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While it’s illegal for teens to purchase tobacco products and taboo for them to smoke them in public, Quakertown is now debating how to prevent it from continuing. 

After 21 years of support for Project CARE, an education and training program for adults working with young people in schools and communities, US Restaurants has reached a fund raising milestone of $3 million dollars.

justCommunity, Inc., is the coordinating agency and fiscal agent for the Upper Bucks Healthy Communities Healthy Youth Coalition (UBHCHY) which conducts biennial youth surveys in local high schools.

justCommunity, Inc. presented Sellersville resident and long-time volunteer firefighter, Jeffrey McDonald, with the Spanninger Award today.

justCommunity, Inc., has acquired the Project CARE training and education program from LifeQuest Foundation, also located in Quakertown.

The first ever annual justCommunity Cares Benefit Concert will be held at the Sellersville Theatre to support the mini-grant operated through Upper Bucks Healthy Communities Healthy Youth Coalition. 

Senator Rob Wonderling secured two grants totaling $5,000 via The Department of Community and Economic Development’s community revitalization program to expand Upper Bucks Healthy Communities Healthy Youth (UBHCHY) community accountability circles program.

Tobacco Education Group (TEG) formed in Quakertown, PA to serve as a positive alternative punishment for students in the Pennridge, Quakertown and Palisades school districts who have been caught smoking or in possession of tobacco on school grounds.

Governor Edward G. Rendell (D-PA) announced on April 14th the formation of a 39-member, statewide commission to advise and support the work of the Governor’s Cabinet on Children and Families.

justCommunity, Inc. adds local community members and business professionals Todd Bergey, Laura Fitton and Tom Manns to the Board of Directors.