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Sustainability Plan
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1. Connect the
sustainability plan to the coalition’s overall strategic
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The mission of the Jones County Safe and Healthy coalition
is to engage our community in efforts to create and maintain
safe and healthy youth. This is accomplished through a
strong strategic plan that incorporates all seven
environmental strategies to effectively address the
coalition’s two goals of continual collaboration among the
community and reduction of substance use among youth. The
sustainability of these efforts will be crucial in the
creating lasting community level change and social norms
that overtime prevent and reduce substance use and abuse.
The Jones County Safe and Healthy Youth Coalition’s
strategic plan follows several important goals of increasing
community collaboration and reducing substance abuse. Within
these goals are several objectives that will aid the
sustainability. Sustainability is connected to the
coalition’s strategic plan through: |
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Providing Information: Continually providing information to
the community regarding the issues around all substances
will create a well versed community on 1) substance issues
2) consequences of their use and 3) the importance of the
coalition. It will also create a community united in not
allowing substances in the Jones Community. By increasing
awareness of the ever changing substance abuse problems
among youth, community members will increase their concern
of the issue and consequently increase their willingness to
become engaged in coalition efforts to address the problem. |
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Enhancing Skills: A diverse coalition membership requires
engagement with many other community groups, law
enforcement, schools, civic groups and human service
agencies to provide support in common efforts. Training
opportunities will continue to be provided to build capacity
of coalition members to take on leadership of the coalition
without reliance on contracted support. |
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Providing Support: The coalition has invested in assisting
local law enforcement in their efforts and will begin aiding
the community in the enforcement of current drinking laws
through trainings and equipment. Implementation of these
strategies will provide law enforcement and the community
with the concrete skills and equipment necessary to sustain
long term environmental activities. |
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Enhance access/reduce barriers: The development of
relationships with local Jones County businesses to review
product/placement/promotion and pricing of alcohol and
tobacco products is a lasting endeavor to ensure the youth
of Jones County are not subject to negative message
regarding usage. Continued work with all local fair and
festivals will also aid in the safety of youth and their
proximity to alcohol and their advertising. |
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Changing Consequences: The coalition will continue to
recognize the community, its members and coalition committees for their
work and contributions. This will help maintain long term,
engaged and energized volunteers and contributors. In
addition, the coalition will work toward changing
consequences in the community related to abuse of all four
of our target substances. Changing consequences of abuse and
contributing to abuse will have a significant impact on our
coalition’s sustainability by providing the community with
the long term policies, procedures and practices necessary
to reduce youth access and substance abuse. |
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Change Physical Design: The coalition is committed to
working towards having a safe community where parks, both
public and state are free from underage drinking parties and
binge drinking. Working to continually assess and improve
the physical design of the Jones County environment will
provide the community with a lasting interest in the
coalition’s efforts as well as produce long term changes
with very little resources needed to sustain the changes.
This has also included assisting the community in
understanding the safety issues within their own homes. |
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Modify/change policy: A continued relationship with local,
state and federal elected officials will ensure that a
review of policies, laws and ordinances will create the
appropriate level of laws to govern their community. These
policies are both governmental as well as within agencies
and private homes. Policy changes, once implemented, require
few resources to sustain a long term impact on reducing
substance abuse among youth and adults. |
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While sustainability is immersed in to our strategic plan it
is also seen in the development to strong coalition
leadership and active committees that are fully engaged and
vested in the coalition purpose and goals. |
2. Identify what
outcomes and strategies need to be sustained to keep
substance
use rates from increasing or to continue driving
them down. |
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The Jones County Safe and Healthy Youth Coalition has
taken on important out comes related to decreasing
substance use rates through the use of environmental
strategies. These outcomes include, but are not limited
to creating a community that understands the substance
use issues in Jones County, the importance of
consistency and constantly assessing the community for
data that will drive their strategies, the importance of
having a diverse and well represented group of concerned
individuals working towards the common goals of the
coalition, having a strong supportive leadership
organizing the coalition and offering direction when
necessary and understanding, reviewing and monitoring
all the policing, laws and ordinances that exist in the community to allow the
community to move towards truly reducing substance use.
The Jones County Safe and Healthy Youth Coalition will
want to continue to develop, implement, and evaluate
social marketing campaigns that will address the social
norms, perceptions, and beliefs as they relate to
substance use.
The Coalition will need to continue to promote and
enforce decreased access to substance abuse throughout
the community, through server trainings, local policies,
enforcement efforts, and public promotion of strategies
to eliminate access to substances among minors.
