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Community Resources

The Department of Applied Health Science provides the following services to Indiana University and the Bloomington community, as well as the state of Indiana:

 

Children’s Door

The Children’s Door program seeks to identify, develop and provide services and programs that support, encourage, enhance and promote cooperative co-parenting. Our monitored parenting time exchange service allows divorced, separated, and never married parents the opportunity to exchange their children in a safe, neutral and supervised environment.

 

Indiana Prevention Resource Center

The Indiana Prevention Resource Center (IPRC) provides evidence-based substance abuse prevention and treatment programs through education and training, geographical information systems planning and assessment, program evaluation, data collection and reporting, research and publications, consulting and grants assistance. Community-based programs administered by the IPRC include:

• Tobacco Sales Monitoring and Enforcement

The Tobacco Retailer Inspection Program works synergistically to reduce tobacco sales to minors through monitoring sales and enforcing legal sanctions on those who sell to youth under 18 years of age. Since the inception of TRIP in 2000, the IPRC has observed a 28 percent reduction in noncompliant stores statewide. This translates to fewer youth accessing tobacco products, which helps to delay first use.

• After School Programs

Afternoons R.O.C.K. in Indiana is a program administered by the IPRC in partnership with the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration’s Division of Mental Health and Addiction, along with community-based partners such as Boys and Girls Clubs, faith-based entities, and other youth-serving agencies. The acronym “R.O.C.K.” represents the mission of the program to provide Recreation, Object lessons, Culture and values, and Knowledge via active, entertaining, focused, and supportive prevention activities designed to teach youth about social and media influences, conflict resolution and refusal/resistance skills, gang and violence prevention, and the structuring of leisure time to be free of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use. Afternoons R.O.C.K. in Indiana programs reach up to 15,000 youths, ages 10–14, across Indiana each year.

• Problem Gambling Prevention

In Indiana, 3 percent of the adult population are problem gamblers. Risk factors associated with youth substance abuse are also related to youth problem gambling. To reduce risk among youth, the Indiana Problem Gambling Prevention Initiative (IPGPI) has collaborated with Indiana’s Afternoons R.O.C.K. program to incorporate prevention activities beginning this fall. The IPRC monitors gambling behavior among youth through its Indiana Survey. IPGPI provides information and technical assistance to Indiana organizations seeking to prevent problem gambling by children, adolescents, and young adults.

• Prevention planning with geographical information systems

PREV-STAT is a geographical information system that allows prevention providers to hone in on a community’s risk and protective factors for planning purposes. By tapping into rich sources of data such as the U.S. Census Bureau, PRIZM (a lifestyle segmentation data set), and CrimeRisk (a compilation of crime indexes and reports), and drawing from Indiana specific sources of data, PREV-STAT creates profiles for prevention planning and grant writing. PREV-STAT played a significant role in helping communities acquire more than 1.5 million dollars for prevention in 2005.

• Monitoring youth behaviors

In addition to its programs, the IPRC monitors drug prevalence rates, gambling behaviors, peer perceptions, risk and protective factors, and the prevalence of specific violent behaviors among Indiana’s sixth through twelfth graders through the Indiana Survey. Data from this survey help schools acquire grants to fund and sustain prevention and treatment needs.

 

Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention

The Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention (RCAP) distributes Fact Sheets and RAP Time, a monthly publication, to rural communities. RCAP also provides the following resources and services:

• RCAP Monograph

RCAP publishes monographs dealing largely in HIV/STD prevention and research in rural communities annually.

• Native American Communities Guidelines

In collaboration with the National Native American AIDS Prevention Center, RCAP has developed the prevention guidelines, HIV/STD Prevention Guidelines for Native American Communities: American Indians, Alaskan Natives, & Native Hawaiians.

• National Network of Rural HIV/STD Prevention Specialists

In its continued efforts to provide information and support for rural HIV/STD prevention specialists, RCAP has established a national coalition, The National Network of Rural HIV/STD Prevention Specialists, or The Rural Network. This coalition provides an electronic forum (e.g. email list-serve) for exchanging information, for offering help and support to rural communities, and to provide networking opportunities.

• Standards for STD/HIV Prevention Curricula in Secondary Schools

A checklist of 63 standards that school officials and educators can use to evaluate their existing STD/HIV prevention education programs or to develop new curricula and materials was published in the October/November 2002 issue of the SIECUS Report.

 

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