Sponsored by the National Social Norms Resource Center, DeKalb, ILL. Florida State University (FSU) is a large public institution with an enrollment of approximately 37,000 undergraduate and graduate students.

In January 2002, The Real Project, an organization sponsored by the Florida Center for Prevention Research (FCPR), began a social norms marketing campaign to correct misperceptions about student alcohol use and reinforce healthy, protective norms. From 2002 to 2005 there has been a 22% reduction in high-risk drinking ( i.e., those drinking 5+ during their last party or social occasion). Consequently, there has been a 23% increase in the number of students who report moderate drinking (i.e., 1-4 drinks), as well as a 27% increase in the number of students who report that they abstain from drinking.

The Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association, the Department of Education; Safe and Drug Free Schools, and the Office of Drug Control collaborated to bring together 33 of Florida’s strongest leaders to create a statewide organization dedicated to addressing and tackling issues affecting Florida’s youth.

The mission of the FYPD (Florida Youth Prevention Delegation) is to redefine the social norms among youth through the implementation of substance-free activities and community involvement, as an active youth coalition dedicated to decreasing substance abuse in Florida.

The Florida Center for Prevention Research will design and develop a web based informational system to support Red Ribbon Certification and administration, and provide support services (hosting, maintenance, technical assistance).

The Red Ribbon Certified Schools Web Site, along with the ideals of the Red Ribbon Certified Schools program, provides an information solution to the need for a comprehensive communications structure for Red Ribbon related facts, activities, and certification.

This project provides a focus on 12 school districts over three years. It presents a collaborative plan between PAEC's Supplemental Programs Unit and the Center for Prevention Research at Florida State University (FSU). It involves the proven scientific based prevention program Too Good for Drugs and a proven effective Social Norms Media Campaign. The combined approach is designed to develop and implement appropriate prevention, early identification, intervention and reinforcement of positive healthy behaviors.

The Florida Medicaid Reform Choice Counseling website is sponsored by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration and provides tri-lingual (English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole) information about the Florida Medicaid Reform Program.
The website provides a general information section as well as an FAQ section. Then the website provides a list and contact information for each county's (Broward and Duval) managed care organizations and a comparison chart of the flexible benefits eachorganization provides.
Finally, the website provides a table that shows all the hospitals affiliated with the managed care organizations.

Medicaid Reform Information, Training and Evaluation

Sponsored by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, the Medicaid Reform Information, Training, and Evaluation (MediRITE) Project is a multi-faceted effort to inform Medicaid providers, beneficiaries, and others interested people about Florida’s Medicaid Reform pilot program that will begin in Broward and Duval counties starting on July 1, 2006.

The information will be provided in an overview flyer and comparison chart, on a DVD, and in a tri-lingual website. This project will also train and certify the nation's first face-to-face and telephone Choice Counselors who will assist providers with questions and beneficiaries with the opportunity to enroll in a managed care organization that the beneficiary chooses.

Finally this project will evaluate the Choice Counseling enrollment process and beneficiary satisfaction with the Medicaid Reform Program as well as the training program for the Choice Counselors.

The Responsible Retailing (RR) Forum, jointly conducted by Florida Center for Prevention Research (FCPR), Florida State University and the Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University, is intended to
- Identify and promulgate best practices for responsible retailing, and
- Engage diverse stakeholders, public and private, in examinations of RR policies.

This project will provide outcome and process evaluation services on the Substance Abuse Prevention Programs in Districts 1-4 as funded by the Department of Children and Families, District ADM Program Offices.

This will include offering direct technical assistance to local providers in order to assure fidelity of program implementation and assuming responsibility for monitoring local projects and assuring that outcome and process data are collected and reported in conformity with processes developed by the Department of Children and Families and the University of Miami for evaluation of prevention programs for the Department of Children and Families statewide.

Sponsored by the Florida Department of Health (DOH), Florida State University along with two partners, Health Strategies, Inc., and the Florida Hospital Assoc., are developing a statewide hospital response plan for burns, bombs, blasts and biological threats (B4).

We are further developing a statewide hospital response plan for chemical and radiological (CR) threats. Working in concert with the Catastrophic Incident Response Plan (CIRP) Committee and seven regional planning groups, a website has been developed to display planning progress and documents relating to B4 and CR threats.

