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Priority One A Community Action Plan

The Health Foundation of South Florida. Priority One A Community Action Plan. The Health Foundation of South Florida. Priority One A Community Action Plan. Community Prevention Plan Progress Report 2002. The Health Foundation of South Florida. Miami-Dade County.

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Priority One A Community Action Plan

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  1. The Health Foundation of South Florida Priority OneA Community Action Plan

  2. The Health Foundation of South Florida Priority OneA Community Action Plan

  3. Community Prevention Plan Progress Report 2002 The Health Foundation of South Florida

  4. Miami-Dade County Community-Based Prevention

  5. Why the Community Approach? • Community-wide efforts: • Impact entire social environment • Develop a broad base of support • Promote collaboration • Bring lasting results

  6. GOAL 2:Reduce the Demand for Drugs GOAL 3: Reduce the Supply of Drugs GOAL 4: Reduce the Suffering and Costs of Illegal Drug Use GOAL 1:Protect Our YOUTH

  7. Miami-Dade County Community Prevention GOAL 1: Protect Miami-Dade’s Youth from Substance Abuse

  8. Priority OneA Community Action Plan Reduce levels of substance abuse among Miami-Dade County youth by 50 percent before 2006. 1995 2005

  9. Priority OneCommunity Prevention Plan • Will Reduce Local Youthful Substance Abuse • There’s a Role for Everyone • Directed at factors placing Dade Youth at Risk

  10. Priority OneCommunity Prevention Plan Includes 16 Targeted Objectives and Performance Measures of Effectiveness

  11. Factors Placing Miami-Dade County Youth At Risk for Substance Abuse • HOST –The User • Behavioral Risks What people do • Attitudinal Risks and Perceptions What they think and believe • AGENT – The Substances • The Drugs • The Dealers • ENVIRONMENT • Social Norms • Laws and Regulations

  12. Priority OneA Community Action Plan

  13. Priority OneA Community Action Plan

  14. Priority OneA Community Action Plan

  15. Priority OneA Community Action Plan

  16. The Miami Coalition SchoolSurvey • All Public and Parochial • Middle and High Schools • Conducted by community volunteers • In May 2001: • 2,478 students respondents

  17. Miami-DadeYouth Marijuana Indicators Percent of 7-12 Graders Reporting... Percent of 7-12th Graders Reporting Source: TMC School Survey

  18. Miami-DadeYouth Marijuana Indicators Percent of 7-12 Graders Reporting... % Percent of 7-12th Graders Reporting Source: TMC School Survey

  19. Miami-DadeYouth Current Drug Abuse Percent of 7-12 Graders Reporting any use in the past 30 days of… % Percent of 7-12th Graders Reporting Source: TMC School Survey

  20. Miami-DadeYouth Current Drug Abuse Percent of 7-12 Graders Reporting any use in the past 30 days of… % Percent of 7-12th Graders Reporting Source: TMC School Survey

  21. Miami-DadeYouth Cigarette Indicators Percent of 7-12 Graders Reporting... % Percent of 7-12th Graders Reporting Source: TMC School Survey

  22. Miami-DadeYouth Alcohol Indicators Percent of 7-12 Graders Reporting... % Percent of 7-12th Graders Reporting Source: TMC School Survey

  23. Miami-DadeYouth Cocaine Indicators Percent of 7-12 Graders Reporting... % Percent of 7-12th Graders Reporting Source: TMC School Survey

  24. First Time Cocaine Use - USA • Highest rate of Youth (12-17 yrs.) cocaine first use since 1965 • 1999 average age of first time cocaine users was 19.5 years • From 1980-93 average age above 22 years

  25. Miami-DadeYouth Drug Availability Percent of 7-12 Graders Reporting Very Easy to Get…. % Percent of 7-12th Graders Reporting Source: TMC School Survey

