Kids, leaders travel to three-day prevention summit

Published 10:21 am Tuesday, November 20, 2012

San Juan, Lopez and Orcas Island youth and prevention coalition leaders traveled to Yakima for the Washington State Prevention Summit.

This three-day summit offers a Youth Leadership Track that includes training sessions on presentation skills, workshops on various topics in prevention, motivational speakers, service learning projects and networking opportunities.

This year, the theme was “Prevention is EPIC: Empower, Promote, Innovate and Collaborate.”

“Our youth teams represented San Juan County well,” said the leaders. “Watch for these youth as they return to their own communities to create projects to help their schools and/or communities in the area of prevention.”

Want to join in? Contact the San Juan Island Prevention Coalition at 378-9683.