Strategic prevention framework partnership for success for communities - the center for urban youth and family development is a community-based nonprofit that focuses on providing comprehensive…

Strategic prevention framework partnership for success for communities - the center for urban youth and family development is a community-based nonprofit that focuses on providing comprehensive substance misuse prevention through strategic alliances and interagency collaborations. Our partnerships serve to strengthen our ability to advocate for and provide services to the youth and families of detroit. The center started in 2011 providing support to youth transitioning into and out of the foster care system. Often youth emerge from the foster care system vulnerable to risks and with fewer safeguards resulting in high rates of substance use disorders. The center empowers youth to overcome the struggles and challenges by providing them substance misuse prevention, life skills training, mental health promotion services, and workforce development programs. The center for urban youth and family development will use the strategic prevention framework to build capacity and infrastructure to identify and select comprehensive, data-driven substance misuse prevention strategies to reduce the onset and progression of substance use disorder in the westside. Strengthening prevention capacity/infrastructure at the community level, strengthening capacity is a central area of focus through this project. Cuyfd has expertise in the SPF model and will provide extensive training of the model to all partners to create a cross-sectional task force to develop a sustainable infrastructure to support the goals of the PFS grant. Cuyfd will also contact the SPF-PFS state recipients to establish a plan for regular communications and engagement to ensure the coordination of efforts; address gaps in prevention, improve networking relationships and promote partnerships within the community. The proposed geographic catchment area for the project will LIE within the ZIP codes, 48204, 48235, 48238 that are commonly referred to as the region of the westside of detroit, michigan. We will replicate effective strategies in areas where those efforts do not yet exist to expand effective interventions, while identifying new strategies at the same time, utilize 7 intervention strategies of change. Based on preliminary assessment data, the substances of concern are alcohol and marijuana, and the population of focus are at-risk youth, black lgbtqia plus individuals and black families living below the poverty level. Our overall population focus impacted by the infrastructure development planned to reach with prevention messaging and mental health promotion, specific demographics will be collected, will be the residents of westside detroit, 92,673 based on health disparities, high unemployment rates, no access to healthcare, and high percentage of those living in poverty.