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Community Anti–Drug Coalitions: Past, Present and Future Presentation for the Coconut Grove Drug Free Community Coalition

By: Douglas W. Hughes, Executive Director The Miami Coalition for a Safe, Healthy and Drug Free Community

January 2014 “

 A committed and organized group/team

with different individual agendas but holding a common vision and agreed goals.

 The work has purpose, cause and leads to

effective change for the community

 Combining strengths and achieving

sustainable outcomes.

Coalitions

 What do they do?  Where do they fit?  What changes are impacting them?  Recommended priorities

Coalitions

 Convene and mobilize representatives of

different community sectors

 Facilitate discussion  Identify community issues  Gather supportive data  Prioritize and select issues for action  Develop a plan  Implement the plan  Measure outcomes  Start Over Again!

Coalitions: What do they do?

 Coalitions do not do direct services:

Afterschool programs, repetitively scheduled education classes, etc.

 Coalitions focus on environmental

strategies to change social norms and accomplish population-level changes in behavior: Reduce drug abuse, underage drinking, adult binge drinking and related personal and social consequences

Coalitions: Where do they fit?

 Health Reform - The Public Health Model: Integration of

primary care with behavioral health (substance abuse and mental health services); focus on primary prevention to improve health and reduce costs

 NRC Institute of Medicine Report 2009- Preventing Mental,

Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and Possibilities (MEB-Prevention is Prevention)

 Florida Department of Children and Families: Contracted with

a regional “Managing Entity” (ME), The South Florida Behavioral Health Network, to manage all substance abuse and mental health prevention and treatment funding/services.

 2012 approval of a county-wide community needs assessment

and Comprehensive Community Action Plan (CCAP)

Coalitions: What changes are impacting them?

 Coalitions are central to local capacity building, community

data collection, needs and resources assessments, problem identification and analysis, plan development, advocacy, community mobilization, implementing action strategies and the evaluation of prevention service systems and outcomes.

 Federal and State preference to make community coalitions

independent 501(c)3 organizations

 Federal and State requirements to fund “Evidence-based”

programs and “Best Practice” environmental strategies.

 Funders requiring measurable outcomes for prevention

initiatives: What difference does a prevention program or strategy make in population-level behavior, prevalence rates and consequences?

Coalitions: Changes (continued)

 Develop strong, sustained, multi-sector coalitions and

regularly convene members and community stakeholders

 Take responsibility for community-level data collection and

analysis, plan development, advocacy, action and the evaluation of outcomes

 Document participation, findings, plans, actions and

• utcomes

 Work on sustainability of the local, regional, state and national

coalition movement: Position coalitions to take-on responsibilities outlined in national, state and local action plans

 Demonstrate impact on: substance abuse and related mental

health problem prevalence rates, behavioral health consequences, family communication and functioning, high school drop-out rates and overall community stability and safety.

Coalitions: Action Needed

As in Politics: All Social Issues and Coalition Priorities are Local!

Coalitions