# Presentation: 254501

## Colorado Prevention Partner

***Colorado Prevention Partner***

- Welcome

## Community InfrastructureMeeting ObjectivesMarch 6, 2006

_**Orient**__ _Colorado Prevention Partners to SPF-SIG Requirements
_**Network**_** **and _**Learn**_ from one another

## Introductions

-  and
- Ice Breaker

## Today’s Agenda

**Overview of SPF SIG**
**Expectations/Scope of Work**
**Roles and Responsibilities**
**Break**
**Prevention Policy Board**
**Underage Drinking Prevention **
**Youth Engagement**
**Evaluation Overview**
**School Engagement**
**Wrap-UP**
**Community Specific Questions**

## Expectations 

- and
- Group Norms

## SPF SIG 

**SPF SIG **
**Overview & History**

## for Everyone

**Substance Abuse & Mental Health ****Services Administration**
**    ****Center for Substance Abuse Prevention**
**A Life in the Community...**

**for ****Everyone**

## The Role of Prevention

**To create healthy communities in which people have a quality life:**

**Healthy environments at work & in school**
**Supportive communities & neighborhoods**
**Connections with families & friends**
**Drug and crime-free**

## Role of Government

**The role of the Federal government and States is to...**

***Implement systems***** which  **
***Support community***** efforts to **
***Reduce****** *****substance abuse & **
**   ****related problems**

## COLORADO

**PREVENTION LEADERSHIP COUNCIL**

**Promoting coordinated planning, implementation and evaluation of quality prevention and early intervention services for children, youth and families in Colorado**

## PREVENTION LEADERSHIP COUNCIL

**Colorado Department of Education**
**Colorado Department of Human Services**
**Colorado Department of Law**
**Colorado Department of Public Safety**
**Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment**
**Colorado Department of Transportation**
**Colorado State University/Cooperative Extension**
**University of Colorado Health Sciences Center**
**OMNI Research and Training**
**Southwest Center for Prevention Technology**

## Collaborative Partners

**Colorado Prevention Partners Advisory Council**
**Smart Start Colorado (Early Childhood State Systems Team)**
**Colorado Connection for Healthy Schools (Coordinated School Health Initiative)**
**Assets for Colorado Youth**
**Build A Generation**
**Colorado Alcohol and Drug Educators**
**Colorado State Underage Drinking Prevention Coalition**
**Omega Point International, Inc.**

**Prevention Leadership Council & **
**Interagency Prevention Systems Program**

## Strategic Prevention Framework

**Notes:**
Cooperative Agreement with the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
Award is to the Governor’s Office: $2.3 million a year for five years
The Prevention Leadership Council serves as the grant Advisory Council
Formation of a state epidemiological workgroup
ADAD serves as the manager of the funds
ADAD appointed by Governor’s Office as the lead agency for underage drinking

Cooperative Agreement with the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
Award is to the Governor’s Office: $2.3 million a year for five years
The Prevention Leadership Council serves as the grant Advisory Council
Formation of a state epidemiological workgroup
ADAD serves as the manager of the funds
ADAD appointed by Governor’s Office as the lead agency for underage drinking

## Colorado Prevention Partners

**Cooperative Agreement**
**Awarded to the Governor’s Office: **
**$2.3 million a year for five years**
**The Prevention Leadership Council serves as the grant Advisory Council**
**ADAD **
**appointed by Governor’s Office as the lead agency for underage Formation of a state epidemiological workgroup drinking**
**serves as the manager of the funds**

**Colorado Prevention Partners**

## CPP Project Goals

**Reduce substance abuse-related problems in the communities**
**Build prevention capacity at the state and community levels**
**Build partnerships between the state and communities**

**CPP Project Goals**

**Colorado Prevention Partners**

## Public Health Approach 

Data-Driven Strategic Planning Process to inform decisions

Outcomes Based Prevention

**Data-Driven Strategic Planning Process to inform decisions**
**Outcomes Based Prevention**

**Key Principles of the SPF**

## 

Levels
Establish baseline
Trends
Over time
Patterns
By age, gender, race/ethnicity

**Levels**
**Establish baseline**
**Trends**
**Over time**
**Patterns**
**By age, gender, race/ethnicity**

_**Data **__**Analysis**_

**Notes:**
Systematic, analytical thinking to the causes and consequences substance use

Promote data-driven decision making at all stages in the SPF

## Communities Invited to Participate

**Urban:**** ****Denver, Mesa, Pueblo, Weld**
**Rural****:  ****Alamosa, Garfield, Prowers, Rio Grande**
**Frontier:****  ****Costilla, Gunnison, Kit Carson, Las ****	****	****	****      Animas, Saguache**
**Tribal Community****: ****Ute Mountain Ute Tribe**

