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CURRENT FEATURES
IN THE SECTION
INCLUDE:
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here to
learn about starting a Drug-Free Zone
ASSET BUILDING - THE HEART OF CARING COMMUNITIES
DRUG-FREE COMMUNITIES SUPPORT
PROGRAM FCCCP Year 6
LOCAL AFFILIATE COALITIONS - UPDATES
*Bakersfield
*Enosburg
*Fairfax
*Richford
*St. Albans
*Swanton
ENVIRONMENTAL
STRATEGIES
COMMUNITY
ANTI-DRUG COALTIONS OF AMERICA (CADCA)
- NIDA's SEVEN STAGES OF READINESS
RECOVERY RESOURCES
PREVENTION RESOURCES -
MEDIA
PREVENTION RESOURCES - SPEAKERS
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SEARCH
INSTITUTE'S 40 ASSETS
SEARCH Institute
has identified eight types of "internal" and "external"
assets that are crucial for helping young people grow up healthy:
Support, Empowerment, Boundaries and Expectations, Constructive
Use of Time, Commitment to Learning, Positive Values, Social
Competencies, Positive Identity. Within these categories,
there are 40 developmental assets:
- Support
(6)
Family Support, Positive Family Communication, Other Adult
Relationships, Caring Neighborhood, Caring School Climate,
Parent Involvement in Schooling
- Young
people need to experience support, care, and love from
their families and many others. They need organizations
and institutions that provide positive, supportive environments.
- Empowerment
(4) Community
Values Youth, Youth as Resources, Service to Others, Safety
- Young
people need to be valued by their community andd have
opportunities to contribute to others. For this to occur,
they must be safe and feel secure.
- Boundaries
and Expectations (6) Family
Boundaries, School Boundaries, Neighborhood Boundaries, Adult
Role Models, Positive Peer Influence, High Expectations
- Young
people need to know what is expected of them and whether
activities and behaviors are "in bounds" or
"out of bounds."
- Constructive
Use of Time (4) Creative
Activities, Youth Programs, Religious Community, Time at Home
- Young
people need constructive, enriching opportunities for
growth through creative activities, youth programs, congregational
involvement, and quality time at home.
- Commitment
to Learning (5) Achievement
Motivation, School Engagement, Homework, Bonding to School,
Reading for Pleasure
- Young
people need to develop a lifelong commitment to education
and learning.
- Positive
Values (6)
Caring, Equality and Social Justice, Integrity, Honesty,
Responsibility, Restraint
- Youth
need to develop strong values that guide their choices.
- Social
Competencies (5) Planning
and Decision Making, Interpersonal Competence, Cultural Competence,
Resistance Skills, Peaceful Conflict Resolution
- Young
people need skills and competencies that equip them to
make positive choices, to build relationships, and to
succeed in life.
- Positive
Identity (4) Personal
Power, Self-Esteem, Sense of Purpose, and Positive View of
Personal Future
- Young
people need a strong sense of their own power, purpose,
worth, and promise.
The
Asset Approach: Giving Kids What They Need to Succeed
Copyright © 2000 by Search Institute. All rights reserved.
Search Institute, 615 First Avenue N.E., Suite 125, Minneapolis,
MN 55413
For a complete
list of the 40 assets by category, visit the SEARCH
Institute website.
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RECOVERY
RESOURCES
Friends of Recovery/Vermont offers activities and resources for individuals
and families seeking help with recovery from substance abuse. Click
here for their website.
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Caring
Communities Updates from around the County:
Bakersfield:
Bakersfield
Caring Communities/PTCO: Contact: Jen Montague.
Bakersfield Caring Communities hosted a Family Day dinner for school
youth and their families.
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Berkshire
- guidance counselor Monica Sweet (933-2290) is coordinating
Caring Communities partner activites at the school through VKAT and
other groups. In 2008, with funding from Caring Communities and the
Enosburg Lions Club, Berkshire Elementary is hosting TIGER and training
staff, parents, youth, and community members in bullying and vioence
prevention.
