Arlington Coalition for Healthy and Resilient Youth

Who We Are

The Arlington Coalition for Healthy and Resilient Youth is a group of organizations serving the Arlington community who are working collaboratively on youth substance misuse prevention and intervention.

Our vision is a community where our youth are healthy, resilient, and informed of the impacts of substance misuse.

Our mission is to to work collaboratively on youth substance misuse prevention and intervention by:

• Enhancing the current work of member organizations.
• Identifying and filling the gaps.
• Expanding our reach to all community members.

Our guiding principles are that we will be inclusive of youth, data informed, mutually beneficial, equitable, goal oriented, efficient, and capitalize on expertise in our respective organizations and our community.

Our focus areas, strategies, and activities for 2025 are:

• Youth empowerment
  • Empowering youth to have a voice in substance use prevention and intervention
    • Youth inspired and led messaging.
• Support Systems
  • Providing support to reduce youth substance use.
    • Fund a school-based prevention/intervention specialist to work with students and create a student recovery group.
• Education for all
  • Providing information and resources about the harmful effects of substance use in our community, and prevention tips to mitigate misuse.
    • Go to where people are to share and gather information from community members.