## Think sustainability from the beginning
Sustain outcomes, not just programs

**Think sustainability from the beginning**
**Sustain outcomes, not just programs**

**Sustainability**** **

**Notes:**
Look to the system to sustain outcomes

Sustain prevention by making it everyone’s job

## Cultural Competence/Responsiveness

**    ****Meets the Needs of the People with whom**
** ****	****	****	****You Are Working**

**Cultural Competence/Responsiveness**

**Notes:**
Eliminates service & participation disparities
Improves effectiveness & quality of  programs, policies and practices

## Using data to determine...

population needs, resources, and readiness
the magnitude of substance abuse 
the consequences of identified substance abuse problems in the community 

**       **

**Using data to determine...**
**population needs, resources, and readiness**
**the magnitude of substance abuse **
**the consequences of identified substance abuse problems in the community**** **

## Engage Key Stakeholders 
Assess community the prevention system 
Building coalitions
Build on and improve the existing prevention infrastructure
Leveraging resources

**Assess community the prevention system **
**Building coalitions**
**Build on and improve the existing prevention infrastructure**
**Leveraging resources**

**                 ****Capacity  Building****                    ****Mobilize communities & resources**** **

## Planning 

**Planning **

**Substance-related problems**

**Intervening Factors**

**Evidence -Based Programs,**
**Policies,**
**and Practices**

**Notes:**
Community Level Factors
Availability of substances
Promotion of substances
Social Norms regarding use
Enforcement of Policies and Social Norms

Individual Level Factors
Perceptions of risk
Perceptions of harm

## EVALUATIONMonitor progress and impact on selected change indicators 

**Programs/Policies/Practices**
** ****Long Term Outcomes – Behavior Changes (NOMS)**
**Community Change**
-    **Incidence & Prevalence Rates (Survey Data)  **

**Notes:**
Inputs ($,Time, Resources)               
   - Outputs (Numbers – Served &Programs )
   - Short Term Outcomes – Knowledge, 
     Attitudes/Beliefs, Skills

## National Outcome Measures(incomplete list)

**ATOD-related suspensions/expulsions**
**Consequences of ATOD use in workplace**
**Attendance over Enrollment**
**Alcohol-related car crashes**
**Drug-related arrests***
**Alcohol and drug related arrests***

## You Make the Difference

## Expectations 

**Expectations **
**and **
**Scope of Work**

## Pair/Triad Discussion

**Turn to your community partner or link up with another community to discuss the following questions:**
**       ****What is more clear as a result of this     **
**       ****information?**
**       ****What questions remain?**

## Roles and 

**Roles and **
**Responsibilities**

## WHO DO WE ASK ?

**Fiscal Agent**

**Community **
**Contact/**
**Coordinator**

**Local **
**Evaluator**

**OMNI**

**ADAD**

**Community**

**Fiscal **
**Questions**

**SPF/SIG**
**Questions**

**Evaluation**
**Questions**

**RPS**

## Pair/Triad Discussion

**Turn to your community partner or link up with another community to discuss the following questions:**
**       ****What is more clear as a result of this     **
**       ****information?**
**       ****What questions remain?**

## Break time

- Be back in 15 minutes

##  Prevention Policy Boards 

** ****Prevention Policy Boards **
**and **
**Coalitions **

## Small Group Discussion

**Turn to your community partner or link up with another community to discuss the following questions:**
**       ****What is more clear as a result of this     **
**       ****information?**
**       ****What questions remain?**

##  Underage Drinking Prevention 

** ****Underage Drinking Prevention **
**and**
** ****Youth Engagement**

## Pair/Triad Discussion

**Turn to your community partner or link up with another community to discuss the following questions:**
**       ****What is more clear as a result of this     **
**       ****information?**
**       ****What questions remain?**

##  Evaluation Overview

** ****Evaluation Overview**

## Small Group Discussion

**Turn to your community partner or link up with another community to discuss the following questions:**
**       ****What is more clear as a result of this     **
**       ****information?**
**       ****What questions remain?**

## School Engagement

**School Engagement**

## Small Group Discussion

**Turn to your community partner or link up with another community to discuss the following questions:**
**       ****What is more clear as a result of this     **
**       ****information?**
**       ****What questions remain?**

## Wrap-up 

*Wrap-up *
*and *
*Evaluation*