Success Stories by Topic: Substance abuse

• Neighborhood Meth Watch Community Policing Project
  September 2009
  Adelante Juntos Coalition (AJC) designed and implemented the Neighborhood Meth Watch Program in many of the rural communities of Pinal County, Arizona.
• Mendocino County Health Department
  July 2009
  The project was designed to address adolescent substance abuse by providing youth with knowledge, refusal skills, and opportunities to bring positive change to their communities.
• Continuum of Care
  May 2009
  The Continuum of Care project was created to increase access to culturally appropriate mental health and substance abuse services for those in need. The project specifically targeted lowincome tribal members and their families.
• Butte Silver-Bow Primary Care Clinic
  May 2009
  The main goals of the project were to change destructive life patterns and improve the physical and mental health status of residents by providing intensive mental health services, promote collaboration among key health and social service agencies in providing comprehensive services, and educate community members about how, when, and where to get help when they need it.
• Drug Endangered Child Outreach Network Project
  January 2007
  This project aims to deliver integrated medical and mental health services to the 24 Drug-Endangered Children/Drug-Endangered Infants and their families per year immediately upon identification.
• Border Area Mental Health Services, Inc. Project
  January 2007
  The main goals of the project were to increase access to appropriate levels of care for mental health and/or substance abuse services,to increase capacity to provide services to individuals with substance abuse and/or mental health disorders; and to improve access to and management of psychotropic medications.
• Project R&R
  January 2007
  Project R&R offers a solution to the critical need for mental health and substance abuse services in a high-risk, multi-cultural frontier community.
• Southern Hills Leadership and Resiliency Initiative
  January 2007
  The goal of the Southern Hills Leadership and Resiliency Initiative (SHLRI) is to reduce use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs by students in five communities in the southern Black Hills of South Dakota.
• Cooperative Health Center Patient Mental Health Project
  January 2007
  The three-agency consortium formed for this project will provide access to mental health and substance abuse services, regardless of patients' ability to pay.
• Adolescent Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Project (ADAPT)
  January 2007
  The Mendocino County Health Department and its partners developed the Adolescent Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Project (ADAPT) in response to the need for substance abuse prevention and treatment services for rural youth in northern California.
• Hardrock Youth Wellness and Prevention Program
  January 2007
  The Hardrock Youth Wellness and Prevention Program is a collaborative effort of the Hardrock Council on Substance Abuse, Inc. (a local non-profit corporation), the Hardrock Chapter House (a local governmental subdivision on the Navajo Nation), and the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman Arizona College of Public Health's Project EXPORT. The purpose of the collaboration is to strengthen their collective efforts in building a strong infrastructure for substance abuse prevention, intervention and treatment at the community level.
• Callam County Hospital District #1
  July 2005
  This network consisted of 11 sites representing community mental health centers, health care providers, and other health, education, and social services agencies that supported the delivery of behavior health and other health care services.
• Nelson County Rural Health Outreach
  July 2005
  This Rural Health Outreach Program launched a school nursing program that placed registered nurses in each of the six Nelson County public schools as well as creating a supplementary health education program provided by a registered nurse who traveled to each site.
• Parish Nurse Outreach Project
  July 2005
  Since the church is widely considered the most viable institution in Harper County, area churches were the crux of the project's outreach efforts to address the limited health care resources available in the community, to assess individual and community needs, and to assist members of the community in accessing local resources.
• Project for Rural Access to Substance Abuse Treatment
  July 2005
  This collaboration was formed to provide substance abuse treatment, primary medical care, childcare, and transportation assistance to residents in rural areas of the county.