Our real focus is programs for youths already at high risk for having problems. Statewide, prevention programs covered a wide range of services that helped meet specific community needs, Steele said. She was especially proud of the Abilene Region's All-Stars Prevention Program, run by the Abilene Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse. It is setting a statewide example of how prevention programs should work, she said. Key findings of the audit showed successful efforts to make service providers and programs more accountable for how they spent money and new management controls to safeguard state and federal funds.
Supporters say that is already happening.
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