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Enosburg
Contacts:
Ethan
Dezotelle, FNESU SPF coordinator
Sandra Brauer, EFMHS Student Assistance Counselor
Tammy Farr, EES guidance counselor and Rockinghorse Group coordinator
Upcoming
events:
Underage Drinking Town Hall Meeting
Enosburg
Community Alliance continues to operate a much needed and well-used
food shelf in the undercroft of the Masonic Temple.
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Fairfax
Fairfax will hold its
" Underage Drinking Town Hall meeting" March 25, 2009.
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Fairfield:
Fairfield
Community Center Association
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Franklin
Franklin Recreation and Activities Program (FRAP) (Coordinator: Nancy
Wilson at 285-2100)
Program coordinator Nancy Wilson organized
another successful summer camp program in 2007, followed by a Family
Night dinner at the school at the end of September. Plans for 2008
include another "Survivor" style high school transition
summer camp. Meanwhile, Franklin's Haston library has been sponsoring
teen nights on a monthly basis.
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Highgate:
Highgate Cares
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Montgomery
Contact:
Allison May, 326-4618.
Montgomery School Community
Team - Guidance Counselor Allison May advises the VKAT.
Community member/musician/mother
Amie Koontz is now coordinating "The Basement," with a teen
council comprising MES and HS students. The Basement, a teen center
located in the Grange/Town Hall, held its Open House September 5.
It is open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 3 - 7 PM. Amie is also working
with Enosburg High School to coordinate an OVX chapter in Franklin
Northeast.
THE BASEMENT'S
Mission Statement: The Basement, Montgomery's Youth Center, is a grant
and fundraiser funded, youth and adult governed organization designed
to empower youth to leadership and inspire the breakdown of peer barriers,
encourage the development of community connections and the promote
the growth of a sense of social responsibility by providing a safe
space for teens to hang out and have fun, and opportunities to connect
with their peers and communities and to make a difference in the world
around them. We are an anti-biased organization and believe that everyone
deserves respect regardless of race, religion, sex, age, origin, ability
or orientation.
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Richford:
Underage
Drinking Town Meeting photos by Greg Lamoreux. Left, DUI State Trooper
Jay Riggen participates with Richford students in a "World Cafe"
discussion on one of the questions; center, Ethan Dezotelle moderates;
right, parents tackle a question.
  
Richford
Junior/High School hosted a very successful underage drinking townhall
meeting in April 2008 thanks to great organizing by student assistance
counselor Lisa Greco, assisted by her "boss," Franklin Northeast
Supervisory Union's Strategic Prevention Framework coordinator Ethan
Dezotelle (pictured above, center).
Lisa's SADD team, the Richford Empowerment youth (see below) and the
Explorers helped out at the meeting, which more than 140 parents,
teens, school teachers and administrators, and other concerned community
members attended.
Richford
Youth Empowerment Project (JoAnn Foote)
Richford
Empowerment hosts monthly community dances at the town hall, field
trips for teens, and more. Please call JoAnn Foote at 848-7039 or
Tammy Ryea at 848-7400 for more information. At the High School, Lisa
Greco, the Student Assistance Program Counselor, is forming a SADD
team. Please contact her at 848-7416 for more information.
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St.
Albans:
Contacts:
Loli
Berard
Franklin Central Supervisory Union and Community Alliance Board
Common
Ground Teen Center:
Director: Colleen Kelly and Americorps workers Matt and Erin ( 782-1811)
Email: stalbansteencenter@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.commongroundcenter.com
ST. ALBANS
RECREATION DEPARTMENT
Kelly
Viens Recreation Director City of Saint Albans 100 North Main Street
P.O. Box 867 St. Albans, VT 05478 802-524-1500 X266
A quick reminder that you can still sign up for Pilates!
Class starts Thursday 3/5 and runs Mondays and Thursdays for 6 weeks
@ 5:30-6:30 @ City Hall Gym $60
Instructor: Liza Rooney
Manners
Matter
starts Wednesday 3/4 (tomorrow!) @ 4:30 at City Hall $25 registration
with a chance to win $100! Runs for 4 weeks.
