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Team Building Activity: Gloves On

Gloves On is a great activity to bring groups together and have fun in a past-paced, personally challenging game where everyone can get involved. Team building happens in the debrief, where participants are given the opportunity to connect with each other by...

2024 VOX Teen Survey

Each year, our community partner VOX ATL offers a teen-informed, strengths-based statewide survey to provide real-time data from youth to understand their afterschool activities, communication preferences and mental health needs so that we can better reach and serve...

2024 Suicide Prevention Month Art Contest

September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month! Gwinnett youth are invited to join GUIDE as we celebrate with a Suicide Prevention Month Art Contest! The Campaign Words influence a person’s beliefs and thoughts about something. Words also affect the stigma around a...

Celebrate National Prevention Week GUIDE Style

This month is an exciting time for organizations in the prevention field and many others who support substance abuse prevention efforts. May 12-18, 2024 is National Prevention Week, a time to raise public awareness about substance use and abuse, as well as mental...

Teens and Alcohol

Alcohol is the #1 drug of choice for teens and young adults. (SAMHSA) The human brain takes 23-25 years to fully develop. Youth alcohol use can interfere with healthy brain development in ways that affect the rest of their lives. (NIH) Studies of adolescent alcohol...

Participate in the DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

Another National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is quickly approaching! Gather your unused, unwanted or expired prescription drugs to dispose of safely during the upcoming event. When: Saturday, April 27, 2024 – 10 am to 2 pm Where: A comprehensive list of...

Celebrate National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week

National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week® (NDAFW) is March 18-24, 2024. NDAFW is a national health observance that inspires dialogue about the science of drug use and addiction among youth. You can learn more about this via the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)....

Five Reasons to Get Credentialed as a Prevention Professional

Decades ago, a group of prevention workers got together to investigate the pros and cons of instituting a prevention credentialing process in Georgia. The field of substance abuse prevention was still in its adolescence, but growing. Many of those who started working...
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