Raymond Coalition for Youth

The Raymond Coalition For Youth started as a group of concerned citizens that wanted to make the community a more welcoming and supportive place for youth to grow up. Where adults valued them and worked together with them to engage their peers in better life choices for a promising future.

Fast forward twenty years and from that small group grew a strong and vibrant coalition serving multiple communities and connecting resources and information to individuals, families and the community as a whole. RCFY engages all members of the community in a strategic approach: to identify concerns and work together on solutions and strategies for success to address those concerns.

RCFY is still going strong and we look forward to continued community outreach and resource building and sharing. Our most recent successes:

• We broke ground on building 2 basketball courts at Raymond High School in Spring of 2025


• 2 annual DEA medication take back events collecting hundreds of pounds of medication each (April 2025)


• Annual Project Safeguard wellness and prevention conference for 7th graders and their parents (May 2025)


• Annual Prevention Summit for community members working to make a difference (October 2024)


• Continued community prevention efforts with ongoing RCFY meetings & Youth Action meetings

At an elementary school assembly the principal asked if the students knew who the Raymond Coalition For Youth was and a little girl answered "they are the people who care about us." Perfectly said.

Who We Are

The Raymond Coalition For Youth empowers the community to promote positive youth development and reduce youth substance use, and suicide risk. We have been doing this collaboratively since 2002 and the key to our success is involving our young people in the process and putting their voice into action. RCFY provides information, resources and services far beyond the Raymond Town lines and our impact is reflected in our ongoing successful outcomes. All of these efforts are reflected on our website and social media accounts.

Why consider giving to Raymond Coalition for Youth? We rely on fundraising, as a nonprofit organization. Prevention work is not one group, one event, one donation. Prevention is every day, working with the community, adults and youths. Prevention is working with all different sectors of the community: Youth-Serving, Education, Healthcare, Faith-Based, Government, Businesses, Parents and Volunteers. Prevention is working with other communities.

We currently employ two full-time staff members and two part-time staff members. We have a very involved Board of Directors, who are volunteers, as well as a great team of Volunteers, community partners and supporters, that continues to grow.

We offer many different levels of giving, all tax-deductible, for this yearly fundraising day. Show your pride in Raymond and your commitment to a Safe and Drug-Free Raymond.

To learn more about Raymond Coalition for Youth and see highlights of our recent work, visit:
http://www.rcfy.org/home/about/programs/nh-gives