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Substance Abuse Council LifeSkills Training Program RECOMMENDED : $90 ,000 Requested : $ 100, 075 Description : Life Skills is a three-year prevention program , conducted in school classrooms . It was developed to impact knowledge, attitudes and norms about drug abuse; teach skills for resisting social influences to use drugs and promote the development of general personal self- management skills and social skills . The first component of the program focuses on management skills and the second component focuses on general social skills , the third component includes information and skills that are specifically related to the problem of drug abuse. Services are provided at IRC Middle Schools . • Taxonomy: RP-450 - Life Problems Counseling , Taxonomy: Substance Abuse Services , LX-840 - Substance Abuse Intervention Programs , LX-650 .800 + State Description - Substance Abuse Counseling • Focus Areas Addressed : Mental Wellness • Number of children to be served : 5,400 Substance Abuse Council PREVENT! RECOMMENDED : $80 ,000 Requested : $86 ,414 Description : This program is designed to change adolescent and parental perceptions of drug , alcohol , and tobacco use. This is an improvisation group that teaches/illustrates prevention to their peers, through the theater media . It is recognized by PRIDE Institute as one of their exemplary programs . The program employs one coordinator, and consists of two components : mental health services , and drug abuse prevention . Youth also receive theater training in order to perform "scenarios" of "at risk' situations and appropriate responses . In addition to performing they counsel and train a new group of youth who will form another Prevent Troup . The group performs in Indian River County for youth groups , clubs and schools . When the Prevent Troup performs out of the county, travel expense funds are paid from other sources . • Taxonomy: LX - Substance Abuse ; RP-450 - Life Problems Counseling- Focus Areas Addressed : Mental Wellness • Number of children to be served : 130 ; served in group settings : 6 ,000. United for Families Foster Parent Mentor & Retention Program RECOMMENDED : $20 ,000 Requested : $20 , 910 Description : Recognizing that veteran foster parents are the best resources for new foster parents, UFF (United for Families ) will create a mentoring program to educate foster parents about local resources and how to access them , to facilitate retention of foster homes and to decrease the number disruptions in child placements . UFF will hire one qualified foster parent to serve as a mentor in Indian River County. The Mentor will help foster parents troubleshoot problems in the system and help direct foster parents to community resources . The mentor will attend all Foster Parent Association and Shared Services Alliance of Okeechobee and the treasure Coast meetings and meet regularly with a foster parent coordinator. This coordinator will train and oversee mentors as well as re-license foster parents . The coordinator will work with the mentor team to lead the County in foster-parent retention activities , such as annual Foster Parent Appreciation Dinner. ( From RFP ) • Taxonomy: PHI 40 . 500 • Focus Areas Addressed : Mental Wellness • Number of children served : 77 : 46 adults C:\Documents and Settings\mpursel\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLKA8\FUNDING REPORT - GRANT TO CSAC.doc - 12 -