Bobbie Hall

Cannabis Municipal Level Toolkit

Communities across the state are navigating a changing landscape resulting from recent legalization of cannabis use for those over 21. While guidance is forthcoming regarding the establishment of this industry, many communities want to be sure to consider the public health impact this new industry can have on their community residents and potential areas of concern. The Prevention Hub staff have resources to provide to communities to use public health research and experience to guide their policies and practices to limit the negative impact for youth. The Prevention Hub’s Cannabis Legalization and Local Policy: A Public Health Approach provides local decision makers with guidance on best practices related to an “upstream” approach to public health outcomes, including youth use prevention.

Toolkit coming soon. Contact your county Prevention Hub for assistance.

Marijuana School Policy Toolkit

Many schools are currently navigating changes that have occurred due to recent cannabis legalization. The Prevention Hub staff possess the knowledge and the resources to help guide schools in crafting and implementing updated practices and policies. Working in partnership with LEGAL ONE, we have developed Marijuana Legalization and School Policy: A Public Health Approach to help guide schools in creating a comprehensive and supportive response in this area.

Strengthening Families

The Strengthening Families Program is an evidence-based training program designed to provide parenting and family life skills in addition to children’s social skills. Parents and children will participate in SFP in interactive groups, both together and separately within breakout rooms.

It is a 7-week program for families across Warren County. The Strengthening Families Program was first established in 1982 to aid parents in developing the skills needed to keep their children from using drugs and alcohol. It is an evidence-based training program providing parenting and family life skills as well as children’s social skills. Parents and children participate in SFP, both together and separately within breakout rooms. The SFP family relationship skills are useful for all families—not just those at risk. Meals will be provided for each session, and there will be prizes and incentives for attending.

Prevention Connections is offering this program for seven consecutive weeks, ideally to families with children between the ages of 6-11 & 12-16.

With this program, we hope to increase parental involvement, communication and family bonding while decreasing family conflict and youth depression and aggression.

PreVenture

PreVenture is an evidence-based program that uses personality targeted interventions to promote skill development and delay youth substance use. It uses personality-focused interventions to promote mental health and delay substance use among teens.

A workshop designed to help at-risk youth ages 12-17 to develop healthy coping skills by providing a bridge between youth and mental wellbeing. PreVenture workshops are designed to promote mental well-being by helping adolescents learn adaptive coping skills, how to set long-term goals and how to channel their personality towards achieving their goals.

Over the Counter Medications

Johnson & Johnson’s Over-the-Counter Medicine Safety Guide-Building Health Literacy in the Community.

Specific lessons for Grades 5 & 6: All over-the-counter medicines carry a Drug Facts label. These lessons teach students how to use the Drug Facts label as a guide to safe medicine use, as well as how to store and dispose of medicine safely. Six units with activities that support health, STEM, and language arts (informational text) standards.

Specific lessons for Grades 7 & 8: All over-the-counter medicines carry a Drug Facts label. These lessons teach students how to use the Drug Facts label as a guide to safe medicine use, as well as how to store and dispose of medicine safely. Six units with activities that support health, STEM, and language arts (informational text) standards.

School Nurse Resources: Medicine safety podcasts produced by the National Association of School Nurses and links to additional outreach tools for helping students and their families avoid medicine mistakes.

Family Resources: A household guide to OTC medicine safety, plus at-home activities to help make responsible medicine use a priority for the whole family. Family resources are available in English and Spanish.

Intoxiclock

This interactive educational tool shows intoxication levels after drinking under different scenarios that include gender, weight, number of drinks consumed over different periods of time, blood alcohol levels and the time it takes levels to reach zero.

Users are able to see how long alcohol stays in the bloodstream after just one drink or after several drinks at different intervals and also by gender and weight, as alcohol metabolism rates for males and females are different with females taking more time to metabolize a drink.

The Intoxiclock also shows how even “harmless” drinking, i.e., one drink before dinner and then one glass of wine during dinner, can affect a person for more than an hour after they leave a restaurant after dining. The levels from binge drinking can also be seen.
How Intoxiclock Works – short video

CONSIDER THIS:

The Intoxiclock can be used throughout the community and could even be set up at an after-prom party for entertainment and education.

Scheduled demonstrations of the Intoxiclock can be arranged by using the contact form below, or visit https://www.fatalvision.com/

Bobbie Hall

CONSIDER THIS:

Request More Information