The Prevention Team at Cascade Middle School has published a 6-page multi-lingual newsletter (Cascade News to Know), intended for school and community. The quarterly newsletter features articles about positive activities conducted on-campus by the Prevention Team, sponsored by The Coalition for Drug-Free Youth, as well as articles such as best read books, food drive to benefit local food bank, art competition, information on marijuana and bullying.

Written by student staff members of the newsletter, key articles are then translated into Spanish, Somali, Khmer (Cambodian), and Vietnamese. The multi-lingual newsletter is meant to better communicate with a diverse ethnic community and to demonstrate the positive things students are doing that affect school and community. Distributed on-campus, the newsletter is also being distributed through local branches of the King County Library, YWCA, Sheriff’s White Center store-front office, coffee shops, King County Housing at Greenbridge and Seola Gardens and Neighborhood House. The newsletter is also being incorporated into an ESL class.

Funding for the newsletter is provided by King County Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Program and Washington State Department of Social and Health Services.

For more information contact:
Elizabeth (Libby) DeBell, Principal
Cascade Middle School
Elizabeth.DeBell@Highlineschools.org
206-631-5500