加州向社区和部落组织投资近 5200 万美元，用于预防青少年滥用药物

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Elevate Youth California (EYC) is a statewide program dedicated to preventing California’s growing number of youth with substance use disorder. Organizations will receive funding for the three-year grant period through December 31, 2026, to implement the EYC program in historically underserved low-income communities.

SACRAMENTO — The Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) is investing $51.8 million in grants to 75 community-based and tribal organizations serving youth to expand substance use prevention programs — helping young Californians across the state remain healthy by knowing the dangers of and how to prevent substance use disorder.

“We’re pleased to continue supporting Elevate Youth California to bolster community-based and tribal organizations whose work prevents young people from using drugs,” said DHCS Director Michelle Baass. “Our first step in eliminating the substance use crisis among our youth is to give them the help they need to lead long and healthy lives.”

助力加州居民：EYC向以青年为服务对象的社区组织和部落组织提供资助，这些组织需满足以下条件：

• 通过公民参与赋予青年权力来创造政策和制度变革。
• 实施以治疗为中心、以创伤为参考的文化和语言熟练的青年发展、同伴支持和指导计划。 EYC 计划使用基于证据和/或社区定义的实践，帮助个人和社区参与、应对逆境、治愈创伤并茁壮成长。
• 优先考虑减少伤害和公共卫生解决方案，以增强抵御能力并防止物质使用障碍。

EYC 资助的影响：

“Elevate Youth California 为橙县 2S/LGBTQ+ 青少年和学生提供健康、积极的成果和机会。“这包括为 2S/LGBTQIA+ 青少年和学生提供机会，以建立和增强自信、韧性和自我赋权，并减少将有害物质作为应对机制的需要，”橙县 LGBTQ 中心的 Stephanie Camacho-Van Dyke说道，该中心是 EYC 的再次受助机构。“通过社区参与，我们的加州青年提升计划和学生领袖在橙县找到了目标感和归属感，减少了可能导致药物滥用的孤立感和孤独感。”

“DHCS’ EYC funding has given Native Dads Network the opportunity to create IMPACTT, Indigenous Mentors Protecting Ancestral Cultural Teachings Team, a coalition of California tribal youth, native organizations, and tribal community members that have united to address the cannabis industry’s negative impact on our tribal communities and protect traditional sacred regalia, baskets, land, and other ceremonial items,” said Michael Duncan of Native Dads Network, a current EYC grantee.

KEY NUMBERS: Since 2019, DHCS’ EYC program has engaged 6,793 new diverse stakeholders over five grant cycles. This includes providing services to 68,539 youth, holding 41,185 prevention program events with 296,435 participants, and convening 259 listening sessions. During that same time, EYC awarded nearly 400 grants totaling $257 million. Ninety-three percent of youth participants in EYC self-identify as Black, Indigenous, and people of color – all historically underserved populations.

A full list of organizations that received awards in previous funding rounds is available on the EYC website.

BIGGER PICTURE: EYC funding is part of a larger effort by DHCS to strengthen California’s substance use prevention programs, funded through the Proposition 64 “California Cannabis Tax Fund, Allocation 3, Youth Education, Prevention, Early Intervention, and Treatment” Account. In fiscal year 2023-24, DHCS invested more than $100 million in funding to support statewide substance use prevention programs, with approximately $57.8 million in primary prevention funding allocated to county behavioral health agencies through the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant, more than $3 million to support statewide implementation of the California Friday Night Live program, and more than $41 million for the EYC program.

For more information about the EYC program, visit www.elevateyouthca.org.

To learn more about California’s response to the opioid crisis, visit www.opioids.ca.gov.

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