PRC4 is doing a Media Survey

Friday, September 14, 2018

To better target our media campaign strategies, it’s critical to know which media sources are trending in popularity and which sources are losing traction.  Can you please take our media survey.  click on the link to take the survey:  Media Survey or scan the QR Code:  

Texas Women’s Healthcare Coalition Symposium & Networking Event-Updated

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Please join us for a conversation on the state of women’s healthcare in Texas on September 26th  from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., featuring speakers from the Texas Women’s Healthcare Coalition and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.The goal of this event is to provide women’s healthcare providers in the Longview area with updates on issues currently impacting family planning services and family planning providers in Texas, as well as to facilitate a networking event for healthcare providers to meet with each other and discuss key challenges and opportunities... (Continue Reading)

Waskom, ETBU police train to combat teen drinking

Wednesday, September 05, 2018

On Tuesday, September 4, East Texas Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse (ETCADA) and the Harrison County Community Coalition organized and hosted a Controlled Party Dispersal Training for local Law Enforcement in Harrison County. ETCADA partnered with the Waskom Police Department, Texans Standing Tall, and the San Antonio Vice Unit who provided the classroom and demonstrative training for the officers in attendance. Officers spent two hours in classroom training and two hours practicing different scenarios of house parties and how they should respond to different situations. The training was beneficial... (Continue Reading)

Harrison County Community Coalition Partnership hosts Burritos over Booze

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

“There’s more ways to have fun than underage drinking” is the message the Harrison County Community Coalition Partnership is bringing to college students this week, as the anti-drug and alcohol group kicked off its inaugural “Burritos over Booze” campaign at Texas State Technical College-Marshall, Tuesday.“Our Harrison County coalition came up with this idea on their own,” said Nathaniel Olson, coalition program manager for East Texas Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse, also known as ETCADA.“We’re at TSTC today and then we’re going to be at Wiley College on Sunday,” said... (Continue Reading)

Secondhand smoke poses greater risks for teens: Study

Tuesday, August 07, 2018

More than 1.1 billion adults worldwide smoke cigarettes and, though laws that limit public and workplace smoking are lessening the amount of exposure to the public, an estimated 9.6 million U.S. adolescents are exposed to tobacco smoke, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.Since the 1960s, researchers have been looking at the health effects of secondhand smoking and have linked this exposure with an increased likelihood of getting ear infections, lung infections and even contributing to poor lung development in small children.Additional research has demonstrated secondhand smoke exposure... (Continue Reading)