MCSAP Vote on Change in By Laws |
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MCSAP has been gearing up to change our by laws and now we need your participation to vote to either keep MCSAP's work group structure or change it. We've integrated your suggestions in multiple areas, including adopting a project-based full coalition structure and defining what it means to be a MCSAP member in an increasingly virtual world.
If we move forward with the changes our first project will be a Whip-it Campaign that will utilize Environmental Prevention Strategies, which are population-based interventions that change the way individuals make decisions on the proposed action. This will allow our coalition members to be more hands-on with substance use and misuse prevention and reduction in Milwaukee County.
Find the new proposed by laws here
and vote below.
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Should MCSAP adopt the new proposed by-laws?
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MCSAP Member Questionnaire |
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We want to know more about you! We want to know what you like to do or what talents or skill sets you have. Please fill out our membership profile survey so we can understand who we have at our table. The responses will be shared with coalition staff to learn more about our members and best utilize your experience, skills, talents, and passion to reduce substance misuse in our communities.
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Call for Volunteers for Retailer Scan Project |
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MCSAP is partnering with other coalitions in Milwaukee County for a Counter Tools Retail Assessment Project. This would mean conducting a retail scan of gas stations and other retail outlets to better understand the landscape of product advertising and products available for purchase. This will help us do some critical work in compiling and assessing the data in order to use that to do further retailer outreach and education in an effort to make our retailers safe and unappealing to the young people in our community for purchasing substances such as alcohol, tobacco, and e-cigarette/vaping products.
To this end, we are compiling a list of volunteers who are interested in visiting retailers in our community and across Milwaukee County. All interested volunteers will go through a short, online training on the tool and the system you'll use to enter your data into. You can volunteer as little as one store visit or as many as you'd like! Our goal is to have the training around mid-September and then do the scans through mid-December. If you are interested, please email akohn@communityadvocates.net and I will be in touch with more information.
We appreciate you!
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MCSAP Marked International Overdose Awareness Day
August 31
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The MCSAP coalition observed International Overdose Awareness Day with a memorial event, resource fair, and community gathering in Zeidler Union Square on Tuesday, August 31. The event brought together substance use prevention experts, families and friends of those we lost to overdose, and individuals in recovery to recognize the impact overdose has had on our community and personal relationships.
Thank you to everyone who participated, shared information about the event, and is otherwise helping to prevent overdose from taking another life.
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Meet Gloria Marfo
MCSAP's New Mental Health and Wellness Coordinator
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Meet Gloria Marfo, our new Mental Health and Wellness Coordinator. Gloria began her career in public health in Baltimore, where she focused on violence prevention and substance use intervention. Most recently, she served as Program Coordinator of the Supporting Male Survivors of Violence grant at the Baltimore City Health Department. In that capacity, she facilitated community events, including weekly S.E.L.F. Community Conversations with young males of color and their families and the Summer Youth Engagement Program for young men of color. Gloria also served as a Trauma Programs Intern in Baltimore’s Office of Violence Prevention and as a Substance Use Programming and Educational Resources Peer Educator at the University of Maryland Health Center. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Community Health, Special Populations, from the University of Maryland. She and her husband currently serve as the youth leaders in their local church and in her spare time, you can find Gloria admiring the natural beauty that this world has to offer! You can get in touch with Gloria at gmarfo@communityadvocates.net.
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September is National Recovery Month and National Suicide Prevention Month |
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MCSAP wants to congratulate anyone who is either currently in active recovery or making steps, big or small, to get there. We understand how difficult the amazing accomplishment truly is and we are proud of you.
Read more about the importance of recovery month here.
Attend 8th Annual Rally for Recovery
Saturday, September 18 at 9 a.m. – 12 noon here.
We also want to highlight that this month is National Suicide Prevention Month, a month to highlight and remember those affected by suicide, to raise awareness on suicide prevention, and to help direct people to help.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Toll-Free Number: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
Register for Milwaukee Mental Health Task Force 2021 Karen Avery Forum: Celebrating Recovery, Ending Stigma, Embracing Possibilities, Tuesday, September 14. Register here.
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MCSAP Needs Panelist for Real Talk Friday: Honest Conversation on Recovery |
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MCSAP is hosting a Facebook Live panel on an honest conversation on what recovery looks like and means for different individuals and how they obtained and sustained their recovery. If you are in active recovery and would like to be involved in the panel, please email akohn@communityadvocates.net
The panel will be held September 24 from 10-11 a.m.
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Check Out MCSAP’s New Website |
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MCSAP has upgraded and enhanced our website with new resources, videos, calendar, and blog to provide better engagement with our partners and community members. Take a look at mcsapcoalition.org. And don’t forget to Like MCSAP on Facebook, where you’ll find continually updated news and resources.
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Substance Use Prevention in the News |
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A Proclamation on National Recovery Month, 2021-read here
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Youth film aims to build compassion for substance misuse-read here
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