Strategic Planning and Environmental Programming

The Office of Substance Abuse (OSA) awarded 12 grants for county level strategic planning and environmental programming for substance abuse prevention under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant. All twelve awardees will do County wide substance abuse prevention strategic planning, which is phase I. Five of the twelve awardees will also implement substance abuse prevention environmental programming strategies in their county, which is phase II.

Phase I (steps 1, 2 and 3 of the SPF framework) provides resources whose purpose is to support Strategic Planning in such a way as to establish and/or strengthen a coordinated county-level prevention infrastructure that will:

Build partnerships across existing community coalitions, organizations, agencies, schools, and other partners;
Build on the strengths that already exist in the local prevention infrastructure; and
Begin to fill gaps where there are communities and/or subpopulations that are not served sufficiently by existing prevention programs and coalitions.

The following sites are working on this phase of the SPF:

Androscoggin- Healthy Androscoggin/CMCHC

Cumberland - People’s Regional Opportunity Program

Franklin - Healthy Community Coalition / Franklin

Hancock - Hancock County Planning Commission

Kennebec - Maine General Medical Center

Knox - Penobscot Bay YMCA

Lincoln - United Way of MidCoast

Oxford - Community Concepts

Sagadahoc - Mid Coast Hospital

Somerset - Somerset County Association of Resource Providers

Washington - Regional Medical Center at Lubec

York - Day One

Phase II (step 4 of the SPF framework) provides resources to concurrently implement an environmental approach (set of environmental strategies) to address underage drinking, which is one of the top priorities identified in the SPF-SIG state strategic plan. This environmental approach must target enforcement and at least two other intervening environmental factors (priority risk/protective factors) identified in the strategic plan.

The following sites are working on this phase of the SPF:

Oxford - Community Concepts

Hancock - Hancock County Planning Commission

Androscoggin-Healthy Androscoggin/CMCHC

Cumberland - People’s Regional Opportunity Program

Somerset - Somerset County Association of Resource Providers

SPF-SIG INFORMATION

Strategic Planning and Environmental Programming

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