Santa Maria community leaders will gather to discuss the recent car crash that killed five teenagers and work towards creating meaningful prevention strategies for the future.

Community Coalition Meeting

Gabi Delgado of Fighting Back Santa Maria Valley said, ‘We are having an emergency coalition meeting to understand what has happened and to help ensure that this doesn’t happen again.’ The coalition meeting will bring together different community members, law enforcement, medical providers, and non-profits to have a listening session.

Delgado is the coordinator of a community coalition that is led by Fighting Back Santa Maria Valley, a non-profit advocacy organization. ‘Our coalition works with different members of the community to help make sure that families and youth are safe,’ said Delgado. ‘We do this by inviting different members of the community so they all have a voice and what our coalition does monthly is provide a space where youth are being heard within the conversation.’

Original reporting: KEYT (Ventura/Santa Barbara) — read the source article.