Alcohol, Drug & Violence Prevention

Thousands of children, service workers, in-home providers and teachers have been educated on the dangers of methamphetamine; a new grant to reduce underage and binge drinking among 12-25 year olds has brought new partners and resources to the table; and a national expert on gangs was brought to Springfield and provided awareness and training to our schools and community.

Our Prevention efforts in Springfield / Greene County and 21 counties in southwest Missouri include:

Designated as the Southwest Prevention Support Center by the Missouri Division for Alcohol and Drug Abuse.
School based programming in Carthage
A prevention program for rural Head Starts teaching the health hazards of second hand smoke to parents and children
Task forces on underage drinking, violence prevention, methamphetamine awareness, gangs & youth violence and tobacco
TeenNet - a youth-led prevention coalition
Youth Tobacco Education Program (YTEP)

Bill Shore, in his book, "The Cathedral Within," reflects that "the vast majority of those who worked on the cathedrals did so knowing that they would not live to see the final achievement." We, as Community Partnership and we, as a community, may never see the final result of our many prevention efforts, but issue by issue, solution by solution, community by community, we can create something of great value.

Regional Initiatives

Local Initiatives

Within Springfield, Support Center staff provide guidance and direction to many task forces, coalitions and teams. Highlights of five of these teams appear below.

Community & Capacity Building

At the heart of the Partnership is the belief that facilitating positive change, while building the capacity of organizations, agencies and individuals, will lead to long-term measurable outcomes. Community and capacity building is about using ideas and resources in new ways to strengthen communities and the residents that live there. As good stewards of our ever shrinking federal, state and local resources, we recognize that community and capacity building is not a luxury, but a necessity.

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Children & Child
Well-Being

More than two-thirds of America's young people ages 6-17 are not receiving enough of the Five Promises to be confident of success. Too many are not ready to enter school and fail once they enter, are physically unfit, engage in negative behaviors, or are a victim of abuse and neglect. We must do more!

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