Results of 2010 Student Support Card Released at Town Hall Meeting

Over 150 community leaders and youth came together at the James Michener Library in Doylestown, PA, to learn the results of the recent 2010 youth survey (UBHCHY Student Support Card) conducted with almost 3,000 teenagers in Upper Bucks County.

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justCommunity, Inc. receives grant from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency to hire Community Mobilizer

Yesterday, the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) awarded a grant through June 2012 to justCommunity, Inc. to support implementing the Communities That Care (CTC) community mobilization process in the Palisades community (as defined by the geographic boundaries of the Palisades School District in Bucks County, PA).

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Town Hall Meeting and Press Conference Highlights New Trending Data on Adolescent Behavioral Health in Upper Bucks County

Mr. Ken Shapiro, Deputy Administrator of the Federal Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program and Mr. Mike Pennington, Director of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention were among the presenters who gave talks on a variety of topics.

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Creating Possibilities: Building a Community of Promise

Upper Bucks HCHY Coalition presents student-produced DVD

Presented by the Upper Bucks Healthy Communities Healthy Youth Coalition and commissioned by the Pennridge Area Healthy Communities Healthy Youth Coalition, Creating Possibilities: Building a Community of Promise was produced by students at Palisades High School.

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White House Sings Praises of Upper Bucks Healthy Communities Healthy Youth Coalition

The White House’s National Drug Control Strategy, a 59-page report addressing the President’s urgency to decline drug use in the United States and combat the belief that “drugs, addiction and the wide spectrum of related social ills could only be managed at best, not tackled head-on.” 

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