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Title: Palm Beach County Substance Abuse Coalition


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Palm Beach CountySubstance Abuse Coalition
  • Working through the
  • Communities That Care
  • Planning Strategy

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Communities That Care Based on public health
models of community action
  • INCLUDES
  • community mobilization
  • needs assessment
  • plan development
  • implementation
  • evaluation

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GOAL help communities develop an integrated
approach to
  • the positive development of children and youth
  • the prevention of problem behaviors, including
    substance abuse, delinquency, teen pregnancy,
    school drop out

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Why be involved?
  • More funding
  • Safer and more effective schools
  • truancy decreased
  • Reduced delinquency
  • Reduced juvenile violent crime
  • In Pennsylvania, CTC is the centerpiece of the
    Community Partnership.
  • Juvenile violent crime has dropped by more than
    15 over four years.

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RISK and PROTECTIVE FACTORS
  • Things in a young person's environment that
    increase the likelihood of negative and
    antisocial behaviors.
  • when present in a young person's developmental
    environment, buffer, protect, and insulate them
    against the development of health and behavior
    problems.

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Where do you fit?561-689-2535
  • Management, Judge Nelson Bailey
  • Community Assessment Team, Ian Neuhard
  • Community Resource Assessment Team, Joan Kelsey
  • PR/Outreach, Pauline Dawes Harold Jonas
  • Youth Coalition-Peer Educators, Sara Rodriquez
  • Funding, Cathy Claud

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Youth CoalitionPeer Educators
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