Future Leaders
Community Youth in Action
Amplifying youth voices within community alliances to support prevention, create action, and inspire service.
About cya
In 2018, stakeholders, business owners, youth, and parents met to discuss the need for a solid drug-free community coalition that addressed youth drug and alcohol prevention services in the southeast Idaho region. They collaborated to form a youth-led, adult-guided coalition to address community needs. We work to educate teens about the dangers of substance use and provide parents, caregivers, and community leaders with current factual information about drug use trends and proven prevention strategies. Coalition activities are guided by the Strategic Prevention Framework and the Seven Strategies to Affect Community Change and meet monthly to discuss community issues and solutions.
What we do
Just a few of the programs the CYA Coalition team focuses on include community volunteer projects, substance abuse and suicide prevention, youth leadership, evidence-based prevention classes, safe & sober activities, parent education, the annual TRAPPED Leadership Retreat, school assemblies, community presentations, and parent education.
Our funding
CYA is funded through the DFC Community Grant & Idaho Office of Drug Policy SABG Glock Grant
The Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program is the nation’s leading effort to mobilize communities to prevent and reduce substance use among youth. Created in 1997 by the Drug-Free Communities Act, administered by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), and managed through a partnership between ONDCP and CDC, the DFC program provides grants to community coalitions to strengthen the infrastructure among local partners to create and sustain a reduction in local youth substance use.
The Idaho Office of Drug Policy and the SABG program’s objective is to help plan, implement, and evaluate activities that prevent and treat substance abuse.
