Cafe Prevention

When you call Community Partnership regarding a Cafe Prevention product or order, you will talk to Sarah Garcia, Office Manager, Melissa VanDer Linden, Director of Graphics/Communications or Melissa Haddow, Executive Director. Our team size enables us to offer you personalized attention when you need it and you can talk to one of us directly. Sarah can help you with general information and orders, Melissa VanDerLinden, or Melvy, as we like to affectionately call her, with customization and billboard needs, or Melissa Haddow for ideas on how to use our products to get the best outcomes. You will find that small and experienced really is better.

That being said, without our team of co-workers that make up the staff of Community Partnership, a non-profit prevention coalition serving southwest Missouri, there would be no Cafe Prevention. It is because of these dedicated and passionate prevention heroes that we have developed our products. These are the people who are in the field working to build resilient kids, healthy families and strong communities day in and day out, and our products were, and are, developed to meet their, and now your, needs.

To be honest, we did not set out to create Cafe Prevention. Over 15 years ago we discovered that the materials available for us to use with our communities were lacking –either in quality, content, format, appeal. So, we developed our own and have done so ever since. In 2007, we began to make our high quality, innovative, hard-hitting materials available to all as a way to get great prevention materials to others, and as a way to help sustain the good works of our organization.

Our team is proud of the work we do. If you are checking out our site, then you too must be interested and involved in improving the health and well being of our nation’s children, families and communities. We are here to help.