Porter County Indiana Substance Abuse Council Annual Report

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Keeping it

We’re Peeling Back the Layers and

Keeping It This past year has been one of transition giving the Council the flexibility and ability to move forward in the collective efforts to reduce substance abuse in the county.

monitoring programs and increased school and community presentations in collaboration with Overdose Lifeline “This is (Not) About Drugs.”

The Local Coordinating Council (LCC) was able to grant fund community organizations that represents Awareness and Prevention; Law Enforcement and Justice and Treatment and Intervention efforts. A total of $187,424.63 was collected through court assessed counter measure fees and returned to the community to support substance abuse reduction strategies.

The Drug Free Communities (DFC) grant ended Year 3 of federal funding and has made significant strides in reducing youth substance abuse. A new grant manager was hired to coordinate the activities of the 12 community sectors and identify and implement effective environmental strategies. A concentrated effort to focus on the importance of recognizing the impact of health disparities and implementing best practices to improve positive outcomes was achieved.

The Council received Department of Mental Health Association (DMHA) funding through the Partners for Success grant. This additional funding has allowed the Council the opportunity to employ additional staff and extend our prevention outreach efforts to include young adults from middle school age to the college age level.

We have increased our prescription medication collection by 25% by encouraging participation by mass outreach strategies; organized INSPECT prescription medication

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The Anderson Foundation funds allowed us to increase our efforts to reduce youth substance abuse by creating awareness and promoting evidence based strategies; supporting student leadership opportunities and create a positive youth networking base to benefit the quality of life in Northwest Indiana.

By all accounts we have a remarkable coalition comprised of active members that represent a robust sampling of community sectors that help us by Keeping It Real when planning strategies and initiatives that impact outcomes and drive initiatives. We have enjoyed the labor of increasing membership through networking opportunities and know that as we collaborate and interact with our many partners we will be able to reduce duplication of efforts, increase capacity and sustainability and reinvigorate our mission of reducing substance abuse in Porter County.

It is natural to resist change but we can’t remain static when addressing the substance abuse crisis where we live and work – our home. We invite you to be the agent of change that you want to see in Porter County!

Keeping It Real,

Dawn Pelc, MPA PCSAC Executive Director

Letter from the president

As a lifetime resident of Porter County I am honored to serve in a leadership position for the Council. As I simultaneously serve the residents of Porter County as both a Police Officer in Ogden Dunes and Fire Chief in Union Township, I see the effects the drug crisis has taken on our youth and families From underage drinking to the heroin crisis that is on the uptick, I work closely with the Council to provide insight and strategies to reduce substance abuse by collaborating with area agencies and key stakeholders in the community. We strive to be inclusive and encourage new members, new ideas and welcome all interested to the table.

This past year, I was able to create a higher level of agency transparency; reduce duplication of services, create a leaner budget, broaden community networking opportunities and encourage community partnerships.

Additional professional staff has allowed the Council to increase awareness and prevention efforts. We are now able to boost outreach efforts and make a greater impact on the youth of the county. Also, we have had the good fortune to work with legions of volunteers and activists; as well as dedicated interns from Valparaiso University and Ivy Tech Community College.

Utilizing funding we received from the Anderson Foundation, Partners for Success, Drug Free Communities and the Local Coordinating Council we were able to build on our strategic successes and will be able to continue toward our goal of building capacity and developing sustainability for next year and beyond.

Working toward a substance free Porter County,

Tim Beach PCSAC President & Chair DUI DDTF

Board

Executive Directors Tim Beach, President

Larry LaFlower, Vice President Chris Buyer, Treasurer Tracy Traut, Secretary

Board Members Chuck Harris April Russ Brenda Sheetz Mike Eddy

staff

Stephanie Stephenson, MAE, DFC Senior Grant Manager

Patti Lembcke, AA PFS Senior Grant Manager

Goals & Purpose OUR GOAL: Porter County Substance Abuse Council goal is to reduce the incidence of substance abuse in Porter County.

