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Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery

Building Support and Growing Prevention

Prevention Redesign Initiative (PRI) Purpose-Objectives-Community Selection Process

December 15, 2010

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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.

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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).

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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Additional information

• For forms, maps, data and community selection packet:

www.TheAthenaForum.org

• Contact:

Washington State Department of Social & Health Services