WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.500 [children playing] 00:00:04.500 --> 00:00:13.000 ♪ [gentle piano music] 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:19.000 Communities are an effective organizing force for bringing evidence-based policies and programs to scale to improve public health. 00:00:19.740 --> 00:00:24.640 We are diligent in our efforts to connect to our communities and families in a way that is both culturally relevant 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:25.940 and linguistically appropriate. 00:00:26.140 --> 00:00:33.500 Our Student Assistance Professionals partner with multiple other community supports, including our community coalitions, 00:00:33.500 --> 00:00:35.700 through the Community Prevention and Wellness Initiative, 00:00:36.340 --> 00:00:38.960 to ensure that we are getting prevention messaging 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:40.940 not only to young people, 00:00:41.460 --> 00:00:45.440 but also their parents and other interested parties in our communities. 00:00:45.760 --> 00:00:48.990 Focusing community, bringing their voices and taking it up to legislation, 00:00:49.480 --> 00:00:52.360 but just like more policy work that we are doing here around the school 00:00:52.360 --> 00:00:56.340 is really working on changing that environment for the students, right? 00:00:57.040 --> 00:00:58.480 Really helping the school districts 00:00:58.480 --> 00:01:03.420 with supporting them in the school policy, specifically in substance abuse. 00:01:04.030 --> 00:01:08.040 Prioritizing community needs and the wisdom within each community, 00:01:08.780 --> 00:01:10.060 they have all the power. 00:01:10.320 --> 00:01:11.180 Let's give it to them, right? 00:01:11.460 --> 00:01:16.700 And so I think that's really a key part to us understanding the larger culture at play. 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:22.540 How do we, instead of thinking about how do families engage with us, how do we engage with families? 00:01:22.740 --> 00:01:23.420 And that looks very different. 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:26.100 The skills in which we're teaching are 00:01:26.100 --> 00:01:28.440 culturally relevant for the student we're serving, right? 00:01:28.540 --> 00:01:32.060 We might now know that unless we're talking with families to align those practices. 00:01:32.420 --> 00:01:36.520 In 2011, the DSHS Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery 00:01:36.780 --> 00:01:40.120 launched the Community Prevention and Wellness Initiative, CPWI, 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:46.580 to provide substance abuse prevention services and strategies through local coalitions in high-need communities. 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:51.760 Our community coalitions are centered within school districts 00:01:51.940 --> 00:01:56.740 to really look at universal prevention strategies when we're talking about substance use prevention 00:01:56.740 --> 00:01:58.760 with students and families. 00:01:59.160 --> 00:02:04.880 There's different sectors and engagement processes within our community coalitions. 00:02:05.640 --> 0:02:13.080 And so they're really looking at how they're putting in community campaigns and always looking at addressing substance use 00:02:13.200 --> 00:02:15.240 and reducing substance use in the community. 00:02:15.700 --> 00:02:18.940 Our model is from our strategic prevention framework. 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:22.200 It's a model that focuses on assessing our community, 00:02:22.300 --> 00:02:25.980 what is happening in our community, then looking at the needs from our community, 00:02:26.340 --> 00:02:28.200 quantitative data, qualitative data, 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:30.120 what is really happening in our community? 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:35.400 So we can make sure that the programs and strategies that we are providing to our community, 00:02:35.660 --> 00:02:39.160 it's actually an evidence-based program and it's a program that'll fit. 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:44.540 Some of the prevention work that we do involved policy work, 00:02:45.580 --> 00:02:47.160 implementing social-emotional learning, 00:02:47.740 --> 00:02:54.100 doing general presentations about substances to youth or their families or both. 00:02:54.580 --> 00:02:58.240 If we ensure that young people get enough prevention messaging, 00:02:59.160 --> 00:03:05.860 they are not likely to need additional supports like early intervention or treatment services. 00:03:06.040 --> 00:03:10.900 The Strengthening Families Program is an evidence-based program for parents and youth ages 10 through 14. 00:03:11.580 --> 00:03:16.040 This program is delivered in seven parent, youth, and family sessions, using narrated videos, 00:03:16.200 --> 00:03:18.180 portraying typical youths and parent situations. 