SE Seattle P.E.A.C.E. Coalition
Prevention Education & Action
for Community Empowerment
Strategic Plan
April 30th 2013
[Coalition logo]
Prevention Redesign Initiative
Table of Contents
Executive Summary 4
Strategic Plan 5
Getting Started – Organizational Plan 7
Plan for Capacity Building 13
Assessment 21
Needs Assessment 40
Process: 40
Key Findings: 40
Logic Model 41
Plan For Action 43
Plan for Implementation 49
Plan for Reporting and Evaluation 56
Appendix 58
Appendix 1.Logic Model 59
Appendix 2.List of Coalition Members 60
Appendix 3.Needs Assessment 61
Appendix 4.Resources Assessment 63
Appendix 5.Action Plan 64
Appendix 6.Budget TEMPLATE 65
Appendix 7.Plan-on-a-Page TEMPLATE 66
Executive Summary
The SE Seattle P.E.A.C.E. Coalition (Prevention Education and Action for Community Empowerment) was formed in October 2012 by SE Seattle service providers, parents, Aki Kurose Middle School staff and concerned citizens. The mission of the Coalition is to educate, empower and mobilize SE Seattle to ensure our kids are safe, happy and healthy so they can learn. The Coalition strives to reduce and prevent youth substance abuse and violence in SE Seattle using culturally appropriate strategies.
The Coalition is funded through the WA State DSHS - Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery Prevention Redesign Initiative (PRI), and King County Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Program, with additional support from Puget Sound Educational Service District, Therapeutic Health Services and Seattle Public Schools. Neighborhood House was selected as the fiscal sponsor and staffs the coalition.
Southeast Seattle is located between I-5 on the west, Lake Washington on the east, I-90 on the North and the southern city limit boundary of Seattle. It includes two large mixed income public housing communities of Rainier Vista and New Holly and is home to Seattle’s most diverse and lowest income families as well as many middle income and affluent families.
Brief description of the strategies and activities - Pending
Plan to implement and evaluate the strategies and activities - Pending
Strategic Plan
Introduction
The SE Seattle P.E.A.C.E. Coalition (Prevention Education and Action for Community Empowerment) was formed in October 2012 to educate, empower and mobilize SE Seattle residents to reduce and prevent youth substance abuse and violence in SE Seattle using culturally appropriate strategies. This strategic plan outlines our purpose, goals and strategies in order to achieve our mission. It was developed by the coalition members with input from over 400 SE Seattle residents. This plan provides a five year roadmap to coordinate services, collaborate with all sectors of the community and implement evidence based and effective strategies to make the most of our financial and community based resources.
Logic Model – (
Provide an explanation of the logic model and how it demonstrates the plan that follows.
Include the Logic Model using the instructions and template provided in Appendix 4. - beginning on page 27, of this Guide.
Getting Started – Organizational Plan
Our planning process began in October 2012 and included engaging over 30 community partners in our monthly Coalition meetings. Coalition members developed and approved our mission, guiding principles, vision and strategies.. In addition to our Coalition Members we surveyed over 300 parents in SE Seattle, and conducted key informant interviews with service providers and ethnic/cultural organizations in order to identify current local conditions including barriers, gaps in services, and existing risk factors and protective factors. We also utilized WA State Healthy Youth Survey and Core GIS data for SE Seattle during our needs assessment process.
Our strategic planning process has been based upon the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF), a nationally recognized planning strategy that includes needs assessment, capacity building, planning, implementation, evaluation, cultural competency and sustainability of our substance abuse prevention programs.
Our plan incorporates the research based risk and protective factors framework, a public health model using a theoretical framework of risk reduction and protection enhancement. Developments in prevention and intervention science have shown that there are characteristics of individuals and their families and their environment (i.e., community neighborhood, school) that affect the likelihood of negative outcomes including substance abuse, delinquency, violence, and school dropout. Other characteristics serve to protect or provide a buffer to moderate the influence of the negative characteristics. These characteristics are identified as risk factors and protective factors (Arthur, Hawkins, et al., 1994, Hawkins, Catalano, Miller, 1992).
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MISSION
To educate, empower and mobilize SE Seattle to ensure our kids are safe, happy and healthy so they can learn. Reduce and prevent youth substance abuse and violence in SE Seattle using culturally appropriate strategies.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES (VALUES)
- Collaboration
- Empowerment Culturally responsive services
- Act with urgency
- Effective and innovative strategies that are measurable and that see results
- Authentically engage the community, youth, and families
- Use data transparently to inform parents, youth and service providers.
