Acknowledgements

1. Acknowledgements Primary thanks are due to the project staff – Kyoungsun Heo, PhD Candidate in Public Affairs; Ritika Bhawal, MPH; Solomon Briggs; Srinivasa Konchada; Ryan Chopra; and Rachel Roby. Ritika and Kyoungsun devoted a full year to this project; Sri joined as an MPH Department of Applied Health Science intern in the last several months; Ryan (also an MPH intern) and Rachel helped proof in the final weeks. Solomon created maps in the early months. In sum, hundreds of hours of patient and precise work brought this effort to completion. Special thanks to Mary Lay, MPH, CHES, Indiana Problem Gambling Prevention Initiative,for her assistance and support. Special thanks to Desiree Goetze, MPH, Coordinator of the Tobacco Retail Inspection Program, and to Roger Morris, MA, MLS, Information Technology at the Indiana Prevention Resource Center for their assistance. For continued funding and encouragement we thank Dave Bozell, Bureau Chief for Prevention; John Viernes, Deputy Director; Cathy Boggs, Director of the Division of Mental Health and Addictions of the Family and Social Services Administration; Dr. Mohamad Torabi, Chair of the Applied Health Science Department; and Dean David Gallahue, School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation. This third edition of the full County Profiles includes information gathered from multiple agencies and sources, including the Alcohol and Tobacco Commission, the Indiana State Excise Police Tobacco Retailer Inspection Program (TRIP), the Indiana State Police Forensics Laboratory, the Family and Social Services Administration, the Indiana Department of Education, the Indiana Coalition to Reduce Underage Drinking, and the Indiana Business Resource Center. Thanks to all those agencies that make their rich data available to the public. Special thanks to Major Robin Poindexter, State Director of the Indiana Tobacco Retailer Inspection Program (TRIP) and to Alex D. Huskey, Superintendent of the Indiana State Excise Police. Special thanks also to Lisa Hutcheson for the new alcohol compliance check data. The Indiana Prevention Resource Center is entering a new chapter in its history under the leadership of Executive Director, Ruth Gassman, PhD. Plans for expanded services include updating of the Social Indicator System and its integration into the PREV-STAT Service. We thank Dr. Gassman for her vision and her efforts to expand the research applications of the data in PREV-STAT.

2. Dedication This third edition of the PREV-STAT County Profiles is dedicated to the memory of Mr. Vincente Conrad (VC) League, who passed away in December 2005. Over several decades VC inspired thousands of prevention professionals with his grantsmanship expertise and his ability to teach others to write successful grant proposals. His expertise included program planning and proposal writing, management, organizational development, program evaluation, board development, diversity training, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, and violence prevention. VC taught “Program Planning and Proposal Writing” and “Funding and Sustainability” courses at the Indiana Prevention Resource Center and also conducted trainings and seminars across the state and nation. During his career he consulted with over 2,500 organizations across the U.S., Canada, the Bahamas, and U.S. territories. As a trainer with the Grantsmanship Center he taught thousands in more than 200 five-day program planning and proposal writing trainings. In recent years he worked with Vincente & Associates and the Black United Fund of Michigan to evaluate the 100 million dollar federally-funded City of Detroit Empowerment Zone. He also evaluated the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Project for the Hawaii Department of Education Central Oahu District in conjunction with The Hawaii Partners in Research and Evaluation. Recently the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) featured him in their webcast “Securing Federal Funding for Your Coalition.” VC played a major role in Indiana’s successful application for a Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant, the largest prevention award in Indiana history, 11.7 million dollars over the next five years, received in 2005.

3. Dedication VC retired some months ago from Vicente & Associates, Inc., a consulting group based in Hayward, CA, returning to his native Indianapolis. He was chair of the board of directors of Prevention Partnership, Inc., Chicago, IL. VC was a founding member of the American Association of Grant Professionals and also served on its board of directors. Through his fund-raising and that of those he mentored, VC brought millions of dollars to prevention. Through his teaching he passed on his wisdom and grant-writing skills. VC had no children, but he impacted the lives of thousands of youth, whose lives are better because of him. Though we suffer a great loss, VC left a great legacy. VC, we thank you. ____________________________ Largely reproduced from Seitz de Martinez, “Across Our Desk to Yours, Loss and Legacy: VC League’s Passing” (Bloomington: IPRC web site, Dec. 2005)

4. Background This is the third edition, Series 3, of the IPRC PREV-STAT Service GIS in Prevention County Profiles, which includes one volume for each of Indiana’s 92 counties. This edition will join Series 1 and 2 on the IPRC web site. Microsoft PowerPoint was selected as the medium for this report, because PowerPoint facilitates development and gives users access to data and maps not possible with other formats (e.g., Adobe pdf files). Using proper citation, the user can copy maps and tables from the County Profile PP slides for insertion into public presentations, documents, and spreadsheets. For help with this, call the IPRC at 800/346-3077 (IN). This edition offers several enhancements. More direct access to the contents. Instead of a single PowerPoint file, this year's edition features a friendlier table of contents that allows quicker access to sections of the profile.New contour and prism maps. New contour maps (like weather maps) show variation across regions, and prism style 3-dimensional maps dramatically convey data via peaks and valleys.More comparisons and rankings. In the past we provided comparisons of county to state and nation. This year for many variables we have added the county’s rank among Indiana’s counties and Indiana’s rank among US states and the Distrit of Columbia. Complete ranking tables. We are extremely pleased to bring to users, for select variables, tables showing all 92 counties in rank order (see Appendix). New state-level data and program data. New sections of the Appendix include state-level data from the YRBS and from the Indiana Coalition for the Reduction of Underage Drinking alcohol compliance check program. Direct links to complementary resources. We have replaced descriptions with direct links to the web sites that are recommended complementary resources.

5. Background Also on the IPRC web site, the PREV-STAT GIS in Prevention County Profiles Fact Sheet Series presents highlights from the full profiles in 92 data sheets, one per county. Besides providing data, this publication serves a training function. It introduces the IPRC PREV-STAT Service. It familiarizes users with the types of data -- variables, demographics and key risk and protective factors – and ways to interpret them for assessment, planning, fund-raising, and evaluation. It promotes the goals of the Imagine Indiana Together Framework and the Strategic Prevention Framework, encouraging infrastructure development and understanding of how data can be applied to prevention. In addition to being available via the internet, County Profiles can also be made available on CD ROM, upon request.