Dream community planning coalition and jackson county coalition abstract dream of hattiesburg, INC

Is the fiscal agency for the dream community planning coalition (CPC) and jackson county coalition (JCC). Both CPC and JCC (formerly known as the jackson county community service coalition) are former DFC recipients. These two drug-free communities have formed a partnership to prevent and/or reduce alcohol use among youth and young adults ages 12-20 in jackson and forest counties. CPC and JCC have planned, implemented, and completed a number of tasks, programs, and policies that have and continue to help achieve this goal. CPC had youth and adult volunteers involved in state legislative initiatives. Within the schools, the coalitions have carried out the following: educated students of various grades on alcohol and drug abuse prevention along with other prevention education and completed student surveys. CPC was also involved in local paraphernalia and marijuana ordinances. The coalition hosts many alcohol-free events throughout the year. CPC is also responsible for dream's youth leadership program, youth conferences, and MS dream cares mentoring program. By receiving the award, CPC and JCC would be able to complete the following: collect and review underage drinking laws and local ordinances; complete town hall meetings that address underage drinking in hattiesburg, petal, and gautier; contact the prevention technology transfer center; develop and approve an underage drinking prevention and reduction action plan; decrease rates of past 30 day use and alcohol-related vehicular crashes in our specified age group; and increase perception of risk or harm, parental disapproval use, and peer disapproval use among our specified age group. Dream of hattiesburg, INC. Has established partnerships with many stakeholders in which CPC and JCC will work to continue their efforts in prevention. Mayors, city council, county supervisors, law enforcement, police departments, MS drug enforcement agency, alcohol and beverage control, MS department of mental health, youth courts, youth drug courts, and local education agencies are all individuals and agencies that are active in the coalitions. Policies and programs will be developed by the coalition to help achieve the goals and objectives set. Objectives will be measurable, and all programs and activities will be evaluated. Dream CPC and JCC is comprised of a total of 51 individuals. Represented in these coalitions are businesses, schools, youth/youth serving organizations, healthcare, parents, law enforcement, religious, media, government (state, county, and local), and other. Dream of hattiesburg, INC.'s executive director, linda vasquez, PH.d. Will serve as the program director. She is a certified prevention manager as well as a licensed master social worker. A program coordinator will be hired part time if dream receives the award. Dream of hattiesburg's administrative financial assistant will be responsible for the agency project fiscal management and reporting. The evaluation team will be comprised of the evaluation/sustainability committee, project director, program coordinator, and CPC/JCC chairpersons. This team will monitor the action plan and analyze data. This group will organize data and determine what other data is needed, report findings of data at coalition meetings and disseminate data.