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Key Accomplishments

Developed inhalant awareness flyer. Click here to view flyer

Hosted Monroe County Alliance Kickoff

Developed and administered several inhalant survey instruments:

Parent survey - administered to 366 parents in Monroe Co. Click here to view survey instrument

Supplemental Inhalant Questions to the KIP Survey – administered to 510 students. Click here to view survey instrument

Conducted three focus group sessions.

Some or all Alliance members have attended various trainings related to the Strategic Prevention Framework and/or inhalants including: CADCA’s Strategic Prevention Framework Training, Master Trainer Workshop on Cultural Competence and Sustainability, Kentucky School, Alliance Academy, NPN Conference, Conference for Women on Leadership Development, Inhalant Abuse: Nursing Implications, SPF SIG Pathways Chapter 1-4 Modules, Inhalant Task Force Training, etc.

Held 7 monthly Advisory Group meetings

Held two inhalant inservice trainings for Monroe County bus drivers and teachers at the Monroe County Area Technology Center

Inhalant articles have been published in the Bowling Green Daily News, Tompkinsville News and the Monroe County Health Department’s quarterly newsletter, Window of Health. Click here to view an article

Steps 1 – 5 of our Strategic Plan and budget were approved

Developed a vision and mission statement

Administered 2006 KIP Survey

Developed introductory video entitled, Extreme Makeover: LifeSkills Edition

Held Recognition Ceremony of SPF SIG Milestones. Click here to view pictures (Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3)

Developed this website www.StopInhalantAbuse.org

Held one-on-one discussions with 9 key leaders to inform them of the SPF SIG project, educate them on the inhalant prevalence rates in the community and related consequences, and elicit their concerns and ideas

Partnered with national inhalant expert, Isabel Burke, to host the first Inhalant Task Force Training targeting Advisory Group members and key leaders in the community. Click here to view picture

Follow-up inhalant prevention, intervention and treatment trainings are scheduled for March 1 and March 15, 2007. Click here to view training flyer

Recorded 6 PSAs to be aired during the month of March in addition to articles that will appear weekly in the local newspapers.