| Recipient |
Localities Served |
Project Description |
Amount |
| Category One |
| Alliance for Families and Children |
Cities of Lynchburg and Bedford, Counties of Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford and Campbell |
The Say It Straight program will serve approximately 80 youth in three alternative educational sites. The program empowers this high-risk population with communication skills, and has been shown to increase self-awareness, positive relationships, personal and social responsibility and to decrease destructive behaviors including the use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. |
$31,236 |
| Montgomery County Public Schools |
Montgomery County |
Project SUCCESS will be implemented with secondary students who have been suspended from Montgomery County Public Schools and are attending the Phoenix Center. The program includes parent-involvement and educational components. This CSAP-model prevention program has been proven to increase knowledge of harm associated with the use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, and to enhance social and resistance skills in youth attending alternative school settings. |
$46,959 |
| Roanoke City Public Schools |
Roanoke City |
The Leadership and Resiliency Program (LRP) will be implemented at the Noel C. Taylor Learning Academy for 30 youth. The program builds resiliency through service learning and adventure/team building experiences to reduce substance abuse, disciplinary problems and school failure. |
$34,500 |
| Category Two |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Harrisonburg and Rockingham Counties/Choice Financial Management, LLC. |
City of Harrisonburg and the County of Rockingham |
The Positive Action program will be implemented in six Boys and Girls Club units reaching approximately 550 elementary-school aged youth. The program has been proven to reduce aggressive behaviors, to reduce the intention to use alcohol, tobacco or other drugs, and to increase positive social skills. |
$37,668 |
| Central Shenandoah Office on Youth |
Cities of Staunton and Waynesboro and County of Augusta |
The All-Stars program will serve 40 youth in an after-school setting. The Families That Care: Guiding Good Choices program will target 96 sets of parents. Both programs have proven to be effective in reducing youth substance use and violence by increasing family and community bonding, as well as increasing positive social skills. |
$28,994 |
| Middle Peninsula-Northern Neck Community Services Board |
Counties of Gloucester, Mathews, Middlesex, Lancaster, Essex, Richmond, Northumberland, Westmoreland, King William and King & Queen |
Approximately 750 sixth grade students in 12 middle schools throughout the ten counties will receive training in the LifeSkills program. The program has proven to reduce the use of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs, and to reduce aggressive behaviors. |
$49,877 |
| Page County Public Schools |
Page County |
The Second Step curriculum will be delivered to all first through seventh grade students. This proven violence prevention program is aimed at reducing aggressive behaviors. |
$20,281 |
| Category Three |
| Alleghany Roanoke City Health District |
City of Roanoke |
The Roanoke Prevention Planning Team will conduct a comprehensive needs assessment in Roanoke City that will use youth risk behavior surveys in middle and high schools, focus group discussions with key stakeholders, and the completion of a comprehensive inventory of all prevention resources. The result will be a comprehensive needs assessment report that will include a coordinated prevention plan to be distributed throughout the community. |
$10,084 |
| Chesterfield County Public Schools |
County of Chesterfield |
Chesterfield County Public Schools will study the effect of suspension or expulsion on youth to inform the development of a comprehensive program for suspended and expelled youth. The study will include collecting data, reviewing research and obtaining input from stakeholders, including affected youth and parents. |
$13,795 |
| CLEAN, Inc. |
Frederick County and City of Winchester |
CLEAN, Inc., a substance abuse prevention coalition, will complete a needs assessment including: results from a youth survey, social indicator data, stakeholder input and a prevention resource inventory. The resulting comprehensive report will be distributed throughout the community. |
$14,879 |
| County of Surry |
County of Surry |
The Surry Community Policy and Management Team will complete a needs assessment including: results from a youth survey, social indicator data, stakeholder input and a prevention resource inventory. The resulting comprehensive report will be distributed throughout the community. |
$15,000 |
| Twin County Prevention Coalition |
Carroll County |
The Twin County Prevention Coalition will complete a needs assessment including: results from a youth survey, social indicator data, stakeholder input and a prevention resource inventory. The resulting comprehensive report will be distributed throughout the community. |
$14,798 |
| Category Four |
| Alternatives, Inc. |
Cities of Hampton and Newport News; Counties of Gloucester and York |
