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This awardee has received supplemental funding. This award detail page includes information about the supplemental awards but the information about the original award is unavailable.
Award Information
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2001, $100,000)
The Mid City Community Advocacy Network serves the central region of the City of San Diego, CA, an urban area with a population of 168,125, which is 38.81% Hispanic, 30.9% White, 12.96% Black, 13.30% Asian, and 4.84% Other. The goals of the program are to: 1) reduce/prevent substance use among Mid City youth and over time among adults; and 2) enhance the structure and effectiveness of the Mid City Community Advocacy Network. To achieve these goals, the coalition will implement the following strategies:
1) increase youth's knowledge of ATOD, their associated risks, and build youth's communication, decision making, conflict resolution, and goal setting skills;
2) create ongoing supportive networks through peer mentoring that will help youth successfully move through school;
3) educate collaborative members on the usage and delivery of the project-developed ATOD curriculum in the delivery of related services, i.e., domestic violence, child abuse, etc.;
4) implement outreach efforts to the broader community to identify and to recruit additional at-risk youth;
5) provide parent education on the risks of substance abuse in an effort to increase parent's ability to discuss these issues with their children; and
6) involve more ethnic groups in promoting norms and standards against substance abuse.
CA/NCF