Summary of Specifications:
On behalf of the Livingston Washtenaw Substance Abuse Coordinating Advisory Council and the Substance Abuse Coordinating Agency, the Washtenaw Community Health Organization (WCHO) is requesting proposals from potential bidders for substance abuse prevention programs to be provided in the Dexter and Pinckney communities.
In October 2004, the Michigan Department of Community Health Office of Drug Control Policy received a Strategic Prevention Framework – State Incentive Grant (SPF/SIG) from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration/Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (SAMHSA/CSAP). The Strategic Prevention Framework is an outcome-based, data driven, population-level approach to substance abuse prevention planning. SAMHSA’s five step approach (assessment, capacity building, planning, implementation and evaluation) was used to direct this initiative.
The Livingston/Washtenaw Substance Abuse Coordinating Agency (CA) began implementing the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) at the local level in May 2007. Since this time the CA established a Community Epidemiological Workgroup (CEW) to conduct a community level needs assessment to define and drive decision making. This included a review of existing relevant substance abuse data on consumption and consequences such as alcohol-related traffic crash deaths. This information was used to ultimately identify the communities of Dexter and Pinckney to engage around the issues of underage drinking and related traffic crashes.
