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SAPCA Action Plan: September 30, 2013 – September 29, 2014
DFC Goal 1: Increase community collaboration
Objective 1: Create a broader, more racially diverse membership within 5 years
Measure 1: Increase in membership of ten percent in business and faith sectors
Measure 2: Provide volunteer orientations to new members bi-monthly
Change Strategy Potential Interventions Who Could Do This In Our Community?
Provide
Information
1. Meet with and present to ethnically
and racially diverse communities,
business groups, parent groups and
youth groups
Board, Coordinator
2. Meet individually with faith leaders
in Alexandria to discuss and promote
collaboration opportunities
Board, Coordinator
3. Enhance collaboration with
Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS)
leaders and staff
Board, Coordinator, ACPS
4.Continue to work with Alexandria's
Children, Youth and Families
Collaborative Commission(CYFCC)
Board, Coordinator, CYFCC
5. Reach out to individual prospective
volunteers; have current volunteers
share their experiences
Volunteer Committee
Objective 2: Inform coalition members about key and current issues regarding alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana
use in Alexandria and nationally
Measure 1: Newsletter is sent on a monthly basis
Measure 2: Website is updated at least every two weeks
Measure 3: A social media plan is developed by December 31
Change Strategy Potential Interventions Who Could Do This In Our Community?
Provide
Information
1. Send monthly e-newsletter to
Coalition members. Hold quarterly
meetings
Coordinator, Board
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2. Ensure SAPCA website unites all
sectors through current, engaging and
relevant content through a continuous
process of updating and maintaining the
site
Coordinator
3. Develop and follow a social media
plan that will increase our impact in the
community
Communication Committee; Social Media
Intern
4. Disseminate YRBS and
Developmental Assets survey data and
results from the 2013 community
assessment through presentations,
newspaper stories, SAPCA’s e-
newsletter and website
Communication Committee
5. Advocate that community
organizations disseminate survey data
and results from the community
assessment internally throughout their
organization
Board
Objective 3: Ensure SAPCA leaders have a stronger awareness of SAPCA's direction and progress for the year
and are actively involved in adjusting strategies as needed as measured by the annual member survey.
Measure 1: Annual board retreat is held
Measure 2: Evaluation is conducted quarterly
Measure 3: Cultural competency training is held
Change Strategy Potential Interventions Who Could Do This In Our Community?
Provide
Information
1. Continue to hold an annual board
retreat, including committee chairs and
other SAPCA members, to discuss
progress towards achieving goals and
assessment of strategies
Board
2. Use survey data from SAPCA-
sponsored presentations (e.g Preventing
Risky Behaviors, wreckED and events
to assess progress against goals and
their impact
Board, Coordinator
3. Review evaluator's report on
SAPCA's work and refine priorities
accordingly
Board
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4. Use data from board dashboard tool
and board assessment to strengthen
board functioning
Board
Build Skills 5. Conduct cultural competence training
to ensure we are making diverse
population level change
City - Office of Human Rights
6. Ensure Above the Influence
Campaign members are aware of
changes in SAPCA’s action plan
Board
Reduce
Barriers/Enhance
Access
7. Provide youth with transportation to
events that teach leadership skills, i.e.,
annual CADCA conference
Recreation Department, SAPCA, ACPS
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DFC Goal 2: Reduce youth substance use
Local Condition 1: Youth have easy access to alcohol * Qualitative
Measure 1: 59% of youth report that it was "sort of easy or "very easy" for minors to get alcohol
Measure 2:
30% of parents said it would be “sort of easy” and 23% said “very easy” for their child to
get alcohol
Measure 3:
27% of parents reported that they know of parents who provide alcohol to their children
Change
Strategy
Potential Interventions Who Could Do This
In Our Community?
Status
Provide
Information
1. Disseminate “Those Who Host Lose
the Most” material in the community (at
events)
Providing
Information
Workgroup
Ongoing
2. Promote the posting of “Parents Who
Host Lose the Most” material at Police
Station and at other appropriate
locations
Providing
Information
Workgroup
Completed
3. Host April is Alcohol Awareness
Month events focusing on the
consequences of providing alcohol to
minors
Providing
Information
Workgroup,
SAPCA’s Above the
Influence Club
April 2014
4. Send beach week/graduation/prom
letter to parents advising about the easy
availability of alcohol and the
importance of monitoring youth
ACPS, Providing
Information
Workgroup
March 2014
5. Post information on ACPS Daily
Digest and the City's weekly Youth
Topics eNewsletter
ACPS
communications
representative, Ms.
