Sunday, May 5, 2024
5/5/2024
Allies for Substance Abuse Coalition in Hancock County Iowa is a coalition in North Central Iowa that was formed in 2012 to work on Youth Substance Use Prevention. We currently have 12 community sectors involved with at total of 22 active members. In addition, we have two student led coalitions, one in each school district with a total of 58 youth members. ASAP will use DFC grant funding to assess, build capacity, plan, implement, and evaluate ways in which we can change the cultural norm around youth substance use in Hancock County. We do that through the use of 7 Strategies the affect community level change; 1) Provide information including educational presentations, workshops, public service announcements, and other media. 2) Enhance Skills through workshops, seminars, activities designed to increase the skills of the participants. 3) Provide Support by creating opportunities to support people to participate in activities that reduce risk or enhance protection. 4) Enhance access/reduce barriers by improving systems and processes to increase the ease, ability, and opportunities to utilize systems and services. 5) Changing Consequences through increasing or decreasing the probability of a specific behavior that reduces risk or enhances protection by altering the consequence for performing behavior. 6) Changing Physical Design or structure of the environment to reduce risk or enhance protection. 7) Modify/Change policies. Our members are taking ownership in raising the protective factors and reducing the risk factors within the sector they have influence, live, and work in and have a plan to expand on those throughout the county.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).
