 The
WHEEL Council Wholistic
Health, Education, and Empowerment
for Life
is a national leader in storytelling for
prevention and healing, as well as accelerated, multicultural learning.
Our vision is
to create programs that merge traditional cultural
knowledge with scientific research to facilitate healthy
life choices.
Our mission is
to prevent drug and alcohol use and other destructive
behaviors in young people by combining storytelling, the
arts, and cultural empowerment with scientific research.
The
WHEEL Council is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization incorporated
in Arizona, with a project site in the Murphy School
District in Phoenix, Arizona.
Board of Directors
Susan
Kunz, MPH: Former director of the Arizona Mexican Border
Health Foundation, currently a Prevention Consultant
in Tucson, Arizona.
Alicia Rodriguez: Board Member Emeritus, Realtor
and Prevention Consultant; Phoenix, Arizona.
Sue Wyatt: Adjunct Faculty, Antioch University and
Researcher and Consultant, Three Sigma; Mountain View,
California.
Becky Osuna: Principal, Desert Mirage Elementary School,
Associate Faculty, Glendale Community College; Glendale,
Arizona.
Roberta Moore: Assistant Principal, Cimmaron Springs
Elementary School; Avondale, Arizona.
Frank Guldbrandsen, Ph.D.: Professor; Duluth,
Minnesota - Board Member Emeritus.
Funders
We have received over 3.5 million dollars in grants from
the United States Department of Health and Human
Services, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP),
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Agency (SAMHSA)
and have received grants from the Arizona Department of
Health, the Margaret T. Morris Foundation, the Yavapai
Community Foundation, Arizona Community Foundation, St.
Luke's Health Initiatives, The Virginia G. Piper
Charitable Trust, and Social Venture Partners of
Arizona.
Partners
As the lead agency of the Murphy Prevention Coalition,
our partners include the
Murphy School District,
Chicanos Por La Causa Carl Hayden Community Center, Safe
Haven, the
Governor's Division for
Community and Youth Development, and the
City of Phoenix Police Department.
Outcomes
The WHEEL Council is unique
in the non profit world in that it not only emphasizes
excellent culturally competent service, but also strong
evaluation with positive health outcomes. In the
article, Decreasing
at-risk youth's alcohol and marijuana use.
Journal of Primary Prevention, 2003, the WHEEL'S
program decreased marijuana and alcohol use to near
zero. Further,
Multicultural model of HIV prevention for youth,
International Journal of
Learning , 2005, showed that young
people in the program gained prevention knowledge and
could stop sexual advances. For the last five
years, the WHEEL Council has shown replicable effects of
increasing knowledge of the dangers of drug use and
risky sexual behaviors, and increase in decision making
skills and the ability to say no when offered drugs.
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