Strategic prevention framework - partnerships for success for states - like many other states and territories throughout the country, vaping among youth and young adults has emerged as a public health…

Strategic prevention framework - partnerships for success for states - like many other states and territories throughout the country, vaping among youth and young adults has emerged as a public health problem in recent years. According to data from the nebraska youth tobacco survey, the prevalence of current e-cigarette use among high school students reached a peak in 2019 at 23.6 percent. Among young adult populations, annual rates of current vaping have increased year on year. In 2022, 21.3 percent of nebraska young adults reported vaping, up nearly 4 percent from 2022. Preliminary data from the 2021 nsduh, indicates nebraska young adults and adults aged 26 and older were both significantly more likely to binge drink in the past among compared to national peers. Heavy drinking among adults was highest for adults aged 18 to 44, particularly among males and native americans. Trends of poor mental health, suicidality, and suicide suggest nebraska is experiencing a mental health epidemic. This problem affects nebraskans of all ages but manifests differently across age and gender. Trends in hopelessness, serious consideration of suicide, planned suicide, and attempted suicide in nebraska have generally risen in parallel with the national over the last decade. Although 15 to 19 years for age are 7 percent of nebraska's population, this group accounts for 30 percent of emergency department hospitalizations for suicidal ideation. According to the 2021 nsduh, the rate of severe mental illness in nebraska at 7.6 percent was significantly higher than the national average of 5.6 percent. The age-adjusted rate of suicide in nebraska has exceeded the national rate for every year. To reduce the onset and progression of substance misuse and its related problems in addition to strengthening state and community-level prevention capacity, the nebraska strategic prevention framework (SPF) partnership for success for states project will focus on three priorities and eight goals. These priorities include reducing vaping among youth and young adults, decreasing heavy and binge drinking among young adults and older adults, and increasing mental awareness for all ages. Nebraska has successfully utilized samhsa's SPF framework as a mechanism to build and strengthen out prevention system since 2013. The adoption of a common framework and philosophies for prevention has maximized our collaborative infrastructure to include state, coalition, and community partnerships. A key outcome of this data-driven, evidence-based, multi-system approach has been the successful cultivation and evolution of sustainable systems capacity. This inherently sustainable, comprehensive network is more than equipped to support the SPF-PFS 2023 project.