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Community in Crisis Coalition to Prevent Youth Substance Abuse

Award Number: H79SP080029
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER FOR INJURY PREVENTION AND CONTROL
OPDIV: CDC
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: HEALTH SERVICES
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/30/2022
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 09/29/2027

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Community in Crisis Coalition to Prevent Youth Substance Abuse - COMMUNITY IN CRISIS COALITION TO PREVENT YOUTH SUBSTANCE ABUSE Community in Crisis (CiC) is a coalition of community stakeholders serving five towns, with a population of approximately 40,000, comprising the Somerset Hills in northern Somerset County New Jersey. Our Mission is to lead and unite communities to reduce the incidence and consequences of the misuse of substances among youth through education, prevention, and holistic support in an environment free of stigma. Our Vision is to be a model community for education and prevention of the youth misuse of substances: changing lives, enabling futures. The coalition will work together to prevent and reduce youth substance use by addressing the factors that increase the risk of substance use and promoting the factors that minimize that risk. Using the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF), the substances Community in Crisis will address are nicotine use via e-cigarettes/vape devices and marijuana. Of the 12 community sectors fully engaged with our coalition, the youth leaders have emerged as one of the most energetic, engaged, and influential sectors. Focused recruiting and capacity-building efforts for our Youth Leadership Council (YLC) has created a powerful messenger for the non-use message of these and other substances. YLC provided critical input to the community needs assessment process and led the conceptualization, planning and implementation of a comprehensive prevention campaign, “One Clear Path – A Commitment to Myself, A Commitment to My Health.” This youth-led initiative uses social media to promote substance non-use as a community norm and conveys the risks associated with the use of nicotine, marijuana, and other substances in the vernacular of teens. This innovative campaign is an example of an effort to spotlight teens who avoid substances as a cultural norm. Shifting the culture to normalize non-use is a unifying focus of our programming for parents and the wider community since creating a healthy community for our kids is the responsibility of everyone in the Somerset Hills. We will educate parents and educators about the risk associated with nicotine and marijuana, especially regarding the impact on mental health and the adolescent brain, and coach them on ways to help teens avoid substance use by building coping skills, resiliency, and focusing on their “why,” i.e., what’s most important to them. Other community sectors are involved in creating a healthy environment by limiting the availability of e-cigarettes and marijuana products in retail outlets, reinforcing prevention messaging through signage, and providing healthy activities


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $125,000 )
2021	2021	Community in Crisis, Inc.	9 Church St	BERNARDSVILLE	NJ	07924	SOMERSET	USA	Drug-Free Communities Support Program Grants	00	5	6/18/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$125,000
														Subtotal = $125,000

Issue Date FY: 2020 ( Subtotal = $125,000 )
2020	2020	Community in Crisis, Inc.	2 MORRISTOWN RD	BERNARDSVILLE	NJ	07924	SOMERSET	USA	Drug-Free Communities Support Program Grants	00	1	8/27/2020	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$125,000
														Subtotal = $125,000

Grand Total All Awards = $250,000

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Community in Crisis Coalition to Prevent Youth Substance Abuse

Award Number: H79SP080029

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER FOR INJURY PREVENTION AND CONTROL

OPDIV: CDC

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: HEALTH SERVICES

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/30/2022

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 09/29/2027

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