The links below contained detailed information for the upcoming 2017 Safe States Alliance Annual Meeting, taking place September 12-14, 2017 in Aurora, Colorado.
Please note:
- A total of five concurrent sessions will take place during the Annual Meeting, and there will be up to five breakouts occurring simultaneously during each of those concurrent sessions. Within each breakout, there will be up to four presentations that take place.
- This online system does not allow us to embed the individual presentations within each breakout. Please note the session presentations listed under each Concurrent Breakout title for associated content.
- The on-site mobile app WILL embed these sessions for ease of use.
- A printable, detailed agenda can be found on the 2017 Annual Meeting website.
- If you have any questions, please contact info@safestates.org
- All session times and locations are tentative and subject to change. Safe States will continue to update these details as changes take place.
Using a Community Driven Model to Impact Change Across Shared Risk and Protective Factors
Learning Objectives
- Participants will understand how the Communities That Care (CTC) process works to engage communities in prevention efforts targeting youth substance abuse, violence and mental health.
- Participants will learn what shared risk and protective factors are present within a select sample of CTC communities using the Healthy Kids Colorado data from 2016.
- Presenters will share lessons learned from Colorado’s communities implementing local level strategies driven by shared risk and protective factors related to substance abuse, violence and mental health.
Statement of Purpose
Communities that Care (CTC) is an evidence-based approach and community driven model which helps prioritize effective strategies to address risk and protective factors related to substance abuse, violence and mental health at the local level. The implementation of CTC in Colorado is unique in its use of community level prevention strategies within a state where retail marijuana is legal. Exploring how communities choose to address the shared risk and protective factors which are most salient to the health of their youth may inform statewide planning, while lessons learned can guide other related efforts.
Methods/Approach
Qualitative information gathered through coaching calls, progress reports and fidelity measures of the CTC process will inform current progress through the five CTC phases, barriers to implementation and early successes. The use of the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey (HKCS) will provide limited baseline measurements of risk and protective factors and related health outcomes. Simple descriptive analyses will be performed on these HKCS data from the 2015 statewide and 2016 limited administration. Lastly, community level action plans will be analyzed and coded by theme and strategy with an emphasis on describing impacted risk and protective factors.
Results
Results taken from HKCS data and the selection of primary prevention strategies by CTC communities will be presented. These results will highlight statewide data on long term youth health outcomes, limited data on pressing risk and protective factors specific to CTC communities, and the primary prevention strategies selected for implementation by these communities. Additional qualitative data will provide context for implementation barriers, lessons learned, and early successes.
Conclusions & Significance to the Field
CTC in Colorado will provide initial evidence for implementation of community level strategies using the CTC approach where multiple unique contextual variables exist. Understanding the strategies chosen by individual communities and their impact on shared risk and protective factors will shed light on future directions of prevention planning and provide guidance for effecting change at the community level. In addition, these findings will help clarify the impact of new policies and strategies which cut across multiple outcomes and risk and protective factors related to substance abuse, violence and mental health.
Presenters
Felice A Seigneur, MPH, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Biography
Felice Seigneur, MPH, is a Violence and Injury Prevention Evaluator with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE). Felice oversees the state’s evaluation contract for the Communities that Care program, a community driven prevention framework which is currently being implemented across the state. In addition, Felice works collaboratively on the Core State Violence and Injury Prevention Programming (CORE SVIPP) evaluation, a CDC funded project that measures statewide primary prevention activities related to prioritized violence and injury focus areas. Prior to joining CDPHE, she worked in mental health evaluation with an emphasis on the health and wellbeing of children and families in relation to trauma and resilience. She is particularly passionate about trauma-informed care, and utilizing community driven evaluation and program planning practices.
Erin Flynn, MPH, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Biography
Erin Flynn, MPH, is the Communities That Care (CTC) Work Lead at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Erin provides day to day supervision for the CTC and Youth Substance Abuse Program, technical assistance to statewide grantees and and subject matter expertise on the public health approach to substance use education. Prior to this position, she worked in the Retail Marijuana Education Program, providing trainings and subject matter expertise on the youth prevention. In addition, she has presented nationally and locally on integrating the Positive Youth Development approach into youth prevention practices and Colorado retail marijuana education efforts.