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Overview
ATOD prevention programming is funded by multiple sources including:
- Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant (SAPT)
- Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities
- State General Fund
12-17: Strategies For Success (SFS)
Programs working with teens focus on multiple risk and protective factors such as ATOD use, attitudes and perceptions, building resiliency and leadership skills to improve the student’s ability to resist drugs, and relationship and socialization skills.
The Strategies for Success instrument are now 5 modules available in both Spanish and in English. A detailed protocol is also available with instructions on how to use the instruments.
Emerging Trends Prescription Drug Prevention Initiative
Starting in FY2012, BHSD allocated General Fund dollars to support the prevention of emerging trends in substance abuse. Two sites in New Mexico, San Juan County (through the San Juan County Partnership) and Grant, Luna, Hidalgo and Catron counties (through Border Area Mental Health Services) implement community and coalition-based innovative approaches to prescription drug misuse and abuse prevention. This rising trend is especially of concern as a precursor to opiate, especially heroin addiction, already a significant problem in New Mexico.
Total Community Approach (TCA)
The Total Community Approach is a partnership between the New Mexico Behavioral Health Collaborative and rural communities most affected by substance abuse. The Total Community Approach teams Local Collaboratives and targets resources from prevention to treatment and law enforcement to the areas where they are most needed to deal with substance abuse challenges. Community members, health care practitioners, and consumers of behavioral health services are engaged in planning and implementing the services best suited to address the substance use issues in their communities. 3 million dollars was made available for this initiative by the State Legislature for FY08 and support continues. This is recurring funding and in each site at least 20% of each grant is allocated for prevention. Sites participating the in the TCA initiative are LC 4 (Mora, San Miguel and Guadalupe Counties); LC 5 (Chaves, Eddy and Lea Counties); LC 6 (Luna, Hidalgo and Grant Counties), LC 15 (The Navajo Nation), as well as the developmental sites of LC1 (Los Alamos, Rio Arriba and Santa Fe Counties and LC8 (Colfax, Taos and Union Counties).
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