What is Prevention?
Prevention is using upstream thinking to make community-wide changes that protect kids early on. Prevention work reduces risk factors that contribute to youth substance use while increasing factors known to protect youth and build resilience. Prevention efforts serve as a catalyst to increase participation and collaboration among all sectors of a community. Learn What Works and What Doesn’t in prevention.
Our strategic plan is the roadmap which guides our work, and helps us to communicates our goals, strategies and programs.
Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) is a dynamic, data-driven planning process that prevention practitioners can use to understand and more effectively address the substance abuse and related mental health problems facing their communities.
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