Communities that Care (formerly Healthy Futures Initiative)

Communities That Care (CTC) is a coalition-based community prevention program that aims to prevent youth problem behaviors including underage drinking, tobacco use, violence, delinquency, school dropout, and substance abuse. CTC works through a community board to assess risk and protective factors among the youth in their community.

Summit County CTC Vision Statement

Summit County is a diverse community, actively supporting and inspiring youth and families to live, work, and play responsibly throughout life.

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Marijuana Perceptions in Summit County (pdf) 

2015 Survey Research Findings

Strategies and Projects

 
Healthy Futures Initiative works on a number of strategies to help reduce substance use in youth and to strengthen collaboration among community agencies. The current areas of focus for the coalition are:
  1. Community Collaboration: Identify champions and maintain collaboration of groups, individuals, boards and organizations, and provide opportunities for partnership.
  2. Reduce Youth Substance Use: Create healthy community norms through targeted education, outreach and policy changes; encourage positive changes in behaviors and attitudes related to substance use; increase public awareness.
  3. Parent Education and Support Groups: Educate parents about relevant topics (e.g., marijuana legalization, underage drug and alcohol use, prescription drug abuse) and provide a continuum of parent-support services to encourage healthy choices.
  4. Promote Youth leaders: Collaborate with Summit School District, CMC, local ski areas, businesses, and other community partners to help youth and young adults become leaders in the community in implementing a healthy behavior model.
  5. Advance Healthy Social Norms: Promote family-focused events that are substance free; work to ensure that substance use at other community events is responsible and safe.

​Suicide Prevention

The Suicide Prevention Action Team is a group of community leaders from partnering organizations and entities focused on community awareness, hosting suicide prevention trainings around the community, and providing support to those who have lost a loved one to suicide at the Suicide Loss Survivor Day each year. 

Preventing Rx Drug Abuse

View a video about our work to prevent prescription drug abuse.

Coalition Partners

 
Summit County Government, Summit County Sheriff’s Office, Fifth Judicial District Attorney’s Office and Office of Juvenile Diversion, Summit County Public Health, Summit School District, Snowy Peaks High School, The Peak School, Summit Middle School, Family and Intercultural Resource Center, Early Childhood Options, Advocates for Victims of Assault, The Summit Foundation, Summit Community Care Clinic, Mind Springs Health, The Building Hope Initiative, Town of Breckenridge, Breckenridge Police Department, Town of Dillon, Dillon Police Department, Town of Frisco, Frisco Police Department, Town of Silverthorne, Silverthorne Police Department, School Based Health Clinic, Arapahoe Basin Ski Area, Copper Mountain, SOS Outreach, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Storm Restaurants, St. Anthony's Centura Hospital