DC Prevention Center Wards 1 & 2: PhotoVoice Exhibition
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Photo Voice is a process in which youth express their voices, opinions, and raise awareness about underage drinking and marijuana use in the community through photography.
Please join us to celebrate our youth's accomplishments on the Partnership for Success (PFS) PhotoVoice Project 2016. Awards will be given to the participants of the project.
Food will be served!!!
Presented by the DC Prevention Center Wards 1 & 2 in collaboration with the DC Department of Behavioral Health (DBH) and Office of Latino Affairs (OLA).
Organizer DCPC Wards 1 & 2/ LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER
Organizer of DC Prevention Center Wards 1 & 2: PhotoVoice Exhibition
The Ward 1 & 2 DC Prevention Center (DCPC) serves as a dynamic hub that engages, supports, and helps connect the many community elements that are needed for promoting healthy children, youth, and families as well as a drug-free District of Columbia.
The DCPC is designed to strengthen and mobilize communities to prevent substance abuse amongst youth in Wards 1 and 2 by:
- Disseminating Education & Increasing Awareness about alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs
- Identifying Community Leaders & Building Community Prevention Networks to prevent substance abuse in their communities;
- Facilitating Community Conversations & Coordinating Community Forums to strengthen community capacity and address priority risk and protective factors; and
- Providing Training &Technical Assistance for Community Prevention Networks.