This project provides for on line training and certification for state Funeral and Cemetery inspectors. The training provides for training in four modules with a comprehensive examination for certification.

The four modules relate to skills in areas of financial, communication, legislative and management. The comprehensive examination is taken on line at the completion of maneuvering through the four modules. Implementation of this program is handled through the Department of Financial Services.

Sponsored for the Florida Department of Children and Families. The purpose of this contract is to develop a mini-grant application process to identify, fund and monitor new and established community anti-drug coalitions.
The primary role of FCPR is to create a process that shall target, select, fund, provide technical assistance and monitor agencies that are interested in establishing or maintaining a community anti-drug coalition.

As a result of the tragedy at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007 in which 33 students were killed and 15 others injured, Florida Governor Charlie Crist signed Executive Order 07-77 and established the Gubernatorial Task Force for University Campus Safety. Of the 30 recommendations for action by each college and university in Florida six of the recommendations are centered on developing and exercising their emergency management and crisis response plans. These recommendations included integrating and cooperating with local emergency response agencies as well as working with each campus' respective local Regional Domestic Security Task Force. The Emergency Management Services at the Florida Center for Prevention Research's objective is to provide a project team and a work scope for colleges and universities both in Florida and nationwide to develop and facilitate the necessary drills and exercises.

Sponsored for the Florida Department of Children and Families. The purpose of this contract is to develop a mini-grant application process to identify, fund and monitor new and established community anti-drug coalitions.

The primary role of FCPR is to create a process that shall target, select, fund, provide technical assistance and monitor agencies that are interested in establishing or maintaining a community anti-drug coalition.

Sponsored for the Florida Department of Children and Families. The purpose of this contract is to develop a SPF-SIG sub-grantee application process to identify, fund and monitor new and established local community anti-drug coalitions.

The primary role of FCPR is to create a process that shall target, select, fund, provide technical assistance and monitor agencies that are interested in establishing or maintaining a community anti-drug coalition.

Since the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, Florida has led the nation in its preparation to prevent and respond to potential terror attacks. With the first Statewide Domestic Security Strategy, Florida provided an example and model for other states to emulate in preparing their own strategy documents. During 2003, Florida again led the nation in the adoption of Domestic Security policy standards within the Florida Department of Education for the 67 County School Districts for grades K-12.

The intent of this project is to clarify the NIMS training and emergency operations plan (EOP) coordination requirements so the Florida Department of Education will meet NIMS compliance standards and remain eligible for federal preparedness funds.

Sponsored by the Florida Department of Education (DOE), and Florida State University.

The goal of this project was to perform a review of the aviation and aerospace industry workforce standards at all entry levels and current workforce education and training curricular and articulation agreements to indentification gaps between industry needs and the capacity of Florida's education and training programs to meet those needs. Based on this review, FLACCR made recommendations to the FL DOE to create new curriculum and articulation agreements.

A Vision for the Prevention Component of the Florida Drug Control Strategy.

The Florida Prevention System is a comprehensive approach for directing policy, establishing a solid resource base, sustaining collaborative partnerships, and developing a system for utilizing and evaluating a science-based approach to prevention throughout the state of Florida. The Florida Prevention System is based on the analysis of the alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use problems in Florida and strives to create a common vision and comprehensive system for prevention.

A student group at Florida State University dedicated to eliminating the use of tobacco on campus and spreading the truth about big tobacco.

The tobacco program piloted STRIKE at six sites during the Winter semester of 2000. These six sites were: Broward Community College, Tallahassee Community College, Florida A & M University, Florida International University, the University of Central Florida, and the University of South Florida. These institutions were given the charge to develop a student-led, student focused programs based on the vision and goals of STRIKE.

In 1998, the late Governor Lawton Chiles and the State of Florida sued the tobacco industry due to increasing Medicaid expenses caused by tobacco related diseases among Floridians. The nationally and internationally renowned SWAT program was a major outcome of the lawsuit. Youth throughout the State of Florida have joined together in a relentless fight against the tobacco industry and its manipulation and targeting of youth to use their product.