COFY strives to improve the community in which we serve - Mercer County, WV.  There are seven community change strategies we use to comprehensively reduce substance abuse.

Enhance Skills through workshops, seminars, or other activities designed to increase the skills of participants, members, and staff needed to achieve population level outcomes.

Provide Information through educational presentations, workshops, and seminars.

Provide Support by creating opportunities to participate in activities that reduce risks.

Enhance Access/Reduce Barriers or Reduce Access/Enhance Barriers through improving systems and processing to increase the ease, ability, and opportunity to utilize those systems and services.

Change Physical Design of the environment to reduce risk or enhance protections.

Changing Consequences by increasing or decreasing the probability of a specific behavior that reduces risk or enhance protection by altering the consequences for performing that behavior.

Modify/Change Policy such as written procedures, by-laws, proclamations, rules or laws

with written documentation and/or voting procedures.