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Mahuli Jakubek is the Director of Collaboration & Environmental Strategies and serves as assistant facilitator for the Youth Advisory Board. Mahuli works with the Coalition for Health and Human Services and other community partners to implement community-level change strategies (environmental strategies), particularly to reduce and prevent underage drinking, but also addresses tobacco, marijuana and prescription drug misuse. Environmental strategies include things like policy change, public awareness campaigns, new or modified programs, practices and policies that affect an entire community.
Mahuli has worked at GUIDE since August 2009. Prior to coming to GUIDE, she worked as the Associate Executive Director at the J. M. Tull – Gwinnett Family YMCA since 1993. She has worked and volunteered in various capacities focusing on community mobilization, collaboration and program development. Mahuli works closely with numerous partners to create a healthier and safer community through the on-going media campaign, Inspired to Make Healthy Choices.
One of the successes has been a partnership with the City of Duluth. The City Council passed a new Alcohol Ordinance in August 2010, which mandated an Alcohol Awareness Training for all owners, servers and sellers of alcoholic beverages. The program was developed in collaboration with the City of Duluth and GUIDE. This program trained over 800 participants during the first year and continues to make the City of Duluth a safer community. This is the first municipality in Gwinnett that has a mandatory training.
Mahuli serves on a number of community committees such as the Coalition for Health and Human Services Communications and Research Committees, Community Prevention Alliance Workgroup, Statewide Alcohol Policy Workgroup, State Red Ribbon Week Committee, Team for Latino Alcohol Abuse Prevention, Regional Prevention Alliance Workgroup, and is a member of the Leadership Gwinnett Program Study Group facilitators. She was a member of the 1999 Leadership Gwinnett Class. Mahuli earned her Bachelor’s of Science and Master’s of Exercise Physiology from University of Tennessee. |
