Prevention

5 Steps to Conducting a Brown Bag Campaign

Whether for Alcohol Awareness Month, Red Ribbon Week or a truly any time of year, a Brown Bag Campaign is a great project to help prevent underage drinking. This campaign involves distributing brown bags to the community with a message in English and Spanish,...

What You Need to Know About Addiction and the Brain

We continue to expand our knowledge about how our brain functions and communicates. The latest studies have found that there are two systems in the brain, the reward and the anti-reward system. The brain uses many pathways and continually works to stay in balance and...

Why Alcohol Awareness Should Be Your Priority

Contributed by Wendy Jefferson, M.A.Ed., and Devon Michael LoParo, M.A. April is Alcohol Awareness Month, and Emory University’s Center for Maternal Substance Abuse and Child Development (MSACD) would like to encourage everyone to use the month of April to educate...

Celebrate Kick Butts Day 2016

  Contributed by Kinsey McMurtry, MPH On March 16, 2016 young adults across Georgia are encouraged to stand out, speak up and take control against Big Tobacco as part of the national 2016 Kick Butts Day program created by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. Each...

Conduct Your Own Alcohol Free Gets Me Campaign

As April approaches, it is time to start planning your Alcohol Awareness Month project. Conducting an Alcohol Free Gets Me campaign is a great project for your Youth Action Team! Here’s what you need to know in order to implement the campaign. Central Message and Goal...

20 Ways to Say “I Love You” Without Doing It

From Valentine’s Day to anniversaries, the media and retailers are constantly abuzz with ways to show loved ones how much you care. This can understandably bring about a lot of pressure to engage in risky, sexual behaviors, but there’s good news! It’s okay to say “no”...