Wednesday, April 24, 2024
4/24/2024
The Washington State Strategic Prevention Framework Partnerships For Success (SPF-PFS) Grant will focus on the prevention of underage drinking, marijuana misuse and abuse, as well as vaping use amongst WA youth aged 9-20. The WA Department of Social and Health Services will continue building the capacity of the state’s prevention system using the Community Prevention Wellness Initiative (CPWI) model, which is focused on community coalition-driven planning and strategy implementation. The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery (DBHR) as the Single State Agency, is well positioned and equipped to implement the SPF-PFS. The state based its prevention priorities on data from its State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup, as well as the WA State Prevention Enhancement Policy Consortium’s Substance Use Prevention and Mental Health Promotion Five-Year Strategic Plan, which was updated in November, 2017. The purpose of the proposed SPF-PFS 2018 project is to support the development of eight new CPWI coalitions in underserved communities across the state that are at the highest risk for youth alcohol and other substance use. Through the project strategies, DBHR anticipates serving approximately 500,000 at risk individuals based on age group, and high-need community status, throughout the life of the project. SPF-PFS will support a statewide prevention system that is effective and substantial enough to achieve significant statewide reduction in rates and substance abuse impacts. The goal of SPF-PFS is to strengthen community coalitions in Washington State to expand and enhance their local efforts to successfully implement the strategic prevention framework and proven prevention strategies in order to more effectively and efficiently address substance abuse. We will achieve this through the implementation of our SPF-PFS project’s three key objectives: 1) increase the capacity of high need areas in the state to implement effective substance abuse prevention services, 2) increase technical assistance and training support provided to local high-need communities, and 3) continue to build and enhance the data infrastructure. These objectives will be achieved through the following strategies: funding additional CPWI sites in designated high-need areas of the state, implementing statewide media campaigns focused on underage drinking and/or vaping prevention, hiring additional state level prevention staff, sustaining current training opportunities for prevention providers, working with technical assistance and training experts to build the capacity of communities to address prevention priorities, and continuing to build the prevention data infrastructure through PFS evaluation efforts and continued state level partnerships to generate prevention data reports.
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).
