This information provides the coalition with some local information about community perceptions and we are able to look at it as one point of data reference along with the Healthy Youth Survey, school intervention data that the Student Assistant Professional collects, and the program assessments for the programs that the coalition helps to fund: Community Based Mentoring and Strengthening Families provided by the SJI Family Resource Center, Second Step by Terra in the elementary school, LifeSkills Training by Richard in Grade 6 at FHMS, and the SAP (formerly the Prevention Intervention Specialist full-time position with Hailey, now titled the Student Assistance Professional) that provides full-time prevention intervention support at the middle and high schools through support of the NWESD’s and the coalition’s CPWI (Community Prevention and Wellness Initiative) partnership. Most importantly, CPWI has helped us to support the growth of youth leadership prevention clubs, HOTS, Rock Solid, and HOT, Jr. We also have a very robust social media presence that links to national, regional, and state public awareness campaigns.
Please help the coalition to gain continued support through the WA Health Care Authority’s Community Prevention and Wellness Initiative which invests in our community by formalizing and support the coordination of community-based decision-making. San Juan Island Prevention Coalition was founded in December 2002, and began receiving federal Drug-Free Communities funding in 2004, and had the benefit of that support for ten years. SJIPC has been able to sustain its work through CPWI funding that is a mix of federal block grant funding (Substance Abuse Block Grant/SABG) and state Dedicated Marijuana Account (DMA) dollars. As a CPWI coalition, we have also been able to receive federal Partnership for Success (PFS) supplemental funds that helped us to pilot the very successful Second Step program in grades K-5.