Families Flourishing FredMO is a community team dedicated to strengthening families in our community and helping young people in Fredericktown discover a more positive future. Families Flourishing FredMO is the name of the local team in Fredericktown, MO that is working together to implement the PROSPER delivery model in our community. Through a partnership with the Fredericktown R-I School Distri
ct and the Madison County MU Extension program, the local Implementation Team (Families Flourishing FredMO) was formed and recruitment for additional team members from across our community began in the Summer of 2020. We are always looking to add members who want to be an active part of making a real and positive impact in our community. PROSPER stands for PROmoting School-community-university Partnerships to Enhance Resilience. PROSPER isnโt a program, rather it is a scientifically-proven delivery system that facilitates sustained, quality delivery of evidence-based programs that reduce risky youth behaviors, enhance positive youth development and strengthen families. This delivery system links university-based prevention researchers with two established program delivery systems within a stateโthe Cooperative Extension System at the Land Grant University and the public school system. Extension offers knowledge of the community and experience in disseminating educational programs. The public school system offers access to youth in the community and to educators who care about making a difference in the lives of students. PROSPER starts with these existing resources and then adds partnerships among the other key youth and family service providers in the community to form small, strategic teams. These community teams implement one family (Strengthening Families 10-14) and one school evidence-based program (Botvin Life Skills Training) and are supported throughout their programming effort by program area specialists and evaluation experts from their university's Extension System, and prevention scientists and PROSPER implementation coaches from Iowa State University.