One voice of hunterdon, INC. SPF-PFS communities grant - the one voice of hunterdon - partnership for success grant focuses on underserved populations within the targeted area to emphasize substance…

One voice of hunterdon, INC. SPF-PFS communities grant - the one voice of hunterdon - partnership for success grant focuses on underserved populations within the targeted area to emphasize substance use prevention and mental health resources that are culturally appropriate. The population of focus addresses lower socio-economic gaps, hispanic/latino and lgbtqia+ communities experiencing marginalization and barriers to mental and physical health care, ages 17-25 graduating from high school aging out of the public school system and finally further reducing substance use disorder within the rural faith communities. Strategies and interventions revolve around offering publicity, programs and products. The publicity will include bilingual town takeover to promote a single message across the community to unite all members and emphasis on supporting pride month. Programs will focus on training faith leaders in sbirt, training peer recovery coaches in places of faith, offering bilingual mental health first aid training for adults and teens, customizing strengthening families programs for rural communities, and lgbtqia+ families through the family acceptance project, and a 3-part talk series addressing issues for post high school, ages 17-25 young adults. Finally, a sustainable product will be developed and implemented: map - a mental health accessibility portal APP and toolkit (map) offered to the community to increase accessibility and confidence regarding mental health resources in all target population supported by the grant. Program goals will be measured by increasing overall coalition capacity, increasing confidence of accessing mental health resources, and increasing youth and parental perception of harm of substances, which would ultimately decrease youth past 30-day use. Within a total service population of 60,000 made up of select ZIP codes of hunterdon county, indirect services are aimed at the entire population and direct services will reach 725 at-risk community members annually with a total project lifetime of 3,625 total people reached.