FY 2004 Drug-Free Communities Support Program Application for Continuation Funding

The County of Sacramento, Department of Health and Human Services, is the fiscal agent for the Oak Park Neighborhood Multiservice Center Prevention Policy Board. The coalition serves Oak Park, an inner city community in Sacramento, CA, with a population of 51,984. The goals of the coalition are to: 1) reduce substance abuse among youth and, eventually, adults in the Oak Park community; and, 2) strengthen collaboration among public and private agencies serving the Oak Park community to prevent and reduce substance abuse among youth and, eventually, adults in the community. To achieve these goals, the coalition will implement the following strategies:
1) maintain the Multiservice Center as an outreach, treatment, and prevention
center;
2) collaborate with local law enforcement agencies to reduce drug dealing on the
neighborhood streets;
3) support an after-school program that incorporates both homework assistance
and recreational activities; and,
4) implement the Life Skills curriculum.CA/NCF