Tuesday, May 13, 2025
5/13/2025
Community Alliance: Hales Corners and Greendale Communities Drug Gree Communities Grant - Project abstract Community Alliance Hales Corners and Greendale Communities is a community-based coalition, that is working to enhance collaboration between community members, partners and stakeholders to reduce youth substance misuse, with the following substances; marijuana, alcohol, and nicotine, in Hales Corners and Greendale. Our coalition is using a variety of methods, based on the seven strategies framework to do this, including providing information, building skills, providing support, enhancing access/reduce barriers, changing consequences, changing the physical design of the communities, and educating/informing about policy. The outcomes that Community Alliance strives to achieve is to reduce stigma around substance misuse in the community and have better outcomes with our performance measurements from the YRBS related to the substances we are focusing on. During this funding period, Community Alliance plans to sustain previous programming that has made an impact in our jurisdiction, such as Hales Corners Family Game Night and Greendale Family Wellness Event, and implement and promote new activities such as working with festival and event leaders in the community for safe serving, collaborating with the municipal judges, and providing more educational opportunities for coalition members and community members. During the five-year funding period, Community Alliance will work towards sustainability of our coalition by creating a leadership board to help guide decisions, continue to build partnerships, and educate the community to reduce substance misuse.
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