Tuesday, December 3, 2024
12/3/2024
The primary population that will be impacted by this project includes students age 11-20 and their parents. This project will be implemented across Bloomington-Normal with messaging and programming designed to reach over 95% of students attending one of the junior high schools (pop 4,400) and high schools (pop 6,000) and their parents, all students age 18-20 attending each of the three local colleges (pop 27,500) and first year and transfer students’ parents. Additional efforts will be focused on creating community norms that encourage responsible practice. Targeted systems include liquor retail and on premise establishments, area hospitals, medical practices and counseling services. Utilizing the SPF process, efforts will first focus on coalition building strategies. The structure of BN Parents will be redeveloped to include the college branch. The primary focus will be to identify stakeholders who are not current members of the coalition. The strategic plan going into the funding cycle will involve an expansion of the strategies currently evidenced as successful by the drop in marijuana and alcohol use rates amongst the high school population and subsequent drops in juvenile delinquency and school dropout. To further enhance the effectiveness of our strategy, we plan to develop messaging that builds and connects from junior high to high school to college to the community. As ongoing assessment and coalition building takes place the strategic plan will continue to evolve with one of our priorities being to focus on non-enforcement based strategies to address the use of fraudulent IDs and underage access to the bars in Bloomington. Assessment and evaluation will take place on multiple levels from multiple sources to determine progress toward addressing our SPF-PFS prevention priorities and further advance them. Given the expansion of BN Parents’ target population and data needs required for this funding, a full community assessment will need to occur. This will give us both a better picture of what is taking place in our community, including strengths and challenges, and provide baseline data to determine future progress. To best approach this, the Epidemiologist (E) in partnership with the Project Director (PD) and Project Coordinator (PC) will develop an assessment plan that addresses the current environment in all three levels of schooling discussed, including current prevention efforts, and the community. The process and outcome data required by SPF-PFS will be gathered and reported by the PD and PC in SAMHSA’s Performance Accountability and Reporting System (SPARS). Daily logs maintained by PD and PC will allow for accurate process reporting for the quarterly and semi-annual reports. Outcome data required for the annual report will be collected from multiple sources once a year for reporting purposes. Epidemiologist will review data/reports and meet with PD and PC on a quarterly basis.
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