BYDC Drug-Free Community - BYDC Drug-Free Community Project will support the Bonneville Youth Development Council's mission is to lower substance abuse among youth in Bonneville County through promoting positive involvement, prevention measures, and community collaboration. With significant support and representation across all sectors of the community, the focus will be to reduce youth alcohol, marijuana, and prescription drug abuse. We will increase youth, parent, peer, and community perception of harm, increase parent education, reduce youth in the juvenile justice system, and connect with local businesses to provide more drug-free alternatives for young people in Bonneville County, Idaho.
The BYDC Drug-Free Community Project has two goals; the first is to increase community collaboration by increasing membership, providing leadership opportunities for youth, strengthening coalition capacity and creating sustainability. The second goal is to reduce youth substance abuse, by increasing perception of harm, reducing access and enhancing youth resiliency skills.
Prevention projects will include such things as compliance checks, server training, prescription take-back events, youth OTC classes, lockbox education, social norm campaigns, parenting classes, in addition to providing information and resources. The first objectives of the project aim to change marijuana perception of harm for Bonneville County youth age 12-18 by a 3% decrease for slight or no risk, increase youth perception on parent disapproval by 5%, and decrease 30-day use by 2%. Second objectives will reduce youth access to alcohol by lowering retailer compliance check failure rates by 25% and increasing participation in server training by 13%. Third objectives assure that we will increase the number of drugs collected in take-back events, change the perception of risk for prescriptions by 2%, and increase youth who believe misusing prescriptions is very wrong by 3%.
The population of Bonneville County is 112,232, with 50.2% being female and 49.8% male. With regards to ethnicity and race, 83.5% is white, 12.8% is Hispanic or Latino, 0.56% is African American, 0.82% is Asian, 0.76% is American Indian and Alaska Native, 5% is other. Our Hispanic population is increasing yearly. Idaho is the fastest growing state in the nation with a 2.2% growth per year. Most BYDC prevention programs target secondary school youth, but with the implementation of OTC Medicine Misuse classes and parent education classes, the BYDC Drug-Free Community Project will have an impact on 22,798 youth between our two school districts.
