PREVENTION INITIATIVE STRATEGIES

The Children & Youth Prevention Coalition of St. Tammany is committed to developing underage drinking, substance abuse and tobacco use initiatives that address these issues across multiple fronts. Each prevention initiative is design for the culture and environment of St. Tammany Parish and Louisiana and works to utilize the existing health infrastructure. All prevention initiatives target high-risk populations in an effort to moderate the spread of underage drinking, prescription drug abuse and other negative influences in St. Tammany Parish and the Northshore.

Initiative Strategies

Within each prevention campaign, our efforts are focused on seven strategies to affect community changes

  • Educational curriculum, presentations, workshops or seminars and data or media presentations including, but not limited to public service announcements, brochures, billboard campaigns, community meetings, town halls, forums and Web-based communication.

  • Workshops, seminars or activities designed to increase the skills of participants, members and staff including, but not limited to training, technical assistance, distance learning, strategic planning retreats, parenting classes and model programs in schools.

  • Opportunities to support people for participation in activities that reduce risk or enhance protection that includes, but not limited to providing alternative activities, mentoring, referrals for services, support groups, youth clubs, parenting groups, Alcoholics or Narcotics Anonymous.

  • Improving systems and processes to increase the ease, ability and opportunity to utilize systems and services including, but not limited to access to treatment, childcare, transportation, housing, education, special needs and cultural and language sensitivity.

  • Increasing or decreasing the probability of a specific behavior that reduces risk or enhances protection by altering the consequences for performing that behavior including, but not limited to increasing public recognition for deserved behavior, individual and business rewards, taxes, citations, fines, revocations and loss of privileges.

  • Changing the physical design or structure of the environment to reduce risk or enhance protection including, but not limited to parks, landscapes, signage, lighting, and outlet density.

  • Formal change in written procedures, bylaws, proclamations, rules or laws with written documentation and/or voting procedures including, but not limited to workplace initiatives, law enforcement procedures and practices, public policy actions and systems change within government, communities and organizations.