FREE TRAINING! Engaging Youth in Preventing Opioid Addiction
Learn how you can provide youth with the information and skills they need to prevent opioid abuse!
Engaging Youth in Preventing Opioid Addiction uniquely recognizes the strengths of young people, particularly for their peer leadership skills. This can be a powerful and effective tool to helping reduce and prevent opioid addiction, while also promoting positive youth development. Plus, research shows that young people who are engaged, active and supported make healthier decisions.
This training, conducted in collaboration with Words Can Work and Health Resources in Action (HRiA), supports YOU in being an active prevention partner in your community.
- Build skills and gain the knowledge you need to talk with youth about opioids.
- Learn proven strategies for engaging youth in substance abuse prevention activities, coalitions and policy change
- Learn best practices for incorporating Words Can Work’s evidence-based DVD Drugs: True Stories into your programming. Drugs: True Stories is included in SAMHSA’s National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP).
SPACE IS LIMITED!!! REGISTER NOW!
Contact April M. Cabrera at (508) 961-1983 or april.m.cabrera@state.ma.us
