Grantees

This program will build awareness to educate and to equip teen influencers, parents, grandparents, teachers, etc., with credible information about teen prescription drug abuse.

The Collaborative’s Resilience Through Understanding® (RTU) program is a community and school-based asset-building education series for students in grades 6-12 and their caring adults. There are currently 400 youth enrolled from 10 local schools and the homeschool community, with over 600 caring adults supporting them. The program addresses substance misuse and the physical, mental, and social well-being of youth by providing vetted programs, promoting community involvement, and offering a season pass from a local recreation sponsor as a healthy incentive. As agency is vital in promoting youth thriving, these funds will establish a Youth Advisory Board and a Caring Adult Advisory Board to guide the direction of future programming.

Support a Prevention Coordinator who is responsible for delivering prevention and wellness programs to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender questioning and allied youths ages 22 and under with the goal of reducing substance abuse among queer youth.

They wish to be the prevention part of Project Vision in Rutland, specifically to educate youth in the Rutland area about alcohol, drugs and risky relationship behavior

UVM PROSPER (PROmoting School-community-university Partnerships to Enhance Resilience) brings a model developed by the expertise of prevention scientists, public school systems, and educators to communities in Vermont that disseminates and sustains high-quality evidence-based interventions (EBI’s) for the prevention of youth substance use and problem behavior. PROSPER Teams, composed of community stakeholders, cooperate to deliver evidence-based programs and supplemental opportunities, to a critical mass of families and youth in a targeted age group to bring about positive community-wide change.

To enhance positive and supportive interactions between parents and their children in order to contribute to a long-lasting ripple effect on development and healthy decision-making across a lifetime. 1. Collaborate with elementary schools to present an evidence-based social/emotional learning program that reinforces skill sets, including goal setting, decision making, managing emotions, effective communication, and bonding and relationships. Students are provided age-appropriate information on the negative effects of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. 2. Develop parent support groups and events/opportunities to share stories, provide peer support, receive information on supportive parenting, and norms that keep children safe and healthy.

Educating parents of pre-K through middle school age children on positive parenting skills to strengthen family bonds. Parents will learn the importance of age appropriate,k but clear and frequent communication with their children about alcohol, tobacco and other drug use.

A program to establish a student assistance coordinator at Harwood Union Middle/High School.