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Substance Use Prevention Coalition
Addresses Capacity as Part of its Strategic Prevention Framework
[April 13, 2025]
The April meeting of the Substance
Use Prevention Coalition (SUPC) at Lincoln Memorial Hospital (LMH)
focused on the Strategic Prevention Framework and specifically on
capacity, meaning how the SUPC can encourage more community
stakeholders to participate and contribute to meetings and community
substance use prevention goals. During the March meeting, members
brainstormed specific organizations, businesses, and people who
would benefit the SUPC and vice versa.
Grace Irvin of Chestnut Health Systems led discussion of potential
“elevator pitches” to introduce the SUPC to members of the community
with the goal of not only explaining what the coalition does, but
also why it could be important for them to join the SUPC in its goal
to create a thriving community. Members of the SUPC discussed 12
community sectors: business, education, religious, parents, youth,
government, health care, law enforcement, media, civic and volunteer
organizations, youth serving organizations, substance use
prevention, treatment and recovery sectors.
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These sectors can
all create positive change in the community and encourage
substance use prevention. SUPC members took special care to
develop the pitch for the youth sector.
Through grants and partnerships SUPC
and Chestnut Health Systems provides education in public school
classrooms with evidence-based curriculum called “Too Good For
Drugs," coordinates events, and disseminates substance use
prevention information.
The next ROSC meeting is April 17 at Hope on Fifth or on Zoom. The
next SUPC meeting will be May 8 at 9 a.m.at LMH. The next Community
Health Collaborative meeting is June 5 at 8:30 a.m. at LMH.
[Stephanie Hall]
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