OUR PURPOSE: To formulate and implement a county wide comprehensive plan and to advocate legislative concerns both locally and statewide as it relates to the goal and vision of the Council.

OUR MISSION: Porter County Substance Abuse Council mission is to reduce youth and adult substance abuse by assessing for, promoting through, and educating about effective community-based programs.

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Grant Awards AREAS OF CONCENTRATION PREVENTION / EDUCATION Programs, activities, services or materials aimed at deterring individuals from the use or abuse of drugs.

INTERVENTION / TREATMENT Services that offer assistance to persons in need of recovery from alcohol and other drugs and work to identify gaps in program and service areas.

LAW ENFORCEMENT / JUSTICE Deals with the legal consequences of substance abuse: enforcement, prosecution, probation, court & correctional services.

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Recipients 22,740

Porter County Prosecutor’s Office | Drug & Alcohol Testing

$

Porter County Sheriff’s Office | K-9 Unit

$

13,500 8,000

DDTF | DDTF - Justice

$

Portage Police Department | Digital Cameras

$

Ogden Dunes Police Department | AOD Equipment and Patrols

$

Kouts Police Department | Radar Intercepter

$

Law Enforcement / Justice

TOTAL

51,856

$

3,500 2,700 1,416

Prevention / Education

TOTAL

41,856

$

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Red Ribbon - Kouts

6,599

PCSAC Training/Education | Prevention Events & Training

$

Boys & Girls Clubs of Porter County | SMART Girls

$

DDTF | DDTF-Education

$

Family & Youth Services Bureau | Alcohol and Drug Defense (ADD)

$

Porter County Judges | PC Courts - Prevention Grant

$

Valparaiso High School | Assistance Program at Risk Students

$

Family & Youth Services Bureau | Strengthening Families

$

Union Township School Corporation | UTSC Drug Free Schools

$

Porter Township School Corp - Boone Grove HS | Drug Testing

$

Family & Youth Services Bureau | Licensing of evidence based intervention

$

Union Township School Corporation | Drug Testing

$

5,080 5,000 5,000 5,000 4,578 3,500 3,500 1,650 1,400 550

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Grant Awards

Prevention / Education Per state mandate 25% of grant dollars collected are to be used for administrative purposes. The Porter County Substance Abuse Council office was granted $46,856 for administrative and personnel purposes.

TOTAL

46,856

$

Recipients 15,000

$

Dayspring Women’s Center | Concentrated Addiction Counseling

7,715

$

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5,000.00

Alice’s House | Cognitive Behavioral Interventions

$

Porter County Judges | PC Courts - Treatment

$

PCSAC Training/Treatment | Training - Clinical

$

5,000.00 5,000.00 4,390

Care Counseling | Relapse Prevention

$

Moraine House | Drug Testing

$

Moraine House | Individual Counseling

$

3,000 1,750

LCC Total Dollars Award $187,424.63 A coalition as defined by the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America, as “…a formal arrangement for collaboration between groups or sectors of a community, in which each group retains its identity but all guarantee to work together toward a common goal of building a safe, healthy, and drug free community.”

The LCC is funded through counter measure fees collected by the courts and redistributed to the community in the form of grants. The grants are categorized and each category receives ¼ of the total collected to continue strategies and evidence based programs to reduce substance abuse. The categories are: Prevention/Awareness; Law Enforcement/Justice; Treatment/Intervention and Administration.

local coordinating council

The Local Coordinating Council (LCC) is defined and functions as a community based coalition.

Prescription Pill Collection The DEA Take Back Day was supported by the law enforcement community and received additional assistance from the Partners for Success grant. The grant allowed prevention and awareness promotion through billboards in high traffic areas throughout the county, postcards distributed at Walgreen’s Senior Days and in over 5,000 backpacks distributed at local events such as the Kouts Porkfest, Valparaiso Popcorn Parade, and Chesterton’s Hooked on Art event.

