Thursday, December 26, 2024
12/26/2024
The Big Village Coalition STOP Project will enhance the alcohol-specific prevention activities of the Big Village Coalition's Drug Free Communities Action Plan. Specific enhancements will include increasing culturally specific approaches and adding strategies to directly focus on youth perceptions of risk and peer and parental disapproval, as well as alcohol use. The population to be served is youth, ages 12-20, in Multnomah County. The county's youth grow up highly exposed to substance use, especially alcohol and marijuana, impacting youth perceptions of use and accessibility of substances. The project's goal is to reduce youth alcohol use. Measurable objectives to be achieved by September 2026 include: 1) Increase Multnomah County 6th graders' perception of parent disapproval of drinking by 5 percentage points; 2) Reduce the percentage of 11th graders who report having used alcohol in the past 30 days by 5 percentage points within school districts where Big Village has developed youth coalition involvement; 3) Increase the perception of harm of alcohol use among Multnomah County 6th graders by 5 percentage points; and 4) Increase the perception of peer disapproval of underage drinking among Multnomah County 11th graders by 5 percentage points. Strategies and interventions to achieve these objectives and goal include include increasing and diversifying youth participation; conducting an environmental scan of youth alcohol access points in the community; holding annual Town Halls; expanding Big Village's current Keep It Safe campaign to include culturally and linguistically appropriate prevention messaging; developing and hosting trainings for school districts to implement youth-led prevention messaging; creating new and sharing existing prevention messaging; implementing youth-led campaigns in schools; and working with school districts to adopt health curriculums that emphasize local data on underage drinking and evidence-based prevention messaging for youth. Media campaigns will reach at least 5,000 individuals. Campaigns and other interventions in schools will reach approximately 14,000 students in local school districts.
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