History of the Leon County Community Coalition

In September 2001, in response to an upward trend of youth experimentation with substances abuse, Lord's Pantry of Leon County. Inc, started Leon County Community Coalition faith based organization dedicated to bringing together a diverse group of stakeholders in the community working toward improving the future of the youth in Leon County. In August 2005, LCCC became a 501 © (3) non-profit organization and began to transition in being its own fiscal agent for all funding sources and is still in the process. LCCC is excited to announce that Leon County Community Coalition just received their first grant through Substance Abuse Mental Health Services (Drug Free Communities Grant) as the fiscal agent. Leon County Community Coalition plans to continue to seek funding to strengthen and bring sustainability to coalition.

 Leon County Community Coalition provides a combination of individual and environmental strategies that have the greatest success.

 The coalition continues to make use of all the five environmental strategies - policy, enforcement, education, media and mobilization. Our members are confident that this is a receipt for success.

Leon County Community Coalition provides a number of individual prevention strategies across the Leon County reaching annually more than 2,000 individuals and families through various programs.

* Assessment - determining your prevention needs

* Capacity - improving your capabilities

* Planning - developing a strategic plan

* Implementation - putting your plan into action

* Evaluation - documenting the outcomes of your work.

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." - Albert Einstein

 We are not under the illusion that we can successfully eliminate all the drugs in Leon County. The primary task of the coalition is to empower local citizens to have a sense of power over the circumstances that often seem to control the community and to realize that together they can have a significant impact to reduce drug use in Leon County.

 We will be taking a comprehensive approach including youth, parents, faith-based organizations and schools along with the existing program base of Leon County Community Coalition.