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Mission & History

Mission & History
The Raymond Coalition For Youth was established in 2002 to Promote Positive Healthy Choices for Youth.
 
Our Mission – Raymond Coalition For Youth empowers the community to promote positive youth development and reduce youth substance use and suicide risk.
 
Our Vision – To build a strong, youth empowered, community.
 
Our Goals – 
  1. Increase Community involvement and collaboration
  2. Engage and Empower youth voice
  3. Reduce Youth Substance use
  4. Ensure the long-term sustainability and success of RCFY.

The Raymond Coalition For Youth is a bipartisan coalition that works with everyone in our community, across all sectors of the community.

Our goal is to engage, educate and empower everyone with the understanding that - mental health and substance misuse impacts and affects everyone in a community.  It does not care how much money you have, where you live or whom you vote for.

RCFY is made up of individuals, businesses and organizations who work together to promote health and wellbeing while supporting mental health and substance misuse awareness and prevention, which includes limiting access to harmful substances.

Our partners includes our elected officials at a local, regional, state and federal level from all political parties. RCFY as an organization does not endorse any individual candidate or party.  We do however work to provide information and awareness to have informed candidates who understand the issues our youth are dealing with that impact them living healthy, happy lives.  

The use of RCFY intellectual property does not constitute an endorsement of the Raymond Coalition For Youth.

Our community work is only successful when we do it with our community partners.

We Promote Positive Healthy Choices for Youth!

Our annual reports tell our story best!   

Click on the red link below to see a downloadable, full color book. to check out our work. 

This work is done together with our amazing partners and community members!

Identifying a comprehensive selection of evidence-based substance abuse prevention strategies/interventions is vital to implementing effective substance abuse prevention efforts in your community leading to positive change. It is equally vital to implement each of the evidence-based strategies/interventions you select in the most comprehensive manner possible. CADCA’s Seven Strategies for Creating Effective Community Change can assist your coalition or planning group with identifying appropriate and timely action steps to include in a comprehensive action plan for strategy/intervention implementation.

  • 1. Providing Information Educational presentations, workshops or seminars or other presentations of data (e.g., public announcements, brochures, dissemination, billboards, community meetings, forums, web-based communication).
    1. Providing Information Educational presentations, workshops or seminars or other presentations of data (e.g., public announcements, brochures, dissemination, billboards, community meetings, forums, web-based communication).
  • 2. Enhancing Skills Workshops, seminars or other activities designed to increase the skills of participants, members and staff needed to achieve population-level outcomes (e.g., training, technical assistance, distance learning, strategic planning retreat
    2. Enhancing Skills Workshops, seminars or other activities designed to increase the skills of participants, members and staff needed to achieve population-level outcomes (e.g., training, technical assistance, distance learning, strategic planning retreat
  • 3. Providing Support for Prevention Activities Creating opportunities to support people to participate in activities/strategies that reduce risk or enhance protection.
    3. Providing Support for Prevention Activities Creating opportunities to support people to participate in activities/strategies that reduce risk or enhance protection.
  • 4. Enhancing Access/Reducing Barriers Improving systems and processes to increase the ease, ability and opportunity to utilize those systems and services (e.g., assuring healthcare, childcare, transportation, housing, justice, education, safety, special n
    4. Enhancing Access/Reducing Barriers Improving systems and processes to increase the ease, ability and opportunity to utilize those systems and services (e.g., assuring healthcare, childcare, transportation, housing, justice, education, safety, special n
  • 5. Changing Consequences (Incentives/Disincentives) Increasing or decreasing the probability of a specific behavior that reduces risk or enhances protection by altering the consequences for performing that behavior (e.g., increasing public recognition for
    5. Changing Consequences (Incentives/Disincentives) Increasing or decreasing the probability of a specific behavior that reduces risk or enhances protection by altering the consequences for performing that behavior (e.g., increasing public recognition for
  • 6. Changing Physical Design/Making Environmental Changes Changing the physical design or structure of the environment to reduce risk or enhance protection (e.g., parks, landscapes, signage, lighting, outlet density).
    6. Changing Physical Design/Making Environmental Changes Changing the physical design or structure of the environment to reduce risk or enhance protection (e.g., parks, landscapes, signage, lighting, outlet density).
  • 7. Modifying/Changing/Developing Policies Formal change in written procedures, by-laws, proclamations, rules or laws with written documentation and/or voting procedures (e.g., workplace initiatives, law enforcement procedures, and practices, public policy
    7. Modifying/Changing/Developing Policies Formal change in written procedures, by-laws, proclamations, rules or laws with written documentation and/or voting procedures (e.g., workplace initiatives, law enforcement procedures, and practices, public policy