Prevention Services works diligently to provide the community with basic prevention strategies to enhance protective factors, such as promoting positive mental and emotional well-being, and decreasing known risk factors, such as peer pressure and availability of drugs.

Empowering you to meet the challenges you face by promoting a healthy lifestyle

Prevention Strategies
• Raise awareness of the dangers of drug use
  and the benefits of constructive behavior
• Promote good parenting skills and strengthen
  the family — the first defense against drug
  abuse
• Provide mentoring and positive role modeling
  for youth
• Mobilize communities to establish environments
  that enhance positive personal development
• Strengthen and support policies that promote
  healthy lifestyles and change community norms

How We Help
• Provide information on substance abuse issues,
  mental health, relationships, violence, and other
  community issues utilizing brochures,
  pamphlets, hand-outs and resource directories
• Establish media campaigns and provide public
  awareness
• Present workshops, presentations, trainings
  and speaking engagements
• Conduct educational activities for schools,
  classrooms or small group sessions
• Offer parenting, divorce and family classes
• Work with local hospitals in their childbirth
  classes
• Provide expecting parents and families of
  children 0-3 years old, information, education
  and resources on substance abuse prevention
• Help present drug-free dances or parties, after-
  school programs, or community recreation
• Provide intervention services for juvenile drug
  court or DUI convictions
• Provide multi-agency coordination and
  collaboration, school-community team trainings
  and community planning on current issues
• Work with merchants and vendors, local police,
  colleges, schools, etc., to help prevent
  underage access to alcohol and tobacco

Substance Abuse
Substance abuse is the nation’s top health problem, causing more deaths, illnesses and disabilities than any other preventable health problem. One in four deaths is due to the abuse of alcohol, tobacco or illicit drugs, according to the Hartford Courant.

Nicotine
Nicotine is one of the most heavily used addictive drugs in the United States — 66.5 million Americans reported using a tobacco product in 2001, according to the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse.

Divorce
Divorce affects more than 1.5 million U.S. children annually. Children are most hurt by parental conflicts, especially when it involves issues of loyalty, according to the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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