Saturday, May 11, 2024
5/11/2024
The Elijah Network Family and Community Alliance, Inc. d.b.a South Dade One Voice Community Coalition (OVCC) intends to work in collaboration with the targeted neighborhoods located in the south Miami-Dade, Florida community to increase community collaboration and decrease youth substance use/abuse. Our targeted areas consist of: West Perrine on the north (33157, pop. 66,581) to Naranja/Modello (33032, pop. 58,862) on the south. OVCC currently is serving West Perrine, and if funded would like to expand our targeted focus to include Goulds (33170, pop. 17,827) and Naranja/Modello (33032). The demographic makeup of these three zip codes are: Caucasian-44.28%, African American-31.97% and Hispanic-48.15%. OVCC follows the Strategic Prevention Framework to implement CADCA's Seven Strategies for Community Change. The measurable objectives that will be accomplished to increase community collaboration are to increase capacity of the coalition by 15%, by providing training for community members, coalition staff and volunteers, as measured by attendance, surveys, and/or analytical data through impressions and to increase coalition knowledge and skills by 10% through participation in professional development activities in order to implement policy-based community-level approaches as measured through attendance, participant survey/evaluation, needs assessment report. OVCC's measurable objectives that will be accomplished to decrease youth substance use/abuse prevalence rates are to decrease alcohol and marijuana use among middle and high school youth in the "Hotspot" zip codes (33170, 33157, 33032) and surrounding areas by 2% (baseline and targets to be determined from 2018 Florida Youth Substance Abuse Survey and 2019 Pride Surveys conducted by the coalition); measured by past 30-day use from surveys. Strategies that OVCC intends to use are parent and youth cafe's, town hall meetings, SAMHSA's "Talk, They Hear You" campaign, SPORT Prevention Plus Wellness strategies, Sticker Shock campaigns, Spring Break Safe Haven and various multi-media, marketing and program outreach outlets and materials.
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