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CHCC gets federal grant to reduce underage drinking, drug misuse
The Commonwealth Healthcare Corp.’s Community Guidance Center recently received a notice of grant award from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration for the “Partnership for Success,” a grant focused on funding prevention initiatives to prevent or reduce the consequences of underage drinking, adult problem drinking and drinking and driving, and prescription drug misuse and abuse throughout the CNMI.
The five-year grant award—from fiscal year 2015 to 2020—is in the amount of $1.3 million each year and will be managed by the CHCC’s Community Guidance Center.
The Partnership for Success grant, awarded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to the Prevention Services Unit of the CHCC’s Community Guidance Center, will support the implementation of the CNMI’s five-year PFS Strategic Plan.
The project seeks to continue to support the dissemination and inter-agency sharing modeled after the Strategic Prevention Framework Process, employing traditional methods of teamwork, consensus based systems and education from a variety of sources, including both academic and cultural, to implement effective strategies to reach prevention goals.
In order to successfully meet the prioritized needs for the CNMI, the Project Brabu “Partnership for Success” will work with collaborative assessments, build capacity, utilize strategic planning, implement and/or monitor evidence based and locally documented programs, and evaluate state and community outcomes informed by various data methods. This process is grounded in cultural competence and sustainability integral to prevention endeavors of the CNMI for locally appropriate data driven outcomes, sustained in state and community partnerships.
The Partnership for Success grant awards the CGC’s Prevention Services Unit $1,304,330 in a five-year period, starting October 2014 through September 2019. (CHCC)
