Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery Building Support and Growing Prevention

Prevention Redesign Initiative (PRI)

Purpose-Objectives-Community Selection Process

One Department Vision Mission Core Set of Values

December 15, 2010

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.

One Department Vision Mission Core Set of Values • Build on what works, have a deeper impact, better measure those impacts, and build support for additional investments in prevention.

PRI Objectives

One Department Vision Mission Core Set of Values • • • • 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).

One Department Vision Mission Core Set of Values

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

PRI Objectives

One Department Vision Mission Core Set of Values • • • • • 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

One Department Vision Mission Core Set of Values

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

One Department Vision Mission Core Set of Values

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

One Department Vision Mission Core Set of Values

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

Community Selection Timelines

One Department Vision Mission Core Set of Values • • • • 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.

One Department Vision Mission Core Set of Values

Additional information

• For forms, maps, data and community selection packet: www.TheAthenaForum.org

• Contact: