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Nathan Sindt RPC Region 4 Laura Martell Kelly Wilder Research

How can the Regional Prevention Coordinators help you? Funding for this presentation was provided by the Minnesota Department of Human Services, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division. Nathan Sindt RPC Region 4 Laura Martell Kelly Wilder Research. What challenges do you face promoting

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Nathan Sindt RPC Region 4 Laura Martell Kelly Wilder Research

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  1. How can the Regional Prevention Coordinators help you?Funding for this presentation was provided by the Minnesota Department of Human Services, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division. Nathan SindtRPC Region 4 Laura Martell KellyWilder Research

  2. What challenges do you face promoting ATOD prevention? ?

  3. The regional prevention Coordinators are a community-focused, prevention based initiative. The RPC seeks to build regional relationships, provide training and technical assistance and implement a cohesive state wide prevention effort to build stronger and safer communities. Mission

  4. Meet the RPCs

  5. Seven region map

  6. Who we help • DFC grantees • Planning and Implementation grantees • SPF-SIG grantees • School districts • Public health departments • Law enforcement • Community prevention coalitions

  7. www.rpcmn.org • Screen shot of rpc site

  8. RPC’s have informed and encouraged communities to form stable coalitions that have been able to focus on the needs of youth and young adults to promote ATOD prevention efforts.  They have also provided technical assistance and enhanced collaboration and networking among agencies and different cultural groups and assisted with funding applications. They enrich communities by bringing in speakers and resources to provide accurate and current information to encourage a SPF process within the coalitions. -Prevention specialist

  9. Community Impact Tool • Collects information about communities with whom RPCs have worked with more intensively to learn: • How RPCs engage communities • What type of technical assistance RPCs provideto communities • What outcomes communities have experienced as a result of support and assistance they received from their RPC • Updated semi-annually

  10. Where RPCs work 75 communities 51 counties 7 regions

  11. Assessment • Needs assessment • Community readiness for change • Used five different assessment tools with 11 communities • Data analysis • Helped 52 communities with evaluation or data • Most likely to provide assistance interpreting data from Minnesota Student Survey, Law Enforcement, and other secondary data

  12. Capacity building – coalition and community support • Coalition building and maintenance • RPCs attend coalition meetings in 55 communities • Other community meetings • Attend in 36 communities Including: Drug Task Force; Community Health Board; Prevention Coalitions; Grant Planning; Event Planning; Community Forums; Systems of Care; Youth Groups • RPCs helped 45 communities plan two or more events or meetings

  13. Capacity building – TA with grant applications • Technical assistance with grant applications • 48 communities received help with 59 grants • 43 grants funded • Total funding since 2005: $15,466,391

  14. Capacity building – TA with grant applications • Drug Free Communities (Applied 21/ Funded 11) • P&I (Applied 16/ Funded 9) • SPF-SIG (applied 16/ Funded 6) • Other(Applied 16/ Funded 17 in 11 communities)

  15. Capacity building - training • ATOD related training • Since 2010, RPCs have conducted or participated in 102 trainings in 42 communities • Training topics • Youth prevention work, Project Northland, Substance Abuse Prevention Skills Training(SAPST), Coalition building, Technology and social media in prevention, Prescription drugs, Town hall meetings

  16. Planning and implementing effective programs • Developing logic models • Designing goals, objectives and workplans • Identifying and selecting effective, evidence-based methods and strategies • Troubleshooting difficulties • Maintaining program fidelity

  17. Planning and implementing effective programs • Evidence-based programming • 45 communities received help identifying or implementing evidence-based practices • Types of evidence based programs reported by RPCs • Project Northland (N=36) • Class Action (N=29)

  18. Planning and implementing effective programs • Environmental strategies and policy change • Social host ordinance • 26 communities have enacted or are pursuing • Beverage server training (N=11) • Compliance checks (N=11) • Zero Adult Provider (ZAP)/law enforcement activities (N=8) • Prescription drug collections (N=15) • Positive Community Norms (N=31)

  19. Evaluation • Developing a program evaluation plan • Developing, obtaining and critiquing evaluation tools • Implementing an evaluation plan • Analyzing evaluation results • Presenting and sharing evaluation results

  20. www.evaluATOD.og

  21. For more information

  22. How can the Regional Prevention Coordinators help you? ?

  23. www.rpcmn.orgNathan Sindt320-980-0698nathan@cpyf.orgwww.evaluATOD.orgLaura Martell Kelly651-280-2667laura.martellkelly@wilder.org Need help?

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