The Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Program is based on the goal of ensuring healthy, safe, and productive lives for all people. Our program helps promote constructive lifestyles that discourage alcohol and drug abuse and promote development of social environments that facilitate alcohol/drug-free lifestyles. The Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Program helps prevent problems resulting from the use and abuse of substances. It also increases the awareness of and access to services offered in communities, neighborhoods, and schools. Service provision is contracted through community-based agencies and schools.

Our Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Programs include the following activities:

• Training in early identification
• Intervention for youth at-risk for substance abuse
• Parent education
• Educational groups for children living in homes with chemical dependency
• County-wide peer-helper retreats with year round follow-up services
• Community awareness trainings
• Culturally-specific prevention and early intervention programs for diverse populations
• Comprehensive student-assistance program for schools
• Allocation of small grants for community and youth groups to plan and implement training and drug-free activities
• Sponsorship of an annual county prevention conference
• Ongoing coordination and support of prevention services throughout the county
• Chemical dependency treatment for pregnant and parenting women
• Childcare for the children of parents in outpatient programs
• Therapeutic childcare for the children of parents in treatment;
• Respite care services and family homes to care for young children while their parents are in inpatient treatment for 30 days or less or in a detoxification program.