Tuesday, May 13, 2025
5/13/2025
Quaboag Hills Prevention Partnership - The Quaboag Hills region is in central and western Massachusetts, comprised of numerous small, rural towns crossing three county lines- Hampden, Hampshire and Worcester Counties. The purpose of the Quabaog HIlls Prevention Partnership (the Partnership) will focus on a cluster of 12 municipalities; Barre, Belchertown, Hardwick, HUbbarston, Monson, New Braintree, North Brookfield, Oakham, Palmer, Ware, Warren and West Brookfield. The Partnership will use the Strategic Prevention Framework in a comprehensive approach, including a mix of evidence-based programs, policies and practices that address community prevention priorities in the region. The Quaboag Hills Prevention Partnership will prevent and decrease the progression of substance use- focusing on the most frequently used problematic substances of alcohol, nicotine and marijuana use- among youth and young adults by implementing evidence based programs, policies, and practices within schools and communities that address the behaviors that lead to initiation and continuation of early substance use. As a result, the Partnership will improve health and social indicators (abstinence from use, employment, housing, criminal justice status) that stem from problematic substance use. To achieve its goal, the Partnership will build, strengthen and sustain coalition capacity for effective substance use prevention in a coordinated, integrated, multi-sector infrastructure at the town and region-wise levels. By the end of the 5-year grant period, September 2025, the Quaboag Hills will; - Have 100% of the school districts trained to deliver the LifeSkills prevention curriculum at the elementary, middle and high school levels and 90% of the youth ages 9-18 will have participated in the LifeSkills substance use prevention curriculum in their schools. -Demonstrate a 10% reduction in the percentage of adolescents (age 12-18) who report using alcohol, nicotine vaping products, and a marijuana in the past 30 days as measured by the Prevention Needs Assessment Survey (PNAS) and Youth Behavior Survey (YRBS) -Demonstrate a 10% reduction in the percentage of young adults (age 19-26) who report using alcohol, nicotine vaping products, and marijuana in the past 30 days as measured by a locally adapted version of the Michigan (Wayne State University) or New York Young Adult Survey on substance use. -At least 2,500 parents, grandparents, and caregivers of youth and young adults will participate in prevention activities designed to increase frequency of parent-youth communications; increase parental monitoring of youth/ young adults' early initiation of substance use; increase perceptions of harm of drug use as measured by prevention activity attendance, surveys, focus groups and interviews.
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