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Tennessee Strategic
Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant (SPF-SIG)
Goals and Objectives
The three major
goals of SPF-SIG and corresponding priorities are:
Goal 1 - Prevent
the onset/progression of substance abuse.
Priorities:
- Youth and young adult alcohol use/abuse.
- Marijuana use/abuse.
- Cocaine/crack use/abuse.
- Methamphetamine use/abuse.
- Decrease risk factors/increase protective
factors.
Goal 2 - Reduce
substance abuse-related problems in communities.
Priorities:
- Increase community/family/school
connectedness
- Decrease school leaving/dropout rates.
- Decrease risky sexual behavior.
- Decrease impaired driving deaths.
- Decrease substance-related crime.
- Decrease senior substance use/abuse
factors.
Goal 3 - Build
prevention capacity and infrastructure at the state and community levels.
Priorities:
- Strengthen structures and formal linkages
within and between state organizations and community entities.
- Strengthen champion roles (influential and
proactive individuals who are greatly concerned with current issues and
events).
- Strengthen policies and procedures of
state and community agencies.
- Strengthen the quality of
planning/evaluation/reporting by community agencies.
- Strengthen expertise within community
agencies.
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