Tuesday, April 23, 2024
4/23/2024
LYFT is a community anti-drug coalition and Drug Free Communities grantee that serves the Pennsbury School District, in Bucks County Pennsylvania. This Project "Pennsbury STOPS Underage Drinking," is a multi-faceted approach designed to achieve population level change around Underage Drinking through a broad and enduring media campaign, additional training forlocal law enforcement, training and support for sports coaches, and information dissemination.LYFT encompasses four municipalities: Lower Makefield Township, Yardley Borough, FallsTownship and Tullytown Borough in Lower Bucks County, Pennsylvania. As a coalition, LYFT's goals are to preventand/or reduce substance youth by youth, through reducing risk factors that encourage substance use and by increasing protective/resiliency factors that buffer youth from substance use. To achieve these goals, LYFT will implement the following strategies under the STOP grant opportunity to reduce and/or prevent underage drinking among our youth: 1). Develop and implement a comprehensive and sustainable media marketing plan with the goal of promoting ongoing messaging to our community about underage drinking; These messages will be disseminated via a variety of mass media to reach as deeply into the community as possible 2). Provide training and support on underage drinking to local sports team coaches of both schoolbased athletic teams and community-based leagues. 3). Provide support and training to local police departments on specialty issues related to underage drinking, and 4). Develop and Implement parent education programs specifically about Underage Drinking, which increase parents' knowledge and understanding of true norms of use and appropriate prevention approaches. Over the life of this four-year grant, we will reach a total of 11,000 youth and 40,000 community members. We will evaluate our efforts under the STOP grant utilizing both process and outcome (qualitative and quantitative) measures.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).
