October has been a full month of training and celebrating with our local youth coalition. Donna Bumpus Consulting, LLC collaborated with the local Youth Coalition to train peers from central Kentucky. The Coalition seniors led the training with the assistance of their sponsor Courtney Travis and DBC, LLC. The seniors provided information on organizing a youth council (or coalition), training, prevention programs, and evaluation. Donna Bumpus was able to provide information on how the original council was developed in 1997. Courtney Travis contributed information on current data-driven programs being implemented in the community and schools.

Also in October, Donna Bumpus Consulting, volunteers, and local coalition members attended the Western Kentucky Marijuana Summit at Lake Barkley. The Summit was hosted by the River Valley, Pennyroyal, LifeSkills, and Four Rivers Regional Prevention Centers with nationally renowned speakers presenting on marijuana issues.

As always, we are proud of the work our local YES Youth Council/True Blue Crew Youth Coalition members do to prevent younger students from experimenting with substances. We were able to capture pictures of just a few of their October events.