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Com­mu­ni­ty Programs

The Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lab­o­ra­tion Team pro­motes healthy choic­es for youth ages 10 – 17 and young adults 18 – 25 through edu­ca­tion, aware­ness of health issues, pol­i­cy change, com­mu­ni­ty col­lab­o­ra­tion, and evi­dence-based pro­grams that sup­port sub­stance use prevention.

Fund­ing pro­vid­ed to Ken­neth Young Cen­ter by the Sub­stance Abuse and Men­tal Health Ser­vices Admin­is­tra­tion (SAMH­SA), the Office of Nation­al Drug Con­trol Pol­i­cy (OND­CP), the Cen­ters for Dis­ease Con­trol and Pre­ven­tion, the Illi­nois Depart­ment of Human Ser­vices (IDHS), the Illi­nois Depart­ment of Pub­lic Health (IDPH), and Schaum­burg Town­ship.

To learn more about the Com­mu­ni­ties for Pos­i­tive Youth Devel­op­ment Coali­tion, vis­it their web­site at www​.cpy​d​coali​tion​.org.

Con­tact Us

Look­ing to con­nect with our Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lab­o­ra­tion Team?

Con­tact: Mar­i­an Lopez (marianl@​kennethyoung.​org or (847) 4965939, Deputy Direc­tor of Com­mu­ni­ty Collaboration

Sub­stance Use Pre­ven­tion Ser­vices (SUPS): Elk Grove Township

Tar­get Com­mu­ni­ty: Elk Grove Township

Goal: To reduce alco­hol and non-med­ical pre­scrip­tion drug use rates of 8th to 12th graders by:

  • imple­ment­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tion campaigns;
  • imple­ment­ing evi­dence-based pre­ven­tion edu­ca­tion, Too Good for Drugs
  • advo­cat­ing for school par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Illi­nois Youth Survey;
  • pro­mot­ing Drug Take-Back programs;
  • cre­at­ing Nation­al Pre­ven­tion Week activ­i­ties; and
  • work­ing with a Youth Advi­so­ry Council.

Sub­stance Use Pre­ven­tion Ser­vices (SUPS): Schaum­burg, Hoff­man Estates, and Palatine

Tar­get Com­mu­ni­ties: Schaum­burg, Hoff­man Estates, and Palatine

Goal: To reduce alco­hol and non-med­ical pre­scrip­tion drug use rates of 8th to 12th graders by:

  • imple­ment­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tion campaigns;
  • imple­ment­ing evi­dence-based pre­ven­tion edu­ca­tion, Project Alert
  • advo­cat­ing for school par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Illi­nois Youth Survey;
  • pro­mot­ing Drug Take-Back programs;
  • cre­at­ing Nation­al Pre­ven­tion Week activ­i­ties; and
  • work­ing with a Youth Advi­so­ry Council.

Recov­ery-Ori­ent­ed Sys­tems of Care (ROSC)

Tar­get Com­mu­ni­ties: Schaum­burg, Hoff­man Estates, Elk Grove, Pala­tine, Hanover, and a por­tion of unin­cor­po­rat­ed Des Plaines

Goal: To improve our community’s con­tin­u­um of care, with a focus on recov­ery ser­vices for vet­er­ans and young adults ages 16 – 24 by June, 2020 by:

  • con­duct­ing a com­mu­ni­ty needs assessment;
  • devel­op­ing a com­mu­ni­ty resource map and list of gaps;
  • cre­at­ing a com­mu­ni­ty out­reach plan con­sist­ing of a first-year imple­men­ta­tion plan, a three-year imple­men­ta­tion plan, and long-term sus­tain­abil­i­ty goals;
  • devel­op­ing a com­mu­ni­ca­tion plan direct­ed toward peo­ple in recov­ery; and
  • estab­lish­ing a per­ma­nent com­mu­ni­ty ROSC Council.

Drug Free Com­mu­ni­ties (DFC)

Tar­get Com­mu­ni­ties: Schaum­burg, Hoff­man Estates, and Palatine

Goals:

1. To strength­en col­lab­o­ra­tion in our com­mu­ni­ties through engage­ment of com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers, youth, pub­lic and pri­vate non-prof­it agen­cies, as well as fed­er­al, state, and local gov­ern­ments to sup­port the coalition’s efforts to pre­vent and reduce sub­stance use among youth. 