Swim Team
Sign-up.
Receive $10 off if you register and pay for swim team starting now!
There are swim suit samples in the recreation office, you can try
them on to determine what size you'd like to order, and suits will
be here in time for the first meet.
Summer
Day Camp.
We're
taking registration for Day Camp. Reserve your weeks now so you won't
be disappointed. We have a terrific returning staff, this summer's
going to be a blast with lots of new programming! We can email a registration
form to you-just let me know.
Awesome
April Vacation Day Camp.
We just finished a fabulous week of February Vacation Camp including
a trip to the Biodome. We've got tons on fun planned for April vacation.
Space is limited and we're taking registrations now! We can send a
form on line if you like.
St. Albans
Largest Garage Sale.
Saturday, March 28 9-2pm Tables are $15. Get rid of some of your stuff
and make a little $. Proceeds from the table and entrance fees benefits
recreation. YOU keep all the $$ you make! Reserve a spot today.
Volunteering
opportunity : The St. Albans Community Justice Center is seeking volunteers
for the Reparative Boards. Each month Reparative Board volunteers
meet with offenders who have committed "low-level" offenses. The goal
of the meeting is for the offender to develop a better understanding
of how his or her actions affected the community, and to seek ways
to repair the harm. As a volunteer, you will receive training, support,
plenty of snacks, and a whole lot of appreciation! You also will learn
about Restorative Justice, and you will help people to get back into
the good graces of their community. Reparative Board trainings are
scheduled for this month. If you would like more information about
volunteering, please call Marc Wennberg, Interim Director, at the
St. Albans Community Justice Center at 524-1500 X268 St. Albans hosted
its Underage Drinking Town Hall Meeting on April 28, rounding out
the month of meetings throughout Franklin County. Many thanks to Deb
Kalkstein Lamb and Marylin Abell for their leadership in organizing
the event. Photos by Stina Plant, St. Albans Messenger photographer,
follow:

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Sheldon:
Sheldon Cares (Coordinator:
Kerri Irick). Sheldon Cares teamed with the school to host the ever-popular
Family Day dinner in conjunction with the school open house in September.
The partners also organized Red Ribbon Week activities and a culminating
Halloween Dance that featured prevention messages and games.
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Swanton
and
Missisquoi Valley Union Junior/Senior High School (MVU):
MVU
took the lead in hosting the Underage Drinking Town Hall Meeting for
Franklin Northwest residents. Parents, youth, school staff, law enforcement,
and other concerned citizens identified factors that promote underage
drinking and identified resources for solving the problem.
Left:
school staff and parents consider the issue; right: Beth Crane, executive
director of Franklin County Caring Communities, and Cindy Cook, Swanton
mother, Caring Communities youth and families outreach coordinator,
and adviser to the Franklin Grand Isle Youth Network, stand in front
of a display of prevention resources.
Swanton
Teen Center: Call Chris King at 868-9880 for information and events.
Hours
of operation:
Grades 7th and up: M, T, Th, F 3:00 p.m. to 7 p.m.
5th-6th grades: Weds 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.
If
you've seen beautiful red tulips in Swanton this spring, that's because
the Teen Center RAIDers planted them during Red Ribbon Week (substance
abuse awareness week) back in October. The RAIDers are a group of
teens led by Dr. Chip Chiappinelli and Chris King. They meet Thursdays
3:00 p.m. The RAIDers
mission is "Raising Awareness Involving Drugs and other risk behaviors"

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CADCA
To find out what’s going on with community anti-drug coalitions and
events related to the substance abuse field, check out: www.cadca.org/Events/Events.htm
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NIDA’s
Nine Stages of Community Readiness
Community
Mobilization
“Community
mobilization is the movement of community members from dormancy
in preexisting groups or potential in yet-to-be formed groups
toward action. - Henry Ford -
The Demands of
Community Mobilization
Community mobilization demands a commitment to action that will
lead to an overall improvement in the health and well-being
of the community. As the Henry Ford quote suggests, the community
mobilization experience follows specific process that begins
with the concerns of community members, proceeds through the
articulation of a vision and mission, the formulation of a strategic
plan, implementation of action steps that are designed to bring
about community change, and finally, analysis and evaluation
that leads to strategy adjustments and future success.
