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Community Organizing Program
Mission Statement
The mission of the King County Community Organizing Program
is to facilitate meaningful community involvement
in order to reduce substance abuse and violence
through the design and implementation of local prevention strategies.
Guiding Principles
Community Organizing is often a grassroots effort by community members to act on solving their own identified problems. The focus is on people pooling their resources to organize around an issue that will increase the quality of life for the community. A Community Organizer can help groups to work more efficiently to achieve this goal.
Targeted Protective Factors
Our targeted protective factors focus in three areas:
- Community Domain: Increase neighborhood attachment and decrease community disorganization.
- Family Domain: Promote positive family management and target family history of problem behaviors.
- Individual/Peer Domain: Encourage youth not to use or have favorable attitudes towards substance abuse and violence, youth in the juvenile justice system.
Protective Factors are those "traits, conditions, situations, and episodes that appear to alter, or even reverse, predictions of negative outcome and enable individuals to circumvent life stresses." -Norman Garmezy
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For more information contact:
New Address:
King County Community Organizing Program
401 5th Ave, Suite 400
Seattle, WA 98104
Laura Edwards, Coordinator
Office Contact Information
e-mail us
Updated: Oct. 7, 2008
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