Thursday, November 21, 2024
11/21/2024
The ALL Together coalition serving the Upper Valley of New Hampshire and Vermont is applying for the Sober Truth STOP Act Grant. The STOP funding will allow the regional coalition to expand current initiatives and begin new strategies to reduce underage drinking. This grant would support best practices in alcohol prevention for the coalition’s focus population of 1,719 high school age youth in four high schools, and over 1,433 middle school age youth in six middle schools in the Upper Valley. If funding is awarded, the goals of ALL Together is to decrease rates of 30-Day alcohol use among high school students in our region by: providing information, education and training; through policy change efforts affecting ease of access, and norms. We will do this by focusing on the following objectives: increasing the perception of parent disapproval of alcohol use; decreasing adult attitudes favorable toward youth alcohol use; increasing the perception that binge drinking is harmful; decreasing youth access. All of these objectives will be measured by the Vermont and New Hampshire Youth Risk Behavior Survey. All Together has identified the following strategies and interventions to accomplish this goal: provide information and education via multi-media social marketing campaigns, One Choice, “Talk. They Hear You,” and Don’t Serve Teens to parents, youth, and community across the region to strengthen protective parental social norms, challenge youth use norms, and spotlight social host liability. Strengthen school and community policies related to substance use violations and improve the quality of policy implementation; utilize Town Hall events to gain feedback from the communities on underage drinking issues and utilize this feedback to implement change; strengthen collaboration among communities and state and local governments to reduce alcohol use among youth and young adults. Estimated number of people to be served annually as a result of the award of this grant: 3,152.
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).
