Strategic Planning and Environmental Programming

The Office of Substance Abuse (OSA) awarded 12 grants for county level strategic planning and environmental programming for substance abuse prevention under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant. All twelve awardees completed County wide substance abuse prevention strategic planning, which was phase I. Five of the twelve awardees also implemented substance abuse prevention environmental programming strategies in their county, which was phase II.

Phase I (steps 1, 2 and 3 of the SPF framework) provides resources whose purpose is to support Strategic Planning in such a way as to establish and/or strengthen a coordinated county-level prevention infrastructure that will:

Build partnerships across existing community coalitions, organizations, agencies, schools, and other partners;
Build on the strengths that already exist in the local prevention infrastructure; and
Begin to fill gaps where there are communities and/or subpopulations that are not served sufficiently by existing prevention programs and coalitions.

The following sites completed this phase of the SPF: (See County Plans)

Androscoggin- Healthy Androscoggin/CMCHC

Aroostook - Cary Medical Center

Cumberland - People’s Regional Opportunity Program

Franklin - Healthy Community Coalition / Franklin

Hancock - Hancock County Planning Commission

Kennebec - Maine General Medical Center

Knox - Penobscot Bay YMCA

Lincoln - United Way of MidCoast

Oxford - Community Concepts

Penobscot/Piscataquis - City of Bangor

Sagadahoc - Mid Coast Hospital

Somerset - Somerset County Association of Resource Providers

Waldo - Waldo County Preschool and Family Services

Washington - Regional Medical Center at Lubec

York - Day One

Phase II (step 4 of the SPF framework) provided resources to concurrently implement an environmental strategies to address underage drinking. The environmental strategies targeted enforcement and at least two other intervening environmental factors identified in Maine's strategic plan.

The following sites implemented this phase of the SPF:

Oxford - Community Concepts

Hancock - Hancock County Planning Commission

Androscoggin-Healthy Androscoggin/CMCHC

Cumberland - People’s Regional Opportunity Program

Somerset - Somerset County Association of Resource Providers

SPF-SIG INFORMATION

Strategic Planning and Environmental Programming

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