Vision
Our community will be healthy, safe and free from substance abuse.
Why We Exist
Because prevention is a community wide responsibility, we believe local organizations, businesses, agencies, concerned citizens, policy makers, educators, students, and parents have an important role to play in this effort. As a community coalition, we are committed to providing leadership, education, resources, and programming for our young people and those who support them.
Our Goals
- Connect through common goals
- Offer opportunities through involvement
- Work together through collaboration
- Reduce substance abuse in teens through deliberate preventative strategies
What We Do
- Parent education programs
- Kids in Charge: elementary school substance abuse program
- Educational programs at middle schools and high schools
- Survey students and parents to better understand the use of alcohol and other drugs by our youth
- Plan and coordinate prevention activities
- Community involvement and organizing
- Build partnerships with other key community stakeholders and organizations
- Collaborate with Alliance of Coalitions for Healthy Communities (ACHC) and its 19 Oakland County coalitions
What You Can Do
- Talk to your children about the dangers of alcohol and other drugs
- Attend our meetings and our forums
- Volunteer at youth and teen functions
- Support local law enforcement efforts
- Report underage drinking or sales to minors
Executive Board
Executive Director: Lisa Berkey
President: Staci Goldman, Parent and Certified Health Coach at The Exercise Coach
Vice President: Miriam MacLean Babbitt, Parent, KIC volunteer
Treasurer: Alan Levenson, Woronoff, Hyman, Levenson, Sweet & Alderman P.C. CPA’s V.P.
Members at Large:
- Cindy Hill, KIC Volunteer
- David Flaisher
- Judy Lipson
- James Pettinato, West Bloomfield Police Department
- Lisa Kaplan, LMSW, CAADC, ACSW, Program Coordinator for Maplegrove Community Education
- Jamie Glinz, Assistant Principal, West Bloomfield High School
- Claudia Halpern, Associate Regional Director, BBYO
- Melissa Williams, Pastor/Counselor, MDCC
- Rebecca Empson, Director of Finance, Henry Ford Health System – West Bloomfield
- Jill Bickford, Coordinator of Youth Services, West Bloomfield Public Library
- Kris D’Arcy, West Bloomfield Township
Past Presidents:
- Kristen von Bernthal, Parent, KIC volunteer
- Marc Jeffries
- Deborah Macon
About the Webmaster
The Coalition’s committed and diligent webmaster, Udit Sarkar, works constantly to keep the website up to date. Udit is a competitive martial artist as well, having earned 5 State Championships and 3 Midwest Championships.