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PREVENTION - "PROMOTING HEALTHY CHOICES"
CTP, Inc. believes that primary prevention of social and behavioral
problems is accomplished through the development and implementation
of activities that aim at reducing the probability of disability or
dysfunction through ongoing processes that provide opportunities for
individuals, families, communities, and organizations to increase:
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- knowledge or awareness of high risk behaviors and consequences,
- skills necessary to change those high risk behaviors, and
- accessibility of resources which assist people to effectively
cope with typical life problems.
Contact Information for any service offered
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The Office of Prevention
The Office of Prevention works to enhance and promote healthy
communities including school, family, individual, workplace, and agency settings.
The Office of Prevention provides Southern Colorado communities access to
culturally appropriate technical assistance, training, and
information programming.
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The Office of Prevention provides assistance in various aspects of substance
abuse prevention technology including network, grant writing,
program evaluation and design, policy formulation, community
organization, and various organizational and program development
topics.
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School Based Prevention Program
CTP recognizes that the schools' social system is
able to facilitate the reestablishment of a stable peer support
system by placing students together in classroom settings. The
Life Skills Training materials are presented in a classroom setting
and the lessons are interactive with the instructor and other students.
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The following schools will conduct "Life Skills Training"
throughout the school year: in Huerfano County - Aguilar, John Mall,
and Gardner schools; in Pueblo School District #60, Pitts,
Heaton, Corwin and
Risley Middle Schools, and East High School. At
Risley, Heaton, Corwin and Pitts Middle Schools, students will receive
“Alternative to Suspension” Programming using the
"Project Towards No Drug Abuse" SAMHSA Model Program
to include a Parenting
Component. Students attend fifty-five
minute sessions daily for the entire school year. Students
receive daily substance abuse prevention material, as well as
activities for applying strategies at home and within the community.
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Parenting Classes
The parenting aspect of the program is an integral part of
family strengthening. The program strives to build stronger
communities by empowering individuals and supporting families.
This can occur through appropriate parenting as a prevention
strategy is utilized to promote healthy families through
positive parent-child interactions, communication, and
discipline techniques.
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Partners in Parenting is a research based curriculum designed
to provide parents with information to strengthen family
relationships through positive parenting techniques. While
the curriculum provides information in the healthy development
of children, the curriculum also helps parents recognize the
warning signs and factors contributing to high risk behaviors
and negative peer pressure. The six lessons of the curriculum
include:
- Personal Development - Self-Esteem
- Making a difference - Self-Esteem, Resiliency and Development Assets
- Communication
- Effective Discipline
- Problem solving and Decision Making
- Facts about alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs
- Peer pressure and accepting responsibility
Incredible Years is a research based curriculum that focuses
on Parenting children ages 2-7 years old, preventing early onset
conduct problems, and teaches parents of young children to promote
social competence and to prevent children from developing conduct
problems in the first place. The purpose of the series is to
prevent delinquency, drug abuse, and violence. The short-term
goals of the series are to: reduce conduct problems in children,
and promote social, emotional, and academic competence in children.
For more information:
www.cofamilycenters.org
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DUI Prevention - Business Outreach
Someone Like Me a DUI prevention program in
Pueblo designed
to educate local community businesses on the effects of impaired
driving on their employees, families and communities. Someone Like Me uses ‘graduates’ of the
Crossroads’ Turning Points DUI programs to present information
from their point of view, and uses their experiences to educate
others and prevent others from making their same mistakes.
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Community Partnerships
CTP and the Family Resource Center (FRC) are deeply
committed to the concept of community partnerships in
the areas of prevention and treatment. This commitment
is based on certain principles underlying the partnership
between both agencies and the services they provide in
communities in southern Colorado.
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- Local people can best solve local problems:
- A local advisory board identifies community needs.
- Local people are hired to fill vacant staff positions.
- People support what they create:
- Local advisory board members develop strategic plans to address community concerns.
- A partnership plan was developed through the leadership of several agencies.
- Staff positions may be blended.
- Funding streams are blended.
- There is an agreement to eliminate "turf" issues.
- A partnership plan was developed through the leadership of several agencies.
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In order for community-based partnerships to be successful,
all facets of the community including law enforcement,
community agencies, parents, concerned citizens, and
local faith-based organizations must be involved and
committed to working with each other to eliminate the
abuse of alcohol and drugs by young people.
There is not one strategy or activity that will solve the
alcohol and drug problems of our youth. Thus, everyone has
to work together to develop a sound plan for addressing
community problems.
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Pueblo Coalition to Prevent Underage Drinking
Pueblo Coalition to Prevent Underage Drinking is a collaboration
of Pueblo Police Department, School Resource Officers, Crossroads’
Turning Points Office of Prevention, Pueblo City
Schools/District 60, Parkview Hospital and School Wellness
Centers, District Attorney’s Juvenile
Division, Drive Smart Pueblo, Municipal Court, Parents and Youth
and other community leaders.
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Each entity has a very specific role
in the implementation of the Colorado Dept. of Health and
Human Services, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division - Colorado
Prevention Partners Grant as well as the “Enforcing Underage
Drinking Laws (EUDL)” grant
from the State Liquor Enforcement Board.
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The Pueblo Alliance for Healthy Teens (PAHT)
evolved within
the Coalition and is promoting positive choices and healthy
alternatives to substance use and other closely related issues
including mental
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health, suicide prevention, health insurance
and reducing sexually transmitted diseases.
The Coalition was prompted by the traffic deaths in July 2004 and the community’s concern for traffic safety. The
goal is to reduce the drinking incidents and drinking/driving
incidents by young people ages 12-20 by 5% within the
seventeen
months of this grant period.
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Pueblo, Alamosa & Trinidad Adolescent Programs
Pueblo, Alamosa & Trinidad Adolescent Programs –
a collaborative effort
between CTP and local municipal courts to provide intervention and
education services to adolescents involved with the legal system
due to Alcohol and/or Drugs.
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Phase I is for first time offenders and is offered one Saturday
a month for 5 hours of lecture, video, personal application, and
experiential education, which is based on the research based
Reconnecting Youth curriculum. Parents are required to be
involved in a portion of this program.
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Phase II is conducted over two Saturdays, for ten hours,
and parents are required to attend two hours of education and
adults may also attend our Parenting Classes. The two-day
program focuses more extensively on the decision-making process,
personal responsibility and self-control.
Family integration is of great importance when addressing substance
use issues.
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Seat Belt Safety
Seat Belt Safety programs are a collaborative
effort between CTP and Drive Smart Pueblo. Monthly
Infant/Child Car Seat Safety Checkpoints offered in Pueblo,
La Junta, and also in the San Luis Valley. Certified Car Seat
Technicians instruct parents on the appropriate installation
of car seats. Car Seats are provided free or at a minimal
cost for unrestrained children and unsafe car seats are
replaced with new ones at these checkpoints. The goal of
this program is that all children leave our checkpoints
safer than they arrived.
For more information: www.carseatscolorado.com
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