Bill Text: IL SR1070 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Establishes an interagency working group among various State departments for the purposes of assessing and implementing family and community support services for underage substance use.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Passed) 2014-05-19 - Resolution Adopted as Amended 049-000-000 [SR1070 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-SR1070-Enrolled.html

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SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 1070
WHEREAS, The mission of the Substance Abuse Prevention
Program (SAPP) Multi-Neighborhood Pilot is to target risk and
protective factors for alcohol and other substance use and
abuse at the individual, family, and environmental levels
through a comprehensive approach, including individual
programming, media, public education campaigns, advocacy, and
collaboration with governmental agencies in the participating
communities of Back-of-the-Yards, Brighton Park, and
Englewood, all within Chicago Police District 9; and
WHEREAS, The goals of the SAPP Multi-Neighborhood Pilot are
to prevent adolescent substance use particularly relating to
alcohol, decrease rates of alcohol, tobacco and other substance
abuse among young adults and youth, build capacity at the
community level to address substance abuse-related issues, and
to promote health and well-being in Chicago and throughout the
State through replication of the SAPP Multi-Neighborhood
Pilot; and
WHEREAS, The objectives of the SAPP Multi-Neighborhood
Pilot include, but are not limited to, increasing awareness of
the negative effects of alcohol use with a focus on youth from
11 to 19 years of age, engaging in a public education campaign
around youth and adolescent alcohol use prevention, partnering

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with schools to incorporate alcohol use prevention into health
and science curriculum at the middle school and high school
level, partnering with government agencies to promote alcohol
prevention messaging, establishing family and community
support systems for youth with a focus on training and program
development, evaluate existing family and community services,
implementing evidence-based trainings through utilizing faith
and community-based infrastructure, and assessing full range
of social service agencies for service referral; and
WHEREAS, Several State agencies, including, but not
limited to, the Department of Human Services, the Liquor
Control Commission, the State Board of Education, the
Department of Public Health, the Department of Children and
Family Services, and the Community College Board, have
overlapping jurisdiction over the program and services
supporting the SAPP Multi-Neighborhood Pilot goals and
objectives; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL
ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that there is created an
interagency working group among the Department of Human
Services, the Liquor Control Commission, the State Board of
Education, the Department of Public Health, the Department of
Children and Family Services, and the Community College Board,
for the purposes of assessing and implementing family and

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community support services for underage substance use; and be
it further
RESOLVED, That the Department of Human Services shall act
as the lead agency and provide administrative and other support
to the work group; and be it further
RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be
presented to the Department of Human Services, the Liquor
Control Commission, the State Board of Education, the
Department of Public Health, the Department of Children and
Family Services, and the Community College Board.