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Parlez-moi de votre communaut\u00e9 et des communaut\u00e9s desservies par votre coalition \u2013 sa population et ses caract\u00e9ristiques uniques. Quand la coalition a-t-elle \u00e9t\u00e9 form\u00e9e ?<\/strong><\/p>\n The Roanoke Prevention Alliance (RPA) serves the city of Roanoke, in Roanoke, Virginia. Roanoke is the seventh largest city in Virginia with an estimated 99,837 residents in 2017. Roanoke is a mountain city and hub for innovation, offering award-winning outdoor amenities, endless trails, friendly neighborhoods with character, public art, the famous Roanoke Star, museums, one-of-a-kind shops, restaurants, and historical attractions. RPA focuses on the Southeast (SE) neighborhood of Roanoke City. The southeast section is unique as there are three neighborhoods contained in the area, and it includes some of the oldest communities in Roanoke. The RPA began in 1997 to develop youth substance misuse prevention plans to identify gaps in services for the city of Roanoke. The RPA became a 501(c)3 in 2015 and is currently in year three of five of a Drug-Free Communities Grant. The RPA focuses their efforts on the substances of alcohol and marijuana, as these are the main drugs used by youth in the city of Roanoke. The RPA, as of May 2017, is the backbone organization for the Resiliency Collective (RC). The RC is committed to reducing the exposure to and impact of trauma by increasing resiliency of youth and families in the city of Roanoke. This group consists of more than 20 youth and family serving organizations in Roanoke, who all believe that instilling resiliency will decrease substance use and build a stronger community.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00c0 quels probl\u00e8mes uniques votre coalition est-elle confront\u00e9e\u00a0?<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cOur city is booming with craft beer breweries, which makes youth alcohol prevention a bit daunting at times,\u201d said RPA Director Melanie Morris<\/strong>. \u201cI am sure many coalitions are faced with the normalcy of marijuana and how to convince folks that it\u2019s not good for the developing brain. We are not an exception. With states legalizing marijuana, the perception of harm is decreasing, therefore the usage is increasing. The RPA, therefore, continues to share alcohol and marijuana prevention messaging that encourages parents to talk to their kids. Our media subcommittee, along with our marketing firm mpiTOO, designed the creatives for all of our prevention campaigns: alcohol, marijuana, and our soon to be released resiliency campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n De quelle activit\u00e9 ou programme votre coalition est-elle la plus fi\u00e8re et\/ou quelle activit\u00e9 aimeriez-vous que nous mettions en lumi\u00e8re\u00a0?<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe Resiliency Collective (RC) is the current initiative that the coalition is most proud of,\u201d said Morris<\/strong>. \u201cThe coalition\u2019s professional education committee has been developing a resiliency awareness toolkit for professionals. This toolkit includes information that will enable agencies to train their staff regarding resiliency awareness, and move to make policy changes in their organization, as well. The toolkit also offers resiliency building activities and evaluations for the staff to use with the clients and families they serve on a daily basis. The Path to Resilience<\/em> program has already been presented to two groups, and was very well received. The first step to being successful with a prevention initiative is to have the community stand behind you and support your message. The RPA and the RC are lucky to have such support as we roll this program out city-wide in the coming months. To ensure the community as a whole becomes more resilient, the RC is launching a campaign this summer to educate the community about resilience. This is just the first step in building a more resilient, healthy community where substance use will no longer be our biggest issue.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Comment en \u00eates-vous arriv\u00e9 l\u00e0 et quels sont vos r\u00e9sultats ? \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe Resiliency Collective is running by the collective impact model,\u201d said Morris<\/strong>. \u201cBy having the group as a whole make the decisions of how to approach topics, how to educate, how to bring about awareness, it keeps the members engaged and they are proud of the work being done. As a result, 50% of our partners in the collective will have received training to be trainers of The Path to Resilience<\/em> program by this summer, and by fall, 25% of those partners will have trained their staff members. These are our short-term goals. We also have long-term goals planned such as creating policy change, continuing to decrease substance use in the youth population, and addressing poverty and homelessness, but those will take time.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Quels conseils donneriez-vous \u00e0 d'autres coalitions qui pourraient \u00eatre confront\u00e9es \u00e0 certains des m\u00eames probl\u00e8mes\u00a0?<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI would advise other coalitions that want to try an innovative approach to prevention to just do it,\u201d said Morris<\/strong>. \u201cDo not be afraid. Be passionate and help your stakeholders to become just as passionate as you are. Prevention of substance use is difficult but desperately needed. If something wasn\u2019t working before, then try a new approach. You will never know if you don\u2019t try.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Participerez-vous \u00e0 l'Institut de formation de mi-ann\u00e9e 2019 et, si oui, quelles le\u00e7ons esp\u00e9rez-vous tirer de cet \u00e9v\u00e9nement pour votre coalition\u00a0? <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cYes, two RPA members and I will be in Dallas in July for Mid-Year,\u201d said Morris<\/strong>. \u201cWe really hope to bring back some exciting new approaches in building capacity, engaging our members, approaching diverse populations, and strategies that other coalitions have implemented that worked for them.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n N'h\u00e9sitez pas \u00e0 ajouter tout ce que vous pensez \u00eatre important pour que les autres coalitions sachent vos progr\u00e8s, votre parcours, etc.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cMembers of RPA attend local events to highlight the work we do and to continue to spread the message of substance misuse prevention in the youth population,\u201d said Morris<\/strong>. \u201cThese events include the monthly Southeast Action Neighborhood Forum, the SE Trunk or Treat, New Year\u2019s at Noon, and Virginia Family Expo, sponsored by Growing Up In The Valley<\/em> magazine. Our youth leaders have also demonstrated their knowledge of prevention by developing a professionally printed newsletter that was mailed to all of the SE community. They love volunteering for these events and they work hard on developing their leadership skills.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Tell me about your community and the communities that your coalition serves \u2013 its population and unique features.\u00a0When was<\/p>","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":13568,"template":"","resource_type":[281],"drug_specific_issues":[],"action_to_do":[],"class_list":["post-17269","resource","type-resource","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","resource_type-coalitions-online"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n