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What is an RPC?
Regional Prevention Coordinators (RPC) provide resources, consultation and technical assistance to local coalitions, agencies and other community members to support communities in the prevention of alcohol, tobacco and other drug abuse (ATOD).
How Can My Regional Prevention Coordinator Help?
We provide information, tools, technical assistance or training regarding substance use prevention topics and/or these specific areas:
Making connections with those interested or doing similar work in communities and around the state.
Bouncing ideas around! We love to help brainstorm and process through “what works, what doesn’t, and why?”
Sharing success stories and ideas from around MN, current news, funding opportunities and events.
Sustaining momentum, interest and direction. We want our youth to be healthy and efforts to be successful. We can help brainstorm how to keep your effort growing.
What does the Data say? We can help brainstorm what data would be helpful, where to find it and how to get it.
Learning about the following strategies/program
- Environmental Strategies (media, policy change, schools, etc.)
- Substance Use Prevention Skills Training (SAPST) and steps to become a Credentialed Prevention Professional (CPP).
- Minnesota’s Positive Community Norms Project
- Learning How to apply the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) Assessment, Capacity, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation
Do I have a regional prevention coordinator (RPC)?
Yes, you do! RPC’s are located in seven regions throughout the state. The Regional Prevention Coordinators provide primary prevention support in the area of youth substance use for all communities in Minnesota free of charge through a grant from MN Department of Human Services Behavioral Health Administration.
What is the Strategic Prevention Framework?
The five steps and two guiding principles of the SPF offer prevention practitioners a comprehensive approach to understanding and addressing the substance misuse and related behavioral health problems facing their communities, and to developing and sustaining programs and practices that reduce behavioral health inequities. Visit samhsa.gov for more information.
What are Positive Community Norms?
Positive Community Norms are based on “the Science of the Positive,” the study of how positive factors impact culture and experience. Positive Community Norms closes the gap between what we believe to be true and what is actually true.