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Youth Vaping in Winona County community fact sheet.  

Topic: The two-page fact sheet uses data from youth listening sessions and the Minnesota Student Survey to explore the factors that contribute to vaping and e-cigarette use in Winona County, Minnesota. The sheet also includes prevention strategies recommended by students, showing that a strategy implementing youth involvement can help communities efficiently target their prevention efforts.

The fact sheet was developed by the Winona County Alliance for Substance Abuse Prevention.

Intended Audience: Winona County residents, especially parents and school staff.

Materials:

• Fact Sheet: Youth Vaping in Winona County (PDF)

Team EPIC: Encouraging Positive Impact for Change in Roseau County.  

Topic: The 2016 one-page infographic explores teen substance use in Roseau County, Minnesota, and provides detail on the county's Drug Free Communities grant.

Intended Audience: All stakeholders, but especially parents and community adults

Materials:

• Infographic: Team EPIC: Encouraging Positive Impact for Change in Roseau County (PDF)

Live Above the Influence: Sherburne County Substance Use Prevention (SUP) Coalition's Marijuana Use Poster.  

Topic: The 2017 one-page poster gives facts on marijuana use and prevention.

Intended Audience: Sherburne County students

Materials:

• Infographic: Live Above the Influence (PDF)

Absenteeism in Itasca County: SUMN Fact Sheet.  

Topic: The 2017 four-page fact sheet explains the definitions and prevalence of absenteeism in Itasca County, and provides resources to address the issue.

Intended Audience: Itasca County residents

Materials:

• Fact Sheet: Absenteeism in Itasca County (PDF)

The Lakeville Area Proactive Approaches to Health (PATH) Coalition has created an infographic on youth substance use prevention. 

Topic: The two-sided PDF (shown here as two separate PDFs) shows the importance of youth substance use prevention, and the importance of caring adults in the lives of those youth. To find out more about PATH, check out their Facebook page.

Intended Audience: All stakeholders, but especially parents and community adults

Materials:

• Infographic (front): Lakeville Area PATH Coalition Data (PDF)
• Infographic (back): Ways to Show You Care (PDF)
  

ACEs and Mental Health: Adverse Childhood Experiences.   

Topic: The one-page infographic illustrates the links between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), mental health, and protective factors. The PowerPoint presentation explores ACEs in Minnesota through data generated by the Minnesota Student Survey. The presentation provides information about prevalence, protective factors, and other associations of ACEs, as well as a brief background on the survey. Data for both are taken from the 2013 Minnesota Student Survey (MSS).

Intended Audience: All stakeholders, but especially parents and community adults

Materials:

• Infographic: ACEs and Mental Health (PDF)
• PowerPoint Presentation: Adverse Childhood Experiences in Minnesota (PPT)

Using data from Boynton Health Service's College Student Health Survey, this infographic highlights pertinent facts about Minnesota college students' use of alcohol. 

Topic: The one-page PDF uses data from the College Student Health Survey, which was administered at 17 Minnesota colleges and universities. Find the full report on Boynton's site, here: http://www.bhs.umn.edu/surveys/index.htm

Intended Audience: All community stakeholders

Materials:

• Infographic: College Students and Alcohol Use (PDF)

The one-page PDF infographic shows data about students' alcohol use in Deer River, Minnesota.

Topic: "The Importance of Alcohol Prevention in Deer River Schools," was developed using data from the 2013 Minnesota Student Survey. It highlights actions and results from the county's 2011 Planning and Implementation grant.

Intended Audience: Parents, teachers, faculty, school administration, community members

• Infographic: The Importance of Alcohol Prevention in Deer River (PDF)

This infographic illustrates the state of alcohol-impaired driving in Minnesota. 

Topic: The one-page PDF uses data from the Minnesota Motor Vehicle Crash Facts Report from the Minnesota Office of Traffic Safety. All data are easily searchable on SUMN.org.

Intended Audience: All community stakeholders

Materials:

• Infographic: Minnesota Roads: Alcohol Use and Impaired Driving (PDF)
  

Four infographics cover issues relevant to Minnesota students, using data from the 2013 Minnesota Student Survey.

Topic: The one-page PDFs cover risk and protective factors related to students' substance use: bullying and school safety issues; Minnesota youth and marijuana use; parent-child communication about substance use; and lesbian, gay and bisexual students.

Intended Audience: Parents, teachers, faculty, school administration, community members

• Infographic: Bullying and School Safety (PDF)
• Infographic: Minnesota Youth and Marijuana (PDF)
• Infographic: Parental Communication (PDF)
• Infographic: Protective Factors for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth (PDF)

These three issue briefs highlight Olmsted County prevention efforts and substance use data.

Topic: The first issue brief provides data on levels of youth alcohol consumption, with comparisons to the state and by grade, as well as on risk factors such as modes of access to alcohol, perceptions of harm, perceptions of peer use, and parent involvement. The second brief describes social host ordinances and provides data on where Olmsted youth access alcohol. The third issue brief on compliance checks provides local-level data on compliance failures, and details best practices for implementing checks.

