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LAKES AREA COMMUNITY COALITION

Cause Area

  • Children & Youth
  • Community
  • Crisis Support
  • Health & Medicine

Location

PO BOX 813WALLED LAKE, MI 48390 United States

Organization Information

Mission Statement

The mission of the Lakes Area Community Coalition is to prevent drug and alcohol use among our youth by promoting healthy activities that reduce risk factors and increase protective factors.​

Description

The Lakes Area Community Coalition is a non-profit organization with the following purposes:

Involve youth in aspects of goal setting, planning strategies, and implementation of activities.

To serve the community by promoting awareness, support, and opportunities aimed at reducing high-risk behaviors including alcohol, tobacco and other drug use so our youth may grow to their greatest potential.

To foster the coordination of existing community resources in effectively addressing the problem.

To collaborate with other community organizations to fill these gaps in the community’s alcohol and drug abuse prevention efforts, as available.

To provide advice, advocacy, coordination, information, research and evaluation, technical support, and training as needed to accomplish these objectives.

To secure funding through grants, contributions, and/or fundraisers to enable the Coalition to achieve its goals.

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by Kristy M. from Princeton, WV (January 30, 2018)
I've been volunteering with this organization for a few months now and it's been great. Everyone there is really awesome and easy to work with and it feels good to know that we're helping make a difference in the world. :)

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