Tuesday, May 20, 2025
5/20/2025
COMMUNITY ALIGNMENT OF RESOURCES TEAM - The Erlanger-Elsmere Strategic Prevention Coalition's Community Alignment of Resources Team (CART Team) project will insulate a developing community pipeline of services for 1,647 youth ages 9-20 in the Erlanger-Elsmere community by adding comprehensive alcohol prevention services and infrastructures and providing supports for coordination of the pipeline of services. The project goal is to prevent onset and reduce the progression of substance abuse among youth ages 9-20 in Erlanger-Elsmere, Kentucky. Objectives include: By September 29, 2024, to increase alignment of community resources to prevent alcohol abuse and related problems for youth ages 9-20 in Erlanger-Elsmere, as measured by use of Community Alignment of Resources Tool; and by September 29, 2024, reduce reported 30-day alcohol use among 8th, 10th, and 12th grade youth in Erlanger-Elsmere by 2% in 8th grade (from 8% to 6%); by 3% in 10th grade (from 15% to 12%); by 5% in 12th grade (from 27% to 22%) as measured by the KIP Survey. To accomplish these goals and objectives, the CART Project will use the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) to build a living system of comprehensive, data-driven substance abuse prevention strategies that will meet the required activities in a unified, integrated manner and supply resources to address ethnic, racial, economic, and other disparities. It will integrate new strategies and interventions with existing services to meet the specific, individualized needs of each youth aged 9-20 through meetings of the CART Team and use of the CART Tool. New strategies include: professional development related to underage drinking prevention for teachers and counselors; evidence-based Too Good for Drugs curriculum; additional prevention staff for coordination and implementation of services; school psychologist to conduct Functional Behavioral Assessments and to lead staff in related interventions; support for students who need substance abuse and mental health services but are uninsured; an additional school counselor to provide evidence-based substance abuse prevention support to schools, families and community; CRAFFT assessment by school nurses; individual and group therapy for youth with substance abuse and related problems and juvenile delinquency issues; Handle with Care police-school communication model, and more. The CART Tool and local data, coordinated through SPF, will guide programming and services for each at-risk youth.
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