The Jones County Safe and Healthy Youth Coalition will
continue to plan and provide substance use related
community trainings.
The Coalition will create a communications plan that
will keep the community informed of its efforts, goals,
and purpose as to continue awareness of the issues in
the community, develop capacity within the coalition and
continually education all sectors of the latest trends.
It is understood that in order for a community
to work on substance focused issues
like keeping substance use rates from
increasing, it will be imperative for the Jones
County Safe and Healthy Youth Coalition to be
sustained as a group of passionate, hardworking,
nonjudgmental, unbiased individuals that will
continue to meet regularly and have strong
committees that are focused in their specific
area of interest.
Additional measurable out comes that would need to be
monitored are: |
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Jones County needs
to continue to decrease the 30-day use rates of, including
but not limited to, alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use
among youth and adults. |
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Jones County needs to continue to increase the perceptions
of risk/harm of, including but not limited to, alcohol,
tobacco, and marijuana use among youth and adults.
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Jones
County needs to continue to increase the average age of
onset of, including but not limited to, alcohol, tobacco,
and marijuana use among youth and adults. |
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Jones
County needs to continue to increase the perception of
parental disapproval of, including but not limited to,
alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use among youth.
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Jones
County needs to continue decrease the number of children
that are affected by parents, caregivers, and adult’s
alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use. |
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A sustainable coalition will have enough resources that
allow it to intervene at the community level and will
maintain the necessary resources long enough to create
community level outcomes. |
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3. Identify what resources
will be required in the future to keep these
strategies or changes in place? |
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The Jones County Safe and Healthy Youth Coalition will
require the following resources to continue its efforts. It
is anticipated that some sources may be in kind to the
coalition. |
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Capital: Office Space, meeting space, phones, copier, paper,
pencils, fax, meeting space, food for meetings, insurance,
computers, internet, website |
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Human: Coalition members, Volunteers, Community partners,
Coalition Coordination, Grant Writing Support for Years 6 10
Application, Administrative Assistance, Other volunteers or
contractors with specialized skills relevant to grant needs. |
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Funding: to maintain categorical budget |
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Technical
training and assistance |
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Nonprofit status |
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Transportation |
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4. Create case statements
that describe the community need, the impact of the
coalitions work and the consequences of the coalition work
not continuing. |
Case Statement#1
The Jones County Safe and Healthy Youth Coalition has been
vital at addressing substance use and abuse among youth in
our community. The coalition is comprised of concerned
citizens, business leaders, elected officials, school
administration, religious leaders and other nonprofit
agencies that believe our community is at an important
crossroads with the recent rise of substance use in our
community. This rise was reflected in the latest Iowa Youth
Survey, which reflects highly validated data from all four
districts in our County, representing nearly all 11th
grade students residing in Jones County:
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% 11th graders who have used in the
past 30 days |
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Binge
Drank |
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Drank
Alcohol |
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Used
Marijuana |
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Used
Tobacco |
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Used
Prescription Drugs |
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Drove
after Drinking or Using Drugs |
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1999 |
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43% |
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53% |
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14% |
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40% |
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19% |
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2002 |
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52% |
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55% |
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16% |
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35% |
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22% |
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2005 |
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27% |
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38% |
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8% |
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20% |
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3% |
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14% |
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2008 |
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36% |
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43% |
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16% |
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27% |
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7% |
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13% |
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State 2008 |
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27% |
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36% |
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13% |
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24% |
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7% |
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10% |
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The Coalition’s efforts have been developed in a variety of
ways, through community and family education, coalition and
community trainings, advocacy, policy recommendations and
marketing campaigns. The coalition needs to sustain the
work that we have started. We are making a significant
difference in our community in not only reducing substance
use, but also building our community and developing similar
purposes.
