SYV Folks Serving to Folks awarded $223K for rollout of youth substance prevention program
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PHP, in collaboration with longtime nonprofit associate Santa Ynez Valley Youth Coalition — collectively named “Cove Champions” — will roll out a collection of community-based actions for enhancing the well being and social outcomes for space youth that embody a novel strategy, in line with a PHP spokeswoman.
Youths age 12 to 26 can be skilled as promoters and supported of their efforts to teach their friends on the adversarial results of hashish and different substances in Santa Barbara County.
A part of Cove Champions’ messaging facilities on the legalization of hashish, which is believed to enchantment to youth who suppose it OK to make use of and who’re additional unaware of the potential adversarial well being dangers and the authorized implications of underage consumption. The precise give attention to hashish utilization comes as retail storefronts have cropped up all through the group, along with industrywide advertising and marketing that tends to focus on the youthful inhabitants, the spokeswoman stated.
“It’s laborious to discover a household in our group that hasn’t felt the devastating impression of substance use issues amongst their kids,” stated PHP CEO Valerie Kissell. “Both by medical points or entanglement with the justice system, substance abuse can tear a household aside and have lengthy lasting implications.”
Elevate Youth California, a venture shaped by The Heart at Sierra Well being Basis underneath contract with the California Division of Well being Care Providers, is funded by Proposition 64, which legalized grownup nonmedical use of hashish statewide, and in addition prioritizes funding for youth schooling, prevention and early intervention. A complete of 61 California companions that embody Folks Serving to Folks had been awarded grant cash by Elevate to meet its general mission.
In response to Chet P. Hewitt, president and CEO of Sierra Well being Basis and The Heart, program companions throughout the state will work instantly with youth to enhance their communities impacted by the conflict on medication — a nationwide marketing campaign which is believed to have led to inequity in well being methods and the criminalization of youth in low-income communities and communities of colour, she stated.
“California’s youth are gifted, succesful and prepared for this funding,” Hewitt stated.
To study extra, contact Folks Serving to Folks at 805-686-0295.
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Preciado, who was born in Santa Barbara and raised within the Santa Ynez Valley, is an lively member of the Vikings of Solvang and has volunteered with the United Means Volunteer Earnings Tax Help Program (VITA), Large Brothers Large Sisters of America and as a youth basketball coach with the YMCA.
Lisa André covers way of life and native information for Santa Ynez Valley Information and Lompoc Report, editions of the Santa Maria Instances.
