The Miracle Center, in partnership with the Healthy Hermosa Coalition and the HHAPC, will host a Town Hall Meeting focusing on Underage Drinking Prevention at North Grand High School on Thursday, April 3rd from 5:30pm-7:30pm.
This Town Hall Meeting will give the Hermosa community the opportunity to come together and discuss the extent and nature of the problem of underage drinking, discuss the latest research on underage drinking and its impact on both individuals and communities.
Community leaders, local officials, local service providers, and youth will be in attendance, so please come with your questions, comments, and concerns. We hope to see you there.
For more information on Town Hall Meetings, visit:
http://www.dhs.state.il.us/page.aspx?item=36295&newssidebar=27893&postdate=2/14/2008&approval=4&newsitemid=36032&getpreviousnews=true
Sunday, March 23, 2008
HHAPC Documents on Google Docs!
Although I had hoped to post documents, such as our Resource Assessment Survey, here to our website, it looks like it is not possible. And so I am going to be posting HHAPC documents to a website called Google Documents. This is how you can access the documents:
1. Whenever new documents are posted, you will receive an email from me with a link to the documents. Click on it!
2. This will take you to the google homepage. If you don't already have a username and password, you can create one.
3. Now you should be able to view the document!
4. Using the Google File Menu you can either PRINT the document OR
5. Using the Google File Menu you can SAVE to Word or to PDF
6. And if you click on Docs Home in the upper right hand corner, you can see and manage all the HHAPC documents
If you are having trouble viewing the documents, post a comment here or please email or call me. Hopefully this will be a useful tool for all of us, as you will be able to share YOUR documents with the rest of the committee as well. Perhaps I can also give a short demo at our next meeting. The details of that meeting will be forthcoming!
1. Whenever new documents are posted, you will receive an email from me with a link to the documents. Click on it!
2. This will take you to the google homepage. If you don't already have a username and password, you can create one.
3. Now you should be able to view the document!
4. Using the Google File Menu you can either PRINT the document OR
5. Using the Google File Menu you can SAVE to Word or to PDF
6. And if you click on Docs Home in the upper right hand corner, you can see and manage all the HHAPC documents
If you are having trouble viewing the documents, post a comment here or please email or call me. Hopefully this will be a useful tool for all of us, as you will be able to share YOUR documents with the rest of the committee as well. Perhaps I can also give a short demo at our next meeting. The details of that meeting will be forthcoming!
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Coalition Meeting this Monday, March 24th
Our larger Coalition, the Healthy Hermosa Coalition, is meeting this Monday, March 24th from 9:30am-11:00am. We will be meeting at the GAP Center (where The Miracle Center is housed) at 2100 N. Kildare. Elsa and I will be giving the Coalition an update on the HHAPC's work over the past month. Please come and share your comments, updates, and anything else you have going on!
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Feb 29 Meeting Summary
The HHAPC had a fantastic meeting at The Miracle Center on February 29th! We would like to welcome the following new members to the HHAPC:
Sylvia Campos, Grupo 24 Horas Chicago
Jorge Villa, Grupo 24 Horas Chicago
Felipe Luna, Grupo 24 Horas Chicago
Gill Criollo, Youth Service Project
Robin Schmidt, Healthcare Alternative Systems
The new members received an overview of the HHAPC and the SPF grant and explored ways to collaborate around alcohol-prevention in Hermosa. Agencies interviewed each other to gather information on the services they provide to the community.
In addition, the members have volunteered to call and interview alcohol-prevention and alcohol-treatment centers in the Hermosa area in order to compile an inventory of services in the community. This will greatly help with the resource assessment of Hermosa, which all HHAPC members will receive a copy of upon completion!
We will be emailing the interview form early this week. Please email, fax, or drop them off at The Miracle Center by Friday, March 14th.
Thanks again for your help!
Ilinois Youth Survey
This month and next, students from the Hermosa community will be taking the Illinois Youth Survey, which surveys young people regarding substance abuse.
Schools opt to take the survey on a strictly voluntary basis, and the identities of all students remain anonymous. Data for specific schools are available only to organizations given specific permission by the school. The survey results provide these organizations with invaluable information on the level and type of substance abuse prevalent among young people.
