Wednesday, January 15, 2025
1/15/2025
Through the proposed Strategic Prevention Framework - Partnerships for Success (SPFPFS) project, Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc. (CITC) will collaborate with new and longstanding partners in utilizing SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) to address underage drinking among Alaska Native and American Indian youth (ages nine to 20) living in Anchorage, Alaska. CITC is a mature tribally-operated social services agency with an extensive history providing substance abuse prevention, treatment, and recovery services to Alaska Native and American Indian people in Alaska’s Cook Inlet region. There is a profound need for the proposed strategic enhancement of Anchorage’s infrastructure. It will increase capacity in our youth-serving systems and agencies to implement and sustain highly effective prevention services specifically designed to benefit Alaska Native and American Indian young people. Anchorage is an ideal site for heightened systems collaboration. The city’s diversity, complexity, and role as a temporary and permanent migration site for rural Alaska Native families means that systemic collaboration in Anchorage further impacts families originating throughout the state, and further, prevention-focused integration of the Anchorage system of care will also simultaneously integrate and cross-train providers who additionally serve non-Native youth. In alignment with SAMHSA’s funding opportunity, CITC will use a stakeholder-determined, data-driven approach to identify and fund opportunities to increase infrastructure capacity enhancing alcohol abuse prevention efforts serving our high need, at-risk population of focus, Alaska Native and American Indian (AN/AI) youth, ages nine to 20. Proposed project goals and objectives include – GOAL 1: Implement the five steps of the SAMHSA Strategic Prevention Framework in Anchorage. Objective 1.1: Between Months 1 and 3, conduct/update a Community Needs Assessment identifying and prioritizing problems related to alcohol use by AN/AI youth ages nine to 20 in Anchorage. Measured by: Final CNA. Objective 1.2: Between Months 1 and 5, build and mobilize local resources and readiness to address identified prevention needs. Measured by: Contracts for services executed with community agencies. Objective 1.3: Between Months 6 and 7, engage key stakeholders in a strategic planning process regarding alcohol use by AN/AI youth ages nine to 20 in Anchorage. Measured by: Final plan. Objective 1.4: Between Months 8 and 60, implement the comprehensive evidence-based prevention approach selected through the community planning process. Measured by: Documentation of and fidelity reporting on identified evidence-based approach. Objective 1.5: Between Months 8 and 60, evaluate the ongoing and cumulative outcomes achieved through implementation of the community-wide prevention approach and Objectives 1.1-1.4. Measured by: To be determined by parameters of identified evidence-based approach.
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