If the coalition was unable to continue this work, we would
lose a great deal of momentum that has been built over the
past two years. Actively engaged and passionate people would
lose there sources necessary to carry out the strategies
needed to impact substance abuse, and have not yet had time
to build enough capacity to continue these efforts without
these additional resources. As a result, youth substance
abuse in Jones County would likely continue to rise. If
substance abuse continued to rise at the past rate, Jones County data
would reflect the following highly concerning data: |
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JONES |
%11th
graders who have used in last 30 days |
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2008 |
2011 (projection) |
| Binge Drank |
36% |
45% |
| Drank Alcohol |
43% |
48% |
| Used Marijuana |
16% |
22% |
| Used Tobacco |
27% |
34% |
| Abused
Prescriptions |
7% |
11% |
| Drove after
Drinking or using Drugs |
13% |
12% |
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5. Determine Funding
strategies that will support the work of the coalition in
the future, especially after Federal Funding is no
longer available. |
Currently the Jones County Safe and Healthy Youth
Coalition relies heavily on its Drug Free Community
grant to sustain much of the coalition activity. The
Coalition membership has provided a significant
amount of in kind support to provide leadership and
assist with implementation of the activities. The
Area Substance Abuse Council as its fiscal agent has
brought to the community and coalition many value
added services, for example, trained personal in
prevention services, access to the latest research,
knowledge and training in the prevention field, in
kind matching for all budgetary line items,
administrative and reporting services as part of the
DFC regulations and collaboration with other ASAC
staff doing similar work in other communities.
As
the coalition moves forward and state and federal
funding changes, it will be important to review the
following possible funding sources in the community: |
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Local Substance Abuse Agencies : Technical assistance can be
provided as in kind to the grant through local or state
grants. |
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Local Community Grants: The coalition is currently applying
for local funding to support its efforts, and continues to
increase reliance on local entities for support. |
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Line item Budget Allocations: As cash resources become less
available, it will be necessary to modify our line items and
identify opportunities for additional cost savings. For
example, the Coalition intends on decreasing its allocation
toward salary/fringe each year as local capacity is
increased to be able to take on more leadership of the
coalition activities. In addition, the coalition will seek
opportunities to become a line item budget allocation on
various Police Departments, Public Health, and City/County
budgets in order to show alignment with their and our goals
for a Safe and Healthy Jones County. |
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Individual Donors |
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Business donors: Legal support for obtaining 501c3 status |
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Sponsorships: The coalition has been successful in obtaining
scholarships to send community members to National training
opportunities to increase local capacity. Additional
opportunities will be sought out |
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Fundraising events: The coalition fundraising committee will
hold fundraising events as specific needs for resources are
identified. |
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Charging fee for services: Identify community needs and
assess possibility of charging for these services
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Partnerships with other service providers |
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6. Identify potential
partners for each identified funding strategy. |
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Local Substance Abuse Agencies: Area Substance Abuse Council
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Local Community
Grants: United Way, Jones County Endowment, Jones County
DECAT, Dubuque Racing Association, Iowa Department of Public
Health Community Coalition Grant, Greater Cedar Rapids
Community Foundation |
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Line item Budget Allocations: Jones County Public Health,
Monticello Police Department, Jones County Sheriff, Anamosa
Police Department, City/County budgets |
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Individual Donors: Public |
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Business donors: Work with local Chamber of Commerce’s to
determine lists to engage |
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Fundraising events: Public |
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Charging fee for services: Local Businesses |
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Partnerships with other service providers: Iowa State
Extension, Jones County DECAT, Schools |
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7. Create an action plan to contact and present the
sustainability of potential
partners. |
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The Jones County Safe and Healthy Youth Coalition
intends to have an active role in Jones County for the
long term. In order to sustain its mission of engaging
our community in efforts to create and maintain safe and
healthy youth, several actions will need to occur.
Continual growth and capacity of the coalition,
continued partnership with organizations, civic groups,
law enforcement, schools, elected officials, parents,
and youth to collaborate in common interests. Continued
assessment of the community to guide and validate the
coalition’s purpose will be essential.
Potential partners need to be identified and contacted
over the next two years. The coalition will need to
develop said list and create documentation and message
that will aid in these partners vesting in the
coalition’s purpose. This will need to be accomplished
in several ways, request letters that provide the
coalition’s story, purpose and importance to the
community. Attending and speaking at community meetings
to again, share the coalition’s purpose and necessity in
the community. Through the assistance of the local media
and community conversations, the community will know the
coalition as an important asset.
The coalition will need to develop a communications strategy
to market their needs and requests through the fundraising
and executive committees. |
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Decrease paid staff support
to Area Substance Abuse
Council by increasing
coalition member leadership |
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Apply for local grants to
support coalition efforts |
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Assess possibility of becoming line item budget
allocation on City, County,
or PD |
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Solicit support, both in kind and cash contribution,
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Solicit support, both in kind and cash contributions,
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business donors |
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Conduct fundraising events to support general
operational budget |
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Charge for services |
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Partnership with other
service providers |
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