Washougal senior earns statewide prevention award

Washougal — Washougal High School Senior Chloe Connors earned the 2018 Washington State Exemplary Substance Abuse Prevention Award for Youth Leadership. Connors helped coordinate “Challenge for Change” to bring resources and awareness to substance abuse issues in her community, and she serves on the Unite! Washougal leadership team, engaging community members, parents, law enforcement, youth and business sectors in creating healthy change. “She helps with childcare for Guiding Good Choices parenting workshops, leads the coalition in strategic planning and reaches out to the community to collect data,” Margaret McCarthy, Unite! Washougal Drug Free Communities grant coordinator, said in a release. Connors is also involved in every level of coalition work and has served more than 450 hours by her leadership and involvement in strategies like Drug Take Back, Let’s Draw the Line, Spring Youth Forum, Kindness Challenge Campaign, #findyourgood campaign, Prevention Policy Day in Olympia and Capitol Hill Say in Washington, D.C. Connors and other award winners were honored on Nov. 6 at the 2018 Washington State Prevention Summit in Yakima.