Welcome to Strong Families/Great Youth Coalition
Reducing risk factors and increasing protective
factors in youth under age 18
The Strong Families/ Great Youth Coalition is a working coalition that will serve as a vehicle to foster increased collaboration, reduce duplication of services, coordinate funding efforts, collect programmatic data, increase environmental efforts to positively effect the community’s perception of youth and youth behaviors. The Strong Families/ Great Youth Coalition will respond to the needs of youth and families in the community as identified through the Community Needs Assessment and the Youth Data Survey produced by the Healthy Community Council and the Office on Children and Youth as well as responding to emerging community needs.
Areas of focus include but are not limited to:
- Reducing alcohol use
- Reducing tobacco use
- Reducing illegal drug use
- Reducing unintentional injury
- Reducing Teen pregnancy
- Increasing school attendance and reducing truancy
- Reducing threats and acts of violence among youth and preventing gang activity
- Increasing access and understanding of mental health and substance abuse issues related to youth
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Parenting Classes - more
Address
Strong Families/Great Youth Coalition
PO Box 184
Harrisonburg, VA 22803
Phone: 540-433-4421
Fax: 540-564-7054
E-mail: creeves@rhcc.com
Phone: 540-433-4421
Fax: 540-564-7054 E-mail:
creeves@rhcc.com