About Us
Who We Are
Mission and Vision
Our Mission: PreventionFIRST! implements best practice strategies to reduce the risk of behavioral health disorders.
Our Vision: All communities apply prevention strategies in every stage of life.
Core Values
Collaboration
Engage with local coalitions and individuals
Empowerment
Help people find their role in prevention
Evidence-based
Decisions/programs based on data and need
Enduring
Long-term, lasting resource for the community
Our Goals
1. Ensure data-driven decision-making across all prevention initiatives
- 5% increase in students taking the 2022 PF! Student Survey
- All programs and grants have end-of-project evaluation reports
2. Support community engagement
- Develop one new coalition based on the 2022 PF! Student Survey or other local data sources
- One existing coalition advances to incubation status
- One existing coalition advances to independent development status
3. Implement evidence-based prevention by building and strengthening capacity across community sectors
- 50% of schools in our service region receive prevention training
- Increase media impressions by 50%
- Increase marijuana prevention funding by $25,000 to prevent teen use
- Decrease the past 30-day use of alcohol by 1% (16.6% to 15.6%) in 12-18-year-olds as measured by the 2022 PF! Student Survey by June 30,2022
- Increase the number of 18-20-year-olds who have never used alcohol in the past 30-days by 1%(15.3%to16.3%) as measured by the 2022 American College Health Association-National College Health Assessment (ACHA) by June 30, 2022
4. Increase prevention system infrastructure by providing training, technical assistance, and mentoring through the PF! TrainingHUB!
- 60% of professionals providing prevention strategies have attended a PF! training
- Increase the number of organizations contracting with PF! for technical assistance and/or training as a fee for service
- Increase the number of professionals mentored by PF! for the Ohio Prevention Credential
- Increase the number of organizations using PF! to provide continuing education hours (Certified Health Education Specialist(CHES) & Ohio Certified Prevention credentials
5. Grow organizational resources
- Increase financial support through fee for service opportunities, grants, foundations, and individual, current/past Board members, corporation, and organizational donations
- Maintain 18 - 20 individuals on the PF! Board of Directors through annual nominations and term renewal
- Recruit and develop volunteers who provide in-kind support to PF! programming
- Develop marketing strategies tools, and metrics that promote the organization
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