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Prevention That Does More Than Just Prevent

•Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) provides the only screening & brief prevention interventions that can be provided in classrooms, to individuals or virtually

•Each program targets co-occurring health risks of physical inactivity, poor nutrition, lack of sleep & stress to promote mental health, performance & happiness

•Choose from alcohol, marijuana, opioid, & e-cigarette use prevention intervention

•Program manuals include scripted protocols increasing implementer easy & fidelity

•Improves self-regulation skills, self-efficacy & positive identity formation through multiple health behavior goal setting

•Choose either printed program manuals or unlimited access to digital manuals with our Unlimited Program & Training Licenses

•For children, adolescents, young adults, adults, parents & media

•Includes pretest & posttest evaluation surveys to monitor program outcomes

•Used in all 50 US states in school, community, clinic & military settings

Practical Prevention Interventions Promoting Healthy Lifestyles

Cost-Effective, Easy to Implement & Wide Reaching

We understand that substance abuse and health providers are looking for the most effective way to spend their funds. Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) programs have a high cost-benefit ratio, plus they are easy to implement by just reading the program script. 

Because most of our screening and brief prevention interventions are just a single session, they can reach large numbers of youth and young adults and have broad public health outcomes. Plus, PPW programs are listed on a wide range of evidence-based registries as effective for both preventing substance use and improving protective healthy habits.

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Listed on These Registries as Evidence-Based

  • Evidence-Based Resource Guides

  • Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development

  • National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices

  • Promising Practices Network

  • ...and more

    •Child Trends

    •Prevention Matters

    •Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness

    •Excellence in Prevention Strategies List

    •Results First Clearinghouse Database

    •California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC)

    •OASAS
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Why Is It Critical to Motivate Youth to Choose Wellness with Prevention?

Here are five reasons why youth and young adult substance use/misuse prevention and intervention programs should promote healthy behaviors and wellness.

#1

Young people experience multiple health risks.

Youth and young adults are at risk not only of substance use and misuse, but physical inactivity, poor eating, lack of sleep and stress requiring a holistic approach.

#2

Promoting wellness and
healthy behaviors protect against substance use/misuse.

Wellness acknowledges the mind and body are interconnected and that healthy behaviors can reduce risky substance use. 

#3

Healthy behaviors protect and improve mental health.

Research shows that wellness-promoting behaviors protect against mental illness and promote mental health.

#4

Wellness empowers one to choose positive identities and healthy habits.

Wellness emphasizes having positive goals, learning self-regulation skills, and choosing a healthy identity and habits.

#5

Wellness is the ultimate goal for all youth & young adults.

Wellness is not just about reducing health risks, but promoting good physical and mental health, performance, and happiness.

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