About
Us
Our
Mission
The mission of the Community Partnership is to work together
with all segments of the community to promote healthy lifestyles
for young people. We accomplish this by
- Promoting
responsible decision making
- Encouraging
emotional health and well-being
- Developing
youth leadership and self-esteem
- Promoting
healthy sexuality
- Preventing
alcohol and other drug use
- Promoting
healthy families
Our
Philosophy
The guiding philosophy of the Community Partnership is that people
working together can accomplish anything. For the past seventeen
years individuals, agencies, and organizations have been coming
together to identify solutions to the many challenges facing young
people, their families, and their communities. Together, nonprofit
and for profit organizations, agencies, schools, churches, youth,
and parents pool their resources and their expertise. It works!
Our
Partners*
*See Partners
for a Drug Free Chisago County for complete list
Awards
and Recognitions
The Community Partnership has been awarded the following national
distinctions:
- In
1988 the US Department of Health and Human Services selected
the Partnership as one of five organizations nationally to conduct
a pilot project to prevent teen pregnancy.
-
In 1989 the federal Office of Substance Abuse Prevention selected
the Partnership as one of fifteen exemplary programs in the
country for our efforts to prevent substance use and abuse in
Chisago County.
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In 1994 the federal Center for Substance Abuse Prevention awarded
the Partnership's Teen Improv Theatre program its highest honor,
the Promising Practices in Prevention distinction for Improv's
success in rallying entire communities around substance abuse
prevention.