  26. B r v r a e d Santa Rosa Holmes ngton J a c k s o n Walton Okaloosa i h Escambia N a s s a u n G a d s d e n s o a s W r H a m i l t o n C a l h o u n e L e o n f f M a d i s o n a B a y e i J b D u v a l B a k e r m u L i b e r t y W a k u l l a l S u w a n n e e o d C T a y l o r r o Lafayette U n i o n S t . f d C l a y F r a n k l i n a G u l f r J o h n s B G i l c h r i s t A l a c h u a P u t n a m D i x i e F l a g l e r Florida Youth ATOD Use Ranking by County 2000 Florida Youth Substance Abuse Survey (N=62,146) L e v y M a r i o n Volusia C i t r u s L a k e S e m i n o l e S u m t e r H e r n a n d o O r a n g e P a s c o Meets state goal O s c e o l a Hillsborough P o l k Moderate overall youth drug use I n d i a n R i v e r P i n e l l a s O k e H a r d e e e M a n a t e e c h Elevated overall youth drug use o S t . L u c i e H i g h l a n d s b e e D e S o t o S a r a s o t a M a r t i n Charlotte High overall youth drug use G l a d e s Palm Beach H e n d r y L e e Very High overall youth drug use Broward C o l l i e r No data available Dade Monroe

  27. Other questions When asked if they would be willing to take a simple lab test to show that they do not use drugs, • 79 % of students said, “Yes.”

  28. Other questions In reporting who or what had a “great or very great” influence on their decision not to use drugs, • 60 percent said Parents • 45 percent said Teachers, Counselors • 42 percent said the D.A.R.E. program • 41 percent said anti-drug commercials on TV • 34 percent said Police officers • 33 percent said Friends

  29. Other questions While 61 percent of students reported seeing anti-drug commercials on television “at least daily or more than once a day,” • 41 percent stated they had a “great or very great” influence on making them less likely to use drugs • Another 40 percent reported the commercials greatly overstated the risks of drug use.

  30. Other questions More than half of all students reported having worried, at least a little, about being injured because of violence against them. • 9 percent of students reported, “they worried a lot” about being injured at school or home, • 27 percent said they “worried a lot about being injured by a gun.”

  31. Other questions When asked if anyone in their family has problems with alcohol or other drugs, • 26 percent of students said yes, • Another 8 percent said they didn’t know if someone did or did not.

  32. Priority OneA Community Action Plan

  33. Priority OneA Community Action Plan

  34. Priority OneA Community Action Plan

  35. The Virtual Coalition: The Community Online Go to www.miamicoalition.org Click on Priority One

  36. The Plan Risk Factors Role for All Enroll and Report

  37. Miami-Dade County Community Prevention GOAL 1: Protect Our YOUTH

  38. Miami-Dade County Community Prevention GOAL 2: Reduce the demand for drugs in Miami-Dade County

  39. GOAL 1:Protect Our YOUTH Miami-Dade County Community Prevention GOAL 2: Reduce the demand for drugs - Promotecommunity partnerships - Engage comprehensive strategic planning - Apply successful youth prevention strategies to all populations at risk - Advance the role of treatment in reducing drug use - Promote a recovery-friendly environment; and - Expand intervention opportunities throughout society

  40. Miami-Dade County Community Prevention GOAL 3 Reduce the supply of drugs in Miami-Dade County

  41. Miami-Dade County Community Prevention GOAL 2: Reduce the demand for drugs GOAL 3 Reduce the supply of drugs Criminal justice focus ontrafficking Community response on reducing availability • “Environmental Prevention focuses on • social norms and regulations” GOAL 1: Protect Our YOUTH

  42. Miami-Dade County Community Prevention GOAL 4 Reduce the Suffering, Moral Degradation, and Social, Health, and Economic Costs of Illegal Drug Use in MIAMI-DADE COUNTY

  43. Miami-Dade County Community Prevention GOAL 2:Reduce the demand for drugs GOAL 3: Reduce the supply of drugs GOAL 4: Reduce the Suffering and Costs of Illegal Drug Use GOAL 1:Protect Our YOUTH Promote earlier interventions in more settings Advance “harm reduction” to harm prevention

  44. Miami Vice Cocaine Capital 1980s Paradise Lost Crack Monsters The Miami Money Laundry $$$

  45. Miami ADVice The Miami Coalition DFY IT 1990s BAND - Drug Free Workplace Weed and Seed # 1 Anti-drug Media Red Ribbon Week Declining Drug Use In Miami Informed Families Priority One Community Prevention Plan Health Foundation of South Florida School TRUST Program Nation's First Drug Court Leading Universities Research

  46. Come Visit Us www.miamicoalition.org

  47. Community Prevention Plan Progress Report 2002 The Health Foundation of South Florida

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