VISION – “In 5 years we want to see…”
1. Measurable Impact
- Reduce youth drug use at Aki Kurose MS and in SE Seattle
- Reduce drug and alcohol related suspensions and provide productive alternatives to at home suspensions
- Increase academic success
2. Set Youth Up for Success
- Consistent prevention curriculum aligned with school curricular standards K-12 and prevention programs in all SE Seattle schools
- More in-school resources for youth in SE Seattle
- Youth feel supported, happy and healthy
- Strong community support and involvement in prevention activities
3. Access to Substance Abuse Services
- Process to identify and support youth or parents with substance abuse issues with a therapeutic rather than punitive approach
- Trained youth, adult, and parent facilitators who can educate and promote prevention activities to their peers/ethnic communities
- Prevention/Intervention Specialists at all middle and high schools in SE Seattle.
4. Engaged and Informed Community, Youth, and Families
- Leadership Training addressing the full health spectrum for all that is empowering.
- More youth are informed, think critically, are self-motivated and responsible.
- Youth giving back to the community and mentoring other youth
- Education on how mass media/commercial driven media affects youth decision making.
- Peer led youth prevention groups. Youth train other youth and adults on prevention topics
- Innovative programs that engage youth, are youth led & culturally relevant
- More Family Involvement (Family Engagement Coordinators) to increase relationship between school and family
- Community dialogues and events to create inclusive and effective prevention strategies
Coalition Structure and Organization
The P.E.A.C.E. Coalition is a membership based community group composed of residents, service providers and concerned citizens of SE Seattle. The Coalition has a minimum of 8 representatives from the following sectors: school, health, State/City/County agency, parent, youth, media, youth serving organization, religious, business, volunteer/civic, mental health, faith-based, law enforcement, other substance abuse prevention agencies as well as individual community members.
The Coalition is led by elected officers and currently has three committees: 1) Youth Engagement; Parent Engagement, 2) Parent and Family Engagement; and 3) Data and Evaluation. These committees reflect our Coalition still being in the development and capacity building stage and may change over time.. The committees meet monthly or as needed to make decision on specialized projects or activities (i.e. review new HYS data, plan youth and promotional events). Committee members present finding and recommendations to the full coalition at coalition meetings for approval.
Coalition members have been involved in all aspects of the Strategic Plan through seven planning meetings beginning in October 2012. The development of the proposed plan was based the PRI Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) with strategies that include needs assessment, capacity building, planning, implementation, evaluation, sustainability and cultural competency. The SPF process involved multiple meetings with coalition members, collection of community/parent surveys, review of various literatures/data and a comprehensive needs assessment and resource assessment process. Coalition members developed and approved the mission statement, values, vision and action strategies They reviewed and discussed risk and protective factors, SE Seattle and Aki Kurose Middle School Healthy Youth Survey data, our resource assessment data and participated in community/parent surveys.
Aki Kurose Middle School staff and the Principal have been intimately engage in the Strategic Planning process and have been involved in all planning meetings. A fulltime Prevention Intervention Specialist (P/I) based at Aki Kurose Middle School has also been instrumental in engaging the school, parents and students in the process. The (P/I) joins coalition meetings and serves on coalition committees as well as helps plan prevention activities for Aki Kurose youth and parents.The P/I will be invited to join the Coalition at National, State and local prevention trainings and conferences. The P/I and Coalition Coordinator meet weekly to coordinate efforts.
Our Coalition is fiscally sponsored and administratively supported by Neighborhood House (NH). NH has successfully organized a community based drug and alcohol prevention coalition in SE and SW Seattle since 2004 through a Drug Free Communities Support grant and STOP Act Grant. Through these grants, as well as through funding from King County Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Programs, NH has implemented several evidence based prevention curriculums for ethnically diverse communities including: Guiding Good Choices, Strengthening Families, Life Skills Training and Creating Lasting Family Connections (see organizational chart).
The Coalition is currently supported by a 0.5 FTE Coalition Coordinator. Additional support is provided by other Neighborhood House staff who have experience working with specific ethnic and cultural groups as well as experience organizing our other community coalition and past prevention programs. The Coalition Coordinator and Coalition Officers are the points of contact to communicate to the Coalition Members, Committee Chairs, schools, media and community inquiries (see By-Law). The Coordinator sends out the agenda and other related information to the Coalition Members. The NH Program Manager and Program Director communicate directly with funding partners regarding fiscal, contract, administrative and reporting issues.
