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Looking back I see the continuous reduction in crime within the target area, creation or enhancement of more than 80 neighborhood associations and the empowerment of so many new friends and neighbors. Yet as amazing as these accomplishments are, our work is not done.
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Vallejo Fighting Back Partnership
Target Population: 114,000
Target Area: 27 square miles
Chair: Kathy Hoffman
Project Director: Al Fleming
Web site: www.fight-back.org

objectives, strategy, indicators
The target area for the Vallejo Fighting Back Partnership is the entire city of Vallejo. Once the home of the Navy's Mare Island Shipyard, the closing of the shipyard presents challenges and opportunities for the citizens of Vallejo.

Vallejo Fighting Back Partnership, an independent nonprofit organization, operates through a contract with the City of Vallejo.

Objectives:

Decrease substance abuse and related violence in deteriorating neighborhoods.
Increase numbers of persons in substance abuse treatment, and expand access for uninsured substance abusers.
Reduce substance abuse among youth.

Strategy:
The Vallejo Fighting Back Partnership provides a venue for collaboration among public and private institutions and the public at large, to develop and implement action plans to accomplish the aforementioned objectives. Public agencies and citizen involvement unite to improve deteriorating neighborhoods with excessive rates of substance abuse and mayhem. They will simultaneously develop a better service infrastructure to support recovering substance abusers. The Partnership will work to develop better outreach and utilization of the Solano County Medicaid benefit for substance abuse treatment. They will also work to expand access to treatment for those persons who are uninsured. The Partnership will work with the schools to train all personnel in identification and referral for substance abuse. They will establish a system for collecting accurate information on the numbers of students identified with substance abuse problems, suspended, and expelled for substance abuse. They will establish mentoring programs, and establish other linkages between schools and the community to reduce substance abuse among youth.

Indicators:
Substance abuse in deteriorating neighborhoods

Changes in rates of police calls
Change in perception of safety by residents
Alcohol stings compliance
Change in number of public inebriates

Treatment

Change in AOD problem rates in Vallejo (survey)
Change in AOD problems identified in hospital discharges in Vallejo
Utilization rates of treatment slots in Vallejo
Change in length of service for those in treatment
Change in # treatment slots

Youth

Changes in use (self-report school survey)
Changes in alcohol sales to minors
Change in rates of student referrals to treatment
Change in rates of student expulsions and suspensions for AOD infractions