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International Overdose Awareness Day is August 31

Join us as we observe International Overdose Awareness Day on August 31, 2024. According to Penington Institute, the organization responsible for this international initiative: “International Overdose Awareness Day aims to raise awareness of overdose and reduce the...

Summer Safety

While summer is a time of fun and relaxation, it is important to prioritize safety! We know to wear sunscreen, supervise children around water and be careful around fireworks. Adults also play a big part in ensuring summer safety by preventing teen substance use...

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...

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...

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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