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Brief Overview of Statewide Prevention Plan
Indiana's prevention efforts are focused on primary prevention: preventing the onset of new alcohol, tobacco, or other drug use and problems. By state policy, intervention with current users is not included within the prevention plan. Current state prevention priorities include implementing "best practices," evidence-based and theory-driven prevention strategies in priority areas: afterschool prevention programming for 10 through 14 year old youth, community mobilization and environmental change at the local level, and implementation of proven school-based prevention curricula. The Indiana prevention system is coordinated through Interagency Council on Drugs, with the Director of DMHA as the current Chair of the Council.
The Division of Mental Health and Addiction (DMHA), is Indiana's designated single state agency for alcohol and other drug issues. DMHA is directing about $5.9 million of the SAPT Block Grant awarded to Indiana. Funding to primary prevention to continue its aflerschool program for the ten to fourteen your old youth, called Afternoons R.O.C.K. (Recreation/structured, Object lessons, Cultural awareness, and Knowledge). Youth are served in the critical hours of 3 to 6 p.m., the hours when many middle school youth are unsupervised by adults and regular drug use starts. Services are provided by some 250 subcontractors in 14 regions of the state providing prevention to over 500 cohorts of youth.
Education-based are programs provided for pregnant women and teens who are from a selective population. The Indiana State Department of Health, the Indiana Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Agency (the organization responsible for the management of Indiana's Tobacco Settlement), and DMHA also work to provide:
* Prenatal substance abuse prevention education in 16 regional sites (Prenatal Substance Abuse Prevention Program).
* Postnatal drug prevention education to families that reach 92 counties. In 2001 over 21,000 families received, at a minimum, an orientation to the benefits of the protective factors that lead to a healthy, safe and drug-free environment for their new babies (Healthy Families).
* Statewide youth leadership programs for youth development and drug prevention Project L.E.A.D. (Leadership of youth Education Across Domains) has a coalition of youth organizations that focus on peer, school and community domains for their training focuses on 14 to 17 year old leaders who receive training. They are prepared to be leaders in drug prevention activities in the targeted domains.
DMHA provides extensive prevention technical assistance and support to prevention programs and professionals throughout Indiana through a contract with the Indiana Prevention Resource Center at Indiana University. The IPRC serves as Indiana's RADAR Network State Center, and also provides extensive support services to prevention programs statewide. PREV-STAT ™ a new, powerful computer tool has the capacity, using public, data from the PRC warehouse, to produce county profiles of current risk and protective factors for all counties. PREV-STAT ™ can produce data using the census and Geographic Information System(GIS) to produce a "picture" at the neighborhood level. This service is useful for planning direct prevention programs and for planning environmental prevention strategies. More can be learned about this system at the Indiana Prevention Resource Center website at
www.drugs.indiana.edu.
The Governor's Commission for a Drug-Free Indiana (GCDFI) provides coordination for community-level prevention, treatment, and law enforcement initiatives, through its Local Coordinating Councils (LCC) in all 92 counties. GCDFI coordinates LCC mobilization for prevention and implementation of environmental and policy strategies aimed at reducing the impact of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug problems. Community Consultants provide training and technical assistance for the LCCs, assist a membership recruitment and facilitate regional-wide meetings for volunteers of the LCCs. These activities are partially funded by the SDFSC, Governor's Program. The DMIIA provides the administration of SDFSC, Governor's Program, with Sally Fleck as Coordinator of the program.
The Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) The Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) is the lead agency for school-based prevention efforts. As Indiana's state education agency, IDOE distributes funds to local school corporations from the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Block Grant and provides leadership and training for school-based prevention. DMHA and IDOE collaborate to provide training in evidence-based prevention programs designed for schools. Pilot models prevention programs are currently in schools with discretionary funding of the State Incentive Grant administered by DMHA.
The Governor's Advisory Panel has completed a statewide plan to improve the Indiana Prevention System, "Imagine Indiana Together: The Framework to Advance the Indiana Prevention System". The Interagency Council on Drugs (IAC) received the Framework from the Governor's Advisory Panel of Indiana's Grassroots Prevention Initiative funded by the State Incentive Grant. The first action of the IAC is to take an inventory of all prevention activities that are regularly funded in the state and those that are supported by time-limited grants. This data is being compared with the information collected by the PRC to facilitate a current statewide needs assessment.
The 16 sites for the sub recipients of State Incentive Grant funds completed their work in SFY 2004. Coalitions have worked on plans to sustain the prevention programs that they found best matched the needs of their communities. The evaluation of the SIG Initiative was completed by the Center for Prevention Research and Development University of Illinois. The "lessons learned" from the SIG Initiative and the successes are being translated into action plans. A significant training initiative is underway that will bring the prevention providers identified in the inventory together with state prevention partners.
Single State Agency (SSA) is the organization designated by the State Governor to coordinate substance abuse prevention efforts in that state.
State Regional Alcohol and Drug Awareness Resource (RADAR) Network consists of state clearinghouses, prevention resource centers, Department of Education Regional Training Centers, and national, international, and local organization supporting substance abuse prevention activities.
The National Prevention Network (NPN), an organization of State alcohol and other drug abuse prevention representatives, provides a national advocacy and communication system for prevention. NPN is administered by NASADAD.