2. To reduce sub­stance use among youth by address­ing the fac­tors in a com­mu­ni­ty that increase the risk of sub­stance use and pro­mot­ing healthy behav­iors and con­di­tions that would con­tribute to: 

  • decreas­ing the 30-day mar­i­jua­na use rate of adolescents;
  • decreas­ing the 30-day e‑cigarette/​vaping use rate of ado­les­cents; and
  • decreas­ing the 30-day opi­oid use rate of adolescents.

Com­mu­ni­ty Youth Services

The Com­mu­ni­ty Youth Ser­vices (CYS) grant focus­es on engag­ing youth and young adults (ages 11 – 24) in the pre­ven­tion of youth vio­lence and delin­quen­cy.

Tar­get Areas:
Our tar­get areas are Schaum­burg Town­ship, Hanover Town­ship, Elk Grove Town­ship, and Pala­tine Town­ship.

Our pro­gram’s ini­tia­tive is to reduce the rate of youth vio­lence and delin­quen­cy among youth and young adults with­in our ser­vice area by:

• Facil­i­tat­ing the LGBTQ+ Teen & Young Adult Cen­ter ses­sions
• Main­tain­ing a Youth Advi­so­ry Coun­cil
• Con­duct­ing a com­mu­ni­ty assess­ment to estab­lish rel­e­vant ser­vices need­ed for the community.

Com­mu­ni­ty-Based Sub­stance Use Prevention

The IDHS Divi­sion of Sub­stance Use Pre­ven­tion and Recov­ery (IDHS-SUPR) pro­vides lead­er­ship and resources to the Illi­nois com­mu­ni­ty-based alco­hol, tobac­co and oth­er drug abuse (ATOD) pre­ven­tion sys­tem. As part of its duties, the Bureau sets direc­tion, defines trends, pro­motes evi­dence-based pre­ven­tion approach­es, and pro­vides fund­ing, train­ing, tech­ni­cal assis­tance and mon­i­tor­ing for qual­i­ty assurance.

The Sub­stance Use Pre­ven­tion provider sys­tem in Illi­nois has a his­to­ry of qual­i­ty ser­vices. Its focus over the last decade has been to trans­form the ATOD pre­ven­tion sys­tem from one based on activ­i­ties to one based on out­comes. Today, evi­dence-based pro­grams, prac­tices, and poli­cies are at the core of all provider work plan efforts. Providers are expect­ed to adhere to the out­come-based plan­ning process, and are also required to select strate­gies and pro­gram mod­els that have pro­duced some lev­el of evi­dence that they will be effec­tive in achiev­ing their intend­ed outcomes.

Illi­nois’s ATOD Pre­ven­tion com­mu­ni­ty net­work of 127 providers is one of the Nation’s most com­pre­hen­sive. It includes a mix of local, region­al, and statewide pro­grams housed in both pub­lic and pri­vate agency settings. 

Com­pre­hen­sive Com­mu­ni­ty Based Providers (CBPs) deliv­er pro­gram­ming in their ser­vice area that tar­gets the com­mu­ni­ty at large with empha­sis on impact­ing the envi­ron­ments in which young peo­ple live. Evi­dence-based approach­es that tar­get youth, their peers, fam­i­lies, school envi­ron­ment, and com­mu­ni­ty are imple­ment­ed as part of a com­pre­hen­sive pre­ven­tion plan. Empha­sis is placed on build­ing local part­ner­ships to imple­ment envi­ron­men­tal approach­es that change com­mu­ni­ty norms and poli­cies, and increase the com­mu­ni­ty’s capac­i­ty to sus­tain effec­tive efforts.

Evi­dence-Based Prevention

Evi­dence-based Pre­ven­tion includes strate­gies or pro­grams that have shown through some lev­el of evi­dence that they are effec­tive. The min­i­mal lev­el being a sin­gle pre/​post eval­u­a­tion. These pro­grams are not held to as rig­or­ous an eval­u­a­tion stan­dard as are those that are clas­si­fied by the dis­tinc­tion of being Sci­ence or Research-based.

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