Wednesday, April 2, 2025
4/2/2025
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Partnerships For Success (CNMI PFS) - The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation's Community Guidance Center serves as the primary behavioral health agency to all the islands of the Commonwealth. This locally based center seeks to assist, educate, and collaborate with communities about the primary problems and risk factors associated with underage drinking, youth marijuana use, and adult binge drinking throughout the various islands of the CNMI most especially on the islands of Rota, Tinian, and the capital island of Saipan. The main prevention branch located on Saipan will serve as the central operations location of the CNMI PFS project. The Northern Mariana Islands have distinct indigenous cultures, Chamorros and Carolinians, but flairs of the many occupations have left their marks on the people. The program's staff have training and experience in cultural sharing of the ethnic diversity of the islands which include the new diversity of cultures that call these islands home. Pacific Islanders of Micronesia, Filipinos, Japanese, Chinese, Koreans and Bangladesh populations, along with the island's indigenous cultures, serve as the primary demographic to be served. The project seeks to continue to support the dissemination and inter-agency sharing modeled after the Strategic Prevention Framework process, employing traditional methods of teamwork, consensus-based systems, and education from a variety of sources including both academic and cultural to implement effective strategies to reach prevention goals. The CNMI PFS project intends to achieve, through its state strategic plan and data driven outcomes approach, the following goals: (1) prevent and reduce underage drinking and (2) prevent youth marijuana use in the CNMI, and (3) provide information dissemination and prevention education that are SPF informed and culturally relevant to the Rota and Tinian communities. In order to successfully meet the prioritized needs for the CNMI, the project will work with collaborative assessments, build capacity, utilize strategic planning, implement evidence-based and locally documented practices/programs, and evaluate state and community outcomes informed by various data methods. The project seeks to reduce underage drinking and youth marijuana 30-day use by 5%, and provide information and dissemination and prevention to approximately 50% of the Rota and Tinian's adult population by the end of the 5-year project. This process is grounded in cultural competence and sustainability integral to prevention endeavors of the CNMI for locally appropriate data drive outcomes, sustained in state and community partnerships.
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