

OUR VISION
A community where all youth have the opportunity to be healthy and successful.
OUR HISTORY
CACTC was founded in 2002 by a group of community residents committed to the health and well-being of youth in our community. Recognizing the many issues young people face, they created a community coalition focused on the prevention of youth substance abuse, school dropout rates, teen pregnancy, delinquency, and youth violence. They chose to use the Communities That Care operating system in order to formulate a community-wide plan to reduce and prevent these behaviors. The initial creators of CACTC chose this model because it includes all sectors of the community, including: parents, youth, schools, human service agencies, the justice system, faith community, local government, health care, and businesses.
From its beginning, CACTC has employed a process for data drive decision making. At the same time, it only implements community level strategies known to increase positive outcomes and behaviors (protective factors) and reduce negative outcomes and behaviors (risk factors).
CACTC's focus is, and always will be, based on a data driven approach to prevention across all areas that affect the health and success of youth in our community.

OUR STRATEGIES
Environmental-level strategies aim to reduce problem behaviors at the population level by changing the content (i.e., places, settings, occasions, and circumstance) in which problem behaviors occur.
OUR MODEL
CACTC is a community coalition - not just one organization - made up of nonprofit organizations, government agencies, law enforcement, schools, volunteers, youth, and community members working together for a common cause. CACTC is a hub of communication and is essential for a small community like our to have success. CACTC's experience and success since its founding in 2002 shows that the coalition model works.