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local coordinating council

Prescription Drop Off Boxes

PORTER COUNTY PRESCRIPTION DROP OFF BOX LOCATIONS SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT 2755 State Road 49, Valparaiso VALPARAISO POLICE DEPARTMENT 355 S. Washington Street, Valparaiso

Police departments throughout the county have been outfitted with prescription drop off boxes courtesy of the Council’s Drunk Driving Task Force. The drop off boxes are located at police departments and available 24/7 to dispose of unwanted and unneeded prescribed medications.

Disposing of the prescriptions ensures a safe home environment as well as increased community safety. Participating agency locations are in Valparaiso, Portage, Chesterton, Porter, Hebron and the Sheriff’s Department.

Strategic Prevention Framework This model, also known as the SPF is a planning tool used to guide the community based prevention efforts through five discrete but interconnected steps:

CHESTERTON POLICE DEPARTMENT 790 Broadway, Chesterton PORTAGE POLICE DEPARTMENT 6260 Central Avenue, Portage HEBRON POLICE DEPARTMENT 106 E. Sigler Street, Hebron PORTER POLICE DEPARTMENT 50 Francis Street, Porter WALGREEN’S 6001 Central Avenue, Portage

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This model leads to a common set of coalition goals, objectives, strategies, activities and tasks. The action-oriented steps are based on principles of cultural competence and sustainability.

The Drug Free Communities (DFC) support program is currently in year three of a possible 10 year grant period. This federal grant was awarded to the Council to strengthen collaboration among community entities and reduce substance abuse among the youth in our county. The Council’s longevity, sustainability, capacity and the ability to influence communitylevel change were leading determinates in the decision to fund the initiative.

The grant encourages the sectors to collaborate on initiatives and environmental strategies to build a safe and healthy drug-free community.

Working with community leaders the local needs are assessed and a plan for sustainable changes are mapped out by using a series of data driven, evidence-based programs, practices and policies in an effort to promote and retain a high quality of life in Porter County. Substance abuse prevention and awareness is identified as the key to addressing the current public health crisis facing our youth. Research indicates that prevention is a cost-effective and measurable strategy and is able to produce proven positive outcomes by action oriented planning steps common to all communities.

drug free communities

Drug Free Communities is a federal grant that addresses youth through prevention and awareness strategies.

Dollars Awarded: $125,000

Sticker Shock Porter County Substance Abuse Council held two Sticker Shock Events in 2016 at Strack and Van Til’s US 30 and Calumet Ave. locations in Valparaiso.

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The Sticker Shock Program is an Alcohol Awareness and Prevention initiative of the Porter County Substance Abuse Council. The event creates awareness to reduce underage drinking by placing stickers on the products throughout the stores to act as “warning” labels to inform the public of the consequences they can face if they provide or purchase alcohol for minors.

Alcohol Outlet Density per 1,000 persons

Porter County

Indiana

168,039

6,638,123

Jan 2015 Alcohol Licenses (No.) filtered *

276

11,289

Jan 2016 Alcohol Licenses (No.) filtered *

287

11,691

2015 outlet density per 1,000 persons (based on Jan 2015 pop est)

1.65

1.71

2016 outlet density per 1,000 persons (based on Jan 2015 pop est)

1.71

1.76

Total Pop, 2016 est. (Jan)

Year of Data: 2015, 2016 Source: Nielsen Pop Facts, 2015 est & 2016 est.; ATC, Indiana, Jan 2015 & June 2016; IPRC, 2015, 2016 * The number of outlets is based on alcohol licenses issued, filtered to include only those which represent points of public access for sales.

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partners for success

Partners for Success (PFS) is a state grant that address youth prevention and awareness through programs and strategies.

PFS Grant Dollars Awarded: $49,736

Speaker’s Bureau As prescription opioids and heroin use increases at an alarming rate, the Council revamped the Speaker’s Bureau to address this public health crisis Porter County is facing along with state and national spikes of abuse. The Partners for Success grant allowed the Council to adopt the “This is (Not) About Drugs” educational program designed to encourage students in grades 6-12 and Chair of the Speakers Bureau, Member Gina Pike to make good choices and provide them with the skills to combat peer pressure, gain support, and resources for making decisions about their own body and health. The 45 minute presentation will help raise awareness to the risks of misusing prescription opioids that can lead to addiction, heroin use and overdose.