Jaci Coachman,
DCHS Office of
Youth Services for
Youth Topics
Ongoing
6. Disseminate information at athletic
orientations and events through schools
and recreation centers
SAPCA, ACPS,
Recreation
Department
Ongoing
7. Send letters to alcohol vendors and
hotels where prom is taking place and
include inserts in letters sent by All
Night Grad Party (ANGP) to sponsors
who sell alcohol
Coordinator,
Providing
Information
Workgroup
April/May 2014
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Provide
Support
8. Support non-alcoholic youth events -
e.g., T.C. Williams ANGP, Department
of Rec’s out of school activities
PTSA Ongoing
Build Skills 9. Provide presentations to parents at
sports orientations that promote talking
to youth the issue of underage drinking
and educate parents on the need to
monitor alcohol at home
Providing Info
Workgroup
Not Started
Reduce
Barriers and
Enhance
Access
10. Support law enforcement’s quarterly
compliance checks Law Enforcement,
Coordinator, Board,
Above the Influence
Club
Ongoing
11. Conduct Project Sticker Shock at
least once a year Various SAPCA
sectors (Recreation
Department, Law
Enforcement, DCHS)
Sept 2014
Change the
Consequences
12. Send congratulatory letters to
vendors that pass compliance checks SAPCA, Law
Enforcement
Ongoing
13. Recognize retail outlets that
participate in Project Sticker Shock SAPCA, Sticker
Shock Partners
Sept 2014
14. Work with law enforcement to
ensure enforcement of Social Host Law Law Enforcement,
Commonwealth
Attorney’s Office
Ongoing
Change the
Physical
Design of the
Environment
Modify Policy
*Focus group data
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Local Condition 2: Youth glamorize alcohol use * Previous YRBS data
Measure 1: 41% of 7th through 12th graders have at least a few friends who drink alcohol once a week or
more
Measure 2: 70% of 12th graders reported they have at least a few friends who drink alcohol once a week
or more
Measure 3: 25% of 12th graders reported most or all of their friends drink alcohol once a week or more
Change
Strategy
Potential Interventions Who Could Do This In
Our Community?
Status
Provide
Information
1. Present wreckEd presentations to PE
classes at Minnie Howard and TC
Williams campus; to ELL classes, and
to other youth groups
Shelly, Coordinator
Volunteers
Jan/Feb 2014
2. Partner with Alexandria Police (APD)
Youth Services Coordinator and the
Recreation Centers to conduct substance
abuse prevention/risky behavior
workshops and wreckED for youth
during the summer
Recreation, Law
Enforcement, SAPCA
Members
Summer 2014
3. Provide youth with literature on the
harms of alcohol at various venues SAPCA, Various
Partners
Ongoing
Provide
Support
4. Provide alternative activities worthy
of glamorization - youth win Volunteer
awards, attend conferences, make
presentations
Recreation
Department, SAPCA,
ACPS
Ongoing
5. Support non-alcoholic youth events -
e.g., T.C. Williams ANGP, Department
of Rec’s out of school activities
SAPCA Same as LC1, Strategy
9; ongoing
Build Skills 6. Encourage youth to write and submit
op-eds to the local papers during key
times/events such as Alcohol Awareness
Month, before Project Sticker Shock,
prom, and graduation
SAPCA Board,
Communications
Committee, Above the
Influence Club
April, Sept 2014
7. Hold activities such as “Tag It”, “Be
It” or “Express It” for National Above
the Influence Day – October 18, 2013
Providing Support
Workgroup, ROTC,
ACPS
Oct 2013
Reduce
Barriers and
Enhance
Access
9. Provide material in multiple
languages ACPS, SAPCA ongoing
10. Create and/or support events that
encourage non-alcohol activities. Poll
youth to determine which activities they
will attend
SAPCA, Recreation
Department, ACAP,
ACPS, Above the
Influence Club
Ongoing (need to
expand)
Change the
Consequences
11. Reward teens who participate in
non-alcoholic activities. Poll youth to
determine what they consider an
ACPS, SAPCA, Youth Ongoing (need to
expand)
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incentive/what they want as a reward
Change the
Physical
Design of the
Environment
Modify Policy 12. Advocate for revised and enforced
ACPS substance use regulations in the
handbook
ACPS, SAPCA, Law
Enforcement,
Community Members,
Youth
Ongoing
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Local Condition 3: Parents are unaware of the extent that teens are at risk for drinking *DA data
Measure 1: 23% of 7th through 12th graders had alcohol in the last 30 Days
Measure 2: 38% of 12th graders had alcohol in the last 30 days
Measure 3: 25% of 12th graders had five or more drinks in a row in the last two weeks
Change
Strategy
Potential Interventions Who Could Do This In
Our Community?
