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FY 2004 Drug-Free Communities Support Program Application for Continuation Funding
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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.
The Sumter Citizens serves the South Sumter community, a rural area with a population of 3,365 which is almost 90% African American. The goals of the program are to: (1) strengthen the capacity of the Sumter Citizens to promote positive change within their community and (2) promote the development of youth in the targeted area as a means of preventing and reducing substance abuse. To achieve these goals, the coalition will implement the following strategies: (1) organize and convene community discussions on at least three key issues of importance to the coalition -- "Keeping Kids Alcohol Free", "Strategies for Action" and "A Community for all Generations - Teens and Adults Working Together"; (2) expand external funding to support the coalition; (3) conduct youth outreach for job training and or educational placement; (4) increase meaningful opportunities for youth to become involved in the community; and (5) enhance the capacity of the coalition's after school program.CA/NCF
