Tuesday, April 29, 2025
4/29/2025
Keokuk Iowa Drug Free Community Support Program - The Mission of The Best You Coalition is as follows: The Best You Coalition is a comprehensive substance use prevention and healthy lifestyles group that seeks to stimulate community involvement to promote responsible behaviors among youth and adults. The coalition desires to address the public health problem of youth alcohol, nicotine, and marijuana use in the community through education of the youth, parents, and community members; working with local nicotine and alcohol merchants to implement best practices at their businesses to decrease youth exposure and access to the products; implementation of policies within the city (an ordinance to require merchants who fail a compliance check to attend a free merchant training and proactive ordinances for marijuana and drug paraphernalia zoning); supporting law enforcement in the implementation of compliance checks with funds and youth; collaboration with the school district to revise the code of conduct to include substance use education and evaluation; and through the support of families in the community by co-sponsoring substance-free events.
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