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Opioid Use Prevention for Youth Diversion Programs

Opioid Use Prevention for Youth Diversion Programs

Opioid use (OU) skyrockets as youth transition into young adulthood, indicating adolescence is a critical time for prevention.  A study published last year (2024) explored specific OU prevention needs and...

Opioid Use Prevention for Youth Diversion Programs

Opioid use (OU) skyrockets as youth transition into young adulthood, indicating adolescence is a critical time for prevention.  A study published last year (2024) explored specific OU prevention needs and...

Prevention Plus Wellness is Partnering with Eluna

Prevention Plus Wellness is Partnering with Eluna

Prevention Plus Wellness has teamed up with Eluna to support children, teens and families impacted by grief or addition.  Please check out their website below. Eluna’s innovative resources and programs...

Prevention Plus Wellness is Partnering with Eluna

Prevention Plus Wellness has teamed up with Eluna to support children, teens and families impacted by grief or addition.  Please check out their website below. Eluna’s innovative resources and programs...

PPW Programs as School Diversion for Youth Substance Use

PPW Programs as School Diversion for Youth Subs...

In 2023, a published study of school personnels’ perceptions of diversion programs found they believed that diversion programs were more effective but less commonly used than punitive approaches (https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(23)00204-5/fulltext). Primary...

PPW Programs as School Diversion for Youth Subs...

In 2023, a published study of school personnels’ perceptions of diversion programs found they believed that diversion programs were more effective but less commonly used than punitive approaches (https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(23)00204-5/fulltext). Primary...

9 Ways to Partner with PPW

9 Ways to Partner with PPW

Prevention Plus Wellness’s (PPW) critical mission is to provide the only evidence-based brief substance use/misuse prevention interventions designed to increase protective healthy lifestyles among youth and young adults across the...

9 Ways to Partner with PPW

Prevention Plus Wellness’s (PPW) critical mission is to provide the only evidence-based brief substance use/misuse prevention interventions designed to increase protective healthy lifestyles among youth and young adults across the...

How Drugs Harm Healthy Lifestyles & Healthy Lifestyles Prevent Drug Use: Free Webinar

How Drugs Harm Healthy Lifestyles & Healthy Lif...

Session Objectives:  Describe common healthy lifestyle behavior problems among youth. Identify why healthy lifestyle behaviors are critical for youth mental and physical wellbeing, performance and happiness. Describe how healthy lifestyles...

How Drugs Harm Healthy Lifestyles & Healthy Lif...

Session Objectives:  Describe common healthy lifestyle behavior problems among youth. Identify why healthy lifestyle behaviors are critical for youth mental and physical wellbeing, performance and happiness. Describe how healthy lifestyles...

Prevention Professionals’ Reactions to Youth Leadership Training: Strengthening Drug Prevention by Empowering Youth to Live Healthy Lifestyles

Prevention Professionals’ Reactions to Youth Le...

Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) recently hosted a 1.5-hour webinar on “Youth Leadership Training: Strengthening Drug Prevention by Empowering Youth to Live Healthy Lifestyles.”   The goals of this session were...

Prevention Professionals’ Reactions to Youth Le...

Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) recently hosted a 1.5-hour webinar on “Youth Leadership Training: Strengthening Drug Prevention by Empowering Youth to Live Healthy Lifestyles.”   The goals of this session were...