Each day, 46 people die from overdose of prescription pain medicine in the US. Health care providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for pain medicine in 2012 (enough for every American adult to have a bottle of pills.)

There has not been an overall change in the amount of pain that Americans report, yet the amount of prescription painkillers dispensed in the U.S. quadrupled since 1999.

Indiana ranks 9th highest in the nation for opioid prescription - For every 100 Hoosiers, 109 opioid prescriptions are written

*Source: CDC Vital Statistics, July 2014

PFS INSPECT iNSPECT Data for Rx Drugs

Total Registered Dispensers

Porter County Indiana

123

*5,488

Total Licensed Dispensers

194

**11,076

Registered Dispensers as % of Total Licensed

63%

50%

Total Law Enforcement registered on INSPECT

27

1,718

Total registered practitioners

211

***14,146

Total Licensed Practitioners

569

23,200

Registered Practitioners as % of Total Licensed 37% Number of Annual INSPECT Requests Active Users (last 180 days as of March 2016) Rx Dispensed 2015* Rx Dispensed per capita*

80,784

^4,676,143

217

^^12,634

988,682 36,136,263 5.90

Year of Data: 2015. Source: INSPECT, 2015; Nielsen 2015 Pop Est., 2016 * Rx refers to all prescription drugs, not just opioids

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5.46

Middle/High School presentations over 650 students 1

Prescription drug abuse, misuse, and overdose is currently considered an epidemic in the United States.

Indiana is also experiencing this epidemic having seen an increase in prescription drug problems along with the country. One of the ways Indiana is addressing the epidemic is through the prescription drug monitoring program tool Indiana Scheduled Prescription Electronic Collection and Tracking (INSPECT). INSPECT tracks controlled substances prescribed to patients, the prescribing practitioner, and the dispensing pharmacy.

Problematic prescribing practices are a leading contributor to the epidemic. INSPECT is designed to assist prescribers (e.g., physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assists), dispensers, and law enforcement in combatting controlled substance prescribing practices contributing to the widespread abuse and misuse of prescription drugs. www.in.gov/pla/inspect The Drunk Driving Task Force in conjunction with the Partners for Success Grant hosted a training for law enforcement agencies throughout the county with successful results. Attending officers were able to opt into the program the day of the event.

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Partnership Grants Keep it Real

Two Public Service Announcements were created to address youth alcohol and prescription medication abuse through the PFS grant and partnering with the DFC grant and the Drunk Driving Task Force. The social hosting video titled, “Cool Dad” has been viewed over 1,000 times and the numbers are still climbing. The DFC Parent Sector Leader, Kaye Frataccia was responsible for sharing the link with the seven county school corporation for parents to view. The Indiana Youth Survey research indicates that social hosting is seen as a rite of passage and parents may unknowingly purchase and allow underage drinking for special events such as graduation and prom. This PSA reiterates the fact that adults that provide alcohol to persons under the age of 21 is unlawful and has consequences of fines or jail time.

Created in conjunction with the national initiative “Those Who Host Lose the Most.”

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Overdose Lifeline, Inc. presented a training for coalition members and staff on how to administer Naloxone. This life saving drug also known as Narcan reverses the effects of opioid overdoses and is able to revive the victim. The antidote is not addictive and easily administered with basic training. The Council is registered with the State of Indiana as a distribution site and will continue to make strides in securing Naloxone doses for public distribution.

Families in transition increase the risk of youth using alcohol and other substances and research indicates that family conflict appears to be a predictive factor. There are many forms of adverse experiences and family conflict that may be leading factors in negative coping mechanisms and contribute to a poor quality of life. The PSA “Don’t Let Their Fight Become Your Struggle,” was created to promote prevention and awareness of 6th-12th grade students that may find alcohol appealing to their perceived problems.

Watch them both on our website!

www.portercountysac.org/public-service-announcements

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