San Marcos Prevention Coalition Goals:
- Establish and strengthen collaboration among communities, public and private non-profit agencies, and federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support the efforts of community coalitions working to prevent and reduce substance use among youth.
- Reduce substance use among youth and, over time, reduce substance abuse among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse.
San Marcos Prevention Coalition Vision:
- To build synergy amongst individual organizations invested in San Marcos.
- To create a culture of prevention in our community.
- To get out in front of our community’s substance abuse problems.
Prevention is:
- The promotion of constructive lifestyles and norms that discourage destructive behavior; it is an ongoing process that must relate to each emerging generation.
Intervention is:
- Any outside process that has the effect of modifying an individual’s past and ongoing behavior, cognition, or emotional state.
In San Marcos there are a plethora of intervention resources. Individually they are doing an adequate job of responding to issues regarding alcohol, drugs, tobacco, violence and bullying. We agree that as a community we could do a better job by identifying San Marcos’ needs and providing valuable, results driven prevention programs.