Kansas Family Partnership Inc

Programs: Advocacy-kfp serves as a statewide advocate of policies that will reduce the use of alcohol and other drugs by youth and promote healthy communities. Kfp develops an annual advocacy agenda and enlists others in prevention to become active advocates. Information services-kfp provides the largest ditribution of alcohol and drug information through its statewide quarterly newletter (8,000 recipients). Kfp also reaches kansans through its state of the art and constantly updated website. Kansas sadd (students against destructive decisions)-kfp provides an annual conference to sadd students and adult leaders. Kfp is the state coordinator for the kansas sadd program and assists schools in establishing new chapters and provides resources to support the current kansas sadd chapters. Leadership to keep children alcohol free-kfp provides statewide leadership for this collaboration between several state agencies and community coalitions to address the issue of underage drinking. Each year, kfp coordinates a kansas youth leadership summit on underage drinking. In an effort to inform parents about alcohol use, this initiative has developed movie slides, distributed pamphlets and has enlisted new partners in educating parents about underage drinking. Networking-kfp strives to be the statewide "go to" agency when it comes to linking people to resources. Kfp receives an average of over 160 calls per month on its toll-free number from kansans asking for materials and resources. At least twice a month, kfp distributes an e-coalition newsletter to kansas coalitons with timely information about new research, data, resources, legislative issues and training opportunities. Red ribbon campaign-kfp has coordinated this statewide awareness campaign designed to enlist kansans in the fight against drug use since 1995. Annually, over 1,000,000 kansans are impacted by this campaign. Kfp sponsors red ribbon training for over 200 youth and adults and annually recognizes prevention leaders through its red ribbon recognition luncheon. Resource center-kfp coordinates the regional alcohol and drug awareness resource (radar) network for the state of kansas. Radar distributed thousands of resource materials and loaned hundreds of videos statewide. Users of this service include individuals, hospitals, schools, health departments, correctional facilites, community coalitions, community agencies, churches, law enforcement, treatment centers, state agencies, and prevention professionals. Training and education-kfp provides education and training opportunites for prevention professionals, parents and other community members on how they can make a difference in their communities. These trainings include parent education, community team training, red ribbon training, youth training, tobacco retailer trainings and others. Youth leadership summit-kfp annually coordinates a kansas youth leadership summit on underage drinking. This summit provides youth and adult teams across kansas to learn about the issue, resources availalbe, and new programming. Teams leave the summit with an action plan to implement when they return to their home communities.