Barron County Safe

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Barron County Safe Stable Families Coalition-
Community Teams Program

• Final Team Presentation

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Health Issue

• Methamphetamine and other substance use and
  addiction

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Team Members

• Donna Cordes- Barron County Board of Supervisors
• Cathy Finseth- Chetek 925
• Barb Goffin- Barron County Drug Court Advisory
  Board
• Shelley Hammes- St. Croix Tribal Mental Health
  AODA Clinic, Barron County Drug Court Advisory
  Board

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Team Members (cont.)

• Erny Heiden-Marshfield Clinic Center for
  Community Outreach
• Joey Johnson- Childrens Service Society of
  Wisconsin
• Karen Lettner- Barron Area Schools
• Laura Sauve- Barron County Department of Health
  Human Services

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Project Goals

• Long Term Goal To increase community
  participation in substance use prevention
  programming through implementing and sustaining
  evidence based programs in Barron County.
• Short Term Goal To build Strengthening Families
  Program 10-14 (SFP 10-14) infrastructure in
  Barron County.

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Evidence

• In 2004 Barron County led the State of Wisconsin
  with 91 methamphetamine cases submitted to the
  State Crime lab. In 2005 Barron County ranked
  2nd out of 72 Counties in methamphetamine cases
  submitted to the State Crime Lab, coming in
  behind their neighboring county to the west, Polk
  County, by 2 cases.

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Evidence

• SFP 10-14 has proven effective in
• Delaying the onset of adolescent substance use
  including tobacco, alcohol and marijuana
• Reducing methamphetamine abuse in rural
  adolescents
• Lowering levels of aggression
• Increasing the resistance to peer pressure in
  youth
• Increasing the ability of parents/caregivers to
  set appropriate limits and show affection to and
  support of their children

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Objectives

• Identify Barron County facilitators who are fully
  trained in SFP 10-14.
• Designate one contact agency for all SFP 10-14
  resources in Barron County.

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Activity Summary

• Obtained list of those who completed the SFP
  10-14 training.
• Created a facilitator information sheet with
  contact information and information such as do
  they need a stipend or will the facilitate as
  part of their job? Availability? Etc.
• Contacted trained facilitators and completed the
  information sheet for each.
• Looked at gaps in facilitators, working on
  scheduling a training.

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Activities

• Met 3 times with SSF Coalition work committee,
  identified a primary contact agency UW Extension
• UW Extension has curriculum for SFP 10-14 for
  check out
• Purchased updated curriculum/videos using SSF
  Coalition funds

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Successes

• Coalition was restructured starting 1/1/07 and
  appears to be working more efficiently.
• Coalition has seen an increase in active members
  from averaging 11 members per meeting before HWLI
  to averaging 15 members now including
  participation from law enforcement, clergy,
  youth, parents.

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Successes

• Systematic look at infrastructure of SFP 10-14
  with step by step plan in place.
• Curriculum in place
• Facilitators identified
• Govenors Methamphetamine Initiative gave Barron
  County 4000 specifically for SFP 10-14 and
  provided funds for facilitator trainings

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Successes

• Identified multiple activities going on in Barron
  County
• Implementing Class Action/Project Northland
  throughout Barron County
• Creating a brochure promoting SSF, a speakers
  bureau listing and other marketing strategies

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Challenges

• Possessiveness of curriculum/ facilitators by an
  agency
• One agency not offering SFP 10-14 as intended
• Time
• Recruitment of families

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Words of Wisdom

• Dont do METH or your teeth will rot (but we hear
  theres good care in LaCrosse)!
• Dont do METH its not a good way to lose weight
  (but Portage Co CAN help)!
• Dont do METH (but the LGBT youth group can get
  you hooked up with a good summer program)!
• Dont do METH (but the FPW can help with Plan B
  the next morning, Milwaukee has a great sign up
  system in place)!
• Dont do METH or we will report it to Micah on a
  ZOOMERANG Survey!

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Community Teams Program

• Having Mary Huser advise our group- Thanks Mary!
• Coalition Strengthening Information
• Realizing the importance of evidence based
  programs and how to identify/find information
• Leadership styles
• Networking among our team and with the other
  teams
• Helping focus our coalition on more realistic and
  achievable goals- having success.

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Future Directions

• Continuing expansion of SFP 10-14
• Continuing other AODA prevention strategies
  throughout Barron County
• Continued networking and collaboration
• Heading North 200 miles to Gods Country at 3pm
  (earlier is ok too!)