Welcome to Garden City
Community Coalition
Click on the tab to go to our events page to get information on our local events, happenings and fundraisers. Current items of interest include:
-Growums Community Garden Fundraiser
-MedReturn box installed at GCPD
Our Mission:
We are a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for all who live in Garden City by promoting a lifestyle free from the abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
Preventing Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug and Prescription Drug abuse and misuse is a community wide responsibility!
Research shows that when communities mobilize their resources in an organized way to address abuse and misuse, substance abuse declines, particularly among youth. GCCC prevention efforts and community work reflect a public health approach and utilizes the Strategic Prevention Framework, a federal and state planning model that strives to incorporate best pracitces and evidenced based interventions on a community wide basis.
We are committed to achieving the following goals in order to cultivate a community environment where healthy choices flourish, increasing the protective factors, and the unhealthy abuse and misuse of alcohol, tobacco and drugs are not supported, decreasing the risk factors.
- Garden City is a community that establishes and supports policies and practices that promote substance abuse prevention.
- Garden City is a community where comprehensive, current substance abuse prevention information is provided to all who live in Garden City.
- Garden City is a community where a comprehensive system monitors indicators of community attitudes, conditions, needs, and alcohol, tobacco and other drug use patterns.
- Garden City is a community where a variety of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug-free activities are available to all.
- Garden City is a community where training is provided to develop the skills necessary to prevent the abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
