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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
Margaret Polovchak, Director Prevention Services [email protected]
Kris Zerfass, Director Link Together
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Morgan Pizer-Kranc, Prevention Specialist [email protected]
Katie Whittaker, Prevention Specialist, CYS (Community Youth Servcies Wheeling/Prospect Heights)
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Link Together Executive Board 2023-2024
Don Angelaccio, Chairman
Lisa Schaps, Vice Chairman
Jessica Herrmann, Secretary
Colleen Zitkus, Business Manager
Rich Rosen, Community Relations Manager
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
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
Drug Free Communities (DFC) Grant
Funded from the 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, corporate and private donations.