Volunteers Offering Involvement in Communities to Expand Services
Vision Statement
Community members uniting to create a safe environment for families to nurture and protect children and youth through education & awareness.
Mission Statement
To empower communities to create positive changes in attitudes, behaviors and policies to prevent and reduce at risk behavior in youth with a unified focus on alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.
What is VOICES?
VOICES is a community coalition funded by the Texas Department of State Health Services, established for the purpose of assisting communities in developing policies, procedures and activities to prevent youth from using alcohol, drugs, and tobacco.
VOICES Community Coalition will implement strategies designed to accomplish the following goals:
- To prevent and reduce substance abuse among youth in each community served
- To strengthen collaboration in communities and link them to existing community-based prevention, intervention, and treatment services.
Who is VOICES?
VOICES is actively seeking volunteers from Lubbock, Crosby, Hockley, Lynn, Terry and Hale counties to serve as members of the coalition.
Members will have the opportunity to:
Members will have the opportunity to:
- Be an advocate for community needs that relate to substance abuse and chemical dependency issues among youth.
- Provide referrals for youth affected by substance use/abuse and chemical dependency.
- Participate in various prevention conferences statewide.
Schools
Businesses Media | Parents Community Organizations
Churches State/Government Agencies Youth Health Care Organizations |
"In every community there is work to be done. In every nation there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it."
-- Marianne Williamson | "I shall pass though this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
-- Etienne de Grellet |
VOICES of the South Plains Community Coalition is sponsored by Managed Care Center for Addictive/Other Disorders Inc.
This publication described was supported by grant number 2010-031982002 from Texas Department of State Health Services. The project described was supported by grant number 2010-031982002 from Texas Department of State Health Services. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Texas Department of State Health Services.
