Funding Sources:
The Prevention Partnership, Inc., currently has an operating budget of $760, 000, with 90 percent from public sources, which include: Illinois Department of Human Services and Public Health; City of Chicago Departments of Human Services and Public Health; united States Department of Human Services (Centers for Disease Control-prevention and Center for Substance Abuse Prevention); Community Economic Development Association of Cook County; and the Chicago Public Schools. The agency has two fundraisers: an Awards Dinner and a Circle of Friends Campaign.
List of Highlighted Accomplishments:
1987—Present: Provided training and technical assistance to Chicago and Cook County South Suburban Communities to assist them in addressing alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, HIV/AIDS and other social and health-related problems. Kimberly Former, Chief Bureau of Community Prevention for Illinois Department of Human Services summed up the effects of the agency on these communities when she wrote, “The Prevention Partnership, Inc., has been a pioneer in the development, implementation and evaluation of services in our state, especially in our very high-risk communities.”
1987—Present: Ongoing relationship with the Chicago Public Schools on establishing Youth Peer Leadership Programs, HIV/AIDS/STIs and alcohol and other drug and violence prevention education.
1991—2008: North Lawndale Futures is a peer leadership program that was conducted in collaboration with Charles Evans Hughes and Anton Dvorak Elementary Schools. The program focused on leadership and the prevention of alcohol and other drug use and gang and violence prevention education. While in operation, this program provided direct services to over 2,550 students.
1990—1995: Several (approximately 25) community organizations requested training and technical assistance from The Prevention Partnership, Inc., and both the City of Chicago and the Mac Arthur Foundation approved it as the fiscal agent for The Campaign for a Drug-Free Westside. The Prevention Partnership was the first agency to bring alcohol and other drugs and HIV/AIDS prevention services to the Austin community on Chicago’s Westside.
1995—1998: Provided training and technical assistance to the St. Paul Public School District (Daytons Bluff Elementary School) in St. Paul, Minnesota on peer leadership, violence prevention, and peer mediation.
1997—1999: Provided training and technical assistance to the Davenport Community School District High Schools (2) in Davenport, Iowa, on Leadership and Diversity, using the Peer Leadership Program. Te agency also developed an inter-disciplinary curriculum on prevention and diversity.
1997—2000: The agency, through our HIV/AIDS/STDs Initiative Director, co-founded and co-chaired the Westside HIV/AIDS Regional Planning Group, which today has over 50 member organizations, and holds monthly meetings at The Prevention Partnership, Inc.
1999—2002: The Prevention Partnership’s HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse Prevention for African American Youth Project (Cohort 1) was part of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention Minority HIV/AIDS Prevention Initiative. The agency was one of 47 programs representing different parts of the United States. The executive summary reports from The Prevention partnership, Inc.’s local evaluator (Loyola University Chicago) stated: “All three components of the program were well executed.” Site visit summaries from JSI Research Institute also indicated a high level of satisfaction and considered the program one of the most successful in the national initiative.
2001-2005: The HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse Prevention for African American Women Project was also part of the Center for Substance Abuse Minority HIV/AIDS Prevention Initiative (Cohort 2), with similar results as the agency’s youth initiative.
2002: Initiated and managed the first HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse Legislative Breakfast, co-chaired by Congressman Danny K. Davis from Illinois, and Congresswoman Donna Christian Christiansen from the Virgin Islands, held at the Hyatt Regency in Washington, DC, on Capitol Hill.
2002: In December, as part of its recognition of World AIDS Day, the Chicago Department of Health awarded The Prevention Partnership, Inc., its “Award for Excellence for HIV/AIDS Prevention Services.” Information for this award is gathered by an independent review panel, and the department considered 36 organizations for the award.
2003: Illinois Department of Human Services, Division of Community Health and Prevention, contracted with The Prevention Partnership, Inc., to conduct six Regional Conversations/Search Conferences throughout the state, to receive feedback from the field of prevention on how to improve and enhance prevention services. A seventh session to report findings was also conducted, and a written report followed.
2004—Present: Conducted five Midwest Faith-Based Conferences on HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse program design, implementation, and evaluation. For the past two years, the agency has received funding from the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, though the McFarland Group to conduct conferences on sustainability and capacity building. For part of the 2008 conference, the agency will collaborate with the Illinois Department of Public Health in conducting an Emergency Preparedness component.
2007—Present: The Prevention Partnership, Inc., is one of 18 grantees of the Illinois Department of Human Services Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant (SPF-SIG), which focuses on underage drinking and is funded by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention.
2008: The agency’s Peer Leadership Prevention Education and Parent Involvement Program was recommended to the Center for Substance Abuse, by the Illinois Department of Human Services, as the “State’s Most Promising Prevention Program.”
5934 W. Lake Street ~ Chicago, Illinois 60644-1833
Phone (773) 378-4195 ~ Fax (773) 378-8190
Email: info@p2online.org
preventionpartnership.org |
