Palm Beach County Substance Abuse Coalition

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Palm Beach CountySubstance Abuse Coalition

• Working through the
• Communities That Care
• Planning Strategy

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Communities That Care Based on public health
models of community action

• INCLUDES
• community mobilization
• needs assessment
• plan development
• implementation
• evaluation

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GOAL help communities develop an integrated
approach to

• the positive development of children and youth
• the prevention of problem behaviors, including
  substance abuse, delinquency, teen pregnancy,
  school drop out

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Why be involved?

• More funding
• Safer and more effective schools
• truancy decreased
• Reduced delinquency
• Reduced juvenile violent crime
• In Pennsylvania, CTC is the centerpiece of the
  Community Partnership.
• Juvenile violent crime has dropped by more than
  15 over four years.

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RISK and PROTECTIVE FACTORS

• Things in a young person's environment that
  increase the likelihood of negative and
  antisocial behaviors.
• when present in a young person's developmental
  environment, buffer, protect, and insulate them
  against the development of health and behavior
  problems.

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Where do you fit?561-689-2535

• Management, Judge Nelson Bailey
• Community Assessment Team, Ian Neuhard
• Community Resource Assessment Team, Joan Kelsey
• PR/Outreach, Pauline Dawes Harold Jonas
• Youth Coalition-Peer Educators, Sara Rodriquez
• Funding, Cathy Claud

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Youth CoalitionPeer Educators
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