Preventing or delaying substance use among youths and young adults is critical to protecting their mental and physical wellbeing.
However, substance use prevention has a big problem.
The Problem
Most substance use prevention programs, and health promotion programs for that matter, are too lengthy or complicated to be provided to all youth and young adults at-risk for substance use/misuse and other health risks necessary to achieve true public health reach and impact.
In addition, most individual prevention and health programs are too narrowly focused and don't address multiple co-occurring health risks common among young people across the US and the world, including substance use and misuse, physical inactivity, poor nutrition, inadequate sleep, and uncontrolled stress which together interact to negatively influence youth and young adult physical and mental wellbeing.
Our solution
PPW provides evidence-based screening and brief interventions that can be provided in one-45-minute session, along with other brief motivational strategies, for implementation in busy schools, organizations and communities.
PPW programs cost-effectively promote multiple healthy lifestyle behaviors that protect against substance use/misuse while enhancing health risk behaviors within single interventions to improve the mental and physical wellbeing, performance and happiness of youth and young adults.
Using the Behavior-Image Model as a theoretical foundation, PPW programs target desired future self-images associated with healthy lifestyle behaviors and employ multiple behavior goal setting to motivate and initiate behavior change, shape positive identities, and increase self-regulation skills and self-efficacy.
Used in all 50 US states and abroad, PPW programs include easy-to-follow scripted program manuals with PowerPoint slides and built-in evaluation tools to ensure program fidelity, efficacy and sustainability.
Learn more about PPW: https://preventionpluswellness.com