About
Gunnison County is a government administration company that serves the citizens of Gunnison County, Colorado.
GCSAPP is a community coalition that promotes healthy youth and families in the Gunnison Valley by increasing protective factors and reducing risk factors.
The purpose of the GCSAPP is to provide youth and family engagement, education, healthy activities and multi-systems implementation services to youth and their families so they can stay connected with their family and community, make healthy choices, resiliently respond to stress in healthy ways and delay the use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.
Mission
The mission of GCSAPP is to utilize evidence-based strategies and community mobilization to reduce substance use by youth in Gunnison so youth can become healthy, stable and productively involved in their communities.
GCSAPP’s unified definition of prevention
“Prevention is a process that promotes healthy youth, parents and communities. The GCSAPP coalition uses education, policy and programming informed by community data, needs and culture to promote protective factors and reduce risk factors”.
