Community Framework for Preventing Alcohol and Other Drug Problems Through a Systems Approach: The Future by DesignTopics included in the framework are as follows: initiating a community-wide prevention effort; leadership; maintaining the momentum; activities; building resources; assessment (knowing the impact of prevention efforts); and partnerships through cooperation, coordination, and collaboration). The purpose of the framework is to state clearly and succinctly the parameters to guide a community in developing an effective prevention effort. |
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Abuse Prevention adolescent African-American community agencies American Indian AOD abuse AOD problems approach areas Asian/Pacific Island American behavior building Chisago County collaboration Colloquium participants committee Community Action Plan community awareness community efforts community members community prevention efforts community prevention system communitywide prevention effort Comprehensive Community Action cooperation coordinated County cultural Dade County defined diversity drug abuse effective ethnic communities evaluation event focus funding fundraising goals Grand County groups high-risk Hispanic community identify important individuals intervention involved issues leadership McCurtain County meeting mission statement needs assessment ongoing organizations OSAP Outagamie County parents percent Pierce County planning and implementation population prevention activities prevention planning prevention programs RECOMMENDATIONS FROM COMMUNITIES recruitment responsibilities RESULTS risk factors role segments shared vision social sponsor staff strategies Substance Abuse successful survey target task force technical assistance volunteers workshop
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Page 67 - A vision without a task is but a dream, a task without a vision is drudgery, a vision and a task is the hope of the world.
Page ix - Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour Rains from the sky a meteoric shower Of facts . . . they lie unquestioned, uncombined, Wisdom enough to leach of us of our ill Is daily spun, but there exists no loom To weave it into fabric.
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Page 39 - culture" is used because it implies the integrated pattern of human behavior that includes thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values, and institutions of a racial, ethnic, religious, or social group.
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Page 40 - Functions with the awareness that the dignity of the person is not guaranteed unless the dignity of his/her people is preserved.
Page 69 - Technical Assistance Center, Georgetown University Child Development Center, 3800 Reservoir Road, NW, Washington, DC 20007.
Page 39 - Culturally blind agencies are characterized by the belief that helping approaches traditionally used by the dominant culture are universally applicable; if the system worked as it should, all people — regardless of race or culture — would be served with equal effectiveness.
Page 11 - Leadership mobilizes groups to do work. Often this demands innovation in defining problems, generating solutions and, perhaps foremost, locating responsibility for defining and solving problems
Page 64 - Most successful work-study programs involve the business community; § Hispanic males are more likely than Anglo or Black males to hold full-time jobs while attending school. Forty-one percent of Hispanic males and 23 percent of Hispanic females leave high school for financial reasons; 5 Over 40 percent of all Hispanic students who leave school do so before entering high school; 5 Students who drop out of school must accept entry-level jobs with little security and few opportunities for advancement.