Positive Prevention in Upper Bucks County
In southeastern Pennsylvania, Upper Bucks Healthy Communities ● Healthy Youth Coalition (UBHCHY) represents an area covered by the three school districts of Upper Bucks County-Palisades, Pennridge, and Quakertown. 
One of the coalition’s major projects is the Social Norms initiative, a project aimed at changing the perceptions of teens, which began after the results from the community’s 2006 Profiles of Student Life: Attitudes and Behaviors survey showed that sixty-five percent of students did not use alcohol.
Mobilizing All Sectors to Increase Protective Factors
For the past twenty-five years, the Northeast Community Challenge (NECC) Coalition in Ohio has worked to prevent risk behaviors among youth. The coalition works within all sectors of four municipalities in Ohio: Blue Ash, Montgomery, Symmes Township, and Sycamore Township, to support a community-wide approach to prevention. NECC presents a comprehensive approach to working to build the Developmental Assets, utilizing them as protective factors in a prevention model to strengthen substance abuse prevention and increase protective factors for related risk behaviors.
Substance Abuse Prevention in Southwestern Missouri
With its roots in substance abuse prevention, Community Partnership of the Ozarks, in southwestern Missouri, uses the 40 assets as the foundation of all of their work on behalf of children and families. Serving 21 counties across the region, Community Partnership provides training, resources, and support to bring community sectors together to create positive change.
Community Partnership of the Ozarks began eighteen years ago when the community received a Fighting Back Grant to prevent substance abuse. Since then, their substance abuse and violence prevention programs have developed and expanded to serve people across the region in a multitude of ways.
For Further Reading and Information
Search Institute Insights & Evidence
Tapping the Power of Community: Building Assets to Strengthen Substance Abuse Prevention
A Quick-Start Guide to Building Assets in Your Prevention Program
