Fighting Addiction Before it Starts

Substance Use: Prevention

Catholic Charities Prevention Services utilizes school curriculums, community outreach, and community-based training so youth, parents, and other community members may be educated, involved, active participants in the fight against drug and alcohol use.

We have found great success in the development of partnerships, including collaborations and coalition building, to strengthen communities, promote youth engagement, lower substance abuse among youth, and curtail issues that typically accompany substance use. We have partnerships and programming at schools throughout our three-county service area.

Prevention Programming Includes: • Teen Intervene • Too Good for Drugs • Girls Circle • Boys Council • Strengthening Families • Narcan training & kits • Catch My Breath (vaping prevention program) • Incredible Years (early elementary social/emotional learning) • Smart Talk: Cannabis Awareness Toolkit • QPR – Question, Persuade, Refer Suicide Prevention • Parenting Inside Out (for formally incarcerated parents returning home) • Under Your Radar (for parents to recognize signs of substance use)

Prevention Services: • Alcohol, tobacco, and other drug presentation • Prevention Education Presentations • Substance Use Disorder Resource Center • Parent Workshops • Social Marketing • Annual Sullivan County Prevention Poster Contest • Peachy, the Prevention Elephant (Click FORM to request appearance) • Community and Youth Coalition Development

Community Coalitions

TEAM Newburgh Community Coalition

SALT