THE COALITION ROLE

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THE COALITION ROLE
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The Coalition RoleGrant Purpose

• Prevent the onset and reduce the progression of
  substance use, including underage drinking
• Reduce substance-related problems in communities.
• Build prevention capacities/infrastructure at
  State community levels.

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How Do We Fit?
Advisory Council
County-Level Coalitions
Statewide Epidemiological Workgroup (SEW)
Managed by BADAS
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If more than one coalition in a county

• Each known anti-drug coalition was invited
• Decision about how multiple coalitions will
  coordinate to ensure work is conducted with
  county-wide perspective is anticipate to be
  determined at the local level

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If a known anti-drug coalition was not known to
exist

• Safe Drug Free Schools Coordinator was
  contacted, because their advisory council has a
  drug prevention-specific mission and is expected
  to represent multiple sectors of the community
• Their interventions, like other communities, are
  expected to use multiple strategies over multiple
  sectorsnot be limited to school-based strategies
• Are, like other communities, expected to
  establish the fiscal agent most helpful to the
  project.

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Purpose Move the needle. . .county-wide
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What Do Coalitions Do Best?

• Multiple Strategies
• over
• Multiple Sectors

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What Does That Look Like

• Identifying a key issue
• Figuring out what each sector is doing
• Figuring outtogetherwhat will really make a
  difference
• Targeting/leveraging resources

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Data DrivenWhat That Means Here. . .

• Standardized data
• Two-way sharing (to and from the state)
• New data and new uses for that data
• Middle School
• High School
• College/Technical School

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Coalition is expected to

• Develop of a county-wide, comprehensive,
  strategic prevention plan to
• Prevent the onset and reduce the progression of
  substance use, including underage drinking
• Reduce substance-related problems in communities.
• Build prevention capacities/infrastructure at
  State community levels.
• Collaborate with countys higher education
  institutions
• Fiscally manage funding, through coalition or
  other fiscal agent (non-profit or government
  agency)
• Employ personnel to manage project and the
  projects data entry

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SURVEY QUESTIONS

• The coalition is expected to assist communication
  between their school system and the SPF-SIG to
  ensure good survey results
• CADCAT personnel willing to visit the school
  system with coalition representatives, to assist
  securing survey permission
• All counties must use the same survey and give it
  during identified time frames

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Survey Info All 30 Counties

• System wide grades 6, 8, 10 12
• Survey will take 1 class period
• No cost for survey, its processing or analysis
• School system will have control over distribution
  of results
• Administered fall of 2006, 2008, 2009

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Survey Review
Draft of survey is available for review on the
CADCAT website
Sample Student Survey
www.cadcat.org
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Who PAYS? How?

• The grant will cover the costs. . .how that
  happens differs. . .and we dont know all the
  answers yet.
• PIRE
• CADCAT
• NIAAA
• Sub-Grantees

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Training Technical Assistance 2 leaders or
staff

• School Survey Assistance and SPF-SIG overview
  training (Summer/Fall 2006 projected)
• 1 day statewide and additionally, local, on-site
  TA
• Distance TA
• Coalition Development Function (including
  cultural competence and prevention history)
  (Fall /Winter 2006 projected)
• TrainingStatewide (4 ½ days, spread over two
  times) Local, on-site as needed
• Local, on-site TA
• Distance TA
• Getting To Outcomes (Spring/Summer 2007
  projected)
• Statewide Training (1/2 day)
• Local, on-site TA
• Distance TA
• iGTO (Spring/Summer 2007 projected)
• Statewide Training (1 day)
• Local, on-site TA
• Distance TA

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Who Must Attend?How Many? How Long? Where?

• Training TA plan is not yet finalized
• Statewide training probably in Nashville area
• . . .it will be responsive to other locally
  identified needs as the process progresses
• Probably will need two people to attend Total
  7 ½ separate days over a year to 18 months

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What Will Coalition Pay Out of Its Award?

• Some level of staffing (project management data
  entry)although there will probably be some
  flexibility for those that have staff already
• Costs of intervention
• Costs of coalition infrastructure support
• Probably
• Limited travel costs (food, transportation,
  lodging)
• Small supplement for school system to administer
  survey

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Match Required?

• NONE

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Reports

• Program iGTO
• this is an ongoing planning data entry system
• Web-based, no software to buy
• statewide data (aggregated) is available to
  CADCAT at all timesno separate reports
  anticipated
• local data (identifying) is only available as
  determined locally and is HIPPA compliant
• Fiscal

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What Else is NEW?

• New dollarsand they are targeted
• Pilot for new way federal s are expected to come
  through SAMHSA
• Integration with State prevention plan
• Everything is data-driven

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Intervention Funding Must

• Target population-level change
• Target ages 12 24 (or some part of that age
  group)
• Coordinate with state plans priorities
• Be Evidence based

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To Contact CADCAT

• Phone [phone] or toll free
  1-877-727-1772
• FAX [phone]
• Address 1120 Dickerson Pike, Nashville, TN
  37207
• Email
• pwhite_at_cadcat.org
• sdillingham_at_cadcat.org
• scosby_at_cadcat.org
• jwillis_at_cadcat.org