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Colorado Prevention Leadership Council & 
Interagency Prevention Systems Program
Implementing Colorado Revised Statute 25-20.5 (HB00-1342)
The Colorado Prevention Leadership Council consists of representatives from six state agencies, two universities and various partners, and was created through state legislation to promote coordinated planning, implementation, and evaluation of quality prevention, intervention and treatment services for children, youth, and families at the state and local level.
Vision
A coordinated system of quality prevention and early intervention services to improve the health and well being of all children, youth and families in Colorado.
Goals
| • Coordinate and streamline state-level processes including common grant application elements, common criteria for selection of programs, common processes for monitoring and program review, joint demonstration projects, and state plan. |
| • Enhance the capacity of local communities and prevention, intervention and treatment providers through a coordinated system of training and technical assistance. |
| • Enhance prevention, intervention and treatment services through the application of standards for service delivery, promoting "best practice/best processes," and fostering rigorous program evaluation. |
| • Assure that enhanced/user-friendly data are avaiable to local communities to assist in local planning and decision-making process. |
| • Develop and maintain a mechanism to ensure collaborative planning and decision-making among local service providers, community groups and state ageancies. |
• Promote prevention, intervention and treatment services for children and youth by reporting program outcomes and accomplishments to key decision-making groups.
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Interagency Prevention Systems Program
The Interagency Prevention Systems Program was established within the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment/Prevention Services Division in 2003 with the responsibility of oversight of C.R.S. 25-20.5. The staff of the program work closely with the Prevention Leadership Council. Contact: Jose Esquibel, Director, at 303-693-2302, or email.
Accomplishments
| • Awarded the Strategic Prevention Framework/State Incentive Grant from the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention through the Office of the Governor to enhance the state collaborative prevention efforts. |
| • Uniform Minimum Standards for prevention and earl intervention programs approved by the Board of Health. |
| • Establishment of the "Best Practices" website, containing information on over 200 effective, evidence-based preventioni programs in forty-six topic areas. |
| • Development of an online Prevention Resource and Indicator Database that provides informatioini to local communities on over 40 state/federal programs and funding sources and listing over 1500 local prevention and intervention programs in communities across the state. |
| • Revised State Plan for Prevention, Intervention and Treatment Services for Children and Youth approved by Governor Owens. |
Current Projects of the Prevention Leadership Council
| • Implementing the Strategic Prevention Framework Grant |
| • Implementing a single web-based reporting and evaluation system for multipole state agencies that fund prevnetion and intervention services (Colorado KIT) |
| • Developing a toolkit to assist local communities and the state with existing early childhood needs assessment processes. The toolkit will help to compile early childhood data as well as identify missing data |
| • Linking core competencies for prevention providers with the Uniform Minimum Standards |
| • Collaborating with the Coordinated School Health Initiative, the Early Childhood State Systems Team and the Colorado Systems of Care Collaborative on interagency efforts to coordinate and streamline state processes |
| • Coordinating on a single state survey process for collecting youth health and behavioral health data |
Colorado Prevention Leadership Council Membership 2005
Colorado Department of Education
Stan Paprocki, Prevention Initiatives
Colorado Department of Human Services
Charles Perez, Child Welfare Division
Kevin Richards, Colorado Works
Mary Vanderwall, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division
Colorado Department of Law
Mark Messenbaugh, Esq., Office of the Attorney General
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Jose Esquibel, Interagency Prevention Systems Program
Karen O'Brien, Office of Local Liaison
Lena Peschanskaia, Prevention Services Division
Jan Reimer, Maternal Child Health
Barbara Ritchen, Child and Adolescent Health
Jason Vahling, S.T.E.P.P. (Tobacco Prevention)
Colorado Department of Public Safety
Anna Lopez, Division of Criminal Justice
Meg Williams, Division of Criminal Justice
ColoradoDepartment of Transportation
Kirsten Jahnp-Elfon
Colorado State University/Cooperative Extension
Jan Carroll
University of Colorado/Health Sciences Center
Judy Baxter
Early Childhood State Systems Team
Scott Raun
OMNI Research and Training
Jim Adams-Berger
Regional Prevntion Services
Janet Shown
Southwest Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies
Michelle Frye
303-692-2421
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