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News Release
January 4, 2002
 
 
Augusta- Richmond County Community Partnership
for Children and Families, Inc. Awarded
Drug Free Communities Grant

Augusta, GA - The Augusta-Richmond County Community Partnership for Children and Families, Inc. has been awarded a $100,000 grant through the Drug-Free Communities Act Support Program, run by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. This grant will assist the partnership in creating a community-wide strategy for reducing substance abuse, as well as creating a public service campaign to address the drug, alcohol, and tobacco abuse issues in Augusta-Richmond County. Via a collaborative effort, the partners successfully lobbied local city agencies, organizations, and businesses to leverage the $100,000 in matching funds required to apply for the grant. “Securing funding to plan strategically is a God send and will allow us to involve all who are addressing substance abuse/use amongst our youth,” says Dr. Robetta McKenzie, Executive Director of the Community Partnership.

The goals of this initiative are to:

  • Strengthen the Community Partnership through the use of a strategic planning process that will quantify and evaluate all current drug prevention activities of community agencies, and consolidate these strategies and activities into a single, community-wide drug prevention plan.
  • Reduce the use of tobacco, alcohol and marijuana among youth (5th through 10th grade) in Augusta-Richmond County through the use of a community wide, multimedia prevention campaign and the implementation and ongoing operation of “single point of information and referral” phone line.
    • Evaluation
    Evaluation of the process, outcomes and impact of the above interventions will be conducted by faculty of the Department of Psychiatry, Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Medical College of Georgia.
     
    For more information about the Drug-Free Communities Grant, please call Robetta D. McKenzie, Ed.D., Executive Director, at (706) 721-1040.