New Mexicos Prevention Service System

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New Mexicos Prevention Service System

• Intellectuals solve problems,
• geniuses prevent them!
• Einstein

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Whos In The System

• Community- based Prevention Programs
• Department of Health
• Children Youth and Families Department
• Public Education Department
• Department of Energy and Natural Resources
• Department of Finance and Administration
• Department of Transportation
• Human Services Department
• Aging and Long Term Services Department
• Center for Substance Abuse Prevention/SAMHSA
• Pacific Institute of Research and Evaluation
• Southwest Center for the Application of
  Prevention Technology
• Border Center for the Application of Prevention
  Technology
• National Prevention Network/National Association
  of Substance Abuse Directors
• CADCA

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The System In Real Life

• Examples of programs,
• What kids,
• What they experience,
• What happens to them
• afterwards

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Rocky Mountain Youth Corps

• Experimenting with drugs, best friend committed
  suicide
• Found meaning in participating in community
  Service Learning with youth
• Stopped using drugs
• Serves in a Crew Leadership position directing
  others who want to contribute to community
• 19 years old - will attend college next semester
  at either UNM or NMSU

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National Indian Youth Leadership Project

• Chance Yazzie from Brimhall, NM, is 11
  years old.
• Chance is on his way to becoming a great NIYLP
  Service Staff (youth leader).
• Most importantly, Chance wants to experience his
  life to the fullest.

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Different Age Approaches

• Some examples of different kinds of
• prevention programming for 0-6 year olds
• and for older kids

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Parents As TeachersSignificant Protective Factors

• Children are more advanced in language,
  problem-solving and other intellectual activities
  by three years of age
• Also more advanced in social development
• 80 of children in the program are ahead of their
  peers by the time they reach Kindergarten

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Excel Educational EnterprisesEffective Black
Parenting Program
Any culture can use parenting skills, but we
have problems different from others in this
country. Ms. Juzang characterized
African-American discipline as harsh and
punitive, resulting from the days of slavery and
necessary to ensure instant obedience to protect
children from white harm. - from Mary Juzang,
program co-director Ms. Juzang encourages
African-American parents to help their children
learn internal control instead of relying on
external control.
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Gila Regional Medical Center

• Mothers demonstrate significant improvements in
  family support systems.
• Mothers demonstrate significant increases in
  caregiver characteristics as related to positive
  parenting skills, child-related developmental
  expectations, and positive perception of child.
• Mothers demonstrate significant increases in
  positive family interactions as related to
  bonding with child, positive interaction/communica
  tion with child, positive marital relationship,
  and increased male involvement.

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New MexicosSTRATEGIC PREVENTION FRAMEWORK
STATE INCENTIVE GRANT (SPF-SIG)

• Governor Richardson is the grantee
• 2,350,965.00 per year for 5 years
• Statewide Needs Assessment
• Build Capacity
• Comprehensive Strategic Plan for Prevention that
  guides the local planning and implementation of
  prevention activities in New Mexico
• Evidence-based prevention programming directed at
  reducing risks and promoting resiliency to reduce
  underage drinking and other substance use, and to
  promote youth abstinence
• Rigorous local state wide and national evaluation
• SPF SIG will look at changing community level
  indicators and building stronger communities ..

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New Mexicos Strategic Framework

Assessment
Sustainability Cultural Competence
Profile population needs, resources, and
readiness to address needs and gaps
Capacity
Evaluation
Monitor, evaluate, sustain, and improve or
replace those that fail
Mobilize and/or build capacity to address needs
Implement evidence-based programs and activities
Develop a comprehensive strategic plan
Implementation
Planning
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Comprehensive Prevention Service System SUCCESSES

• Reductions in substance use and abuse
• A Track Record 3rd - 5 year prevention plan
• Evidence based prevention programming in over 40
  New Mexico Communities
• Strong grants management system
• Comprehensive workforce development system
• Outcome evaluations since 1996

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Recommendations to Enhance NM Prevention Service
System

• Additional coordination across service system
  including
• Needs Assessment (Common use of data to determine
  priorities for services)
• Capacity (Continue to enhance existing workforce
  development system, ie, certification,
  competencies, etc. )
• Planning (All State and local partners need to
  develop and work off of a common strategic
  prevention plan)
• Implementation (We need to better coordinate
  prevention funding to communities, ie coordinated
  RFPs, etc.)
• Evaluation (We need to better coordinate our
  evaluation efforts, including common data
  systems)

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