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FY-2003 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 Interagency Steering Committee of Imperial County Coalition serves Imperial County, CA, a mix of suburban and rural areas with a combined population of 150,800. The goals of the program are to: 1) reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, among adults; 2) collaboratively strengthen local government delivery of substance abuse prevention, intervention, and treatment services; and 3) increase community awareness of the threat posed by youth substance abuse. To achieve these goals the coalition will implement the following strategies:
1) continue local media campaign to increase the awareness of the danger that substance abuse poses to the community;
2) disseminate information on effective program strategies and positive results;
3) provide prevention education sessions throughout the county to promote healthy drug-free life-styles;
4) increase awareness of risk and harm of drug abuse and drug availability through the Annual Interagency Youth Conference for Life and agencies serving youth;
5) conduct community forums to identify family and youth enrichment, and community involvement opportunities;
6) increase collaboration through coalition linkages with state and federal law enforcement agencies; and
7) reduce substance through Friday Night Life, Club Live and Kids Live programs at elementary, middle, and high schools.
