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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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.
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, …
By Steffani Turner, LCSW Well, it happened again last night … and we both went to bed feeling terrible. I said NO! Again. For the umpteenth time. It seems like I say NO every day, all the time, in fact. One little, teeny word is so powerful. Saying NO feels like it creates a rift …
By Natural High Staff Whether it’s about learning geometry to get a good grade, finding a job, or making a new group of friends, the pursuit of a meaningful goal can bring light, life, and organization to a kid’s life. One of the worst things to see is a kid who’s disconnected and disengaged from …
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By Len Lantz, M.D. It seems wrong until you think it through: To become independent, you must become good at getting help. This statement doesn’t seem true to many people until they mull it over long enough, but I promise you that learning to request and receive help is an essential ingredient to the self-sufficiency …
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