The Rivermont Life Skills Project will deliver two curricula, Project Towards No Tobacco Use and Project Towards No Drug Use, to special needs students to reduce tobacco and other drug use. Students will develop decision-making, communication and refusal skills to increase their self-efficacy and to delay initiation or to reduce current use of tobacco and drugs. |
$ 19,668 |
| Child and Family Services of Eastern Virginia |
Cities of Portsmouth, Norfolk, and Chesapeake |
Three elementary schools will continue receiving the Families and Schools Together (FAST) program for at-risk children and families to reduce substance abuse and violence. Whole families participate in an 8-week program of group activities aimed at enhancing family functioning, improving child behavior, and decreasing stress and isolation. These sessions are followed by monthly support meetings called FASTWORKS. |
$37,500 |
| Family Service of the Roanoke Valley |
City of Roanoke and Roanoke County |
The Leadership and Resiliency Program will continue to be implemented, reaching 75 high-risk middle and high school youth, in both school-based and after-school settings. The program builds resiliency through service learning and adventure/team building experiences to reduce substance abuse, disciplinary problems and school failure. |
$24,765 |
| Halifax County Public Schools |
Halifax County |
The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program’s goals are to reduce bullying behaviors, provide a safe environment for learning, and improve relationship skills for students in grades K – 12. It addresses bullying at the individual, classroom, school-wide, and community levels. In this third year of implementation, school personnel who already have been trained in the Olweus model will continue to receive direct support from the Olweus trainers on staff. New staff will be trained in the Olweus model. In addition, the Success in Stages bullying prevention program will be implemented at the high school. |
$19,089 |
| New River Valley Community Services |
Pulaski County |
Kids’ Connection will be targeted to approximately 130 fourth and fifth grade students in all six elementary schools. The intended outcomes of Kids’ Connection are to improve academic performance and to decrease absenteeism and/or disciplinary incidents by improving participants’ social skills and attitudes to avoid substance use. |
$27,499 |
| Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Detention Center |
Youth throughout the Commonwealth |
The Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center will continue to implement the Residential Student Assistance Program (RSAP), an evidence-based substance abuse program for juveniles in residential facilities. The RSAP program includes: prevention, education, assessment, group and individual counseling, and referral and consultation. The program targets high-risk, state-committed juveniles receiving treatment at the facility. The project's major goal is to eliminate substance abuse-related arrests within one year of release from the program. Additionally, it is anticipated that participants will demonstrate improvement in social competency, self-efficacy and sense of mastery, and will show a reduction in favorable attitudes toward substance abuse. |
$20,800 |
| The University of Virginia |
Albemarle County |
The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program will continue to be implemented at Burley Middle School. The Olweus program involves school-wide, classroom and individual interventions to reduce the number of students:
- identified as victims of physical, verbal, and social bullying;
- engaged in physical, verbal, and social bullying of others;
- willing to seek help from school staff for bullying;
- with attitudes conducive to bullying; and
- receiving disciplinary violations for bullying and related peer misbehavior such as fighting, threatening, and teasing.
Outcomes are measured at the beginning and end of the school year, using self-report surveys, peer reports, and disciplinary records. |
$31,047 |
| West Point Public Schools |
West Point Elementary School students and their parents |
West Point Elementary School will implement the evidence-based Too Good For Drugs curriculum in grades K-5, to decrease the reported use of alcohol, inhalants, and cigarettes. The program focuses on five primary skills: goal setting, decision-making, bonding with others, identifying and managing emotions, and communicating effectively. It includes an after-school component to strengthen the concepts taught during the school day. A parent training component empowers parents, involves them in the drug prevention program, and develops their awareness of alcohol and drug abuse issues. |
$25,000 |
| Wise County Public Schools |
Wise County |
The Wise Choices project will be implemented with students who have been suspended for violence or substance abuse, or who have been truant. To reduce future suspensions and improve attendance, students and their parents will be guided through the computer-based Parenting Wisely program that teaches appropriate parenting skills and behavior. Pre- and post-tests will assess knowledge gained. Follow-up sessions for counseling and referrals to outside agencies will be conducted in the home and at school, depending on to the students' and families' needs. |
$17,320 |
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TOTAL |
$540,759 |
