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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