The Rise Up! Glendale Coalition is a community-based substance use prevention coalition serving the city of Glendale in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. The coalition was established in 2020 and is comprised of a multi-sector membership with key partners across public health, public safety and across the continuum of substance use prevention, treatment and recovery. Rise Up! Glendale Coalition’s mission is to "Unite the City of Glendale in preventing substance use among youth while providing the life skills needed to RISE UP to their potential."
The Rise Up! Coalition proposes to use a set of community-based strategies and action items to reduce the prevalence and impact of youth alcohol, marijuana, nicotine and opioid use. Strategies to increase community collaboration and coalition capacity include increasing member participation and enhancing skills of the coalition members and key partners through continued and evolving topical trainings on best practices in prevention science. Strategies to reduce youth substance use for the four target substances and associated public health problems include providing information, enhancing skills, providing support, enhancing access/improving connections and changing consequences. Promoting youth coping and resiliency, addressing perceived risk, increasing the frequency and quality of caregiver-child communication and reducing access to the target substances are at the core of our program.
Short-term outcomes include increasing collaboration and diversity of our coalition, knowledge and skills related to prevention science, and school-based prevention programming. Intermediate outcomes include increasing perceived risk, decreasing access, increasing parent-child communication and increasing youth resiliency skills. Long-term outcomes include reducing youth prevalence rates of past 30 day use of alcohol, marijuana, nicotine and opioids, as well as overdose rates among youth and young adults in the Glendale area.