Friday, May 9, 2025
5/9/2025
Hempstead Prevention Coalition - In the heart of Nassau County, New York – one of the nation’s wealthiest counties and the birthplace of America’s iconic suburb, Levittown - the Village of Hempstead has struggled for generations. Bordered by predominately white communities lauded for their strong performing public schools, low crime rates and high median incomes; the ethnically diverse Village of Hempstead (46.8 % of its residents are Black and 46.9% are Hispanic) is an urbanized suburban community challenged by multiple reminders of racism and poverty. As New York’s oldest and most densely populated village, our village grapples with drug and alcohol misuse, gang violence supported by the illegal sale of drugs and firearms, unemployment, health disparities, difficulties with acculturation, low graduation and high drop-out rates that compromise the well-being of 55,806 residents and the futures of nearly 15,000 children and youth. The Village needs help but equal to its challenges are the community’s political, educational, civic, religious, and social service sectors who care deeply. For more than six months, in the meeting room of a counseling clinic, the classroom of an after-school program and the utility room of a community center, more than 25 community leaders including young people, parents, educators, nonprofit organizations, and local officials have met under the banner of the Hempstead Prevention Coalition (HPC). With the management of Family and Children’s Association (FCA), a recognized leader in social service innovation and provision with its own decades-long history serving Hempstead, the HPC has laid the cornerstone of a community-inspired, data-driven substance misuse prevention initiative. Targeted outreach and education, a comprehensive assessment of the nature and extent of substance misuse in the community and evidence-based interventions tailored to the specific concerns – alcohol and marijuana- will be implemented by a team of dedicated volunteers. Collectively, they are committed to sweeping, fundamental change based on their unwavering belief that the community has as many assets as it has challenges. That is the spirit of the Hempstead Prevention Coalition (HPC) – and the intent of this application - to build on the strengths and diversity of the Village of Hempstead to reduce substance misuse and improve the lives and protect the futures of its young people
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