– Overdose Awareness Symposium 2022
The PARTS coalition is a community based prevention grassroots coalition that focuses on reducing drug and alcohol related trauma in Monterey County. The primary objective of the PARTS Coalition is to reduce the number of underage drinking and to prevent drug and alcohol abuse among youth and adults. Using a public health approach to prevention, PARTS focuses on positive community change through education, environmental initiatives, policy development, and enforcement. We follow a multi-level approach to prevention, and work collaboratively with many partners including:
Schools, Youth, Religious organizations, Businesses, Healthcare, Youth serving organizations, Non-profits, Law enforcement, Substance abuse organizations, Parents, Media, and Local/state government.
Our mission is to prevent alcohol-related injuries and fatalities, prevent youth access to alcohol and drugs and the initiated use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs in the city of Salinas.
Our vision is to have families, schools, and communities that are informed about the importance of prevention, that actively participate in prevention efforts, and who encourage low-risk behavior.
Reduce alcohol and substance abuse among youth and adults.
Establish and strengthen collaboration among community members and groups.
Environmental Strategies can include:
Check out the interview on the twenty five year history of PARTS with our founder, Martin H. Dodd Jr. here.
Since 1992, Monterey County advocacy coalitions have worked towards preventing alcohol-related trauma and youth initiation of alcohol, tobacco and drugs. With multi-agency collaboration the PARTS (Preventing Alcohol Related Trauma) coalitions provide proven effective change in the community by promoting education and awareness, advocacy, policy enforcement and environmental policy changes.
In 1992 PARTS – Preventing Alcohol Related Trauma – in Salinas was established by the Prevention Research Center of Berkeley through a grant from NIAAA – The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
In 1996, PARTS merged with Sun Street Centers into our Prevention program because our missions aligned. Since then we have grown PARTS to establish a separate PARTS coalition for South Monterey County and another for the Peninsula. We have aligned our STEPS program – the Safe Teens Empowerment Project – to be able to assist in the PARTS Action Plans. We have grown the neighborhood parent group into Parents Creating Solutions, now volunteering and advocating in Salinas and King City.
For more about Sun Street Centers’ history click here.
