Thursday, December 26, 2024
12/26/2024
The Peoria Primary Prevention Coalition (3PC) is a community-based substance use prevention coalition serving the city of Peoria 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. The 3PC’s mission is "To empower Peoria's youth to make positive life choices and choose to live a drug-free lifestyle.” 3PC proposes to use a set of community-based strategies and action items to reduce the prevalence and impact of youth alcohol, marijuana, nicotine, opioid and psychostimulant 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 five 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, increasing youth involvement in prosocial activities 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 prosocial involvement and resiliency skills. Long-term outcomes include reducing youth prevalence rates of past 30 day use of alcohol, marijuana, nicotine, opioids and psychostimulants; reducing substance use disparities among our youth related to mental health, coping and resiliency factors; and reducing overdose rates among youth and young adults in the Peoria area.
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