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:19.660 So the first half hour, 00:03:19.880 --> 00:03:23.120 youth and their families are invited to share a meal together. 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:29.020 And then the next hour, the youth and their parents or caregivers are divided into two separate classrooms. 00:03:29.380 --> 00:03:33.840 The parents or caregivers, they're receiving different skills on how to communicate with the youth. 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:37.280 It's not targeted towards any one parent, it's universal. 00:03:37.940 --> 00:03:41.260 And then the second hour is where all the magic happens. 00:03:41.820 --> 00:03:46.200 You get to see the parents and caregivers and the youth come together and kind of put some of those skills 00:03:46.200 --> 00:03:49.020 that they may have learned during the first hour into action. 00:03:49.260 --> 00:03:51.320 And it's really nice to see that play out 00:03:51.420 --> 00:03:55.650 because a lot of times they don't have the time during their day to kind of bond together. 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:57.800 So we give them that opportunity. 00:03:58.360 --> 00:04:01.520 And then we also always want to make sure that we're meeting our communities where they're at. 00:04:02.040 --> 00:04:05.260 So if our community members are saying we want this program, 00:04:05.320 --> 00:04:08.000 but we prefer to have it in Spanish because that works better for us, 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:09.340 we make sure that that happens. 00:04:09.860 --> 00:04:12.300 We run a program in English and then we run a program in Spanish. 00:04:12.780 --> 00:04:16.720 Additional campaigns ESD 105 participates in include 00:04:17.260 --> 00:04:20.700 Under the Influence... of You: Encouraging Influential Adults. 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:27.140 The Science of Positive focuses on growing healthy, positive, protective factors that already exist in our community. 00:04:27.520 --> 00:04:28.920 And National Drug Take Back Day. 00:04:29.520 --> 00:04:34.680 The National Prescription Take Back Day is a day that we focus on trying to bring back unwanted medication 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:38.070 that are in our communities, that are in our homes, that are in our families. 00:04:38.540 --> 00:04:41.620 So we have this day devoted on trying to eliminate that 00:04:41.940 --> 00:04:46.720 by having one day focused on just having our community members be involved and take back 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:50.120 and just properly dispose of unwanted medication that day. 00:04:50.460 --> 00:04:51.780 It's a community effort 00:04:51.780 --> 00:04:57.820 and it's definitely a thing that we partner up with the police department so we can try and keep our communities safer. 00:04:58.320 --> 00:05:02.240 We typically run those two times within our year. 00:05:02.660 --> 00:05:03.960 So we typically have them in October 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:06.240 and we like to also hold one in April. 00:05:06.860 --> 00:05:08.240 So two times within the year, 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:13.380 our community coalition puts on the efforts of bringing in the attention of our National Take Back Day. 00:05:14.140 --> 00:05:15.740 Our work through our community coalitions, 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:17.020 parenting programs, 00:05:17.520 --> 00:05:19.320 attendance at health fairs and school events, 00:05:19.940 --> 00:05:23.680 communications and resource distribution to the families of students receiving direct services, 00:05:24.120 --> 00:05:27.200 and representation on many local coalitions and work groups 00:05:27.700 --> 00:05:30.940 are just some of the ways that we seek to connect with our communities and families. 00:05:31.640 --> 00:05:34.920 The biggest piece is having a strong presence in the community. 00:05:35.520 --> 00:05:37.260 They're on the ground working with families. 00:05:38.420 --> 00:05:40.600 They get to hear their voices and 00:05:41.100 --> 00:05:44.220 either what's lacking in the community, what they want to see more of. 00:05:44.780 --> 00:05:47.680 And I think it's really amazing in our Student Support, 00:05:48.520 --> 00:05:49.540 we get to then collaborate. 00:05:50.020 --> 00:05:54.800 They come in and they say and can share with us things that they're hearing from the community. 00:05:54.960 --> 00:05:57.160 And just having a table, putting your tablecloth out there 00:05:57.160 --> 00:06:00.580 and letting them know who you are and what resources you're able to provide for them 00:06:00.940 --> 00:06:01.980 is key with community coalitions. 00:06:02.100 --> 00:06:06.820 Yeah, that helps us make a better decision to how to better support 00:06:06.820 --> 00:06:09.780 our students, our families and people within our community. 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06.19.620 [children playing]