About Us
OUR MISSION
Creating a safe community in Highland by making it a healthy, drug and alcohol-free community for youth through education, prevention, and community support.
Community Prevention Wellness initiative (CPWI)
In 2011, the DSHS Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery launched the Community Prevention and Wellness Initiative (CPWI) to provide substance abuse prevention services and strategies through local coalitions in high-need communities
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-Department of Health Services
How do we know prevention works?
Over 60 prevention programs and policies have been shown through rigorous research to prevent substance use problems. An evaluation by Washington State University shows that CPWI is meeting its goals: 95% of programs implemented between July 2015 and June 2016 had positive results in delaying the first use of alcohol or other drugs, reducing use, decreasing risk factors and/or increasing protective factors. Between 2008 and 2016, communities in Cohort 1 showed improvements in all family and community risk factors. Evaluation results also showed significant decreases in 10th grade substance use outcomes: - Alcohol use and binge drinking - down 42% - Cigarette use - down 49% - Marijuana use - down 11% On a statewide level, the Washington State Healthy Youth Survey (HYS) monitors the health of students, evaluates the impact of our prevention efforts, and shows the links between substance use and education outcomes. Since 2006, past-month use of alcohol among 10th graders has dropped from 33 percent to 20 percent, and binge drinking has been reduced by half - from 20 percent to 11 percent.
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-Department of Health Services
Sector Representatives
Youth
Civic/Volunteer Group
School
State/Local/Tribal Goverments
Parent
Healthcare Professionals
Youth-Serving Organizations
Business
Law Enforcement
Media
Religious/Fraternal Organizations
Other Substance Abuse Organization
Programs for 2019-2020
Strengthening Families
Strengthening Families is a parent, youth and family skill-building curriculum design to: Strengthen parenting skills, build family strengths, prevent teen substance abuse and other behavior problems. This program is for students and their parents. The student must be 10-14 years of age in order to participate in the program. There is a limit of 12 families.
Second Step
​Second Step is a program rooted in social-emotional learning (SEL) that helps transform schools into supportive, successful learning environments uniquely equipped to encourage children to thrive. More than just a classroom curriculum, Second Step’s holistic approach helps create a more empathetic society by providing education professionals, families, and the larger community with tools to enable them to take an active role in the social-emotional growth and safety of today’s children.
SPORTS-Wellness Program
A health promotion program that highlights the positive image benefits of an active lifestyle to reduce the use of alcohol, tobacco and drug use by high school students in addition to improving their overall physical health.
Environmental Strategies
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National Prescription Take Back Day
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School policy
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Starts with One campaign
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Under the influence of you
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"Talk. they hear you"