Drug and Alcohol Pilot Program

In looking for ways to best position our resources with organizations in our county doing hands-on drug and alcohol prevention work with youth we discovered some shocking news.  No one can use our resources to assist their drug and alcohol prevention programs because no one is doing these programs.  We even have some people in Greeley as trained presenters of an evidence based curriculum in this area, but no one is using these resources.  Well this looked like a huge open door for us that I’m jumping through now.

So after a couple meetings where I discovered this news I went back to my office and drafted a proposal for a pilot program to take our resources and the ones in the county not being used and spear head getting a hands-on program going.  The idea is to have kids come to our facility and have the curriculum presented by a trained presenter and then let them use our video equipment to develop a skate video communicating the information they learn in the program.  I sent the proposal to the head of Weld County Prevention Partners and she loves it and is willing to get us the curriculum and pay the presenter if we can find one.  She is also helping us find a presenter from the pool of people already trained in this program–a program that actually partners with the local school district’s health curriculum which is why we have some trained presenters in the area.

We are still in need of $6500 to pay for some equipment for the program which we have some grants out in hopes of winning one to get this program off the ground.  Once we secure these funds we will then conduct the pilot program taking pre and post survey data to show the effectiveness of the program to pursue future funding on a larger scale.  This has the potential of giving us the platform as the most active organization in drug and alcohol prevention in the county hopefully building bridges into the lives of families and organizations that give us a greater chance to share the gospel.

Please pray for this program to get funded and become a success in reducing the pain youth and their families go through when drugs and alcohol become a problem.

Thank you for making it possible for me to pursue this program as we join to impact our community this way.

Love, The Neels.