Building Strong COMMUNITIES
Reaching across invisible borders and boundaries and effectively leveraging resources to fill the gaps in services where needed
May is Mental Health Awareness Month!
We’re Social
✨A big “THANK YOU” to Professor Pace and her criminology students at Concord University for their donation of hygiene bags in the local blessing boxes. 🌼💝![]()
#communitysupport #springhassprung #athenswv #mercerwv
✨ The NEW D.A.R.E. Program - this one works! - provides general life skills education to support good decision-making for a safe and healthy life. ![]()
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🦁Rather than being trained to implement one curriculum for every student, officers meet students where they are.![]()
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🦁Rather than asking kids to ‘Just Say No,’ as past generations learned, today’s D.A.R.E. participants are building risk management tool belts. ![]()
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🦁The kids gain applicable ways to maintain friendships and engage with social events in complicated spaces like high school without feeling they have to partake in binge drinking, joint passing, or other risky activities if they don’t want to.”![]()
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💻 Learn more here: dare.org/the-new-dare-program-this-one-works/![]()
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#dareamerica #dareprogram #dareamericainternational #dareinternational #dareofficer #DARE #communitypolicing #educationisprevention
✨ What a fun day with our friends at The Wade Center and Bluefield, WV Police Department! 👮🏽🚓![]()
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We read “Friends Beyond Measure” about friendship and the different types of charts. 📈📉 And today’s STEM program focused on math and coding to build problem-solving & critical thinking skills. 🧮🤓 THEN, we went outside in this beautiful, sunny weather to learn about & break geodes! 🪨⛏️☀️![]()
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Thank you to our program partner Community Foundation of the Virginias, Inc. - we sincerely appreciate you! 👏🏻
Honored to support our Family Support Centers in southern WV and our newest expansion in Raleigh County!![]()
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Raleigh County Healthy Families Alliance & Support Center
We Are Committed
to growing a healthier, stronger community for youth and their families through collaboration and implementation of unique, innovative approaches. We’re dedicated to growing caring, motivated, integrated, and substance-free citizens of our community.
