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Wisconsin Strategic Prevention Framework
State Incentive Grant
On September 19, 2006, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announced that the Wisconsin Office of the Governor was one of 16 applicants to be awarded a Strategic Prevention Framework, State Incentive Grant. SAMHSA announced grants totaling $145 million over five years to implement Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants (SPF SIGs) to advance community-based programs for substance abuse prevention, mental health promotion and mental illness prevention.
Wisconsin will receive $2,093,000 for the first year for a program that combines the comprehensive strategic prevention initiative model with existing state and local efforts to prevent the onset and reduce the progression of substance abuse, including childhood and underage drinking; to reduce substance abuse-related problems in communities; and to build prevention capacity and infrastructure. This project joins with the Governor's Kids First Initiative, and the Healthiest Wisconsin 2010 state health plan.
The strategic prevention framework is built on a community-based risk and protective factors approach to prevention and a series of guiding principles that can be utilized at the federal, state/tribal and community levels. The SPF requires states and communities to systematically assess their prevention needs based on epidemiological data, build their prevention capacity, strategically plan for and implement effective community prevention programs, policies and practices, and evaluate their efforts for outcomes. Although the direct recipients of SPF SIG funds are states and federally recognized tribes and tribal organizations, SAMHSA envisions the SPF SIGs being implemented in partnerships between the states/tribes and communities.
The funds enable states, in collaboration with communities, to implement a process known to promote youth development, reduce risk-taking behaviors, build on assets, and prevent problem behaviors. A major focus of this Wisconsin Initiative will be to reduce underage drinking. In addition, this grant will allow Wisconsin to provide leadership, support and technical assistance to help ensure that participating communities are successful, as measured by abstinence from drug use and alcohol abuse, reduction in substance abuse-related crime, attainment of employment or enrollment in school, increased stability in family and living conditions, increased access to services, and increased social connectedness.
For more information contact Mr. Greg Levenick, Wisconsin Bureau of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, 1 W. Wilson Street, Room 434, Madison, WI, 53702 or by telephone at (608) 266-1987.
