Tualatin Together
Engaging youth to reach their full potential.WHO WE ARE
Tualatin Together is a coalition made up of parents, youth, educators, law enforcement, healthcare, substance use prevention experts, faith, civic leaders, elected officials, etc., who are passionate about finding positive outcomes for our youth.
WHAT WE DO
Tualatin Together provides prevention education and skill building through adult classes, youth groups and summer camps including suicide prevention classes and tobacco cessation as well as supporting emotional skill building through K-5 programs.
WHY WE DO IT
Tualatin Together believes that by providing resilience building skills through our programs for the youth in our community, we are ensuring that they have the best opportunity to reach their full potential in their young lives.
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LEAP is a substance misuse prevention and mental health advocacy club at TuHS supported by Tualatin Together. LEAP is a youth lead club which means the members work together to identify the changes that they want to see in their community and how to pursue those changes. Tualatin Together supports the goals set by LEAP financially, logistically and with skills training. LEAP has opportunities to speak to the School Board, City Council, and even our Senators and State Representatives in Washington, DC. LEAP is a great way to build leadership skills in a safe space. The group meets weekly at the TT office; volunteers at schools and community events and provides places for all students to socialize. Members of the club are a group of diverse individuals that respectfully work together to achieve common goals.
La Asociación Latina de Bienestar a la Comunidad (ALBC), en conjunto con Tualatin Together, se dedica a crear un entorno en nuestra comunidad donde podamos dialogar sobre los retos que enfrentamos en relación con la salud mental y el abuso de sustancias. Nuestro enfoque está en fomentar la salud de los jóvenes y sus familias, ayudándoles a desarrollar resiliencia y a encontrar el apoyo necesario para llevar vidas más plenas. La ALBC recibió una beca del Drug-Free Communities Support Program (DFC) 2024, la cual se enfocará en dos objetivos clave: el primero es establecer y fortalecer la colaboración entre las organizaciones locales para abordar el consumo de sustancias en los jóvenes. El segundo objetivo es reducir el consumo de sustancias entre los jóvenes y, a largo plazo, también entre los adultos, enfocándose en los factores comunitarios que incrementan el riesgo de consumo y promoviendo aquellos que lo disminuyen.
Dressed to Dream is a FREE program sponsored in partnership with Tualatin Together, the Tigard-Tualatin School District and Rolling Hills Community Church. The volunteer run events throughout the year serve hundreds of students in the Portland Metro Area providing attire for homecoming and prom. Students are able to choose from thousands of formal or semi-formal dresses, slacks, jackets and dress shirts. In addition to formal wear, students have the opportunity to receive shoes and accessories to finalize the look that they are dreaming of. This fun event also strives to provide a festive atmosphere with selfie stations, refreshments and personal shoppers helping students find just what they are looking for. There are many opportunities to volunteer throughout the year on the planning committee, set-up or on the day of the events.
Tualatin Together has adapted the National Safety Town Center curriculum for our community and will provide Tualatin’s inaugural Safety Town in July 2024. Safety Town Tualatin’s Goal is to create foundational safety habits for rising kindergarteners through fifth graders to use at home, school, and/or community spaces.
Safety Town is a week-long, six hour per day camp that teaches basic safety lessons. Safety Town uses guest presentations, songs, dance, crafts, and hands-on experiences to teach students basic safe practices with fire, pedestrian, bikes, traffic, buses, water, poison, and emergency preparedness. Safety Town will be overseen and administered by Tualatin Together and will employ middle and high school students from our community to serve as counselors and junior counselors. Camp registration will open in the spring of 2026. Camps will run in July 2026.
About Us
Tualatin Together is a non-profit organization that has served Tualatin since 1990. In 2023 adopted the Communities that Care (CTC) model to best serve our community. As a CTC Coalition, Tualatin Together works under this evidence-based structure developed by the University of Washington. Tualatin Together’s primary focus is to prevent youth consumption of marijuana, alcohol, tobacco, vaping and other high-risk activities that prevent them from living to their full potential. To do this, we teach resilience, promote positive mental health norms, build coping skills, recognize and address trauma, and provide resources and events in our community that support positive youth development.
Tualatin Together organizes youth led student clubs at both Tualatin High School and Hazelbrook Middle School. The clubs known as LEAP Youth Alliance stands for Leadership, Education, Advocacy and Prevention. The groups meet weekly and bi-weekly throughout the calendar year. Students are given training and opportunities to advocate for themselves and their peers for topics related to substance use prevention and positive mental health norms at the local level with the school board and city council as well as the state and federal level with our State Representatives and our State Congressmen. Tualatin Together takes a group of students from LEAP to the CADCA Conference in Washington, DC to further their pursuit of understanding advocacy and leadership. LEAP students volunteer at Tualatin Community events such as the Pumpkin Regatta, Viva Tualatin, Blender Dash as well as partner with the Winona Grange for various activities. LEAP Students lead campaigns in their schools for Red Ribbon Week, National Drug & Alcohol Prevention Week, National Drug Facts Week and National Mental Health Awareness month.
Tualatin Together impacts the community through youth and family events, health and wellness trainings and volunteer opportunities throughout the community. Our Dressed to Dream program serves youth throughout the tri-county area, providing formal wear to both male and female youth for Homecoming and Prom. Our Latinx coalition, Latino Coalition Wellness Association is dedicated to providing prevention education to parents and health and wellness resources to families within Tualatin. The LEAP clubs at both the high school and middle school, which are supported by Tualatin Together, are dynamic groups of diverse students dedicated to impacting their community for positive change. Throughout the year Tualatin Together provides classes and trainings in the community. QPR (Question – Persist – Refer) suicide prevention trainings are held in both English and Spanish throughout the year. Tualatin Together provides Narcan training to businesses, individuals and student groups. TT also offers Teen Intervene and tobacco cessation courses. Find out what we are planning for and where you can fit in by attending a Coalition Meeting held on the third Thursday of every month.
