Billings/Yellowstone County Drug Prevention Planning Committee

Billings Healthy Community Coalition

MADD Drivers' Ed Contest Drawing

The Planning Committee's Work

Drug Prevention Links

Drug Prevention for Parents

Links for Youth

Local Prevention Links

Prevention Glossary

Our Community...Driving Drugs Out

The Mission:

To aggressively reduce the use and abuse of methamphetamine, alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs in the Billings and Greater Yellowstone County community.

Community Goals:

To use a data driven decision making process to develop a comprehensive and coordinated long term prevention, intervention and treatment plan for our community.

Reduce the use and abuse of methamphetamine, alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs by at least 40% in the next five years.

Objectives

Identify existing community prevention service providers

Identify what prevention programs are available in the community

Establish a communication network for sharing of community resources and ideas among prevention service providers

Evaluate and prioritize the risk and protective factors and community indicators that need to be addressed in our community

Determine which best practices will be most effective in addressing identified risk and protective factors that are not currently being impacted by existing prevention programs

Identify and solicit funding resources for new community wide prevention programs

Introduction

Billings/Yellowstone County Drug Prevention Planning Committee (BYCDPPC) was formulated as a work group under the Billings Healthy Community Coalition (BHCC). The BHCC applied for and was successful in receiving a three year Community Incentive Drug Prevention Grant in October 1999 for $855.000 (see BCIP Grant for more information). This grant required a community wide strategic planning process and sustainability plan for funding beyond year three of the grant, thus was formed the BYCDPPC. With 50 plus members, the BYCDPPC has a steering committee which evaluates priorities and sets agendas for the larger group. To effectively address community prevention four task forces have been established with thier own agendas and work plans. The Media Task Force, the Judicial and Enforcement Task Force, the Policy Development Task Force and the Legislative Task Force all report back to the larger group.

Since its inception, members of the BYCDPPC have gone on to write other prevention grants and have brought additional prevention doallars to our community. Two of the most important of these are the SAMHSA grant and the United Tobacco Free Coalition. Other members continue to be active in program planning and develoment. If you are interested in becoming involved in one of these groups contact Ernie Randolfi for more information.

Pat Bellinghausen's Gazette article on our first meeting

Minutes from the first Planning Meeting

Participants in the Prevention Planning Committee

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Power Point Presentation for the Second General Meeting

Drug Prevention Links

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Alcohol

Al-Anon http://www.al-anon-alateen.org
Alcoholics Anonymous http://www.alcoholicsanonymous.org
Alcohol Free Kids http://www.alcoholfreekids.com
Facing Alcohol Concern Through Education http://www.faceproject.org
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism http://www.niaaa.nih.gov

Drugs - General

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention http://www.preventiondds.org

Center For Substance Abuse Prevention http://www.samhsa.gov/csap/index.htm

Community Action for Drug Prevention

Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America http://www.cadca.org

Drug Free Communities Program http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/dfcs/index.html

Drug Strategies http://www.drugstrategies.org

Index of Risk and Protective Factor Articles http://www.nida.nih.gov/nida_notes/NNVol11N3/Protective.html

Join Together http://www.jointogether.org

Prevention 101 http://prc3.org/Prevention/PX101.htm

Protective Factors Can Buffer High-Risk Youths from Drug Use http://www.nida.nih.gov/nida_notes/NNVol11N3/Protective.html

The Marin Institute (research on policies) http://www.marininstitute.org

National Clearinghouse on Alcohol and Drug Information http://www.health.org

National Council on Alcoholism and Drug-Dependence http://www.ncadd.org

National Institute on Drug Abuse http://www.nida.nih.gov

Western CAPT Website http://www.unr.edu/westcapt

Drug Prevention Sites With Parenting Information

Mothers Against Drunk Driving http://www.madd.org

National Children's Coalition http://www.child.net/drugalc.htm

National Congress of Parents and Teachers http://www.pta.org

National Family in Action http://www.emory.edu/NFIA

National Family Partnership http://www.nfp.org

Parent Soup http://www.parentsoup.com

Parents the Anti-Drug http://www.theantidrug.com/index.html

Parents Resources of Drug Education (PRIDE) http://www.prideusa.org

Partnership for Drug-Free America http://www.drugfreeamerica.org
Project Know http://www.projectknow.com
Raising Healthy Kids http://www.healthychild.net
The National Parenting Center http://www.tnpc.com

