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Boyle Heights Coalition for a Safe & Drug-Free Community |
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What is the Boyle Heights Coalition?
It is a community based alliance that incorporates multiple community sectors and serves as a platform to reduce violence and substance abuse in our community through environmental change strategies.
Mission Statement
The Boyle Heights Coalition for a Safe and Drug-Free Community will involve various vested community stakeholders in the effort to prevent and reduce substance abuse among youth through education, advocacy and prevention programs. Through these efforts we will support and empower community members to encourage and support self-sustaining prevention programs to keep youth in positive and healthy life styles.
Goals
- To encourage community leaders, schools, youth, business, residents and representatives from diverse organizations and communities to effectively coordinate and develop communication, prevention programs and initiatives.
- Increase local community participation and support to establish self-sustaining comprehensive programs in Boyle Heights and surrounding communities.
- To reduce youth violence in Boyle Heights and surrounding communities.
- To influence policy that will impact substance abuse and violence among youth.
- To develop opportunities for parental involvement.
- To distribute substance abuse and violence prevention information among youth.
- To reduce factors that negatively affect youth at risk.
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SMART Moves Initiative
The goal of our SMART Moves Initiative is to reduce violence and substance abuse among youth in our community. SMART Moves Initiative consists of several approaches and tools with the common goal of reducing violence and substance abuse in our community. Different resources and tools available include curriculum, information, marketing materials, prevention programs and advocacy campaigns among others.
Curriculum & Prevention Programs
Age appropriate curriculums & programs are available for educators, CBO's and other community leaders to use in small groups.
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- SMART Kids (ages 6-9)
- Start SMART (ages 10-12)
- Stay SMART (ages 13-15)
- SMART Parents
- Street SMART
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- SMART Friends (schools, CBO's, community leaders)
- SMART Girls
- Passport to Manhood
- Date SMART
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Active Clubs
Ambassador Club Is our group of young leaders actively involved in reducing violence & substance abuse in our community. The Ambassadors are part of a prevention workforce development initiative. They also participate in coalition meetings and represent the voice of youth in our community.
Family Advocacy Network (FAN Club) Is our group of parents primarily involved in reducing violence & substance abuse in our community; FAN Club members are also empowered to be actively involved in their children education, health, and other issues of significant importance for our community.
Community Representation
The Boyle Heights Coalition for a Safe & Drug-Free Community is a group of community leaders with representatives from our community, for our community. The sectors represented include:
- Youth
- Parents
- Schools
- Religious organizations
- Youth serving organizations
- Law enforcement agencies
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- Health care professionals
- Business community
- Media
- Civic & volunteer organizations
- State, local governmental agencies
- Others involved in reducing violence & substance abuse
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