1. CTC - Promoting Youth Health and Well-Being in Franklin County & North Quabbin;
Prevention of Youth Substance Use & Promotion of Nutrition & Physical Activity

2. Civic & Volunteer Groups
Police Departments
State Partners
Faith-Based Organizations
Civic & Volunteer Groups
Town Government
School Districts
Parents
&
Families
Media
Community Coalitions
Local Businesses
District Attorney’s Office
Youth
Coalition – Many members, all sectors
Collective Impact
Healthcare
Hospitals
Human Service
Agencies
Treatment Providers

3. Coalition Workgroups Coordinating Council Parent Education Workgroup
Regional School Health Task Force
Youth Leadership Initiative
Policy and Practice Change Workgroup
Mass in Motion Steering Committee
Organized into workgroups

4. Create an Action Plan – each workgroup identifies strategies to effectively reduce youth substance and improve youth health in region
Something for everyone
HOW DO WE PICK STRATEGIES:

5. 1. We gather and look at Local Data
Teen Health Survey
Focus Groups
Interviews

6. What people think will be effectiveX
What actually is effective 
2. Based on National Research

7. 3. We look for strategies that can be self-sustaining, or that can be sustainably integrated into the fabric of community institutions.

8. 4. We select strategies that support or work well with efforts already underway in the community, or that match up well with local resources

9. 5…and that match up well with local culture.

10. 6. Our Coalition has agreed on a set of values, and we only embrace strategies that fit with these values…

11. PREVENTION WORKS. IT’S WORKING HERE.
This approach has been effective for our coalition.

12. Health Equity
We have challenged ourselves to become more proactive in the movement toward Health Equity in our area…
…we’ve updated our values…
…we held a retreat…
…we focused our data analysis on health equity and held a press conference…
…we added a goal to reduce health disparities in the outcomes we are addressing
We did 10 focus groups with groups throughout the community to learn more about how and where people access healthy food and what obstacles to access they face.
…we’ve started a concerted recruitment effort to increase the diversity of our coalition
…we’re planning a racial justice advisory dinner to gain further input and perspective on coalition activities

13. Civic & Volunteer Groups
Police Departments
State Partners
Faith-Based Organizations
Civic & Volunteer Groups
Town Government
School Districts
Parents
&
Families
Media
Community Coalitions
Local Businesses
District Attorney’s Office
Youth
…the model that our coalition has used has been a relatively “grass-tops” model, and hasn’t had much direct involvement of community-at-large…
Healthcare
Hospitals
Human Service
Agencies
Treatment Providers

14. New Youth Leadership Initiative
Lead social norms marketing and social marketing campaigns (e.g.: Above The Influence,
State Without StigMA,
“how to be a good friend”)
Build a strong youth
involvement component to CTC
Identify and connect existing youth groups throughout the region
Provide training and
leadership development
Lead youth advocacy for municipal policies that support substance use prevention, healthy eating
and active living
…we are working on creating a new Youth Leadership Initiative to have young people more directly involved in coalition activities, leadership, and planning…

16. https://docs. google. com/viewer

19. map
FRCOG planners produced several sets of maps, indicating where populations of people with low incomes and people of color live in our country, and also maps showing what food access sites are available within a ½ mile radius of subsidized housing sites.

20. Your thoughts and input welcome!