The Community Partner Grants coordinated by the Ohio Center for Coalition Excellence, an initiative of Drug-Free Action Alliance, with funding from the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services, provide an opportunity for community coalitions to plan and implement an environmental strategy in their community.  These grants are intended to increase the number and quality of environmental strategies used among coalitions.

$1000 to Chemical Abuse Prevention Association located in Brecksville/Broadview Heights, Ohio (Cuyahoga County)

The coalition will provide Parents Who Host public service announcements at the beginning of each movie on 24 screens for 4 weeks.  The coalition proposed an in-kind contribution of placing life-sized cutouts of prominent community leaders in theaters that include a Parents Who Host slogan.

$1000 to Coalition for a Safe and Drug Free Fairfield located in Fairfield, Ohio

(Butler County)

The coalition will implement a youth led community norms project. The project will increase youth awareness that a majority of their peers do not drink, design a project to address access and availability to decrease alcohol theft in stores by minors and work with law enforcement, business communities and schools to monitor student behavior and enforce policies. The project will also include a media awareness project to influence festival planners to strategically position alcohol booths and advertising away from children’s activities. Finally, the coalition will educate parents and youth about the Parents Who Host campaign.

$912 to Edgewood City Schools located in Trenton, Ohio

(Butler County)

This coalition will hire two Safe and Drug-Free School Coordinators who will be trained in environmental prevention strategies that they will initiate in their school community. 

$500 continuation grant to ADAPAO located in Columbus, Ohio

(Statewide)

The Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Association of Ohio (ADAPAO) will continue its progress of educating Ohio communities on its Marijuana as Medicine Position Paper by creating and distributing informational postcards and flyers and using electronic information dissemination.