ST. Francois county, missouri drug-free communities support youth substance use prevention project - ST

Francois county community partnership in southeast missouri will utilize the strategic prevention framework to plan and implement programs to prevent and reduce youth use of alcohol and tobacco. The coalition will meet monthly to achieve its goals of increasing community collaboration and reducing youth substance use. Objectives for this project are:  strengthen the capacity of the coalition by increasing membership  develop four action committees within the coalition to achieve certain tasks and milestones related to reducing youth substance use  increase youth participation in the coalition  develop a youth coalition  increase the capacity of the coalition and the youth coalition by delivering training opportunities to members  implement the evidence-based program too good for drugs in local schools  increase youth perception of risk associated with alcohol and tobacco use  implement the prevention plus wellness program in local schools  conduct a responsible vendor campaign  increase parental perception of risk associated with youth vaping through implementation of the catch my breath campaign progress toward goals and objectives will be measured BI-annually through the missouri student survey. Core measures that will be collected are 1) past 30-day use of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and prescription drugs; 2) perception of risk among youth respondents; 3) perception of parental disapproval among youth respondents; and 4) perception of peer disapproval among youth respondents. In addition to the missouri student survey, the coalition will collect data throughout the year during evidence-based education sessions. The coalition will report its progress to the centers for disease control each year by completing progress reports and other reports located on the office of national drug control policy website.