CTC Structure

CTC Coordinator:  Catherine Gabe  Phone:  440.366.1106 ext 16

Drug Free Communities Project Director:  Elaine Georgas, Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services Board of Lorain County

Communities That Care of Lorain County is overseen by an Executive Committee.  The role of the Executive Committee is responsible for the following: 

  1. Develop and approve the workplan of the CTC initiative
  2. Monitor the workplan and outcomes of the initiative
  3. Monitor and guide the work of CTC through workgroups
  4. Request and review community needs assessment and gap analysis data

This group meets monthly, 3rd Tuesday of the month.

Executive Committee members:

Various workgroups are engaged overtime to assist in the implementation of the strategic prevention framework (assessment, capacity, planning, implementation, evaluation).

DATA Workgroup:
Duties include:  Collect risk- and protective-factor data for analysis, analyze the data to identify priorities and help the Community Board and/or stakeholder groups complete the prioritization process.
Tasks:  Assess risk and protective factor data from the Youth Survey and archival data; recommends priority risk and protective factors;report accomplishments and findings to the Community Board and the Key Leader Board; make recommendations regarding trend data and its local impact.

Resource Assessment and Evaluation:
Completes the Inventory and assess existing resources addressing the community’s identified priorities.  Identify gaps in current responses to priorities, in preparation for selected tested, effective programs, policies and practices.
Tasks: Develop and inventory of existing community programs, policies and practices that address prioritized risk and protective factors; develop plans for implementing resource assessment and addressing programs not tracking outcomes; develop strategy to capture outcomes for those programs; evaluate resource assessment results and provide recommendations to the Community Board; assess the existing programs regarding the extent of their implementation and any evaluation of their effectiveness; identify gaps in existing services and report findings to Community Board.

Community Outreach and Public Relations:
Involves stakeholders, promote the Communities That Care® system, and educate and update the Key Leader Board, stakeholders and the public about the work of the Community Board.  Collaborate with other workgroups to prepare and disseminate all press releases, documents and other communications.
Tasks::  Discuss and develop current plan for marketing and publicity of evidence-based program; identifies opportunities to educate and involve the community.

Sustainability:
Identify funding needs.  Manage the acquisition and use of public and private funds.  The funds are used for planning and for the implementation and evaluation of the selected programs, policies and practices.
Tasks:Assists in the development of a long term funding sustainability plan; identify grants, funding sources and funding streams to contact; provide support for long-range funding for all tested and effective programs that support the Community plan; support funding streams toward investing in outcomes as the norm; present plan and make recommendations to Community Board.

Youth Involvement:
Recruit youth for all aspects of the Communities That Care® effort.  Work with other groups to identify diverse roles for young people, skills and training needed by young people and appropriate recognition.
Tasks: Identify existing youth groups and ways to involve them in the CTC effort;; recruit youth to serve on the Community Board; involve youth in other work-group activities; coordinate skills development and youth recognition.

What are we?  Communities That Care of Lorain County (CTC) is a coalition that focuses on the issues of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs and other anti social behaviors in the community with particular attention to the impact on our youth.  Through prevention advocacy and education we serve as the catalyst for community change.  Study after study shows that behaviors at a young age determine those later in life.  By impacting our youth now, we will over time, impact our entire population.

CTC is part of a national prevention process created by J. David Hawkins, PhD. and Richard F. Catalano PhD.  Utilizing the process, communities evaluate the risks that affect the health development of youth and implement proven effective programs to diminish those risks.  As a community action model, the CTC process provides a structured system in which members of existing organizations can work cooperatively to plan, implement and evaluate programs and services for youth.  The ultimate goal is to reduce substance abuse, teen pregnancy, school dropout, delinquency, violence and depression and anxiety.

Who are we? Our coalition includes community members, parents, youth, churches, local agencies and groups focused on keeping youth healthy, safe and drug-free. We try to reach out and work with as many community members as possible, paying particular attention to individuals representing the following sectors: Parents, Youth, Schools, Youth-oriented organizations, Law Enforcement.