What is a community coalition?
A community-wide approach to prevent and reduce substance abuse
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*Using strengths and resources of individuals and organizations
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*Collaborating and partnering
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*Provide support and information that people need to make healthy lifestyle choices
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Goal: Youth are then less likely to choose use alcohol, tobacco or other drugs
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- Increasing knowledge and raising awareness about substance abuse issues, trends, the coalition approach and prevention strategies.
- Developing and improving skills and competencies of a given group to understand, resist and deal with substance abuse issues both personally and in the community.
- Supporting efforts of organization or institutions to initiate or continue policies relevant to substance abuse prevention.
- Increasing access to prevention services and providing for early identification of problem behavior and referral.
- Increasing the coalition’s viability and that of community groups to provide activities in the future.
- Addressing those issues in the environment that restructure people’s choices, change the way the community does business, and changes the way people perceive the community.
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