

Why youth leadership camps are important to improving our communities
Camp GUTS (Gearing Up Toward Success) is STAR Council's own annual summer leadership camp for kids. Every year, for three days in a row, students around the ages of 12-14 are invited to join us for team building exercises, guest speakers, and leadership skills development. This year our prevention team added a volunteer aspect by having students make no-sew blankets for animal shelters and cleaning up around the Stephenville Historical House Museum, a volunteer-led non-profit


Summer in prevention
Welcome to STAR Council's official blog! If you're not familiar with STAR Council's services, or even if you're an active supporter of what we do, our hope is that this blog will serve as an educational tool as well as an update on how STAR Council is serving our 7 counties. While I invite you to visit our website for more information, let me quickly point out that STAR Council has two primary domains: treatment and prevention. Within prevention, we use universal strategies t