Liberty Alliance for Youth, Inc

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Liberty Alliance for Youth, Inc

• February 12, 2007

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• Mission Statement
• To reduce alcohol, tobacco and drug abuse,
  violence and other negative behaviors and
  improving the lives of all Liberty citizens.

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• Treasures Report

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Strategic Prevention Framework

• Strategic Plan
• Evidence Based Programs
• Positive Action
• Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol
• Capacity Building
• Wish List

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Social Marketing

• Committee Members Needed
• Bullying
• Designed by youth to impact youth
• Reduce acceptance of bullying behaviors among Jr.
  High students
• Work with a professional marketing specialist
• Develop a creative slogan to establish a sense of
  norm
• Marketing products (i.e. banners, posters,
  magnets, etc.)
• Responsible for getting the message out into the
  community
• Data
• Pre-test/Post-test
• Jr. High School incident reports of aggressive
  behaviors
• 4,000 Budget

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Rachels Challenge Program

• Program Results
• 235 Attended
• Survey Says
• Stats
• 99.1 Found it Useful and Gained New Knowledge
• 88.5 Will Change Current Behavior
• 91.5 Saw need for coalition, only 24.5 had
  heard of it
• Howd you know?
• Breakfast Club (7), Word of Mouth (14), A
  Coalition (10), School (53), Church (8), Multiple
  (6), Quicknews (6), Print (4), Other (3)
• Challenge/ Behavior Change- 53
• Prejudice (21), Goals (4), Influences (6),
  Kindness (14), Chain Reaction (5), Other (3)
• Other Topics of Interest
• Others affects, More about Rachel, Bullying,
  Personal Growth, Discrimination, Challenge Day,
  Football
• Thank You
• Committee Jeanice Corum, Heather Massey, Bill
  Scott,
• Kathleen Welton, David Young and Danelle Nichols
• LAFI Members Jeanette Earhart and Marla Anderson
• All of the Youth

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• Safe Prom Graduation Partnership
• Those Who Host
• Marketing Plan
• Youth Council

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Sub-Committees Reports

• Tobacco Social Norming
• Liberty Lifeline Speaker Bureau
• January 18th, Officer Meyer present at Sertoma
  Club
• January 25th, after Rachels Challenge
• Youth with Vision / Laffy Taffy

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Northland Coalition Report

• Next Meeting February 21st, 1130 AM
• Website - http//www.northlandcoalition.com
• Partner Links
• Name of organization and URL address required
• Ask partners to include our link on their website
• Prevention Conference
• Town Hall Meeting Its a Brain Thing!

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• Law Enforcement Report
• Other Business

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Reminder Dates

• February 23
• 8am-2pm at Pleasant Valley Baptist Church
• Operation Smoke Screen Summit
• March 1
• Town Hall Meeting
• Maple Woods Community College
• Student Union
• March 3
• Family University at Park Hill High School
• March 9
• Prevention Conference
• Pleasant Valley Baptist Church

March 18-19 Community Baseline Training March
30-31 Girl Power! at Camp New Hope Middle School
Girls June 1-2 MUD MANIA at Smithville
Lake June 4th- June 8th WRTI
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Board General Meetings

• Wednesday, March 12, 2007
• Wednesday, May 2, 2007
• Wednesday, May 30, 2007