PAL Coalition
Mission
The mission of the PAL Coalition is to reduce the incidence of substance abuse by young people residing in the 7th Street Corridor of Central Louisville through a collaborative coalition that coordinates resources through public policy, laws, revenue, and strategy development.
Vision
The vision of the PAL Coalition is to create a healthier and safer community with strong families that have the necessary opportunities, relationships, networks, and supports to raise their children successfully.
PAL Fact Sheet
Goals
1. Establish and strengthen the collaboration among communities, private non-profit agencies, and federal, state, and local governments to prevent and reduce substance abuse among youth.
2. Reduce substance abuse among youth, and over time, among adults. Program Staff
Nancy Carrington
PAL Coalition Program Director
Responsible for ensuring the policies, goals, and objectives of the Drug Free Communities grant.
Visit Nancy's staff page.
Tomy Baker
PAL Coalition Coordinator
Provides leadership and capacity building for the PAL Coalition, ensures the coalition fulfills its mission, goals, objectives, and coordinates the work plan as outlined in the Drug Free Communities grant. Visit Tomy's staff page.
Yarmuth Announces Federal Funding for Anti-Drug Coalition in Louisville
(October 13, 2009, 10:00 am - Louisville, KY). On Tuesday, Congressman John Yarmuth (KY-3) announced $625,000 in federal funding for the next 5 years to support Center for Neighborhood’s Drug Free Communities project in Louisville. The funding will directly support the 7th Street Corridor PAL Coalition’s mission to reduce substance abuse among youth in the Parkhill, Algonquin, and Old Louisville areas. Center For Neighborhoods is serving as fiscal agent for the coalition on the grant.
DRUG CZAR AWARDS $21 MILLION
FOR LOCAL DRUG FREE COMMUNITY COALITION EFFORTS
(Washington, D.C. )
Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), today announced the awarding of $21 million in new Drug Free Communities (DFC) grants to 161 communities across the country. The 7th Street Corridor PAL Coalition from Louisville, Kentucky was one of the grant recipients, and will receive up to $625,000 over five years in DFC grant funds to involve and engage their local community to prevent and reduce alcohol and other drug abuse among youth.
“Efforts to keep our youth drug free are critical to healthy communities here in Louisville.” said Nancy Carrington, Program Director for this grant at Center For Neighborhoods, the organization serving as fiscal agent for the coalition. “The Drug Free Communities Program recognizes the great potential of the 7th Street Corridor PAL Coalition to work within neighborhoods to help create healthier and safer communities with strong families that have the necessary opportunities, relationships, networks and supports to raise their children successfully. This new funding will allow the 7th Street Corridor PAL Coalition to mobilize and organize the community.”
The Drug Free Communities Support Program bolsters individuals and groups across the Nation that are improving their communities by preventing drug abuse,” said Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration Acting Administrator, Eric Broderick. “SAMHSA is honored to play a role in this innovative program, which has done so much to promote well-being, hope and feelings of empowerment among so many young people.”
Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and President Obama' s “Drug Czar,” said, “Evidence shows that communities receiving DFC funding have lower in stance s of youth using tobacco, alcohol and marijuana. I commend the coalition s like the 7th Street Corridor PAL Coalition, who work tirelessly to prevent and reduce youth drug use across the Nation with the aid of DFC grants.”
The Drug Free Communities program is directed by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) in partner s hip with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The DFC program provides grants of up to $625,000 over five years to community coalitions that facilitate citizen participation in local drug prevention efforts. Coalition s are comprised of community leaders , parents , youth, teachers , religious and fraternal organizations , health care and business professionals, law enforcement, and the media.
The 161 new grantees were selected from 417 applicants through a competitive, peer-reviewed process. To qualify for matching grants, all awardees must have at least a six-month hi story of working together on substance abuse reduction initiatives, have representation from 12 specific sectors of the community, develop a long-term plan to reduce substance abuse, and participate in the national evaluation of the DFC program.
The DFC program was created by the Drug Free Communities Act of 1997, and was reauthorized by Congress in 2001 and 2006. Since 1998, ONDCP ha s awarded approximately 1,500 DFC grants to local communities in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Palau, Guam, American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Center For Neighborhoods is a community-based, grassroots non-profit organization that has been serving the neighborhoods of Louisville Metro since 1972.
More information about the Drug-Free Communities Program is available at: www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/dfc
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