Status
Provide
Information
1. Provide information to parents about
the numbers/rates of youth engaging in
alcohol use in Alexandria through
presentations, reports, and meetings
SAPCA, ACPS Ongoing
2. Make information readily available to
all SAPCA members via website,
newsletter, and through social media
SAPCA; Social Media
Intern
Ongoing
3. Develop and distribute materials
through a variety of techniques with
clear messaging for parents regarding
the risks of alcohol use, information on
how to recognize and prevent use, and
how to talk with children about
substance use
SAPCA; Social Media
Intern
Ongoing
Provide
Support
4. Encourage the creation of Parent
Leadership Chat Groups by actively
recruiting parents to host chat groups
using tools such as www.meeptup.com
to create a group where parents can
discuss youth risk behaviors (Meetup is
the world’s largest network of local
groups)
SAPCA, Parent
Groups, Parent
Leadership Training
Institute
Not Started
Build Skills 5. Hold Community of Concern Dinners
in the middle schools and at T.C.
Williams Minnie Howard Campus
PTSAs, ACPS,
SAPCA
Francis Hammond-
March 2014
Minnie Howard – Feb
2014
GW – March 2014
6. Hold Parent Leadership Chat Groups SAPCA, Parent
Groups
Not Started
7. Conduct Preventing Risky Behaviors
Workshops in collaboration with other
organizations at the Family and
Community Engagement Centers, at
PTAs and other parent groups and/or
community organizations
SAPCA, ACAP, Gang
Prevention
Ongoing
Reduce
Barriers and
Enhance
9. Provide transportation to/from and
baby-sitting at Community of Concern
dinners
ACPS As needed
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Access 10 Host Parent Leadership Chat Groups
in Spanish Tenants & Workers
United
Not Started
Change the
Consequences
11. Recognize parents who support
initiatives (volunteer awards) SAPCA, ACPS Not Started
Change the
Physical
Design of the
Environment
Modify Policy
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Local Condition 4: Encourage youth to engage in healthy activities as alternatives to engaging in alcohol and
other drug use * DA data
Measure 1: 39% of 7th through 12th graders strongly agreed or agreed that adults in Alexandria made
them feel important
Measure 2: 36% of 7th through 12th graders strongly agreed or agreed that adults in Alexandria listen to
what they have to say
Measure 3: 83% of 7th through 12th graders were "not sure", "disagreed" or "strongly disagreed" that
adults in Alexandria cared about people their age
Change
Strategy
Potential Interventions Who Could Do This In
Our Community?
Status
Provide
Information
1. Continue to disseminate the results of
Community YouthMapping reports and
work with organizations to implement
the reports' recommendations
CYM Partners,
Collaborative
Children, Youth and
Families Commission
Ongoing
Provide
Support
2. Create volunteer opportunities for
youth such as Project Sticker Shock,
mentoring, service on a board or
commission, and encourage their active
participation
Volunteer Alexandria,
SAPCA, Boards and
Commissions
throughout the City
Ongoing
Build Skills 3. Provide volunteer opportunities for
youth where they can learn marketable
job skills
JobLink, City Council Not Started
4. Support SAPCA Club at TC Williams
to lead alcohol awareness month
activities
SAPCA April 2014
5. Hold a Youth Leadership Conference,
in collaboration with other organizations
ACAP, Teen Wellness
Center, SAPCA
August 2014
6. Provide leadership and skills training
to youth through their attendance at the
CADCA Youth Leadership Forum
CADCA February 2014
Reduce
Barriers and
Enhance
Access
7. Provide youth with transportation to
volunteer activities SAPCA, Community
Partners
ongoing
Change the
Consequences
8. Reward youth that volunteer and
participate in SAPCA Club activities ACPS, Volunteer
Alexandria, SAPCA,
Recreation
ongoing
11
Change the
Physical
Design of the
Environment
Modify Policy
12
Local Condition 5: Stores sell tobacco to minors * DA data
Measure 1: 7% of 7th through 12th graders smoked cigarettes in the past 30 days
Measure 2: 12% of 12th graders smoked cigarettes in the past 30 days
Measure 3:
Change
Strategy
Potential Interventions Who Could Do This In
Our Community?
Status
Provide
Information
Provide
Support
1. Conduct Operation Storefront Survey
– where youth record the amount of
alcohol and tobacco advertising at local
retailers
Building Better
Futures, Above the
Influence Club,
Coalition for Clean
and Smoke-Free Air,
Y Street, Department
of Recreation
March 2014
Build Skills
Reduce
Barriers and
Enhance
Access
Change the
Consequences
2. Recognize retailers that have minimal
alcohol and tobacco advertising SAPCA Not Started
Change the
Physical
Design of the
Environment
3. Encourage vendors to have more
signage in stores about ID requirements Individual retailers,
Clean and Smoke-Free
Air Coalition, SAPCA
Members
Dec 2013
Modify Policy
13
Local Condition 6: Parents do not express disapproval about marijuana use to their teens * DA data
Measure 1: 91% of 7th through 12th said their parents would disapprove of their using marijuana
Measure 2: 86% of 12th graders said their parents would disapprove of their using marijuana
Measure 3:
Change
Strategy
Potential Interventions Who Could Do This
In Our Community?
