Youth Substance Use Prevention Month can be a good reminder for us to intentionally focus on sharing specific resources with our students and families.

The best prevention practices include a combination of of information, skill developments and strategies to reduce youth access to substances.

Please consider sharing some resources with families in your school newsletter, email communications with families as well as working with your school teams to increase students access to information and opportunities to practice skills.

Feel free to reach out for specific strategies for your school community.

PPS has a number of resources to support substance use prevention. Please see links and descriptions;

Tier I Strategies for the Beginning of the Year - This resource was developed to be a menu of ideas that schools can pick from to create a culture of substance use awareness and prevention strategies.

Staying Healthy & Safe, Staying Away from Substances - this lesson was developed for middle schoolers. The PPS Substance Use Support Team is available to help deliver to schools upon request. Please contact Mary Krogh for additional information.

Understanding the Risks of Substance Use and Avoiding Overdose - this lesson was develop for high school students. Please contact your CADC for support in planning and delivery of these lessons.

Prevention Strategies and Healthy Decision Making - this is a multilingual one pager that helps supports families to identify steps they can take to help support their students.

Another thing we can do to observe Youth Substance Use Prevention Month is to take time to increase our own skills or knowledge and/or share resource and information with families.

Please see the training opportunities below for ideas and opportunities.