CARTERET COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT, Fall 2022
The Site Visit Team felt the Sticker Shock program developed through the Coastal Coalition Substance Abuse Prevention (CCSAP) Community Team was a best practice displaying community input and assessing, prioritizing and establishing desired outcomes for underage age drinking and purchasing of juice look alike alcoholic beverages by those under 21 years old. The CCSAP involved youth/students in the development of the program and recorded photos of students in local Jim Dandy stores to place stickers on offending beverages as a warning they contain alcohol. The Site Visit team thought this was innovative way to engage the community and a specific population (youth) to address the identified health issue (underage drinking of alcoholic beverages) with the immediate desired outcomes of stickers being placed on the beverages by the students themselves and long-term outcome of decreasing the purchase of juice look alike alcoholic beverages by youth thus decreasing underage drinking.
ORANGE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT, Winter 2023
The Site Visit Team identified the Gateway Collaborative as a best practice. The public health and social services departments jointly rent an apartment at the Gateway Village housing community to serve as a community resource center. In addition to these departments, the schools, law enforcement and housing are members of the collaborative. The collaborative works with the residents to identify priority issues and garner resources for these priority areas.