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Columbia, SC
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Charlotte, NC
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Kansas City, MO
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Milwaukee, WI
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New Haven, CT
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Northwest New Mexico
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Oakland, CA
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San Antonio, TX
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Santa Barbara, CA
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Vallejo, CA
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Washington, DC
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Worcester, MA
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Vanderbilt University
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Each of the original 14 communities received two-year planning grants, followed by five-year implementation grants. All of the communities faced two specific challenges:
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convening diverse elements of the community around such an unsympathetic, stigmatized issue; and
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the lack of comprehensive statistics and data sets on substance abuse specific to their local governmental
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These original 14 communities have achieved remarkable success in building and nurturing collaboration. For the first time in nearly every city, community residents worked as equal partners with professionals in the substance abuse field and with other public and private institutions, in spite of vastly different perspectives, personal experiences, turf, strong emotion, and political and philosophical conflict. These issues were highlighted in a series of conferences that explored the "Lessons Learned" from Fighting Back and other communities that implemented strategies that formed broad collaborations to reduce substance abuse.
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