying prevention, anger management, and conflict resolution resources for youth in schools and community-based sites School • See objectives for Goal 1

24. Goal 5: Decrease the percentage of school dropouts in Pulaski County by 10% Decrease the percentage of school dropouts in Pulaski County by 10% (from 2.6% in SY 2000/01 to 2.3%) as reported by the VA Department of Education and decrease the percentage of 16 – 19 year olds who are not in school or have a high school diploma (or GED).

25. Goal 5: Decrease the percentage of school dropouts in Pulaski County by 10% Decrease the percentage of school dropouts in Pulaski County by 10% (from 2.6% in SY 2000/01 to 2.3%) as reported by the VA Department of Education and decrease the percentage of 16 – 19 year olds who are not in school or have a high school diploma (or GED).

26. Goal 5: Decrease the percentage of school dropouts in Pulaski County by 10% (from 2.6% in SY 2000/01 to 2.3%) as reported by the VA Department of Education and decrease the percentage of 16 – 19 year olds who are not in school or have a high school diploma (or GED). • Community • Identify model programs and services targeting out-of school youth and develop plan for funding/implementation • Expand Adult Education to serve out-of-school youth under age 18 • Increase awareness of services provided by Literacy Volunteers of the New River Valley School • Utilize Student and Family Counseling Center to refer and provide support to students with emotional and behavioral problems • Increase capacity for pre-school programs, such as Head Start and VA Pre-School Initiative in areas of the county not currently serves • Continue Host mentoring program at Pulaski Elementary School

27. Goal 6: Decrease the percentage of PCHS youth who report “feeling so sad or hopeless almost everyday for two weeks or more in a row that you stopped doing some usual activities” by 20% as reported on the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (from 35% in 2004 to 28% in 2006).

28. Goal 6: Decrease the percentage of PCHS youth who report “feeling so sad or hopeless almost everyday for two weeks or more in a row that you stopped doing some usual activities” by 20% as reported on the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (from 35% in 2004 to 28% in 2006). • Community • Explore and develop plant to implement science-based program to increase youth self-esteem, increase problem solving skills, improving family relations, and decrease depression among youth School • Utilize Student and Family Counseling Center to refer and provide support services to students with emotional and behavioral problems