The Chase County Drug Free Action Team serves Chase County, Kansas, a rural area covering 776 square miles
with a population of 3.033. The goals of the program are to:
1) Provide prevention education for parents, youth service providers and other community members in order to increase
knowledge of science-based strategies to prevent youth alcohol and other drug use.
2) Provide prevention programming and intervention activities for youth designed to prevent, reduce or delay first use
of alcohol, tobacco and other illicit substances.
3) Increase community collaboration and networking in order to develop a comprehensive, community-wide prevention response
to youth alcohol, tobacco and other drug use.
To achieve these goals, the coalition will implement the following strategies:
1) Provide community members and youth impactors training on prevention issues including science-based prevention programming
and basic drug awareness and prevention strategies relating to alcohol, tobacco, inhalents, marijuana, and methamphetamine.
2) Sponsor a multiple media outlet prevention campaign to increase awareness of local issues and strategies.
3) Provide research-based parent training for families, including Preparing For School Sucess and Guiding
Good Choices.
4) Support youth alternative activities, including Red Ribbon Week and County Night Out.
5) Support implementation of model prevention programs for students, including Project Alert, Promoting Alternative
Thinking Skills (PATHS), SMART Team, Keep A Clear Mind, Reconnecting Youth, and Communites Mobilizing For
Change On Alcohol.
6)Support provision of mentoring programs for students
7) Provide training for a cadre of adults and youth to implement strategies to increase resiliency in youth using the
Developmental Asset Framework.
