Recognizing the need to reduce the use of drugs by the youths in our state, the Hawai‘i State Incentive Grant (SIG) was developed with two major goals:

• To reduce alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and other drug use and abuse among Hawai‘i's 12- to 17-year-olds by building a statewide system of enduring substance-abuse prevention partnerships
• To coordinate, leverage, and redirect substance-abuse prevention resources to communities, families, schools, and workplaces.

The Governor's Office of the State of Hawai‘i was awarded an $8.4 million grant by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMSA) Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP). This three-year grant is administered by the State Department of Health's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division (ADAD). The Center on the Family provides technical services, such as data collection and dissemination, for the Comprehensive Prevention Strategy, as well as training and technical assistance to communities operating prevention programs under the SIG.

As part of the strategic planning for the State Incentive Grant for Drug Abuse Prevention (SIG), the Center on the Family developed 13 Community Risk and Protection Profiles. These profiles serve as a foundation upon which community members can define the needs and strengths of their own neighborhoods in planning their prevention proposals. The Center on the Family continues to provide ongoing support to the SIG through the web-based dissemination of data collected for our community profiles as well as additional data collected by other organizations for various components of the overall state strategy. These additional components include the Bi-Annual Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use Survey of Hawai‘i's public and private, middle and high school students, the Social Indicators Study, and the Community Prevention Resource Assessment of local prevention programs and services.