• Mission/Prevention/Intervention

 

To support and educate young people, their families and communities to prevent any use of illegal drugs and the irresponsible use of legal drugs.

To affect the attitudes, skills, and behaviors of children, adolescents, parents and other adults through providing evidence-based, state-of-the-art, and relevant strategies, services and programs to help empower the persons being served to live or help others to live alcohol and drug-free lives.

What is Prevention? Prevention is the promotion of constructive lifestyles and norms that discourage alcohol, tobacco and other drug (ATOD) abuse. Prevention is achieved through the application of multiple strategies; it is an ongoing process that must relate to each emerging generation. Vision "Communities are well informed about the harms of illicit drugs and empowered with anti-drug strategies".