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Coalition for Drug-Free Youth

Coalition for Drug-Free Youth

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The Coalition for Drug-Free Youth educates, inspires, and empowers our community to support youth and to create a safe, healthy environment aimed at addressing alcohol, tobacco, and other drug problems.

Partners

White Center Community Development Association

White Center Food Bank

New Start High School

YWCA White Center

Healthy King County Coalition

Neighborhood House

Southwest Youth & Family Services

King County Library System

Puget Sound Educational Service District

Kiwanis Club of White Center

King County Department of Community and Human Services

Burien Parks

Burien PaRCS

Washington State Health Care Authority

King County Parks and Recreation

King County Housing Authority

Cascade Middle School

Highline Public Schools

Evergreen High School

Who Do We Serve?

The White Center/North Highline community is rich in the cultural diversity that comes with a mix of refugees and immigrants, people of color, ethnicity, country of origin and spoken languages. It's a youthful community, with more than 40% of children and teens in King County living in South King County. This diversity also creates the challenge of engaging community members in school and community activities outside of their respective ethnic enclaves. The majority of immigrants and refugees speak a language other than English at home: most common being Spanish, Somali, Vietnamese and Khmer/ Cambodian.

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Programs

Life Skills Program at Cascade Middle School

LifeSkills Training (LST) is a school-based classroom intervention to reduce the risks of alcohol, tobacco, drug abuse, and violence by targeting social and psychological factors associated with the initiation of risky behaviors.

Art and Social Justice Group

Beginning during the Fall of 2021 the group is facilitated by our student assistant professional and a volunteer to bring art activities to youth in both middle school and high school. The group focuses on teaching students about identity, diversity, intersectionality, leaders of social movements, and art skills(watercolor, collage, painting, drawing).

Leaders of Change Club at Evergreen High School

Our prevention club has been in existence for five years and is facilitated by our student assistant program. Students choose projects they are excited about related to their strengths and do community service.

Community Garden Project

The Shark Garden at New Start High School is accepting art submissions from local youth and community members for the garden fence. Art will be related to gardening, gardens, produce, flowers, nature, wildlife of Puget Sound &, etc. The goal of the Community Art Project is to place a permanent art installation on the New Start Community Garden fence at the New Start High School in Burien that features garden-related art and reflects the culture of the school and the surrounding communities.

Guiding Good Choices

The Coalition for Drug-Free Youth & Southwest Youth & Family Services present this five-week program for parents. Learn to: • Help your child to stop, think & control impulses • Communicate peer pressure refusal skills • Understand adolescent brain development & how it affects behaviors • Develop healthy beliefs & clear standards with your family • Strengthen family bonds • Reduce family conflict through anger management