Indian Valley Character Counts! Coalition community leaders breakfast 2012

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Indian Valley

Character Counts! Coalition

Community Awareness Breakfast

April 12, 2012

Results of 2011-12 Youth Survey


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What is the Indian Valley


(IVCCC)?A continuation of a process that started in 1997-another step in the process

Encompasses the Souderton Area school districtincluding all six municipalities

Representative of 12 community sectors: business,education, faith, government, healthcare, police, media,

parents, substance abuse organizations, volunteers,youth, youth-serving organizations.

One of over 600 communities using the DevelopmentalAssets framework


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What is the Indian Valley


(IVCCC)?A group focused on what matters to kids, not whatsthe matter with kids

Supports positive youth development with numerousyouth character building initiatives within theSouderton Area School District (The CaringCommunity Fair, Fifth Grade Celebration and Parent

Seminars)Has created community awareness through theconstruction of four highway signs that greet motoristswith the message Welcome to the Indian Valley,

where Character Counts!


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Mission Statement

To promote positive youth development byproviding information, supporting programs

and strengthening community relationships

that promote the principle of Character

Counts! and that build assets to help youth

stay healthy, safe and drug-free.


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IVCCC is looking at two

simultaneous processes:

Reducing risk factors in four domains

Family

Community School

Individual

Increasing protective factors by

Providing opportunities for involvement

Teaching skill development to youths

Recognizing them for who they are, not what they do


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It has been proven through accepted academic

research that it is possible to strategically put in

place specific programs to reduce risk factorsand increase protective factors, however

programs are usually, if not always,

implemented by professionals, organizations,non-profit institutions like hospitals, schools or

police departments. This is only part of the

solution to create a healthy community.

The most essential element in healthy

communities is..


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Relationships!

Mayor Charles Allebach

with Souderton Area Youth to Youth,

C.A.R.E. Teen Leaders and FBLA.


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Asset Building- Shifting Perspectives

From ToProblem Focus

Youth as problems

Reactive

Blaming

ProfessionalsCrisis management

Competition

Despair

Positive focus

Youth as resources

Proactive behavior

Claiming responsibility

EveryoneVision building

Cooperation

Hope


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One of the most powerful ways to

build relationships with andbetween youth and adults, across

all generations in all sectors is to

build assets.

What are assets?


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TheDevelopmental Asset

Framework


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Indian Valley Youth SurveyLocal data includes 8th, 10th and12th graders surveyed in the fall of2011 (total n=1,207)

This is the second time, (1st time in2010), IVCCC has conducted thisyouth survey measuring

Developmental Assets.There is now trending date to useto inform decision makers


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Highlights

The total number of assets possessed by IndianValley youth is 20 out of 40, (national averageis 18 out of 20).

48% of all students possess a majority of theassets (>20)

30 out of 40 assets have increased since 2010

A majority of all youth do not regularly use

alcohol, tobacco, marijuana or someone elsesprescription drugs- (70%, 82%, 87%, 90%respectively)

The average age-of-onset for alcohol use is 13.3


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External

Assets


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Internal

Assets


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The Gap in Assets Among IndianValley Youth


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The Power of Assets to Protect


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The Power of Assets to Promote


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Current SubstanceAbuse Prevalence Rates

(Alcohol, Tobacco, Marijuana, and

Prescription Drugs)


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0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

40%

45%

50%

2009-10 2011-12

P

ercent

Year

Indian Valley Previous 30-Day Alcohol Use

8th Gra

10th Gr

12th Gr


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0.0%

5.0%

10.0%

15.0%

20.0%

25.0%

30.0%

35.0%

2009-10 2011-12

Percen

t

Year

Indian Valley Binge Drinking (Previous Two-Week Period)

8th Grade

10th Grade

12th Grade


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0.0%

5.0%

10.0%

15.0%

20.0%

25.0%

2009-10 2011-12

Percent

Year

Indian Valley Previous 30-Day Tobacco Use

8th Grade

10th Grade

12th Grade


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0.0%

5.0%

10.0%

15.0%

20.0%

25.0%

30.0%

35.0%

2009-10 2011-12

Percen

t

Year

Indian Valley Previous 30-Day Marijuana Use

8th Grade

10th Grade

12th Grade


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0.0%

2.0%

4.0%

6.0%

8.0%

10.0%

12.0%

14.0%

2009-10 2011-12

Percen

t

Year

Indian Valley Previous 30-Day Prescription Use

8th Grade

10th Grade

12th Grade


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12

13

14

15

Alcohol Tobacco Marijuana

Age

ofOn

set

Average Age of Onset (Alcohol, Tobacco, Marijuana)


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Source: Grant and Dawson J. Substance Abuse(1997)


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Extent ofInfluence

Initiation ofDrinking

SocialDrinking

AlcoholicDrinking

Environmental (familial and non familial)

Personality/Temperament

Pharmacological effects of ethanol

Ethanol Pharmacology: Initiation and

Continuation of Drinking


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Source: Outside the Classroom, 2005

The Ninth Grade Effect


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IVCCC Goals

50-50! Work towards having more than 50% of our youthpossessing more than 50% of the assets

Publicize the survey data and support local asset-buildinginitiatives

Apply for the federal Drug Free Communities Grant

Continue biannual surveys of Indian Valley youth

Continue to enhance community and school-based programs


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Relationships!Relationships!Relationships!


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0.0%

100.0%

0 1 2 3 4 5

Percen

t

Number of Adults

Number of Adults Who Believe in Me More Than I Believe in Myself


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IVCC Coalition

Meets every 2nd Thursday

of the month at 12:00 PMSouderton School District Office

Souderton, PA


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For more information:

Kristen Messina

Community Mobilizer

215-723-3569

[email protected]

www.ivccc.org
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]

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Indian Valley Character Counts! Coalition community leaders breakfast 2012