Single State Agency
Provider Network
Other Statewide Substance Abuse Prevention Funding Agencies
Agencies/Organizations in State that Provide Technical Assistance and Training
RADAR Network (Regional Alcohol and Drug Awareness Resource)
Evaluation Resources
State Data Sources
Department
of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS): The Department
of Mental Health and Addiction Services is the state of Connecticut's
single state agency for providing comprehensive mental health and substance
abuse services throughout Connecticut. Its substance abuse prevention
service system is organized to ensure that Connecticut youth, families,
workplaces, schools, and communities have access to high quality and
effective prevention programs. The Connecticut
State Incentive Grant can also be found at this site.
Strategic
Prevention Framework
The Connecticut legislature has established five human service regions for the purpose of providing state health and human services. DMHAS uses 15 subdivisions of these regions as the geographic basis for prevention services. The prevention services within these regions are comprised of six major components: (1) six Statewide Service Delivery Agents that undergird and support prevention programs statewide, known as the Prevention Infrastructure; (2) 13 Best Practices Projects aimed at implementing proven prevention strategies with specific populations; (3) 21 programs implementing science-based and innovative programs for youth ages 12-17, their parents, families and schools; (4) 120 Local Prevention Councils providing primary prevention strategies; (5) three Family Strengthening research studies aimed at better serving children of substance abusers; and (6) Tobacco Compliance Initiatives aimed at reducing underage use of tobacco products. Additionally, community-based programs will be initiated under the PRISM initiative in 2002 that link violence and substance abuse prevention and mental health promotion to improve the quality of care for children in grades K-5.
Other Statewide Substance Abuse Prevention Funding Agencies
Department of Children and Families – The Department of Children and Families (DCF) has services that are closely involved in substance abuse prevention activities. Foremost among these is their Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention program intended to increase social skills training for youth and parents at risk of substance abuse. Other activities include the Children's Trust Fund, Drug Free Schools & Communities activities to promote social skill training; neighborhood-based prevention; a quarterly newsletter distributed statewide; and comprehensive drug prevention education for youth in DCF institutions across the state.
Department of Education - This agency has several major programs that directly or indirectly relate to substance abuse prevention. The major programs include activities under the Safe and Drug Free Schools programs as well as after school programs, family resource centers, Youth Service Bureaus, and truancy and drop-out prevention programs. Services primarily target school-aged youth and their parents.
Department of Public Health - Its Bureau of Community Health and other bureaus addresses a variety of health issues related to substance abuse prevention. Activities include adolescent pregnancy prevention, HIV/AIDS prevention and risk reduction, health education and screening services for women and children, Healthy Start programs, school-based health services, unintentional injury prevention, youth violence prevention, and others. Parents and children are most often the target population and services are offered in different communities at different levels across the state.
Department of Social Services - The Department of Social Services supports a variety of projects targeting children, parents, disadvantaged youth and minority youth at risk for substance abuse. Services range from providing a variety of financial subsidies for poor and low income families to offering a range of child care services, peer education programs, crisis management services, family violence prevention, human resource development services, adolescent pregnancy prevention, and many others.
Department of Transportation (DOT) - The Department of Transportation's Division of Highway Safety administers the state's Highway Safety Program. The Division manages a number of non-construction highway safety related activities including: Impaired Driving Programs, Standard Field Sobriety Training, and coordinates a statewide "Cops-in-Shops" underage alcohol enforcement program. The DOT's Bureau of Policy and Planning collects and distributes information related to traffic accidents and their contributing factors including alcohol and drugs.
Judicial Branch - The Family Division - Judicial Probation unit of the Judicial Branch provides pre-trial and post adjudication services to juveniles who are within the jurisdiction of the Superior Court for Juvenile Matters for delinquent or family with service need offenses.
Office of Policy and Management - The staff agency to the Governor's Office, supports nine different programs across Connecticut that are intended to address the problems of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use (ATOD) abuse and related law enforcement and community problems. Programs and services range from children and youth development initiatives to drug enforcement programs, to summer youth programs. Services generally target low income populations, but vary considerably across age groups, populations, and geographic locations.
Agencies/Organizations in State that Provide Technical Assistance and Training
Connecticut Assets Network (CAN) is a grassroots nonprofit network of citizens and organizations that promote the integration and successful use of asset-based strategies for community development. The "asset approach" uses the resources and assets of individuals, organizations and communities as the building blocks of successful health promotion strategies. Rather than exclusively looking at problems, deficits, and weaknesses as the focus of program planning, citizens and community policy makers focus on building upon their strengths by discovering and developing their resources. CAN believes in the notion that for communities to build protective factors (resiliency and assets) in the lives of our youth and families, they need guidance, support and networking.
CT Institute for Cultural
Literacy & Wellness, Incorporated (CICLW) is a state- wide nonprofit coalition dedicated to promoting culturally
and linguistically proficient services from a strength-based perspective.
The mission of CICLW is to promote synergistic and collective change
processes that lead to holistic wellness in a multicultural society.
CICLW seeks to enhance and build a knowledge base that supports cultural
competence. CICLW support services that provide insight into culture,
its impact on service delivery and the development of culturally competent
individuals and organizations. CICLW believes that cultural competence
includes self-awareness; knowledge of other cultures; and appropriate
skills to incorporate culture into prevention, intervention and treatment
strategies.
The Governor's Prevention Partnership, created
in 1989, is a not-for-profit partnership between state government and
business leaders with a mission
to keep Connecticut’s youth safe, successful and drug-free. Co-chaired
by Connecticut’s governor and a major corporate CEO, The Partnership
provides leadership and services to help schools, communities, youth organizations,
colleges and businesses create and sustain quality programs in five core
areas:
Connecticut Prevention Network - Formerly known as CARE, CPN is a network of the state’s 14 Regional Action Councils (RACs), grassroots organizations working with Connecticut's communities to prevent substance abuse and other addictions. Because RACs are locally-created and based, they provide the best "eyes and ears" across the state when it comes to identifying local issues related to addictions and then working with the entire community. RACs were created by the State Legislature in 1989 and are funded in part by the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.
RADAR Network (Regional Alcohol and Drug Awareness Resource)
Connecticut Clearinghouse - The Connecticut Clearinghouse is the Connecticut Regional Alcohol and Drug Awareness Resource (RADAR) Network is sponsored and coordinated through the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI), a service of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP). The Connecticut Clearinghouse receives support through the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.
The evaluation of the Governor's Prevention Initiative for Youth is being conducted by a collaborative team of researchers from the Department of Community Medicine and Health Care at the University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC). For a listing of various staff members phone and fax numbers, search the UConn Health Center Department of Community Medicine faculty and staff directory.
The University of Connecticut School of Social Work evaluates the Partnership Resource and Infrastructure Support Monies (PRISM) Initiative. This grant is directed at helping existing coalitions/partnerships develop resources and infrastructure to support program implementation and evaluation.
Health Services
Research Unit (HSR) - The members of the UConn Health
Center Department of Community Medicine and Health Care's Health Services
Research Unit prepare a variety of reports and presentations regarding
their research on substance abuse prevention and treatment. Most of the
reports are available in the "data
sources" area of the GPIY
web site, however their are some additional PowerPoint presentations
are available in the reports
area of the HSR website.
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