Friday, April 19, 2024
4/19/2024
The NC EYFP Program focuses on opioid prevention education for middle school aged youth and their caregivers in rural North Carolina. The NC 4-H Empowering Youth and Families Program (EYFP) provides intensive relationship and communication education for families that includes research-based information about the impact and statistics related to opioid misuse. The primary goal of the program is to help youth and families make informed, healthy decisions, especially related to substance use and misuse. The NC 4-H EYFP has 4 core elements: 1) the research-based Powerful Families Curriculum which incorporates protective factors identified within trauma-informed literature to strengthen family communication and relationships; the evidence-informed Powerful Communities Curriculum which provides a locally relevant approach to opioid misuse education and is build upon the resilience factors identified in the research literature related to adverse childhood experiences; a family weekend Confluence during which families and their community-based Cooperative Extension educators work together to learn action planning and develop a plan for delivery of a focused opioid prevention event in their respective communities; and the community-based opioid prevention event which is planned and implemented by families in partnership with their Cooperative Extension educators and other community-based organizations. Program Goals include: 1) Reduce the likelihood of youth substance use in rural NC; 2) Caregivers of youth will improve parenting skills to assist youth in making healthy choices; 3) Improving Family Relationships; 4) Empower families to lead community change, thereby leveraging support for healthier lifestyles within those communities. Program Objectives include: 1) Increase youth knowledge related to the potential health impacts of substance use and abuse; 2) Increase youth and family self-efficacy for making healthy decisions related to substance use; 3)Decrease the likelihood of youth participation in substance use or abuse; 4) Increase caregiver knowledge related to the potential health impacts of substance use and abuse; 5) Increase caregivers’ active listening and effective communication with their youth; 6) Increase caregivers’ abilities to identify and deliver appropriate consequences calmly; 7) Increase families’ abilities to communicate and problem solve together; 8) Increase families’ abilities to identify the values that support the family unit; 9) Empower youth and adults to work with community leaders to create change; 10) Educate the public about the impact of substance use in their communities. Overall, the curriculum-based program elements will reach a total of 165 families, up to 660 individuals depending on family size and composition. The community events have the potential to reach up to 1650 individuals in 11 rural communities in North Carolina. The communities targeted in this program are the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and Onslow, New Hanover, Nash, Carteret, Yancey, Montgomery, Brunswick, Burke, Pender and Lee counties.
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