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= Initiative = Asset Building Organization = Initiative Youth Community Coalition (YC2)
Columbia, Boone County, Missouri
The Youth Community Coalition (YC2) is an intergenerational coalition made up of organizations, agencies, entities, and individuals who share the vision of “Empowering Youth to Make Healthy Choices”. YC2 has one full-time staff member. The group operates with funding provided by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration Drug Free Community Support Program and the Missouri Department of Mental Health State Strategic Prevention Framework Project. YC2 applies the 40 Developmental Assets® and the 5 Promises framework to impact the ability of youth to succeed and thereby affect the outcomes required by its funding sources.
The Coalition uses the following methodology to accomplish the group’s established goals and objectives.
- Mobilization of the community.
- Connecting and analyzing local indicator data.
- Prioritizing the community’s key issues.
- Educating community members and key leaders and involving them in solutions.
- Fostering partnerships between all sectors of the community to involve everyone on the solution.
- Advocating for the use of prevention science and measurable outcomes in programming.
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