Officially adopted during our first virtual meeting in March 2020, the 2020 Action Plan (see below) carried the Coalition’s work through the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Locally, changes in staffing across the Coalition and substance use trends among youth drove us to celebrate our work, reconsider our scope, and decide what’s next.
In spring 2024, a subcommittee used a garden metaphor to illustrate where we stood in the progress of our 2020 Action Plan strategies. In our garden, our strategies were categorized as:
- Seeds: not yet started, early days but still relevant
- Seedlings: energy around it, needs work/resources
- Flowering/Harvest: partially embedded, near completion, or in maintenance phase
- Compost: no longer relevant, abandoned
Click here
to access the interactive Prezi version of our garden.
Determining where we stood was no easy feat! Tracking local trends proved difficult due to pandemic-related disruptions, so we relied on some local data, extrapolations from national data, and on-the-ground experiences to inform our discussions and decisions. We had many wins to celebrate collectively and a look at our data
indicated that some measures were moving in the ways we wanted.
Below, you can view our retired 2020 Action Plan. Click here
to view our 2024-2027 Strategic Plan.
