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CTC Releases 20th Annual Student Health Survey Results

Over the holiday weekend, the Communities That Care Coalition released the results from their 20th annual survey of middle and high school students in Franklin County and the North Quabbin region. Nearly 1600 students throughout 9 public school districts participated in the survey this past spring, adding to a wealth of information on substance use,…

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2020 Community Action Plan and 2019 Teen Health Survey Data

The Communities That Care Coalition has revised its Community Action Plan and the latest version (the Coalition’s fifth) was presented for approval at the full coalition meeting on October 25, 2019.  Also featured at the meeting: a facilitated discussion about the importance of leading with race in a predominantly white rural area release and discussion of…

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Teen Resource Card

Get your pocket-sized card here. It’s loaded with resources for jobs, health, housing, counseling, and more. These are valuable resources. We strongly recommend printing them and having them available in your home, school, town, community center, and more. Formatted-2018-Resource-CardsDownload

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National Academy of Medicine publishes paper on collaboration between CTC and Baystate Franklin Medical Center

Jeanette Voas, Kat Allen and Ruth Potee co-authored an article entitled “The Communities That Care Coalition Model for Improving Community Health through Clinical–Community Partnerships: A Population Health Case Report” that was published online by the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) in 2016. The article traces the history of the coalition and…

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