Strategies
These strategies are prevention efforts aimed at changing or influencing community conditions, standards, institutions, structures, systems, and policies that shape behavior.
In the prevention world, strategies fall into 7 different categories:
Provide Support
Create opportunities to support people to participate in activities that reduce risk or enhance protection.
Enhance Skills
Organize workshops, seminars, or activities designed to increase the skills of participants, members, and staff.
Enhance Access/Reduce Barriers
Improve systems/processes to increase the ease, ability, and opportunity to utilize those systems and services in prevention initiatives.
Reduce Access/Enhance Barriers
Improve systems/processes to decrease the ease, ability, and opportunity for youth to access substances
Change Consequences
Increase or decrease the probability of a behavior by altering the consequences for performing that behavior.
Change Physical Design
Change the physical design of the environment to reduce risk or enhance protection.
Modify/Change Policies
Produce formal change in written procedures, by-laws, proclamations, rules, or laws. (We are not here, yet – but making strides.)
Tactics
Vendor Education
Each year, we work with alcohol and tobacco vendors to properly train them on safe sale of their products.
MIP Party Patrol
Underage drinking can be dangerous. We make sure the youth of Newaygo stay safe by keeping an eye out for unsafe party activities.
Compliance Checks
We regularly inspect alcohol and tobacco vendors to see if they are checking IDs.
TIPS Training
We help train bartenders and servers on how to safely make and serve alcoholic beverages.
Medication Disposal
Unused prescription drugs are often abused. To reduce this, we’ve established eight prescription drop-off centers, as well as drug take-back days.
Teen Leadership Groups
Twice a year, selected groups of student leaders are brought together to learn about the dangers of drugs and alcohol, peer pressure, leadership, and more from local community leaders.
Community Knowledge Base
We maintain and update local substance abuse data and make it available to all.
Substance Abuse Training
We work with local businesses, organizations, churches, and more to educate them on the truth about substance abuse and what can be done to prevent it.
Talk Sooner
Headway is a proud supporter of the Talk Sooner campaign, which helps parents communicate with their kids about tough issues. Learn more here.
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