Saturday, November 23, 2024
11/23/2024
The Salmon Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition is comprised of 12 different sectors of the community that come together to address community needs through collaboration. Its focus is the prevention and reduction of youth substance abuse. SSAPCO’s ultimate goal is to become a change agent in the lives of community members to help bring about healthier beliefs, perceptions, knowledge and behavior regarding substance abuse. The coalition serves Salmon, Idaho, a community of 3,052, city, and 7735 County. The goals of the coalition are to establish and strengthen community collaboration in support of local efforts to prevent youth substance abuse. The coalition will achieve its goals by implementing comprehensive strategies, which include providing information, including assemblies, media campaigns, a film festival, photo voice, Leadership & Law Enforcement meeting for community leaders and Town Hall meetings; building skills, including teaching parenting skills, classes, newsletters and website parenting tips; providing support, including alternative to drinking activities for youth, building a strong youth leadership team through training to plan and implement peer to peer and student to community substance abuse projects; enhancing access and reducing barriers, including law enforcement at student events, sticker shock campaigns, a billboard and banners at key events; changing consequences, including improving the enforcement of underage drinking, DUI and social hosting laws, encouraging consistent judicial, home and school consequences; altering physical design by encouraging law enforcement at all students events and encouraging adult chaperons at youth parties; modifying and changing policy, including enforcement and upgrades to school substance abuse policies, city and county policies, stressing the importance of consistent consequences and a clear, unified message throughout the community. Salmon Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition’s most important partner is Salmon’s youth. Salmon’s Drug-Free Youth not only plan alternative activities such as the New Year’s movie night, or Halloween Glow Dance, for 8-12th grade students, but it also is key in planning peer to peer substance abuse prevention projects such as The Mannequin Challenge and Every 15 Minutes, and youth to community projects such as the Reality Party for Parents and Photo Voice. The Drug-Free Youth exemplify a drug-free lifestyle, and demonstrate how much fun and personal freedom come with living that lifestyle. As Salmon’s community and youth become partners in prevention, beliefs and norms will change and the community of Salmon will move closer to realizing its vision of becoming a vibrant, healthy community, free of substance abuse by striving to promote a healthy environment that decreases youth substance abuse through education, empowerment and healthy alternatives.
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