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Title: Prevention In Florida


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Prevention In Florida
  • Pam Waters, Assistant Director
  • Florida Alcohol Drug Abuse Association

2
Current federal and state initiatives in
prevention are focused the following important
activities
  • Translating knowledge gained from science and
    experience into better practice
  • Focusing prevention efforts on common objectives
  • Fostering and understanding of the overlap among
    social problems
  • Promoting a coordinated approach to prevention
  • Harnessing the energy and commitment among
    practitioners to develop effective strategies

3
Current federal and state initiatives in
prevention, continued
  • Increasing the visibility of prevention programs
    and policies
  • Sustaining existing relationships among
    prevention agencies, and promoting them where
    they do not exist
  • Disseminating information about effective
    prevention practices
  • Increasing readiness for effective prevention
    practices

4
Prevailing Prevention Theory
  • Prevailing prevention theory uses risk and
    protective factors as a unifying descriptive and
    predictive framework.
  • The more risk factors a child or youth
    experiences, the more likely s/he will experience
    substance abuse and related problems in
    adolescence or young adulthood.

5
Prevailing Prevention Theory
  • Many children and youth growing up in presumably
    high-risk families and environments emerge
    relatively free of problems. The reason for this,
    according to many researchers, is the presence of
    protective factors in these young people's lives.
    Protective factors balance and buffer risk
    factors.

6
  • Risk and protective factors exist at every level
    at which an individual interacts with others and
    the society around him or her. One way to
    organize these factors is by six life domains
  • Individual (biological and psychological
    dispositions, attitudes, values, knowledge,
    skills, problem behaviors)
  • Peer (norms, activities)
  • Family (function, management, bonding)
  • School (bonding, climate, policy, performance)
  • Community (bonding, norms, resources,
    awareness/mobilization)
  • Society/environmental (norms, policy/sanctions).

7
General Guidelines for Prevention Programming
  • Develop an understanding of the underlying causes
    of or factors that contribute to substance abuse
    and the strategies that can affect those
    factors.
  • Identify carefully those risk factors most
    closely related to the substance abuse problems
    you have identified.

8
General Guidelines for Prevention Programming
  • Select prevention strategies that sound research
    has shown are effective.
  • Conduct continuous, rigorous evaluation to
    determine whether you have met your goals and
    objectives.

9
Science-Based Prevention
  • Science-based refers to a process in which
    experts
  • use commonly agreed upon criteria for rating
    research interventions
  • come to a consensus that evaluation research
    findings are credible and can be substantiated
  • This process is sometimes referred to as
    evidence- or research-based prevention.

10
Growing Interest in Science-Based Prevention
  • Funders' demands for accountability
  • Persistence of ineffective programs
  • Maturation -- more evidence about effectiveness
    is available
  • Emerging strategy of funding a discrete number of
    demonstration projects that are then replicated
    in multiple sites
  • Recognition that prevention effects are not
    always benign

11
Caveats Concerning Science-Based Prevention
  • This is an evolving concept
  • Different science-based programs or principles
    are not necessarily equally effective
  • There may not be an effective program that meets
    specific needs (needs, resources, population, or
    other circumstances)
  • Use of a science-based program or principles does
    not guarantee success

12
Specific substance abuse prevention targets for
Florida are
  • Reduce drug abuse by Floridas youth, ages 12-17
    by 2005 to less than 4.
  • Increase the age of first-time use to 17 years of
    age or older the 2005.
  • Decrease drug use in the workplace by 50 by
    2005.

13
Prevention Funding
  • Department of Children and Families
  • Department of Education
  • Department of Health
  • Department of Law Enforcement (Drug Free
    Communities Program)
  • Department of Business and Professional
    Regulation (this is changing)
  • Department of Juvenile Justice (delinquency
    prevention funding only)

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New Florida Prevention Initiatives
  • Florida Youth Survey Work Group
  •   Oversees the implementation of alternating
    annual student surveys Communities that Care/
    Tobacco, and Youth Risk Behavior Surveys.
    Participants are
  • Florida Office of Drug Control
  • Department of Children Families
  • Department of Education
  • Department of Health
  • Department of Juvenile Justice
  • FADAA

16
New Florida Prevention Initiatives
  • Florida Youth Initiative Advisory Council
  • 40 Council members made up of state agency
    representatives, providers and provider
    associations
  • Advises the Office of Drug Control for prevention
    matters promotes science-based prevention
    programming
  • Currently is writing the multi-state agency plan
    for prevention

17
New Florida Prevention Initiatives
  • New work group brought together under the
    auspices of the Office of Drug Control to
    coordinate policies, funding, and processes. Met
    for the first time in May 2000 will meet
    bimonthly.
  • Interagency Workgroup for Prevention
  • Florida Office of Drug Control
  • Department of Children Families
  • Department of Education
  • Department of Health
  • Department of Juvenile Justice
  • Department of Law Enforcement
  • Florida Highway Patrol
  • FADAA
  • Informed Families of Dade County

18
New Florida Prevention Initiatives
  • Office of Drug Control, Advisory Council
  • Council advises the Office of Drug Control on
    priorities related to total Florida Drug
    Strategy prevention, intervention, treatment and
    law enforcement.
  • Meets quarterly.
  • Has Prevention Subcommittee
  • Members are all state agencies, providers,
    governors budget director, the Florida National
    Guard, FADAA and one consumer.

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New Florida Prevention Initiatives
  • Florida Statewide Prevention Conference Planning
    Committee
  •   Currently planning the 2000 conference to be
    held at the Caribe Royale, a Disney property in
    Orlando, on November 29nd December 1st.
    November 28th will be a pre-conference meeting of
    advisory groups with an interest in prevention.
  • Jim McDonough is the chair of the Planning
    Committee with representation from
  • Florida Office of Drug Control
  • Department of Children Families
  • Department of Education
  • Department of Health, Tobacco Program
  • Department of Juvenile Justice
  • Department of Law Enforcement
  • Florida Prevention Association
  • FADAA

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What is Needed?
  • Finalization of the state plan for prevention and
    follow-through on the recommendations in the
    plan
  • Infrastructure needs including policy support,
    state and local organization, human resources and
    training, information exchange, technology
    support, increased fiscal resources and planning
    accountability.
  • Collaboration across state agencies which sets
    the stage for local collaboration processes.
  • Research and evaluate prevention services, hold
    them accountable to the goals of Florida Drug
    Control Strategy.
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