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Tell me about your community and the communities that your coalition serves-its population and unique features.\u00a0 When was the coalition formed?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n The Koochiching Area Prevention in Education (KAPE) Coalition was created under the Partnership for Success grant awarded by the Minnesota Department of Human Services in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cOne of the unique features of International Falls is that we are a very outdoorsy community,\u201d said the coalition\u2019s Planning and Implementation Grant Coordinator Beth Slatinski<\/strong>. \u201cA lot of events surround different hunting seasons. One strategy that we developed was getting preventative information to youth that were taking gun safety, ATV, trapping safety, or snowmobiling safety. We\u2019re also known as the \u2018Icebox of the Nation.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00c0 quels probl\u00e8mes uniques votre coalition est-elle confront\u00e9e\u00a0?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIn 2016 our community was awarded an alcohol prevention grant to serve 6e<\/sup> jusqu'au 12e<\/sup> grade students,\u201d said Slatinski<\/strong>. \u201cPrevention and coalition work were very new in our community. A lot of work had to be done to introduce the concept of prevention and get the correct information out about why the coalition was created. We needed the community to know that while we were concerned about the youth alcohol usage in our community, most of our youth were not using alcohol and we needed to celebrate and encourage that.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n What activity or program your coalition is most proud of and\/or what activity would you like to spotlight?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe coalition is very good at looking at our community and seeing the needs and wants and where we fit in,\u201d said Slatinski<\/strong>. \u201cWe have been able to take a good assessment of our community and see where our efforts should go.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n How did you get there, and what are your outcomes\/what advice would you give to other coalitions that may be addressing some of the same issues?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe completed 50 one-on-one conversations with several sectors of our community,\u201d said Slatinski<\/strong>. \u201cDuring these conversations, we asked people what their thoughts were about underage alcohol use and what they thought the behaviors were of youth in our community. After the initial 50 conversations, we continued to do 25 on a yearly basis. This gave us a great insight to what our community thought and where we should put our efforts. We created a \u2018Positive Community Norms\u2019 campaign with data that students gave us through a Student Positive Community Norms survey, along with data from a Parent Positive Community Norms survey and a Community Positive Community Norms survey. From these three different surveys we were able to see data that we could use to develop specific strategies.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tell me about your community and the communities that your coalition serves-its population and unique features.\u00a0 When was the coalition<\/p>","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":13582,"template":"","resource_type":[281],"drug_specific_issues":[],"action_to_do":[],"class_list":["post-17276","resource","type-resource","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","resource_type-coalitions-online"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n