TOGETHER

“When you meet someone, you don’t know how important that relationship will become down the road.”

Through TASC, McQueen has made professional connections to help improve recovery service for individuals on community supervision. For example, he helped increase the accessibility of NaloxBoxes, an emergency intervention tool for opioid overdose.

“When you focus down at the community level, you’re looking at the values, cultures and resources of each community and their people,” Adams said. “The program focuses on the assets communities already have and provides the curriculum to help make meaningful change.”

In addition to Wayne County, TASC has been implemented in Clark , Newton, Jasper and Tippecanoe counties. Collaborators from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, The Ohio State University and Turtle Mountain Community College are implementing community-shaped iterations of the program beyond Indiana.

Program Impact

A coalition is formed when multiple groups work together to achieve a common goal. TASC HELPS COALITIONS IDENTIFY THEIR COUNTY’S NEEDS and set goals to address them. Purdue Extension educators support coalitions throughout the state.