Action to Prevent Substance Use
Healthy Communities of the Capital Area (HCCA) provides support and resources to local community partners, including law enforcement, schools and youth organizations, parent groups, and other organizations to increase service area wide substance abuse prevention efforts. It works through a Drug Free Communities funded coalition, the Southern Kennebec Alliance for Substance Abuse Prevention (ASAP) to engage the community and to plan and take a broad based, multi-faceted strategy.
As a programmatic partner in preventing and reducing substance misuse and abuse, HCCA integrates substance abuse prevention into many other school and youth, worksite, and community initiatives that it undertakes.
As the corporate host, funder and provider of staffing to support the coalition, HCCA works hard to help the coalition develop and sustain itself as an independent community based entity that takes actions that are high priorities to the coalition as a whole, and that will, over time, have a powerful impact on the problem.
Making Connections... Improving Lives...
For more information on how our communities are taking action in each area, and how you can get involved, click on these links:
Reducing Access: Working With Law Enforcement; Schools and Communities; Retailers; Parents
Increasing Awareness of the Risks of Use: Working With Youth; Schools and Communities; Parents
Increasing Consequences, Awareness of Consequences: Law Enforcement; Schools and Communities; Parents
Increasing Skills to Make Healthy Choices: Youth Young Adults (PRIME for Life classes)
Increasing Community Assets: Under development
Guiding and managing ALL these strategies:
The Southern Alliance for Substance Abuse Prevention: Its Members and Partners
Staff Supporting the Various Substance Abuse Prevention Initiatives of the SAWG and HCCA, As Partner and Corporate Host:
Staff Contact Information
Our local service area includes: Augusta, Chelsea, Farmingdale, Fayette, Gardiner, Hallowell, Litchfield, Manchester, Monmouth, Mount Vernon, Pittston, Randolph, Readfield, Richmond, Vienna, Wayne, West Gardiner, Windsor, Winthrop.
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