Palm beach county partnerships for success - palm beach county behavioral health coalition's proposed palm beach county partnerships for success will provide resources, leadership, proven…

Palm beach county partnerships for success - palm beach county behavioral health coalition's proposed palm beach county partnerships for success will provide resources, leadership, proven strategies, and program evaluation to strengthen local prevention capacity and infrastructure in hispanic youth. The project will reduce high rates of drinking, marijuana and electronic nicotine delivery systems use among youth and address mental health concerns. The program goals are to strengthen prevention capacity/infrastructure at the community level and reduce youth substance abuse and correlated problems. The community we serve is highly diverse with nearly 58% of its 160,000 local students eligible for free and reduced lunch. However, disparities are evident with higher use rates and mental health concerns, which highlights the need for infrastructure development that will improve, lower, and sustain the capacity of substance use prevention and promote mental health. Using evidenced based strategies we expect to reach 60,000 annually and 240,000 throughout the full duration of the project. Program goals are to strengthen capacity/infrastructure at the community level and reduce youth substance use and substance abuse-related problems. Goal 1 objective is to increase community capacity for prevention by increasing community substance use prevention initiatives by 10% as measured by the number of prevention activities and campaigns that are implemented at the local level by 9.29.2028. Goal 2 objective is to reduce past 30 day alcohol and marijuana use by 5% among PBC middle and high school students and increase perception of harm among them by 10% as measured by the BI-annual florida youth substance abuse survey (fysas), florida specific youth survey (fsys) and focus groups. Utilizing the strategic prevention framework produced by cadca, we will be focused on the assessment, capacity building, planning, implementation, evaluation, and utilizing a continuous improvement model.