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Community Health Institute/JSI (CHI/JSI) provides assessment and evaluation, training, technical assistance and data analysis and reporting for four state-defined regions to plan for and implement evidence-based strategies to prevention and reduce alcohol use and binge drinking among 12 to 34 year olds. The regional initiative is part of a state-wide Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) funded by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration that engages communities in a five step process to assess, build capacity for, plan, implement and evaluate strategies to reduce high risk alcohol consumption and its harmful consequence. The assessment phase is founded on the principles of community-based participatory research and involves one hundred one-on-one interviews, community readiness surveys, environmental scans, risk behavior data and other community-level indicator data. Key findings from the assessment phase have been compiled into a regional profile and are being used to drive community-level planning and funding decisions for evidence-based interventions to increase protective factors and reduce risk factors for the target age groups. These indicators are to be measured over time to evaluate the effectiveness of the SPF process.
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