FY 2003 Drug-Free Communities Support Program Application for Continuation Funding

PROJECT SUMMARY FOR 2000-JN-FX-0106 (S-2)

The South Boston Community Coalition to Prevent Substance Abuse is a comprehensive community-based effort to reduce substance abuse by South Boston youth. The project will continue to achieve its goal by increasing collaboration between social service, substance abuse treatment professionals, and criminal justice professionals and the community in the third year of the grant. To achieve these goals, the coalition will continue to work on the following objectives: (1) increase citizen participation and greater collaboration among all sectors and organizations of the community; (2) enhance community efforts to promote and deliver effective substance abuse prevention strategies among multiple sectors of the community; (3) access the effectiveness of community substance abuse reduction initiatives directed toward youth; and (4) provide information about effective substance abuse reduction initiatives for youth that can be replicated in other communities; and (5) develop a sustainment plan for continuing the South Boston Community Coalition to Prevent Substance Abuse, post OJJDP funding.

ca/ncf

PROJECT SUMMARY FOR 2000-JN-FX-0106 (S-2)

The South Boston Community Coalition to Prevent Substance Abuse is a comprehensive community-based effort to reduce substance abuse by South Boston youth. The project will continue to achieve its goal by increasing collaboration between social service, substance abuse treatment professionals, and criminal justice professionals and the community in the third year of the grant. To achieve these goals, the coalition will continue to work on the following objectives: (1) increase citizen participation and greater collaboration among all sectors and organizations of the community; (2) enhance community efforts to promote and deliver effective substance abuse prevention strategies among multiple sectors of the community; (3) access the effectiveness of community substance abuse reduction initiatives directed toward youth; and (4) provide information about effective substance abuse reduction initiatives for youth that can be replicated in other communities; and (5) develop a sustainment plan for continuing the South Boston Community Coalition to Prevent Substance Abuse, post OJJDP funding.

ca/ncf