This year, the following Hermosa area schools will be taking the IYS:
North Grand High School
Ames Middle School
Nixon Elementary
McAuliffe Elementary
The HHAPC and The Miracle Center would like to thank these schools for opting to take the survey. This information will greatly help us in our mission to stop underage drinking in Hermosa!
Conducting the Needs Assessment
Since November 2007, the HHAPC has been collecting data related to alcohol-usage in the Hermosa community. This information will be compiled, analyzed, and distributed to the Healthy Hermosa Coalition to determine which strategies will be implemented in Fall 2008. Here is some of the information that is being collected that will be available to the community:
*Listing of liquor stores, supermarkets, and other retail-outlets selling alcohol.
*Listing of bars and their compliance with state regulations.
*Volume of advertisements in local newspapers, local television, and billboards catering to minors.
*Percentage of community residents reporting alcohol-usage as acceptable in the community.
*Percentage of community residents reporting youth having easy-access to alcohol.
*Number of alcohol-related arrests in the past year.
*Number of alcohol-related hospital admissions/discharges.
*Self-reported student alcohol-usage.
*Local alcohol policies and school alcohol policies.
The HHAPC would like to thank the following agencies for helping us to obtain this information:
The Miracle Center
The Latin American Chamber of Commerce
The Chicago Police Department
The Chicago Department of Epidemiology
The Illinois Liquor License Commission
Hermosa Community Residents
*Listing of liquor stores, supermarkets, and other retail-outlets selling alcohol.
*Listing of bars and their compliance with state regulations.
*Volume of advertisements in local newspapers, local television, and billboards catering to minors.
*Percentage of community residents reporting alcohol-usage as acceptable in the community.
*Percentage of community residents reporting youth having easy-access to alcohol.
*Number of alcohol-related arrests in the past year.
*Number of alcohol-related hospital admissions/discharges.
*Self-reported student alcohol-usage.
*Local alcohol policies and school alcohol policies.
The HHAPC would like to thank the following agencies for helping us to obtain this information:
The Miracle Center
The Latin American Chamber of Commerce
The Chicago Police Department
The Chicago Department of Epidemiology
The Illinois Liquor License Commission
Hermosa Community Residents
Getting to Know the HHAPC and SPF!
Welcome to the HHAPC blog! If this is your first time to our site, this post will give you some background on the HHAPC and the SPF grant.
In July of 2007, The Miracle Center, a youth and family-serving agency in the Hermosa community, received a Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) grant that focuses on the reduction of underage drinking in the community. The funding comes from the US Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMHSA. It is administered through the Illinois Department of Human Services.
The SPF model relies on community coalitions to reduce substance abuse by implementing comprehensive, multi-strategy approaches, such as policy changes, media campaigns, and education programs. But before the coalition can implement strategies, there are some other important steps to carry out:
1. Community Assessment
2. Capacity Building
3. Planning
4. Implementation
5. Evaluation
The Healthy Hermosa Coalition has made SPF and the reduction of underage drinking one of its priorities, and as a result, formed a sub-committee, the HHAPC, to handle the day-to-day work involved. The HHAPC has been working for the past 6 months to build community capacity and conduct a community needs and resource assessment. There will be more information on our efforts so far and our plans for the year in the coming posts!
In July of 2007, The Miracle Center, a youth and family-serving agency in the Hermosa community, received a Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) grant that focuses on the reduction of underage drinking in the community. The funding comes from the US Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMHSA. It is administered through the Illinois Department of Human Services.
The SPF model relies on community coalitions to reduce substance abuse by implementing comprehensive, multi-strategy approaches, such as policy changes, media campaigns, and education programs. But before the coalition can implement strategies, there are some other important steps to carry out:
1. Community Assessment
2. Capacity Building
3. Planning
4. Implementation
5. Evaluation
The Healthy Hermosa Coalition has made SPF and the reduction of underage drinking one of its priorities, and as a result, formed a sub-committee, the HHAPC, to handle the day-to-day work involved. The HHAPC has been working for the past 6 months to build community capacity and conduct a community needs and resource assessment. There will be more information on our efforts so far and our plans for the year in the coming posts!
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