Behavioral Health Wellness Portal
Our Chesapeake City Hall building is lit up in GREEN in recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month. Please visit our Prevention website at cibhprevention.com for more information and resources on Mental Health Awareness Month.
Continue ReadingBRBH Prevention & Wellness Services with funding from the Family Wellness Initiative are very pleased to share the results from our recent presentation “Families at Home with Nowhere to Go”. Along with the feedback, we want to share some of the specific activities that were part of the presentation. Details on how to play are…
Continue ReadingHello, I would like to share something that the Roanoke Area Youth Substance Abuse Coalition has created. We have designed a Teen Social Distancing Challenge and it is something that can be adapted by any coalition or prevention department. We are all aware of the mental and physical side-effects that the stay-at-home orders have on…
Continue ReadingInstead of conducting in person outreach for Alcohol Awareness Month, the Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition of Alexandria (SAPCA) has worked with our City communications department to create appropriate social media messaging to share on our platforms targeting adults (Twitter: @SAPCA_AlexVA Facebook: @SAPCAlexandria) and targeting teens (Twitter: @AlexTeenLife Instagram: @AlexandriaTeenLife). Content has started to go out…
Continue ReadingHello, I would like to share something that the Roanoke Area Youth Substance Abuse Coalition has created. We have designed a Teen Social Distancing Challenge and it is something that can be adapted by any coalition or prevention department. We are all aware of the mental and physical side-effects that the stay-at-home orders have on…
Continue ReadingThe Roanoke Prevention Alliance was the spotlight coalition in the CADCA weekly newsletter on 4/25/19. Please click the link below to view the full article, and to catch up on what the Roanoke Prevention Alliance has been working on. https://www.cadca.org/resources/coalitions-action-roanoke-prevention-alliance-path-resilience
Continue ReadingWe all know that engagement with local media outlets is a critical component of our outreach efforts. With this in mind, I wanted to share a ‘real life’ example of how this can directly impact what we do. Yesterday, our team conducted the first of our standing monthly REVIVE! trainings in the New River Valley….
Continue ReadingChesterfield County is proud to share one of the outcomes of a Lead and Seed Training implemented at Thomas Dale High School in the Fall of 2018. Tenth grade students were identified to work on a community prevention project throughout the semester. Colleen Hughes and Prevention Specialists from Chesterfield County led the Lead and Seed Training…
Continue Readinghttps://www.farmvilleherald.com/2019/01/retailers-reduce-youth-access-to-tobacco/
Continue ReadingCongratulations to the partners in Region 1 for their recognition and their outstanding work! https://www.forbes.com/sites/elizabethmacbride/2018/12/30/how-gun-dealers-took-up-the-front-line-of-gun-violence/#342e7bd16900
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