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VSAAC Home l Upcoming Events l Action Alerts l Community Coalition l Youth Programs l Parent/Community Programs |
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Anti-Tobacco l Underage Drinking Prevention l Problem Gambling l Training Programs l Curriculum & Resource Center |
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The Valley Substance Abuse Action Council's (VSAAC) mission is to develop a partnership comprised of youth and adults in the Valley community who will work together to address the problem of substance abuse. Through this partnership, the Council will help identify and coordinate services for education, prevention, intervention, treatment, and aftercare. VSAAC's role is to help develop and coordinate these services for the members of our community - not to provide direct services. Members of the Council also work together to build community awareness about substance abuse - a message that can be articulated across the board in our schools, homes, and places of work.
VSAAC's History The Valley Substance Abuse Action Council (VSAAC) is a grass-roots organization that was formed at a community-wide retreat in 1990 to serve the five-town community known as the Lower Naugatuck Valley. This regional council was one of the first "community partnership" programs to be formed in the United States to assist communities in creating solutions to our country's drug and alcohol abuse problems. Since its creation, VSAAC has become the Valley's leader in mobilizing and coordinating local efforts to counter substance abuse among youth and, over time, adults. In 1996, VSAAC became a program of Birmingham Group Health Services, Inc., enabling the program to streamline administrative costs and expand its programming. Today, the Council is funded as a state Regional Action Council (RAC) for the towns of Ansonia, Derby, Oxford, Seymour, and Shelton (total population approximately 90,000) and by a Drug Free Community Support Grant through the Office of Juvenile Delinquency and Prevention. With this support, as well as funding from a number of private grants, VSAAC continues to coordinate a community effort to counter substance abuse through community education, mobilization, public awareness, and advocacy.
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