Possible Solutions
During the second Healthy Community meeting, we asked participants to brainstorm possible solutions to help Sand Point move towards being a healthier community. The list the group generated was extensive.
- Contact our legislators
- Communicate our crisis, our plan, and demonstrate our efforts
- Bring in more people to the group
- High School students, 20 and 30 year olds
- Alternative Solutions (on front or back end of the law)
- De-stigmatize behavioral
- More support for individuals ages 25 - 45 who want to get away
- Big Brother/Big Sister style program
- Role Model Program
- Peer Support for someone in recover
- A person or place someone can go to Immediately when they want help
- Someone who makes face to face contact with person who needs help
- Drug presentation with the High School
- Talking Circle with the High School
- Provide Counseling to School
- Talk to Kids about what they see as "reality" of drug or alcohol abuse
- Educate youth on the actual effects of the drugs they are using or may use
- More people teaching programs that teach respect
- Drug education
- More jobs brought to community
- "Boring Time" aka family time together
- Look closer at our children
- Come up with activities calendar for mixing adult, children, elders, etc.
- Place to go for adults, kids longer hours in the day with not so much distractions around
- utilize UAF interior Aleutians campus for education
- Guide young people to purchase some type of fishing permit (educate them about fisheries)
- Incorporate classes to teach about taxes and budgeting education
- Encourage family time (eat dinner together, talk to one another)
- Provide a safe home for those who return from rehab.
