YC²

Youth Community Coalition (YC2)

Please visit www.yc2.org for more information.

Mission

"Empowering Youth to Make Healthy Choices"

YC2 works toward decreasing substance abuse and promoting healthy behaviors among Columbia’ youth to foster their development into productive citizens. Over 70 organizations and individuals are represented on the Coalition’s membership roster, which also includes 24 youths. YC2 utilizes the following methodology to accomplish the group’s set 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

Meetings

Meetings are generally held on the third Thursday of each month at 3:30 p.m. in the Blind Boone Community Center, which is located at 301 N Providence Rd. Members take the opportunity to discuss and develop solutions for community issues, request assistance to address an issue, share information, and learn about progress toward the goals and objectives of the group. (Map to CHA.)

Upcoming Meetings

August 19th, 2010

September 16th, 2010

Funding

YC2 receives funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Drug Free Community Support Program) and the Missouri Department of Mental Health.

Contact Info

Coordinator:

Becky Markt at (573) 443-2556, ext 1250 (bmarkt@columbiaha.com)

Assistant Coordinator:

Ryan Worley (573) 443-2556, ext 1284 (rworley@columbiaha.com)

51

years serving low income families in Columbia

YC2