The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, a civilian agency, awarded a $250,000 Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program Grant (CFDA 93.276) to Words Of Hope 4 Life, a non-profit organization, on September 30, 2024. The grant will fund a 5-year project (ending September 29, 2029) to reduce alcohol and marijuana use among middle and high school students in Michigan through the Strategic Prevention Framework and environmental strategies. The project aims to increase coalition...
This Project Grant award of $374,484.00 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program (CFDA 93.276) will fund the Portland Public Schools (PPS) Healthy, Substance-Free Youth Coalition. The coalition aims to prevent and reduce substance use among youth in grades 6-12 across the PPS district, which serves over 44,000 students. Key activities will include implementing evidence-based prevention strategies, conducting youth...
The County of Oneida received a $125,000 Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program Grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CFDA 93.276) to establish and strengthen the Northwoods COPE (Community, Outreach, Prevention and Education) Coalition. The 5-year project, starting September 30, 2024, aims to prevent and reduce youth (grades 6-12) alcohol and marijuana use in Oneida County, Wisconsin. The Coalition will implement evidence-based prevention strategies, conduct youth...
This $250,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) under the Drug-Free Communities Support Program (CFDA 93.276) will support "Healthy People, Healthy Communities" - a comprehensive youth-led approach to substance use prevention in southern Ohio. Key activities include: Collecting data through the Ohio Healthy Youth Environments Survey to inform decision-making and measure outcomes...
This Project Grant award of $250,000 from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, under the Drug-Free Communities Support Program (CFDA 93.276), supports the Raleigh County Prevention Coalition, Inc. in West Virginia. The coalition will collaboratively implement substance use prevention strategies targeting youth in Raleigh County, with a focus on reducing nicotine and alcohol use. Key activities include information dissemination, community engagement, a youth drop-in center,...
This federal Project Grant award of $250,000.00 was provided by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, a civilian agency, under the Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program (CFDA 93.276). The funding supports the Sun Prairie Wellness Coalition's youth substance use prevention initiative in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Key goals and objectives include increasing community collaboration, reducing 30-day use of alcohol and tobacco among youth, and implementing evidence-based...
This $250,000 Project Grant award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program (CFDA 93.276) will support the "Hey Randolph Coalition" in Randolph, Massachusetts. The purpose of this five-year project is to equitably promote wellbeing and prevent/reduce youth substance misuse through effective communication, coordination, collaboration, and culturally relevant action. Key activities include expanding existing alcohol...
This Project Grant award, with the Federal Grant Award ID NH28CE003757, was provided by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, a civilian agency within the U.S. federal government. The award is part of the Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program (CFDA 93.276), which aims to establish and strengthen community-based coalitions focused on preventing and reducing substance use among youth. Through this $250,000 award, the County of Tooele, a local government entity in Utah,...
The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, a civilian agency, awarded a $125,000 Project Grant under the Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program (CFDA 93.276) to the Step By Step Performing Arts Academy, a minority-owned non-profit organization in Vicksburg, Mississippi. The grant, awarded on September 30, 2024, will support the Step By Step Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Coalition's efforts to prevent and reduce substance abuse among youth in Newellton and St. Joseph, Louisiana....
The RWJBarnabas Health Institute for Prevention and Recovery's Southern Ocean County Interfaith Advocacy and Leadership (SOCIAL) Coalition was awarded a $250,000 Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program grant (CFDA 93.276) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The 5-year grant will fund the coalition's efforts to reduce underage alcohol and e-cigarette use among youth 18 and younger in Southern Ocean County, New Jersey. Key activities include disseminating informational...
RIDE WITH PRIDE: A POSITIVE BEHAVIOR PROGRAM TO REDUCE SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND PROMOTE SAFE CHOICES. - RIDE WITH PRIDE DFC PROJECT ABSTRACT SUMMARY THROUGH THE MAKING OF MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS, THE RIDE WITH PRIDE (RWP) COALITION AIMS TO EMPOWER POSITIVE AND SAFE CHOICES AMONG YOUTH. EDUCATION AND OTHER PREVENTION ACTIVITIES WILL ENABLE INFORMED CHOICES THAT AVOID THE DANGERS OF ALCOHOL, E-CIGARETTES, AND OTHER DANGEROUS DRUGS. OVER TIME, A POSITIVE CULTURE WILL DEVELOP IN ORDER TO MAKE OUR COMMUNITY RESILIENT. NSPD IS SEEKING $125,000 OF YEARLY DFC FUNDING TO PARTIALLY FUND A RWP PROJECT COORDINATOR, FUND SUPPLIES, AND EVALUATE CURRENT EFFORTS TO BETTER REDUCE SUBSTANCE USE WITHIN MUSKEGON COUNTY. WE KNOW THAT EVERY BEHAVIOR HAS A MESSAGE OR NEED BEHIND IT. OUR STUDENTS NEED TO BE GUIDED TOWARD POSITIVE BEHAVIORS AND SAFE CHOICES. THE RWP COALITION COMBINES LAW ENFORCEMENT, EDUCATORS, BUSINESS LEADERS, AND OTHER REPRESENTATIVES FROM ALL SECTORS OF SOCIETY FOR ONE THING, OUR YOUTH. THIS COMMON GOAL, THIS UNIFIED APPROACH, THIS LIFELONG IMPACT, IS DESIGNED TO CONNECT WITH STUDENTS K-12. STUDENTS BEGIN THE YEAR (CURRENTLY IN NINE SCHOOL DISTRICTS THROUGHOUT MUSKEGON COUNTY) WITH A RWP KICK-OFF EVENT. THEY SIGN A BASIC "POSITIVE BEHAVIOR AND SAFE DRIVING PLEDGE" THAT ENCOURAGES ABIDING BY THEIR SCHOOL'S POSITIVE BEHAVIOR MATRIX, ABSTAIN FROM ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG USE, AND TRAVEL SAFELY ON THE ROADS (DRIVING OR SIMPLY WEARING A BIKE HELMET FOR YOUNGER STUDENTS). THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL YEAR, REGULAR PREVENTATIVE EVENTS ARE CARRIED OUT BY POLICE, STAFF, AND VOLUNTEERS TO TEACH STUDENTS ABOUT THE DANGERS OF SUBSTANCE USE AND PROMOTE THE BENEFITS OF SUBSTANCE ABSTINENCE. ADDITIONALLY, MATERIALS ARE DISTRIBUTED (LIKE BOOKS, CARTOONS, AND OTHER MEDIA) THAT CAN HELP REINFORCE THESE LESSONS. THE YEAR IS THEN CAPPED OFF BY MAJOR SCHOOL WIDE ASSEMBLIES. POSITIVE BEHAVIOR THROUGHOUT THE YEAR IS RECOGNIZED AND AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL, ONE LUCKY WINNER IN EACH BUILDING IS REWARDED WITH A NEARLY NEW CAR. THIS ELECTRIC ATMOSPHERE CAN BE FELT ALL YEAR LONG AND THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY. THESE EFFORTS WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT OUR ROBUST COLLABORATION AND UNIFYING EFFORTS. IF FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO RECEIVE DFC FUNDING, IT IS HOPED THAT WE WILL BE BETTER PREPARED TO COUNTERACT THE NEGATIVE IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC WHICH HAS HAD RIPPLE EFFECTS IN THE REALMS OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND DANGEROUS LIFE CHOICES.