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The mission of DrugFree
Greenville is to increase awareness of substance abuse; to encourage
an environment that will not tolerate a diminished quality of life due
to substance abuse; and to serve as a catalyst for community partnerships
working toward this end.
To accomplish our
goals, DrugFree Greenville relies on the suppport and
participation of people like YOU. How YOUR support
helps DrugFree Greenville.
Learn how DrugFree
Greenville got started - and continues
to work for prevention.
Current programs
include:
- Interagency
Network
- links 50 local health & service agencies for information exchange,
service needs identification, referral encouragement. The Network produces
the Hunt County Community Chest Card,
a resource referral guide for the community.
(Community
Chest Card pdf version, Community
Chest Card, Flash version NOTE:
To print the Flash version, click the printer icon, 2nd icon from the
right, on the Flash toolbar)
- GHS PALS
(Peer Assistance Leaders) youth development program - provides volunteer
mentoring for younger students, cooperates with SADD and GHS student
government in prevention programs
- GHS SADD
(Students Against Destructive Decisions) - student membership organization
that develops substance abuse awareness, provides training and leadership
development, sponsors prevention activities, encourages volunteerism
& mentoring
- Parent Power
- parent education program conducted in cooperation with Region 10 Education
Service Center designed to develop/enhance parenting
skills
to foster healthy families able to resist substance abuse
- CATCH -
brings together school personnel (counselors, administrators, teachers)
and agency representatives to identify and help at risk students
- Heroes Program
- First responder
appreciation program designed to educate and develop a positive relationship
between law enforcement, firefighters and EMS personnel.
- Business &
Industry programs
- resource and referral services and information for local businesses
- Eye Out for
DWI -
partnership with TABC, MADD, and Hunt Co. law enforcement agencies to
decrease fatalities and injuries due to DWI

- Red
Ribbon
- month-long awareness campaign involving all sectors of the community
in comprehensive grassroots alcohol, tobacco, drug abuse prevention
activities
- Walkathon
- community awareness event with participants representing all ages
and demographic groups in a health-promoting, substance-free activity
- Play Walkopoly
with us!
Help fund programs working toward a drug free Greenville. information
- Appetite
Alley - 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Join us for a sampling of signature dishes from area restaurants
at Market Square, right after the Walk
- After
the Walk activities
- 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Entertainment, prizes, new car show, health fair,
kids games
WALK
photo gallery courtesy
Laurie L. Black
- Prevention
Baseball - teaches Greenville Intermediate School students about
the dangers of tobacco, alcohol, and drug use through a competition
between classrooms based on questions/answers. "Baseball"
games are preceded by intensive classroom instruction.
- Kite
Fly
- substance free fun that partners community volunteers with Greenville
Intermediate School, Greenville Christian School, Phoenix School students
in flying student-created kites with prevention messages.
- You are invited
to cheer for the great kids who will discover "the sky's the
limit" when you're drug free!
- October 26,
2007 - Greenville Sixth Grade Center
- October 26,
2007 - Phoenix
School
- School Assemblies
- provides
presentations by prevention-oriented groups including StraightWay, PETS
(Prevention Education and Training Service), Cynthia Roland McClure,
Van Houser, First Responders, ENCARE, and other age-appropriate programs
- Prevention
Library
- makes videos, books, and other materials on prevention of tobacco,
alcohol, drug use available free of charge to individuals, groups, businesses,
schools, and churches
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Promotion
- raises awareness and involvement in Drug Free Greenville activities
and increases understanding of community grassroots prevention through
advertising, newspaper column, news stories, flyers, posters, and
brochures


Sharon Kroncke
Executive Director
Drug Free Greenville
4207 Wesley Street
Greenville, Texas 75401
903.454.4300
Fax 903.454.4321
information@drugfreegreenville.org
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