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Substance Abuse Council of Indian River County PREVENT ! Program CSAC of IRC several other areas—employmentischool attendance, family relationships, depression, institutionalization, and alcohol use. Such favorable results are attributed largely to including family members in services and rewarding drug abstinence as verified by urinalysis . The second component will be Deep Impact- TARGET troupe. The Deep Impact- TARGET troupe actively develops innovative and high energy skits related to life issues they and their peers are facing. The troupe has created a collection of 35 different skits for performances . The troupe continues to develop skits dealing with issues on substance abuse/use, dieting (anorexia and bulimia), HIV/AIDS , pregnancy and violence and will reach approximately 8,000 individuals. The Deep Impact- TARGET troupe members are mentors to other youth, as well as friends, family and neighbors within the community. Participants in the Deep Impact-TARGET troupe need not have any previous acting experience, just a desire to participate. In many cases, we find that high risk youth become the best performers . Their presentations via improvisation is not acting, but is real and from the heart. 80% of the youth participating in the troupe have never had any formal training in acting. Briefly describe how your program addresses the stated need/problem. Describe how your program follows a recognized "best practice" (see definition on page 12 of the Instructions) and provide evidence that indicates proposed strategies are effective with target population. According to Center for Substance Abuse prevention (CSAP), Selected Findings In Prevention, A Decade of Results from the Center For Substance Abuse Prevention , 1997, the findings indicate that the proposed strategies above are effective with target population. They demonstrated repeated documentation that adolescent risk perceptions were favorably impacted by reducing favorable parental, peer and community attitudes towards ATOD. The National Institute in Drug Abuse (NIDA) indicates that three decades of scientific research and clinical practice have yielded a variety of approaches to prevent drug addiction. The PREVENT ! Program incorporates those approaches into its program design. List staffing needed for your program, including required experience and estimated hours per week in program for each staff member and/or volunteers (this section should conform to the information in the Position Listing on the Budget Narrative Worksheet). The PREVENT program will be staffed by two Council employees and one Licensed Mental Health Counselor. The Program Coordinator assumes primary responsibility for the PREVENT ! program. A Program Assistant is also assigned to this program and will dedicate 100% of the position' s time to the program . Both have five (6) years experience and have extensive backgrounds in program coordination and evaluation. The Licensed Mental Health Counselor holds a Masters Degree in Mental Health and is licensed by the State of Florida as a Clinical Certified Forensics Counselor with a specialty in criminal offender counseling and youthful offender counseling. 2. How will the target population be made aware of the program? The PREVENT.! program awareness was designed with the target population in mind. Many different marketing campaigns are utilized to make the community at large aware the services are available. The program is open to all residents of Indian River County. The Council promotes the use of the PREVENT! program via it' s newsletters and brochures . Law enforcement, school personnel, probation officers, student support specialists have all been briefed on the PREVENT! program. The Council also recommends the PREVENT.! program to parents . Youth and families can be referred to the PREVENT.! program. How will the program be accessible to target population (i.e., location, transportation, hours of operation)?The Council attempts to be very accommodating in service offering times / hours for the community, including weekends and evenings. . The PREVENT! Program services occur Monday through Friday. Group sessions begin either at 4: 30 p.m. or 6 : 30 p .m. to accommodate work and travel schedules. Individual appointments accommodate the individual schedules. The Council office is located in Vero Beach and is open from 8 : 30 a.m . to 5 : 30 p .m . � l