Many community partners have helped fund the Coalition’s work including: WA State Department of Social and Health Services Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery, King County Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Programs, Puget Sound Educational Service District, Therapeutic Health Services and Seattle Public Schools.
Organizational Chart
Membership Recruitment and Retention –
Currently, the coalition has involvement from 10 or more sectors. The Coalition Coordinator keeps a list of current coalition members, their sector representation, and activity status. In the event a vacancy occurs due to resignation, removal or lack of participation, the coalition staff and/or members shall recommend a replacement. The Coordinator will track and follow-up (i.e. phone, visit or email) with coalition members that have not attended the coalition meetings for three consecutive months. Grassroots/non-fiduciary/volunteer citizens can attend coalition meeting and participate in community events and other public activities. As well, they can join the coalition as voting member representing parent or other applicable sectors.
Our strategies to maintain involvement and engagement of members include monthly coalition meetings, subcommittee meetings, community events, newspaper, media campaign, educating policy makers and other communityinformation dissemination.
Our strategies to recruit and retain membership that represent SE Seattle include identifying needed sectors each year in May and seeking coalition candidates, Coalition staff, coalition members and other stakeholders can be involved in the recruitment and retention of new coalition members. Recruitment should be face-to-face and include both formal and informal sources. Potential coalition members should be assessed for their interest in joining substance abuse and violence prevention coalition, knowledge of SE Seattle community/Aki Kurose Middle School, their skills and competence level,the level of involvement, language skills and business contacts.
New members are engaged through their participation in coalition meeting, mentoring by other coalition member, orientation and training of coalition members on our strategic plan, programming and services, environmental strategies and other activities.
· For more information See Attached Bylaws
· Include in the appendix of the Plan a list of Coalition Members using the template provided in Appendix 5. – page 30, of this Guide. PENDING
Plan for Capacity Building
Cultural Competency in Getting Started
It is expected that all tasks associated with the coalition are conducted in a culturally competent manner. SE Seattle is one of the most diverse communities in the United States so respecting all cultures and acting in culturally responsive ways are essential to the success of our Coalition. Throughout our process of building the coalition we have intentionally built relationships with key leaders from diverse ethnic communities to engage them in the Coalition’s work. Building these trusting relationships across cultures takes time and will be an ongoing process.
Our values and practices are based on four characteristics of cultural process: 1. Cultural Knowledge – knowledge of cultural characteristics, history, values, beliefs, and behaviors of different groups within our coalition; 2. Cultural awareness – openness to ideas of changing cultural attitudes; 3. Cultural sensitivity – knowledge of cultural difference without assigning values to the differences; and 4. Cultural competence – ability to bring different behaviors, attitudes, and policies and work effectively in cross-cultural settings to produce better results.
According to King County City Health Profile Seattle, December 2012 from Public Health Seattle and King County, SE Seattle is one of the most diverse neighborhoods in Seattle and has one of the highest foreign born and non-English speaking individuals. About 31% are foreign born and 41% are non-English speaking at home. Over 34.9% are White, 26.2% are Black/African American, 27.6% are Asians and 8.3% are Hispanic/Latino. About 16% of the SE Seattle residents live below 100% federal poverty level or 35% live below 200% federal poverty level.
Our coalition will focus on prevention and intervention efforts at Aki Kurose Middle School. The following chart illustrates the numbers of students enrolled at the 3 comprehensive High Schools and 2 Middle Schools in SE Seattle. The percentage of free/reduced lunch and bi-lingual education students in SE Seattle Schools is significantly higher than the Seattle Public School District as a whole:
School / #s of Students Enrolled / %Free/Reduced Lunch / % Bi-lingual EducationFranklin High School / 1,369 / 69.00% / 12.40%
Cleveland High School / 751 / 77.40% / 6.70%
Rainier Beach High School / 361 / 82.00% / 27.10%
Aki Kurose Middle School / 661 / 86.50% / 10.40%
Mercer Middle School / 921 / 75.20% / 9.10%
Seattle School District / 49,184 / 43.2% / 10%
Data from OSPI, WA State Report Card, May 2012