We are planning on an in-person San Juan County Fair, August 17-20, 2022, so we are hoping to recruit some volunteers to help us with our signature event: Healthy Message T-Shirt Activity!

Interested? Contact us for details. Remember, local students participating in the San Juan Island Service Scholarship program can earn qualifying volunteer hours helping the San Juan Island Prevention Coalition anytime we offer an event or activity, like this one!

This all-day, in-person event is designed to inspire young people from prevention-focused youth groups across Whatcom, Skagit, Snohomish, Island, and San Juan counties. This event is FREE for youth in grades 8-11 and their Adult Advisers and will be led by a renowned facilitator, Solomon Masala.  This will be a very fun and interactive day focused on growing leadership and communication skills through very engaging activities such as group drumming, team-building challenges, small group activities with other local youth, as well as a motivational speaker and magician Nash Fung! Contact us for details!

5 Permanent Drop-Off Locations:

Congrats Team! We are thrilled with your success and dedication to promoting health!

Press Release Rock Solid SJIPC:CADCA 2022

We are thrilled to share Luke Fincher, President of Rock Solid, our coalition’s Youth Team, is presenting at this year’s Forum in Washington DC! Congratulations, Luke! Team member, Haley Rennick, will be attending, too! Haley will be engaged in various workshops of interest to her, so she can bring her new knowledge and confidence back to our community to help continue to promote health and well-being:) Kudos!

CADCA’s National Leadership Forum is a four-day conference packed with multiple adults and youth-oriented opportunities to learn the latest strategies to fight substance misuse and hear from nationally-known experts and policymakers with a full day dedicated to Capitol Hill events. The Forum is held in the Washington, DC area every year, normally the first week of February, and brings together more than 3,000 participants representing community anti-drug coalitions, government leaders, youth, addiction treatment professionals, researchers, educators, law enforcement professionals, youth, and faith-based leaders.

Peer 2 Peer: High School Training

• Friday, January 21st ~8:30/8:45 start time to 2:30
  • The start time will be a bit flexible as students are arriving. We hope to have a group craft for groups to begin working on as each school has a slightly different start time.
• Location: At your school on Zoom with Rock Solid team members
• Registration is available soon! We hope to close the registration at the latest date of January 10th so that we have adequate time to mail supplies for the training to our groups.
• Contact Adult Team Advisor, Debbi Fincher, media@sjipc.org, or Peer 2 Peer Regional Trainer, Luke Fincher

Use your new skills to help teach these important health topics to other students in our middle school and beyond!

Rock Solid is in their 3rd year of Peer 2 Peer and have been recognized on local, regional, state, and national levels for their dedication and determination to help others:) Join the team! 

Meet and Greet:

• Wednesday, December 8^th from 4:00-5:00
• Location: Zoom  (Contact us for the link!)
• This will be a fun and interactive time to get together across the region, meet other teens and ask questions to other peers about the program, AND learn about the new incentive piece! Come to this if you or your groups are not sure if they want to participate OR if your group is experienced and committed so they can encourage other groups!

Peer 2 Peer: High School Training

• Friday, January 21^st ~8:30/8:45 start time to 2:30
  • The start time will be a bit flexible as students are arriving. We hope to have a group craft for groups to begin working on as each school has a slightly different start time.
• Location: At your school on Zoom with Rock Solid team members
• Registration is available soon! We hope to close the registration at the latest date of January 10^th so that we have adequate time to mail supplies for the training to our groups. Contact Adult Team Advisor, Debbi Fincher, media@sjipc.org
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ONLINE SURVEY ENGLISH

https://www.research.net/r/SAJUSAJUEN2021

 ONLINE SURVEY SPANISH

https://es.research.net/r/SJSAJUSP2021

This survey provides the San Juan Island Prevention Coalition (SJIPC) with some local information about community perceptions and to look at it as one point of data reference along with the Healthy Youth Survey, school intervention data that the Student Assistant Professional collects, and the program assessments for the programs that the SJIPC helps to fund: Community Based Mentoring and Strengthening Families provided by the Joyce L. Sobel Family Resource Center, Second Step in the elementary school, LifeSkills Training in Grade 6 at FHMS, and the SAP (formerly the Prevention Intervention Specialist full-time position with now titled the Student Assistance Professional) that provides full-time prevention intervention support at the middle and high schools through support of the NWESD’s and the Coalition’s CPWI (Community Prevention and Wellness Initiative) partnership. Most importantly, CPWI has helped the SJIPC to support the growth of youth leadership prevention clubs, Rock Solid, HOTS, and HOT, Jr. The SJIPC has a robust social media presence that links to national, regional, and state public awareness campaigns.

Please help the SJIPC to gain continued support through the WA Health Care  Authority’s Community Prevention and Wellness Initiative, which invests in our community by formalizing and support coordination of community-based decision-making, by completing this survey. San Juan Island Prevention Coalition was founded in December 2003, and began receiving federal Drug-Free Communities funding in 2004, and had the benefit of that support for ten years. SJIPC has been able to sustain its work through CPWI funding, a mix of federal block grant funding (Substance Abuse Block Grant/SABG), and state Dedicated Marijuana Account (DMA) dollars. As a CPWI coalition, the SJIPC also have been able to receive federal Partnership for Success (PFS) supplemental funds that helped them to pilot the very successful Second Step program in grades K-5. Thank you for completing this short 5-minute survey.