One Community with One Voice

One Voice is committed to implementing seven strategies for community change: providing information, enhancing skills, providing support, reducing barriers, changing consequences, changing physical designs, and modifying/changing policies.

We do this by working courageously with our partners to build a safe, healthy, drug-free community for our adolescents and young adults.

One Voice joins with community members and organizations in the following sectors:

Youth – conduct peer to peer outreach and training, provide scholarship opportunities, community service projects, and community leadership opportunities.

Parents – conduct parent to parent outreach and education, promote social hosting laws, sponsor Safe Homes pledge to host alcohol/drug free gatherings.

Businesses – partner with local restaurants, liquor stores to promote legal sale of alcohol, engage marketing firms to promote OV materials, solicit sponsorships for scholarships. 

Media – publish press releases, advertisements in local papers, social media outreach of all campaigns and work of coalition. 

Schools – partner with coalition to conduct PRIDE student surveys, data collection, prevention education for students, interaction with clubs, work together on school policies on drug and alcohol.  

Youth-serving organizations – partner to protect our youth with campaigns aimed at prevention.  

Law enforcement – work with coalition on educating community about local conditions (crime, substance misuse); work with juvenile diversion program (LEAP), partner in Rx take back initiatives.

Religious or fraternal organizations – raise awareness of community concerns through educational summits for faith leaders, participation in One Voice weekend – where all places of worship address the same concern on the same weekend.  Provide opportunities for prevention education through religious formation classes, parent groups, youth ministries.  Click on the link for more information on: Faith-Based Programs.

Civic or volunteer groups – expand outreach through civic groups – engage community leaders in One Voice prevention initiatives.   

Healthcare professionals – work with health care professionals to collect data, educate medical staff of trends in youth drug use and disseminate information to patients through medical providers on harms of alcohol and drug use for our youth. Work with Hospice on Rx safety – disposal.  

State, local, or tribal governmental agencies with expertise in substance misuse – Engage local government leaders in youth substance misuse prevention; create open dialog for discussion of legislation affecting our youth. 

Other organizations involved in reducing substance misuse (treatment providers) – Partner with treatment facilities to collect focus group data, identify trends and promote prevention education materials.