Youth Related Drug Prevention Sites

FreeVibe http://www.freevibe.com
National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign http://www.mediacampaign.com/
National Children's Coalition http://www.child.net/drugalc.htm
Project HELP http://www.OptimalHealthConcepts.com/help
Youth to Youth International http://www.y2yint.com

Local Prevention Efforts

Billings Community Incentive Program http://www.optimalhealthconcepts.com/proposal.html

Project HELP http://www.OptimalHealthConcepts.com/help

United Tobacco Free Counties Coalition http://www.TobaccoFreeMontana.org (GREAT for Links to Tobbacco Sites)

Billings/Yellowstone County Drug Prevention Planning Committee

Billings Healthy Community Coalition

Our Community...Driving Drugs Out

The Mission:

To aggressively reduce the use and abuse of methamphetamine, alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs in the Billings and Greater Yellowstone County community.

Community Goals:

To use a data driven decision making process to develop a comprehensive and coordinated long term prevention, intervention and treatment plan for our community.

Reduce the use and abuse of methamphetamine, alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs by at least 40% in the next five years.

Objectives

Identify existing community prevention service providers

Identify what prevention programs are available in the community

Establish a communication network for sharing of community resources and ideas among prevention service providers

Evaluate and prioritize the risk and protective factors and community indicators that need to be addressed in our community

Determine which best practices will be most effective in addressing identified risk and protective factors that are not currently being impacted by existing prevention programs

Identify and solicit funding resources for new community wide prevention programs

Introduction

Drug Prevention Links

Alcohol

Al-Anon http://www.al-anon-alateen.org

Drugs - General

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention http://www.preventiondds.org

Center For Substance Abuse Prevention http://www.samhsa.gov/csap/index.htm

Community Action for Drug Prevention

Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America http://www.cadca.org

Drug Free Communities Program http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/dfcs/index.html

Drug Strategies http://www.drugstrategies.org

Index of Risk and Protective Factor Articles http://www.nida.nih.gov/nida_notes/NNVol11N3/Protective.html

Join Together http://www.jointogether.org

Prevention 101 http://prc3.org/Prevention/PX101.htm

Protective Factors Can Buffer High-Risk Youths from Drug Use http://www.nida.nih.gov/nida_notes/NNVol11N3/Protective.html

The Marin Institute (research on policies) http://www.marininstitute.org

National Clearinghouse on Alcohol and Drug Information http://www.health.org

National Council on Alcoholism and Drug-Dependence http://www.ncadd.org

National Institute on Drug Abuse http://www.nida.nih.gov

Western CAPT Website http://www.unr.edu/westcapt

Drug Prevention Sites With Parenting Information

Mothers Against Drunk Driving http://www.madd.org

National Children's Coalition http://www.child.net/drugalc.htm

National Congress of Parents and Teachers http://www.pta.org

National Family in Action http://www.emory.edu/NFIA

National Family Partnership http://www.nfp.org

Parent Soup http://www.parentsoup.com

Parents the Anti-Drug http://www.theantidrug.com/index.html

Parents Resources of Drug Education (PRIDE) http://www.prideusa.org

Partnership for Drug-Free America http://www.drugfreeamerica.org

Youth Related Drug Prevention Sites

Local Prevention Efforts

Billings Community Incentive Program http://www.optimalhealthconcepts.com/proposal.html

Project HELP http://www.OptimalHealthConcepts.com/help

United Tobacco Free Counties Coalition http://www.TobaccoFreeMontana.org (GREAT for Links to Tobbacco Sites)

Glossary

Prevention: The active process of creating conditions and/or attributes that promote the well-being of people.

Best Practices

Risk Factors

Protective Factors