Status
Provide
Information
1. Disseminate material espousing the
addictiveness and negative
consequences of marijuana use
SAPCA Ongoing
2. Maintain a page on SAPCA web site
focused on marijuana including a link to
ONDCP's Marijuana Resource Center
Coordinator Complete
Provide
Support
3. Coordinate with the Commonwealth
Attorney to present harms of marijuana
facts to judges annually
Commonwealth
Attorney
Feb/March 2014
Build Skills 4. Host workshops teaching parents
how to talk to their teens about the
dangers of marijuana smoking and how
to counter arguments by pro-medical
marijuana supporters that it is not
harmful
SAPCA Ongoing – this occurs
during Risky
Behavior
presentations
Reduce
Barriers and
Enhance
Access
5. Ensure information is in multiple
languages SAPCA ongoing
Change the
Consequences
6. Recognize youth who participate in
marijuana prevention campaigns SAPCA & City
Council
Not Started
Change the
Physical
Design of the
Environment
Modify Policy
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Local Condition 7: Friends tell friends that marijuana isn’t dangerous because there is a lack of knowledge
surrounding the harms of marijuana.
Measure 1: In the 2008 qualitative assessment, students said they got marijuana from friends
Measure 2:
Change
Strategy
Potential Interventions Who Could Do This
In Our Community?
Status
Provide
Information
1. Provide information to youth on the
harms marijuana causes to the growing
brain. Fun facts on twitter, via fb.
Counter fact hash tags for people to use,
“Stuff you didn’t know that’s true”
Social Media Intern,
Above the Influence
Campaign members
(ATI)
Ongoing
2. Hold discussions with middle school
youth explaining the dangers of
marijuana use and emphasizing the
social harms
ATI members Not Started
3. Encourage peers to like the SAPCA
fb page and follow us on twitter ATI members Ongoing
4. Advertise/ put facts on “Everyday
Titan” in the morning announcements ATI members Will start in Dec
2013, then ongoing
Provide
Support
5. Hold alternative activities including
ones that involve goal setting
Partner with Labyrinth, creating
more competitions
Reflections type contest with
elementary and middle school
participants
ATI members,
Alexandria
Recreation Centers
Not Started
Build Skills 6. Hold forums with youth that discuss
marijuana use
Show excerpts from Haze
movie, DiGrassi show
ATI members Not Started
7. Conduct workshops in middle and
high schools explaining effects on brain/
body & future consequences (wreckED)
SAPCA members Jan/Feb 2014
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8. Create a “fun” version of the ATI
Campaign in the Middle Schools
Middle School
Counselors, ATI
members
Not Started
Reduce
Barriers and
Enhance
Access
9. Sponsor “fun” activities as
alternatives to marijuana (ex. “powder
puff” games and organic “pick-up”
games)
ATI members Not Started
Change the
Consequences
10. Provide volunteer opportunities for
youth. Group will identify specific
volunteer opportunities.
Volunteer
Alexandria, SAPCA,
ACAP, City
Departments
Not Started
Change the
Physical
Design of the
Environment
Modify Policy 11. Change policy of consequences in
schools
SAPCA Policy
Workgroup
Not Started
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Local Condition 8: Friends and older students provide marijuana to youth by giving or selling it to them
Measure 1: Will confirm with current community assessment
Measure 2:
Change
Strategy
Potential Interventions Who Could Do
This In Our
Community?
Status
Provide
Information
1. Provide harms of marijuana use information to
college students (check for existing organizations
at colleges that we can partner with)
NOVA Not Started
2. Send/e-mail letters to 9th and 10
th parents
asking them to talk to their kids about marijuana
SAPCA Not Started
Provide
Support
3. Hold activities outside of school
kind? how often? partners?
ATI members Not Started
Build Skills 4. Have seniors speak to sophomores, freshman
and middle schoolers about harms caused by
marijuana use
ATI members Not Started
Reduce
Barriers and
Enhance
Access
Change the
Consequences
6. Enforce school rules/regulations of marijuana
use & sale (more research)
Speak to the ACPS School Board if necessary
ACPS Not Started
Change the
Physical
Design of the
Environment
7. Research where students are using – possible
need for lighting in certain alleys and woods ATI members Not Started
Modify Policy 8. Harsher punishments (change laws) – requires
more research
VA legislation Not Started
9. Change school rules/regulations of marijuana
use & sale if necessary (more research)
ACPS Not Started