A Blog about Youth, Community from WaylandCares

Welcome to the WaylandCares Blog. As the chair of WaylandCares I hope to provide readers with valuable information that will help the community to create a safe environment for our young people, and to support healthy youth decision-making. 

The goal of WaylandCares is to raise community awareness about youth substance abuse and prevention through education, social marketing, and advocacy and to strengthen the community infrastructure to address youth substance abuse. 

WaylandCares membership includes youth, parents, school administrators and staff, health care professionals, leaders of various civic organizations, the Wayland Police Department, the Wayland Clergy Association, Wayland Youth and Family Services, the Wayland Health Department, members of the Wayland business community and members of the media. Meetings are held monthly throughout the school year and the exact schedule can be found on our webpage, WaylandCares.org. The coalition is an open group and welcomes new participants at any time.

On-going efforts to provide information to parents will be shared through WaylandCares’ website, Facebook account and occasional articles in the Wayland Town Crier and other local news outlets.

The coalition will continue to plan programming and prevention activities to address emerging local trends that effect Wayland youth and healthy teen decision-making.