Prevention Coalitions
Supporting Youth Safety and Resiliency
We partner with community organizations and all seven Whatcom County school districts to coordinate and support prevention coalitions and community groups. These coalitions work with schools and others to increase connections and support healthy youth and families.
Get involved in your local coalition to support:
- Campaigns, programs, and projects that promote healthy choices and connections with peers, family, school, and community.
- Parent-child programs.
- Training for youth, parents, and professionals.
- Youth-led prevention clubs and events.
- School-based case management and groups.
- School counselors for prevention and intervention.
- Changes to policies that increase healthy choices for everyone, like the laws to limit vaping in public places or creating a county-wide program for safe, secure medicine disposal.
Youth prevention coalitions in Whatcom County consist of multiple sectors of the community, including youth, parents, law enforcement, businesses, schools, and family and youth-serving organizations.
- Birch Bay / Blaine Thrives
- Ferndale Community Coalition
- Mount Baker Community Coalition
- Whatcom Prevention Coalition
Birch Bay/Blaine (BBB) Thrives: Collective Impact Initiative
Key stakeholders come together to support various healthy community initiatives in the Blaine, Birch Bay, and Point Roberts communities. BBB Thrives supports strategies that create important family, school, and community connections. The narrative of BBB Thrives is about possibilities, hope, compassionate courage, and support.
- Contact: Email Kari Holley.
Ferndale Community Coalition
The Ferndale Community Coalition envisions a courageous community, where all young people thrive. The mission of the Ferndale Community Coalition is to engage the community to promote healthy youth development by addressing equity, safety, and substance use issues.
- Learn more on our page at the City of Ferndale
- Visit us on Facebook.
- Contact: Email Rebecca Snearly.
Ferndale Community Coalition activities are funded in part through the Community Prevention and Wellness Initiative (Washington State Health Care Authority).
Mount Baker Community Coalition
The mission of the Mount Baker Community Coalition is to strategically build a strong community that offers well-being to all by focusing on youth and families, through substance use/abuse prevention strategies and mental health promotion. We work together to provide education and resources, reduce risks, increase protective factors, and leverage community strengths and assets.
- Visit us on Facebook.
- Contact: Email Coalition Coordinator.
Mount Baker Community Coalition activities are funded in part through the Community Prevention and Wellness Initiative (Washington State Health Care Authority).
Whatcom Prevention Coalition
The mission of the Whatcom Prevention Coalition is to build safe and healthy communities by providing leadership, promoting prevention, and building partnerships that mobilize youth, families, and neighborhoods to reduce substance use and other harmful behaviors among youth and the broader community.
- Visit us on Facebook.
- Contact: Email Lisa Moulds or Email Joe Fuller.
Whatcom Prevention Coalition activities are funded in part through the Community Prevention and Wellness Initiative (Washington State Health Care Authority).