What We Do
Strategies
These strategies are prevention efforts aimed at changing or influencing community conditions,
standards, institutions, structures, systems, and policies that shape behavior.
In the prevention world, strategies fall into 7 different categories:
Provide Support
Create opportunities to support people to participate in activities that reduce risk or enhance
protection.
Enhance Skills
Organize workshops, seminars, or activities designed to increase the skills of participants,
members, and staff.
Enhance Access/Reduce Barriers
Improve systems/processes to increase the ease, ability, and opportunity to utilize those
systems and services in prevention initiatives.
Reduce Access/Enhance Barriers
Improve systems/processes to decrease the ease, ability, and opportunity for youth to access
substances
Change Consequences
Increase or decrease the probability of a behavior by altering the consequences for performing
that behavior.
Change Physical Design
Change the physical design of the environment to reduce risk or enhance protection.
Modify/Change Policies
Produce formal change in written procedures, by-laws, proclamations, rules, or laws.
Subcommittees
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Tactics
Vendor Education
Each year, we work with alcohol and tobacco vendors to properly train them on safe sale of their
products.
Compliance Checks
We regularly inspect alcohol and tobacco vendors to see if they are checking IDs.
Medication Disposal
Unused prescription drugs are often abused. To reduce this, we’ve established eight
prescription drop-off centers, as well as drug take-back days.
Community Knowledge Base
We maintain and update local substance abuse data and make it available to all.