Prevention Services

Empowering you to meet the challenges you face while promoting a healthy lifestyle.

Prevention Services

We work diligently to provide the community with basic prevention strategies and resources to enhance protective factors, such as promoting positive mental and emotional well-being, and decreasing known risk factors, like suicidal thoughts, problem gambling and availability of drugs.

Substance Use

Illicit Drug Use includes marijuana, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, as well as the misuse of prescription drugs. According to SAMSHA, 73.6 million people aged 12 and older reported using illicit drugs in 2024. Of those people, 816,000 misused illegally made fentanyl.

Prevention Strategies

• Strengthen and support resources that promote mental wellbeing and reduce stigma in our community.
• Raise awareness of the risks of substance use, problem gambling, and suicidal thoughts.
• Provide positive resources to the community to enhance personal development.

How We Help

• Provide resources and information on substance misuse, mental health, suicide, problem gambling, and other community issues.
• Present free community trainings and presentations, like Mental Health First Aid, SafeTalk, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Lock & Talk, by partnering with outside organizations or concerned community members.
• Establish media campaigns and provide public awareness.
• Host a coalition open to the public called Concerned About Our Community, where we can network about growing issues related to prevention topics in our area.
• Provide multi-agency coordination with merchants, vendors, local police, colleges, and schools to provide free community events based on prevention strategies.
• Provide free medication locking devices and firearm locks to the community to prevent overdoses and suicide attempts.