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Did you know?
Most young adults in King County make positive choices surrounding drug use!

In fact:
*77% of young adults don't use marijuana regularly
*89% of young adults don't drive under the influence of marijuana*

Visit Most Steer Clear to find out more! 
​*Statistics are from the 2014 Washington Young Adult Health Survey’s 18-25 year old King County respondents.  
Most Steer Clear Partners: Neighborhood House, Mercer Island Healthy Youth Initiative, and the SE Seattle PEACE Coalition, with funding support from the Washington Traffic Safety Commission and SAMHSA.
Check out The Center for Multicultural Health's recently released anti-menthol PSA featuring youth from their STAND OUT program as well as from Apicat for Healthy Communities and Seattle Indian Health Board The piece, titled "Beautiful Lies, Ugly Truth" was created by the Tobacco, Marijuana, and other Drugs work group of the Healthy King County Coalition in order to draw attention to the harms of menthol cigarettes and to make our youth's voices heard in speaking out against big tobacco's targeting of minority communities.
Congratulations to
​ACRS Southeast Asian Youth Group

for being the 2016 Who's Rising Contest winner!  
This group has really risen to the top by being the Washington State Champs for Best Prevention Project at the annual Washington State Spring Forum and for creating some amazing marijuana prevention videos such as "Clearing the Air". 
Check out all their videos at here.
​The SE Seattle PEACE Coalition members and youth from Aki Kurose Middle School received the 2016 Washington State Exemplary Community Coalition Award, November 7th 2016 at the Washington State Prevention Summit in Yakima, WA.  The Coalition was recognized for outstanding drug and alcohol prevention education and messages to SE Seattle parents and youth.The PEACE Coalition has provided parenting classes in 7 languages to over 300 parents and youth as well as prevention education workshops to over 1,500 youth.  The Coalition's "206 Rising" and "Talk With Your Kids" media campaigns have been viewed by over 400,000 people in King County.
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