The process of community
organization requires the commitment of concerned and committed
individuals who represent all facets of the community, responsive
and capable organizations, and a sense of community purpose
that can be widely accepted by the community. It is important
to assess the mobilization capacity of the community during
the early stages of coalition development. It may be that the
capacity is not present to develop a substance abuse prevention
coalition at this time; it may be that steps can be taken to
enhance the community’s mobilization capacity.
The National Institute
on Drug Abuse (NIDA) identifies mobilization capacity as a key
element in assessing a community’s overall readiness for implement
substance abuse prevention programs. In a 1997 publication,
Drug Abuse Prevention and Community Readiness: Training Facilitators
Manual, NIDA outlines nine community evolution precepts that
determine a community’s readiness to mobilize around and issue
like substance abuse prevention. They include:
Community
Tolerance
Denial
Vague Awareness
Pre-planning Preparation
Initiation Institutionalization
Confirmation/Expansion
Professionalism
NIDA’s Nine Stages
of Community Readiness
Stage 1: Community
Tolerance
Community norms actively tolerate or encourage the behavior,
although the behavior may be expected of one group and not another
(e.g., by gender, race, social class or age). The behavior when
occurring in the appropriate social context, is viewed as acceptable
or as part of the community norm. Those who do not engage in
the behavior may be tolerated but might be viewed as somewhat
deviant.
Stage 2: Denial
There is usually recognition that the behavior is or can be
a problem. Community norms usually would not approve of the
behavior. But there is little or no recognition that this might
be a local problem. If there is some idea that it is a problem,
there is a feeling that nothing needs to be done about this
locally or that nothing can be done about it.
Stage 3: Vague
Awareness
There is a general belief that there is a local problem and
that something ought to be done about it. Knowledge about local
problems tends to be stereotypical and vague or linked only
to a specific incident or two. There is no immediate motivation
to do anything. No identifiable leadership exists, ort leadership
lacks energy or motivation.
Stage 4: Pre-planning
There is clear recognition that there is a local problem and
that something should be done about it. There is general information
about local problems, but ideas about etiology or risk factors
tend to be stereotyped. There are identifiable leaders, and
there may be a committee, but no real planning.
Stage 5: Preparation
Planning is going on and focuses on practical details. There
is general information about local problems and about the pros
and cons of prevention programs, but it may not be based on
formally collected data. Leadership is active and energetic.
The program may have started on a trial basis. Funding is being
actively sought or has been committed.
Stage 6: Initiation
Enough information is available to justify a prevention program,
but knowledge of risk factors is likely to be stereotyped. A
program has been started and is running, but it is still on
trial. Staff is in training or just have finishes with training.
There may be great enthusiasm because limitations and problems
have not yet been experienced.
Stage 7: Institutionalization
One or two programs are running, supported by administration,
and accepted as a routine and valuable activity. Staff are trained
and experienced. There is little perceived need for change or
expansion. Limitations may be known, but there is not much sense
that the limitations suggest a need for change. There may be
some form of routine tracking or prevalence. There is not necessarily
permanent funding, but there is established funding that allows
the program the opportunity to implement its action plan.
Stage 8: Confirmation/Expansion
Standard programs are viewed as valuable. And authorities support
expanding or improving programs. New programs are being planned
or tried out to reach more people, those thought to be more
at risk or in different demographic groups. Funds for new program
are being sought or are committed. Data are obtained regularly
on the extent of local problems and efforts are made to assess
risk factors and the cause of the problem.
Stage 9: Professionalization
Detailed and sophisticated knowledge of prevalence, risk factors
and etiology exists. Some programs may be aimed at general populations,
whereas others may be targeted at specific risk factors and/or
at-risk groups. Highly trained staff members are running programs,
authorities are supportive, and community involvement is high.
Effective evaluation is used to test and modify programs.
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