Who We Are

The Huron Valley Community Coalition is a volunteer, collaborative organization dedicated to supporting healthy lifestyles, preventing and reducing substance abuse, and promoting safety across all sectors of the community. The Coalition is comprised of the communities in the Huron Valley School District, including Commerce, Milford, Highland and White Lake.

What We Do

We collaborate with our community to:

· Increase knowledge about substance abuse issues, trends, and prevention strategies.
· Build skills to understand, resist and deal with substance abuse in the community.
· Furnish parents with resources they can use with their family.
· Partner with the schools to reinforce the materials available to parents.
· Support student activities and events that focus on healthy lifestyles and preventing substance abuse.

What is a Community Coalition?

A community-wide approach to prevent and reduce substance abuse

· Using strengths and resources of individuals and organizations
· Collaborating and partnering
· Providing support and information that people need to make healthy lifestyle choices
Goal: Youth are then less likely to choose to use alcohol, tobacco or other drugs

Multiple Strategies over Multiple Sectors

1. Increasing knowledge and raising awareness about substance abuse issues, trends, the coalition approach and prevention strategies.

2. Developing and improving skills and competencies of a given group to understand, resist and deal with substance abuse issues both personally and in the community.

3. Supporting efforts of organization or institutions to initiate or continue policies relevant to substance abuse prevention.

4. Increasing access to prevention services and providing for early identification of problem behavior and referral.

5. Increasing the coalition's viability and that of community groups to provide activities in the future.

6. Addressing those issues in the environment that restructure people's choices, change the way the community does business, and changes the way people perceive the community.