Marshall County Anti-Drug Coalition
The Anti-Drug Coalition has been on the front lines fighting to raise awareness of substance abuse in Marshall County since 2003. The Coalition developed when a group of Marshall County citizens recognized the need to combat substance abuse and rallied together to take action. Comprised of concerned citizens and representatives from local law enforcement agencies, businesses, schools, and non-profit agencies, the Anti-Drug Coalition collaborates with various sectors of the county to help keep the community safe and drug free.
Important initiatives the Coalition participates in include, but are not limited to, substance abuse prevention education in Marshall County schools, implementation of state and local policy change, retailer education, and partnering with local youth-driven substance abuse prevention groups to conduct shoulder taps.
We are currently running two multimedia campaigns, one to encourage parents to talk to their kids about drugs an alcohol and the other to raise awareness of binge drinking among youth and adults. The campaigns involve TV spots as well as billboards.
Our previous commercial campaign designed to curb underage drinking can be found here.
The binge drinking commercial can be found here.
If you are interested in the opportunity of becoming a community leader in substance abuse prevention, Coalition Meetings are held at noon on the first Friday of every month in the Historic Federal Building, 324 7th Street, Moundsville, WV. All are welcome to attend.
The Marshall County Anti-Drug Coalition (ADC) and the Marshall County Family Resource
Network (FRN) recently teamed up with local law enforcement agencies to curb youth social
access to alcohol. During May and June, the Moundsville and Glen Dale Police Departments,
the Marshall County Sheriff's Department, and youth from across the upper Ohio Valley
participated in the "Shoulder Tap" program.
During the program, youth decoys (under the supervision of law enforcement agents)
approached adults outside of Marshall County retailers and asked them to purchase
alcohol. Of the 238 "taps" that occurred, 11 adults agreed to make the purchase. Those
adults were approached by the attending officers, who outlined the penalties they could
have faced had they been caught purchasing the alcohol for the minors. The 227 adults who
declined to make the purchase were given cards thanking them for not providing alcohol to
minors.
The "Shoulder Tap" program was made possible by funding from the Strategic Prevention
Framework State Incentive Grant. The program's protocol was approved by Jeff Cramer,
Marshall County's Prosecuting Attorney. Retailers faced no repercussions from the
program's results; however, each retailer was notified of the protocol and could have
opted out of the program.
Parent Toolkit: How to Talk to Your Children About Drugs
Projects
West Virginia Strategic Prevention Framework State's Incentive Grant Program (SPF SIG)
The Marshall County Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant Program targets the county’s high-risk alcohol use problems which impact all segments of Marshall County’s population.
There are three primary components of the Marshall County SPF-SIG Project:
Youth In Action
Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol
Training for Intervention ProcedureS
Youth In Action is a youth-led initiative designed to reduce high-risk alcohol consumption through prevention education, compliance checks, and project sticker shock. The mission of Youth In Action is to reduce social and retail availability of alcohol to minors and support enforcement of alcohol laws for alcohol retailers and community members.
Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol (CMCA) is an evidence-based social marketing program that utilizes community organizing strategies designed to reduce adolescent access to alcohol by changing community policies and practices.
Training for Intervention ProcedureS (TIPS) is a skills-based training program designed to prevent intoxication, drunk driving and underage drinking by enhancing the fundamental “people skills” of servers and sellers of alcohol. TIPS gives retailers and servers the knowledge they need to recognize potential alcohol-related problems and intervene to prevent alcohol-related tragedies.
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Safe and Drug Free Communities
The Safe & Drug Free Communities (SDFC) grant program develops and implements drug and violence prevention programs aimed at reducing the risk factors and increasing the protective factors that encourage resiliency in youth. The Marshall County Safe and Drug Free Communities includes the Too Good For Drugs and Too Good For Violence programs.
Too Good For Drugs is a school-based prevention program that builds five essential life skills including goal setting, decision making, pro social bonding with others, identifying and managing emotions and communicating effectively.
Too Good For Violence promotes protective factors that help children get along peacefully through bonding, promoting healthy beliefs and clear, positive standards, enhancing the social and emotional skills for coping with anger and frustration, getting along with others, communicating positively, and negotiating conflict successfully.
The prevention programs are administered to the students at Cameron Elementary and High School.
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Drug Free Communities
The Marshall County Anti-Drug Coalition has developed a plan designed to reduce tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana abuse among all Marshall County youth. The goals of the program are to: 1) establish and strengthen collaboration among Marshall County's private nonprofit agencies, and Federal, State, and local governments to support the efforts of the Marshall County Anti-Drug Coalition to prevent and reduce substance abuse among youth; 2) reduce substance abuse among youth in Marshall County, and, over time, among adults by addressing the factors in our community that increase the risk of alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse. To achieve these goals, the Coalition will implement the following strategies: 1) Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol (CMCA); 2) mass media campaigns; and 3) coalition capacity development.
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The Marshall County Anti-Drug Coalition is funded in part by a SPF-SIG Prevention Implementation Grant from the WV Governor’s Office and the WV Partnership to Promote Community Well-Being. The grant is made possible by the State of West Virginia’s receipt of a federal Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant (SPF SIG) from the U.S. Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. Funding for the Safe and Drug Free Communities program is provided by the U.S. Department of Education under Title IV, Part A, Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities, No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, Public Law 107-110.
The Safe and Drug Free Communities Program is funded by U.S. Department of Education under the Title IV, Part A, Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities, No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, Public Law 107-110. |
