Prevention

1. Prevention What we can do together

2. Community Level Prevention/Coalitions

3. What is Coalitions/Community Level Prevention • Coalitions usually meet monthly and are members from all different types of agencies and community sectors • Use the SPF model and come up with plans regarding initiatives in the community • Work with local law enforcement and municipalities to improve laws, enforcement, etc. • Develop partnerships to collaborate and tackle issues • RPC is represented at each meeting to help steer, guide, and plan.

4. Community Approaches

5. Process of Community Approaches • Gather Data (drives the process) • Build Capacity • Coalitions • REOW • Planning • Priority Areas • Initiatives • Strategies • Implementation • Evaluation

6. Oklahoma Prevention Policy Alliance

7. What is OPPA? • Promotes policy change that benefits prevention amongst Oklahomans • Promotes environmental change that decreases risks and increases protective factors • Advocates and educates legislators and the public regarding health issues in Oklahoma such as underage drinking, prescription drug abuse, tobacco use, other drug use, and overall heath. • Choosespriorities every year at annual meeting to focus on for the year

8. Raising Alcohol Tax

9. What does Alcohol Abuse Cost Us in Oklahoma? • $2 billion for expenses related to health care, public safety, social services, costs to business, and property loss • $5 billion in costs is related to lost productivity • 85 percent of all homicides, • 80 percent of all prison incarcerations, • 75 percent of all divorces, • 65 percent of all child abuse cases, • 55 percent of all domestic assaults, • 50 percent of all traffic fatalities, • 35 percent of all rapes, and • 33 percent of all suicides. Information taken from ODMHSAS website and Oklahoma Policy Institute Issue Brief: Should Oklahoma Raise the Alcoholic Beverage Tax?

10. Alcohol Consumption by Income Prevalence and Trends Data: Oklahoma-2011 Adults having an Alcoholic Drink within the past 30 days, CDC 2011 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

11. Binge Drinking in 2011 by age Prevalence and Trends Data: Oklahoma-2011 Adults having an Alcoholic Drink within the past 30 days, CDC 2011 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

12. Tax Rate

13. Last year Oklahomans consumed 76.5 million gallons of beer - 28.8 gallons for every person of legal drinking age - and more than 89 percent was low-point • Oklahoma alcohol tax has lost 47% of its value due to inflation • If beer tax was increased to restore its 1987 value, an additional $28.9 million could be collected in taxes • In 1990, Oklahoma voters approved State Question 640. This requires a statewide vote on tax increases that fail to win approval of three-fourths of both houses of the Oklahoma Legislature. Information taken from Oklahoma Policy Institute Issue Brief: Should Oklahoma Raise the Alcoholic Beverage Tax?

14. Sobriety Checkpoints

15. Safe Communities Chapters

16. Safe Communities Chapters

17. Safe Communities Chapters and RPC’s • Alcohol Compliance Checks • Sobriety Checkpoints • Training • Enforcement • Other

18. Focus on Underage Drinking/Sobriety Checkpoints • Data/Research by RPC • Green Country Safe Communities • Task Force • Protocol • Funding • Resources • POLD • Social Host Violations

19. Media

20. Alcohol Compliance Checks • Sobriety Checkpoints (Part of protocol) • Want people to know what you are doing