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Link Together is dedicated to promoting healthy youth, families and communities by decreasing teen alcohol and drug use in Wheeling Township.
Mission
Promote healthy youth, families, and communities by decreasing teen alcohol and drug use through education, advocacy, and access to community resources, and policy awareness, implementation, and change.
Vision
Wheeling Township youth are drug and alcohol free.
Link Together Staff
Kris Zerfass, Director Link Together
[email protected]
Sarah Powills, Prevention Specialist II, Program Coordinator [email protected]
Link Together serves as the Area Project Board for Community Youth Services Wheeling and Prospect Heights
Erika Berdell, Prevention Specialist II, Program Coordinator [email protected]
Link Together Executive Board 2024-2025
Don Angelaccio, Past Chair, D23 Superintendant of Schools
Andy Stein, Chair, Allstate and Village of Buffalo Grove Trustee
Cam Nystrom, Vice Chair, Principal MacArthur Middle School
Coalition Staff, Secretary
Colleen Zitkus, Business Manager, Prospect Heights Police
Jorie Ouimet, Community Relations Manager, Community Resident
Link Together Community Partners
Arlington Heights Police Department
Buffalo Grove Police Department
Mount Prospect Police Department
Prospect Heights Police Department
Wheeling Police Department
Student Resource Officers
D21 Middle Schools: Cooper, Holmes & London
D23 Middle School: MacArthur
D25 Middle Schools: Thomas & South
D26 Middle School: River Trails
D214 High Schools: Buffalo Grove, Hersey, Prospect, Rolling Meadows and Wheeling
D214 Administration
Arlington Heights Park District
Buffalo Grove Park District
Mount Prospect Park District
Prospect Heights Park District
River Trails Park District
DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration)
Culvers in Buffalo Grove
Alliance Against Intoxicated Motorists
Kindred Life
OMNI
Wheeling Township
Village of Buffalo Grove
Wheeling Chamber of Commerce
Glenbard Parent Series
Stand Strong Coalition
NAMI (National Alliance for Mentally Ill)
Comcast EffecTV
Indian Trails Public Library
Harper College
Rosecrance
IL Human Performance Project
Landstrom Center
NW Casa
Kenneth Young
Funding for Link Together Coalition provided by:
Office of National Drug Control and Policy (ONDCP) & Managed by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Contracts with D214 High Schools and Feeder Middle Schools in D21, D23, D25 and D26
Corporate and Private Donations
OMNI serves as Link Together’s Fiscal Agent
