Friday, April 4, 2025
4/4/2025
Urban Partnership for Success Collaborative-Miami - The Gang Alternative Urban Partnership for Success Collaborative-Miami (UPSC) Project will synergize local prevention efforts by building and mobilizing an overarching Collaborative coordinating the work of seven existing DFC Coalitions, including FrontLiners Youth Coalition and key stakeholders from 12 community sectors, strategically engaging partners across systems in a collaborative prevention mission to enhance youth outcomes. They will achieve this through a collective effort to strengthen prevention capacity/infrastructure at the community-level. UPSC will be a data-driven catalyst for capacity-building and systems change. UPSC will use the SAMHSA Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) best practice model to further the capacity of Miami's prevention community to more effectively prevent the onset and progression of alcohol, marijuana and opiate use and related problems among persons 9-20. UPSC will target 15 high-risk, inner-city zip codes experiencing significant behavioral health disparities: 33054, 33056, 33127, 33136-38, 33142, 33147, 33150, 33161-62, 33167-69 and 33181. It will coordinate activities with 22 Miami-Dade County Public Schools (elementary, middle and high school) and 2 colleges. Communities engaged include Little Haiti, Liberty City, Brownsville, Overtown-Allapatah, Carol City/Miami Gardens, OpaLocka, North Miami and North Miami Beach, home to more than 683,446 individuals. Close to 20,000 students attend participating schools, 98% of whom are persons of color with 26% Hispanic and 72% African-American, inclusive of a large population of Haitian students. Project goals are: 1) To strengthen alcohol and substance abuse prevention capacity at the community-level; and, 2) To prevent the onset and reduce the progression of alcohol, marijuana and opioid use in youth aged 9-20. The UPSC-Miami will accomplish these goals by using the SPF and SAMHSA's 7 Strategies for Community Change to reduce risk and increase protective factors for youth substance abuse prevention including implementing series of events and activities that improve prevention capacity county-wide. A major emphasis will be to provide data-driven planning directed by a Lead Epidemiologist and achieve needed system and policy change over the 5-year period. Such change will have enduring impact conditions for youth in high risk neighborhoods and will expand the county's data capacity so existing and future prevention work will be more effective. Planned activities include: Gathering, analyzing and publishing local epidemiological and substance abuse data; Using data-driven identification of risk/protective factors; Identifying and acting on needed system and policy changes to "move the needle" positively on youth outcome indicators; Developing and disseminating strong prevention messaging across a broad, multi-cultural Miami-Dade market; Engaging in multi-coalition environmental campaigns; and, Working with the Prevention Technology Transfer Centers to identify, select and provide technical assistance and training for the adoption of effective prevention best practices/strategies countywide. PRIDE Surveys will be used to assess more than 16,000 students during the 5-year grant period, reporting bi-annually the changes in students use, attitudes and norms regarding alcohol, marijuana and opioid use. Over 5-years, the UPSC-Miami will build prevention capacity to reduce behavioral health disparities and achieve a positive move from baseline in the following national outcome measures: A. reduced 30-day alcohol/substance use; B. increased perception of harm or risk of use; C. reductions in age of first use (onset); D. increased perception of disapproval of peers/parents; E. reduction in ATOD suspensions or expulsions; F. reduction in drug/alcohol-related crime/accidents; G. increased # of persons served by prevention activities and increased # of prevention activities occurring.
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