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Join us for Partnering with Parents for Prevention
April 25, 2023 - In our recent needs assessment you identified that parent sector engagement and retention was a major struggle for achieving your coalition goals. There are so many factors that go into partnering with parents, and our… more...
How Your Coalition Can Celebrate Earth Day
April 14, 2023 - Earth Day, celebrated every year on April 22nd, is a day to honor our planet and engage in environmental protection efforts. This day is a great opportunity for your coalition to engage in some multisolving… more...
April is Alcohol Awareness Month: Recommended Toolkit
April 3, 2023 - From the Northwest Prevention Technology Transfer Center: Alcohol Awareness Toolkit: #ProofIsInTheNumbers April is National Alcohol Awareness Month. To raise awareness about alcohol-related harms and the importance of alcohol policy safeguards, we have launched the Alcohol Awareness… more...
Happy National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week!
March 17, 2023 - March 20th-26th is National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week! Will you be participating? From The National Institute on Drug Abuse - NIDA: National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week®, or NDAFW, is an annual, week-long, health… more...
Join us for our 2nd Strategic Prevention Framework Learning Collaborative
February 1, 2023 - Last year we hosted our first Strategic Prevention Framework Learning Collaborative as a way to support and connect newer coalition staff throughout the region, and we're bringing to back by popular demand! This series will… more...
The Seven Strategies for Community Change and the Stages of Change
October 21, 2022 - As an individual working as a behavioral and public health professional you already know how to help make change. For instance, the Person-in-Environment Theory, and Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Theory, are taught throughout many professional programs and… more...
Racism’s Impacts on Substance Misuse on Long Island
August 31, 2022 - The recent Erase Racism Report, titled Unequal Resources for Long Island Students Based on Race, on the segregation of Long Island Schools and their related disparities brings into focus the systematic racism and prejudices that… more...
Marijuana and Hemp: Differences and Laws
July 21, 2022 - With the legalization of Marijuana earlier this year we've been receiving many questions about the differences between Marijuana, Hemp, Delta-9, Delta-8, and CBD. Here are some of the differences and laws as they related to… more...
It is 4/20- What does that mean?
April 20, 2020 - Shared from the Prevention Coalition of Mercer County (PCMC): "Today Is April 20th- 4/20, Do you know what this might mean? Often it is referred to as "Weed Day". Many myths exist about 4/20- No,… more...
Addiction Is a Disease
December 11, 2019 - Addiction Is a Disease The NIDA Blog Team March 29, 2016 Why can’t people who have an addiction “just stop” using drugs? We get asked this question a lot. Sometimes it’s hard for friends and… more...