Friday, December 27, 2024
12/27/2024
The PCSAC Drug Free Community Coalition is a coalition made up of community representatives who have gathered to establish and strengthen community collaboration in support of local efforts to prevent youth substance use. The coalition will achieve its goals by implementing a series of strategies designed to improve the overall operations of the coalition as a sustainable mechanism for positive change in the community and to increase the knowledge, skills and abilities of youth and adults that support healthy, drug-free lifestyles. The coalition and its many partners will engage in: 1. Enhancing coalition leadership skills, 2. Promoting Positive Youth Development Activities, 3. Alcohol, Marijuana, and Prescription Drug Awareness Education, 4. Substance Abuse Prevention Media Campaign, 5. Engaging youth in the development of solutions to substance abuse, 6. Improving access to substance abuse treatment services, 7. Developing the substance abuse resistance and refusal skills of youth, 8. Conducting emphasis patrols to better manage access to alcohol and marijuana by youth, 9. Improving, promoting, and adopting policies that support substance abuse prevention and swift access to treatment for youth and their families, and 10. Launching and maintaining an annual prevention media campaign. These efforts will, over the period of 5 years, work to reduce 30-day marijuana Use among 12th grade students from the current 2017 baseline of 21.6% to 17% and reduce 30-day alcohol Use among 12th grade students from the current 2017 baseline of 34.4 to 27.5% and reduce 30-day prescription dug use among 8th grade students from the current baseline of 3.6% to less than 1% by 2023 as measured by the Indiana Youth Survey.
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