Intended Audience: Coalition members, county board, and community members

• Issue Brief: Olmsted County 2013 MSS Summary (PDF
• Issue Brief: Establishing a County-Wide Social Host Ordinance in Olmsted County (PDF)
• Issue Brief: Compliance Checks in Olmsted County (PDF)

Two fact sheets describe environmental strategies implemented by Kanabec County, and a set of talking points describes current prevention efforts.

Topic: The first fact sheet describes what compliance checks are, provides Minnesota Student Survey data on Kanabec County youth purchasing alcohol or tobacco, describes steps being taken by the Kanabec County Sheriff's Office and the Substance Abuse Coalition of Kanabec (SACK) County, and lists ways that community members can help. The fact sheet on social host ordinances follows a similar format, and includes data on youth getting alcohol at parties.The Prevention Efforts documents provides talking points about a variety of strategies being implemented. The SACK Coalition use these documents at community events, city council meetings, school board meetings, and at township association meetings to educate stakeholders.

Intended Audience: All community stakeholders

• Fact Sheet: Kanabec County Compliance Checks (PDF)
• Fact Sheet: Kanabec County Social Host Ordinances (PDF)
• Talking Points: Kanabec County Prevention Efforts (PDF)

These three data products share 2013 MSS findings for Pope County's Minnewaska School District

Topic: The two-page issue brief describes the 2013 Minnesota Student Survey and provides data on Pope County students' alcohol use and contributing factors. The press release uses 2013 MSS data to highlight how few Pope County students report drinking. The presentation (which utilizes TurningPoint clickers) provides numerous statistics from the 2013 MSS on alcohol use and contributing factors; it highlights students' misperceptions about peer use. The focus on positive data--students not using substances--has been well received.

Intended Audience: Teachers, faculty, and school administration

• Issue Brief: Results of Minnesota Student Survey for Minnewaska (PDF)
• Press Release: Many Minnewaska high school students are choosing NOT to drink (PDF)
• Presentation: Minnesota Student Survey Data, 2013 (PDF)

This animated presentation provides findings related to adverse childhood experiences (ACE) from the 2013 Minnesota Student Survey.

Topic: Data are provided on overall ACE score, as well as mental, physical, and chemical health outcomes associated with ACEs for Minnesota students.

Intended Audience: All community stakeholders

• Video Presentation: 2013 MSS Adverse Childhood Experiences (Web Page)
  

This infographic highlights key statistics on economic, health, and social costs of smoking.

Topic: ClearWay Minnesota's infographic provides data on smoking prevalence in the state, smoking-related mortality, and health care costs.

Intended Audience: All community stakeholders

• Infographic: Costs of Smoking in Minnesota (Web Page)

These four epidemiological profiles provide behavioral health data for African American, American Indian, Hispanic/Latino, Asian and Pacific Islander Minnesotans.

Topic: Each profile provides summary data on alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use, consequences, and contributing factors, as well as data on mental health and factors associated with both substance use and mental health, from a variety of state and national sources.

Intended Audience: Prevention specialists and policy makers

• Epi Profile: Epidemiological Profile of Substance Use and Related Factors in Minnesota's African-American and Black Communities (PDF)
• Epi Profile: Epidemiological Profile of Substance Use and Related Factors in Minnesota's  American Indian and Alaska Native Communities (PDF)
• Epi Profile: Epidemiological Profile of Substance Use and Related Factors in Minnesota's  Hispanic and Latino Communities (PDF)
• Epi Profile: Epidemiological Profile of Substance Use and Related Factors in Minnesota's Asian and Pacific Islander Communities (PDF)

This five-page PDF infographic was created by Wilder Research for Minnesota's Strengthening Families Affected by Incarceration Collaborative's Evaluation Sub-Committee. The Committee includes Wilder Research, University of Minnesota, Council on Crime and Justice, MN Department of Corrections, MN Department of Human Services, MN Department of Education, and MN Department of Public Safety. This graphic is part 2 of a series on the effects of incarcerated parents on MN families. Find more information at http://www.wilder.org/Wilder-Research/Research-Areas/Pages/Incarceration.aspx  

Topic: "91 Academic Outcomes Among Youth with Incarcerated Parents in Minnesota," was created in November of 2014.

Intended Audience: Parents, teachers, faculty, school administration, community members

• Infographic: 91 Academic Outcomes Among Youth with Incarcerated Parents (PDF)

This evaluation report provides findings from Minnesota's Planning & Implementation grantees.

Topic: Significant decreases in past 30 day alcohol use among Planning & Implementation grantees, as compared to the state average, are highlighted in this report.

Intended Audience: Prevention specialists and policy makers

• 2012 Evaluation Report: Planning & Implementation Evaluation Report 
• 2014 Evaluation Report: Planning & Implementation Evaluation Report