Over 100 web-based substance abuse prevention courses delivered by HHD have reached nearly 3,000 state- and community-level practitioners who might not have been able to travel to workshops or trainin
Peer support groups in Vietnam can effectively help reduce both heroin relapse and HIV/AIDS infections among recovering heroin users.
Thirty support group leaders from across Vietnam sat in a circle of chairs at the beginning of the final day of a five-day training, honing their skills to facilitate groups for recovering heroin addi
This project is funded by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, USAID, and SAMHSA. EDC is a sub-grantee of Family Health International, EDC’s partner for this project. For more information, please contact Jim Vetter at jvetter@edc.org
This curriculum uses skills-based health education to help students acquire the knowledge, attitudes, and skills that are necessary to make informed decisions and understand the consequences of tobacc
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U.S. Department of Education, Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools
Given the nature of alcohol and other drug abuse and violence on our campuses and in our communities, programs and coalitions developed to prevent or intervene in these issues are faced with a challen
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools
Given the nature of alcohol and other drug abuse and violence on our campuses and in our communities, programs and coalitions developed to prevent or intervene in these issues are faced with a challen
The prevalence of drinking among youth nationally is close 43%; in Massachusetts it is 48 percent. Addressing adolescent substance use is a priority in Boston’s MetroWest region.
HHD will strengthen substance abuse prevention nationwide on behalf of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention in SAMHSA.
As the nation debates how to best care and pay for the health of our people, the role of prevention is important. Raising the legal drinking age to 21 is just one example of effective prevention.
This project is funded by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. EDC’s Health and Human Development division is partnering with the following organizations to carry out this contract: CRP, Inc., Minnesota Institute for Public Health, Social Science Research and Evaluation, University of Nevada, Reno, University of Oklahoma, and Westat. For more information contact Cheryl Vince Whitman at cvincewhitman@edc.org
EDC’s Kim Dash works with the federal government’s Service to Science Initiative to help local communities evaluate their substance abuse prevention programs.
Through the Service to Science Initiative, community substance abuse prevention programs can enhance their evaluation efforts.
Androscoggin County, Maine, in the northeastern corner of the United States, is far from the hustle and bustle of a big city.
The Service to Science Initiative is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP). For more information contact Kim Dash at kdash@edc.org.
EDC's Health and Human Development division was recently awarded a national contract to operate the new Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT).
