Too Good for Drugs” is a K-12 evidence-based program developed by the Mendez Foundation and trainings facilitated by Law Enforcement Against Drugs (L.E.A.D). In the midst of the community assessment for Sweet Grass County, Prevention Specialist Samantha Kieffer, met with the Superintendent of schools, principals for Big Timber Grade School and Sweet Grass County High, …
Several prevention specialists, youth, TAs, and BHDD staff traveled to Washington D.C. to CADCA in February. They met with Senator Tester and Senator Daines. They also learned a lot of new information about substance abuse prevention.
Referral System Options! For those looking to referral systems to implement in their communities, CONNECT, Bright App, and 211 are all complementary referral systems. They each have their own specialty. They can be used alone or side by side to complement each other’s work. CONNECT: a bidirectional referral network that allows client contact information to …
The Mountain Plains PTTC hosts an Advisory Board, comprised of several stakeholders from each state in the region. This board provides insight and feedback to help shape the training and technical assistance provided to states by the PTTC. They reached out to Youth Connections inquiring about finding a youth from Montana to serve on the …
Parents can be confused and overwhelmed when it comes to Prevention. The One Choice 5 offers a simple and straightforward framework to help parents integrate prevention into their thinking and parenting. Substance use disorder is now understood to be a pediatric-onset disease, underscoring the importance of both prevention and parental influence as one of the …
The Healthy Missoula Youth Coalition has recently been partnering with MCPS School District in a variety of ways. Most recently, following a staff training day on substance use prevention, partnership with key stakeholders at CS Porter Middle School has led to the development of a Parenting IS Prevention community gathering. On Wednesday, April 19th the …
Dawson County Block Grant worked with Tobacco Prevention and middle school counselors for their annual “Honk and Wave”. Kids make posters sharing why they choose to be tobacco and vape free asking for people to honk in support. And yes it was as cold as these kids made it look!
In collaboration with Youth Connections, Helena School District, and The Painted pot I was able to host a teacher event that allowed teachers to unwind, connect, and learn about resources available to help! These teachers have faced great stress from Covid teaching to District financial issues causing pink slips to be put in place and …
Realizing that fentanyl isn’t just in the headlines it’s closer to our communities and stronger than most people realize, we applied for a small grant from the MSU Extension Office. We partnered with local law enforcement, emergency responders, our health department and various community groups to bring these FREE educational events to our communities throughout …
