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| Fall 2011: Celebrating our 15th Anniversary!
Wahkiakum Community Network has had the privilege of serving our beautiful county, our families and our youth since 1996. During the past 15 years, we have grown into a coalition of 32 diverse board members representing multiple sectors and partners of the community. Our coalition provides technical and financial support to local service providers to ensure vital services are available for our families.
Since 1996, our coalition has been instrumental in providing local support for programs like youth mentoring, parenting education, mobilizing volunteerism, continuing education scholarships for our youth, developing youth leadership programs and investing over one million ...read more |
Summer 2011: “Volunteerism knows no boundaries! It can be as simple as a young neighbor helping in an emergency, a youth who prioritized time to help another student, or a student who participated in a pledge drive to educate peers on the impact of drinking and driving.”
Wahkiakum Community Network put out a request to the public, “Do you know of a youth volunteer?” To this question we received 65 nominations!
The Skamokawa Grange was filled to capacity...read more |
| Winter 2010: February is nationally recognized as Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month. In honor of this The Charlotte House is offering a FREE opportunity to parents and others who work with and/or care about teens.
In Their Shoes is a scenario-based training designed to help participants learn what dating is like for to-day’s teens – from their per-spective.
What we hope to achieve with this activity is to: Increase awareness of teen dating violence. Help adults who work with teens recognize...read more |
Fall 2010: Each year Wahkiakum Community
Network sponsors local
youth members to attend Community
Anti-Drug Coalitions of
America National Youth Leadership
Conference. CADCA’s
forum brings together more than
2,500 participants representing
community anti-drug coalitions
from all regions of the country,
government leaders, youth, addiction
treatment professionals,
researchers, educators, law enforcement
professionals and
faith based leaders.
In July, seven of our youth
board members...read more |
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Obama Administration Releases Blueprint to Reduce Drug Use and Its Consequences
(Washington, D.C.) - Today, Gil Kerlikowske, Director of National Drug Control Policy released the Administration’s 2011 National Drug Control Strategy at events in Ohio. This Strategy coordinates an unprecedented government-wide public health and safety approach to reduce drug use and its consequences in the United States.
The Administration’s new Strategy continues to expand upon a balanced approach to drug control that emphasizes community-based drug prevention, integration of drug treatment into the mainstream health care system, innovations in the criminal justice system to break the cycle of drug use and crime, and international partnerships to disrupt transnational drug trafficking organizations.
For the first time, the 2011 Strategy outlines specific actions designed to improve the health and safety...read more |
The Journal of Preventive Medicine published an article by David Brown, Rob Anda, Vincent Felitti, and others linking cumulative effects of Adverse Childhood Experience with early death.
That article is the latest of dozens of articles from the Adverse Childhood Experience Study that Community Networks have used as a cornerstone of our education work for a decade. The researchers have been very generous with their time and expertise helping Family Policy Council and the Community Networks to craft high-leverage strategies for reducing the rates of social problems.
The article and our work in Washington state are receiving national media attention. Washington State's leading edge work applying Adverse Childhood Experience study findings is featured in an article by the LJ World, a new approach to media that emphasizes social media. Significant initiatives are under way in New York, Wisconsin, Maine, Arizona and Ohio. But the pioneer is Washington State, which read more |
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Second Hand Smoke |
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Teens Number One Concern |
If a Child Reaches 21 and Doesn't Drink |
How To Tell If Your Teen Is Using |
