Kentucky Substance Abuse Prevention Programs

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Kentucky Substance Abuse Prevention Programs

• Division of Substance Abuse
• Cabinet for Health Family Services

Diane Shuntich, Assistant Director Division of
Substance Abuse
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Prevention Activities

• The Division utilizes a community mobilization
  approach that engages a wide variety of
  organizations in prevention activities
• The activities presented here have directly or
  indirectly resulted from the services provided by
  Division prevention contracts.

Diane Shuntich, Assistant Director Division of
Substance Abuse
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Programs Targeting ChildrenOverall number of
children and youth reachedgt100,000

• Elementary school programs
• Heres Looking at You
• Second Step
• DARE
• Too Good for Drugs
• Know Your Body

Diane Shuntich, Assistant Director Division of
Substance Abuse
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Middle School Programs

• LifeSkills
• Project Alert
• Project Northland
• DARE
• Get Real About Violence

Diane Shuntich, Assistant Director Division of
Substance Abuse
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High School Programs

• Heres Looking at You
• Get Real About Violence
• YES Youth Empowerment System,
  involves youth in prevention activities
• Intervention programs for youth who smoke
• TEG
• TAP
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Diane Shuntich, Assistant Director Division of
Substance Abuse
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• SYNAR checks to assure tobacco
  vendors are complying with laws
  prohibiting sales to minors
• EIP Statewide Early Intervention Program for 1st
  time youthful offenders, zero-tolerance
  offenders, alternative school students, DJJ
  clients
• SMART MOVES After school
  program (elementary, middle
  high school)

Diane Shuntich, Assistant Director Division of
Substance Abuse
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Programs Targeting Adults

• Alcohol drug education for the workplace
• Prime for Life for Adults
• Outreach to pregnant women
• Preventing Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Baby Love
• Parent education
• Preparing for the Drug-Free Years
• Prime for Life for Parents
• Parenting Wisely
• Strengthening Families
• Parents Who Care
• Roots and Wings
• Education for College Students
• Prime for Life on Campus

• Awareness Education
• Prevention resource libraries
• Distribution of pamphlets
• Health Fairs
• Web sites
• Speaking engagements
• Training for Substance Abuse Prevention
  Specialists
• Prevention Academy
• KY School of Alcohol Drug Studies
• Preparing for Prevention

Diane Shuntich, Assistant Director Division of
Substance Abuse
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Community Activities

• Organizing community summits to plan how to
  address urgent issues such as meth and
  prescription drug abuse
• KIP Survey of 6th,8th,10th 12th grade students
  provides data at the school district level on
  substance abuse, violence and related risk and
  protective factors
• Formation and guidance of community drug abuse
  task forces Champions
• Formation and guidance of KY-ASAP local boards
• Media campaigns Partnership for a Drug Free
  America, Take It Outside

• Technical assistance to various organizations on
  how to implement prevention programs and policies
• Parent Alert informs parents if their child
  makes an illegal attempt to purchase alcohol
• Training of health, education, and social
  services professionals
• Advocacy for preventive community policy changes
• Smoke-free workplaces
• More effective school policies
• Reduced access to drug paraphernalia and OTC
  stimulants

Diane Shuntich, Assistant Director Division of
Substance Abuse
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• More responsible retail advertising of tobacco
  and alcohol e.g. restrictions on all you can
  drink and similar marketing strategies that
  encourage heavy drinking
• Eliminate marketing that appeals to youngsters
  e.g. Hands Off Halloween
• SAFE HOMES parent networks for supervision and
  monitoring of youth party activities
• Doctors and dentists screening of their patients
  for tobacco and other substance abuse, giving
  prevention messages, and referrals for treatment,
  if needed

• Training of alcohol retailers and alcohol servers
  on how to card minors, and refuse service to
  intoxicated persons TIPS
• Training tobacco vendors how to effectively
  identify and refuse sales to minors WE CARD
• Grant writing Kentucky has been particularly
  successful in competing for DOJ Drug-Free
  Communities grants.

Diane Shuntich, Assistant Director Division of
Substance Abuse