SERAC Awarded Grant

Supporting and Engaging Resources for Action and Change has been awarded a fiscal year 2019 Strategic Prevention Framework-Partnerships for Success Grant in the amount of $297,302 per year for five years by the Substance Abuse and Mental Services Administration.

With the grant, SERAC will serve the 177,094 residents of the following 21 communities in northeastern Connecticut: Ashford, Brooklyn, Canterbury, Chaplin, Columbia, Coventry, Eastford, Hampton, Killingly, Lebanon, Mansfield, Plainfield, Pomfret, Putnam, Scotland, Sterling, Thompson, Union, Willington, Windham and Woodstock.

The goals of the project are to develop and strengthen the regional infrastructure to
implement the steps of the Strategic Prevention Framework to reduce youth substance use in the northeast region and reduce the prevalence and impact of substance abuse among youth and young adults across the northeast region.