Wednesday, April 30, 2025
4/30/2025
Community Advocates Inc. STOP Act Grant - The Milwaukee County Substance Abuse Prevention (MCSAP) coalition, organized by Community Advocates Inc., is honored to meet the goals of the Drug Free Communities Support Program to prevent and reduce substance use among youth by addressing community factors in Milwaukee's 53206 Zip code. We are grateful to have received a second five-year DFC grant in 2020 and STOP Act funding from 2017-2020. Community Advocates' proposed STOP Act project will prioritize low-income African American youth ages 12-20 living in the 53206 Zip code neighborhoods of Amani and Lindsay Heights. They make up the vast majority of the 3,872 youth between the ages of 12 and 20 living in our priority neighborhoods. The Amani and Lindsay Heights residents face extreme, longstanding, structural and systemic disparities not seen in other parts of the city and, unfortunately, generational trauma and substance use has been normalized. With our FY2023 STOP Act funding we seek to enhance our work by focusing on environmental factors, most prominently the retail environment in the 53206 community, to reduce opportunities for underage drinking. Preliminary scans show that alcohol retailer density is disproportionately high in our priority neighborhoods and youth have easy access to alcohol within these stores. We seek to scan 75% of the alcohol retailers in 53206 over the course of this grant and to utilize this data internally as a coalition to build our infrastructure and capacity and to present it to the community, stakeholders, and elected officials. Ultimately, the new data and community awareness will help to reduce behavioral health disparities in this under-served community.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).