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"Knowledge Is Power!" presentations are available for Howell youth and adult organizations at no cost. Contact the Alliance today to schedule yours! The presentation focuses on teen substance use, vaping, mental health, and positive decision-making.
- Monmouth County Department of Human Services
- New Jersey Prevention Network
- Prevention First
- Prevention Coalition of Monmouth County (PCMC)
- Monitoring the Future Annual Survey on Adolescent Substance Use
- Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA)
- CADCA’s Facts About the Marijuana/Cannabis Today
- CDC's Know the Teen Vaping Risks
- Nicotine, Youth and Vaping Facts from Truth Initiative
- Truth Initiative's E-Cigarette Fact Sheet
- DEA's Just Think Twice (Facts About Adolescent Drug Use)
- DEA's Drugs of Abuse Booklet
- DEA's One Pill Can Kill Campaign (fentanyl)
- DEA's What Every Parent and Caregiver Needs to Know About Fake Pills (fentanyl)
- Behind the Haze (adolescent vaping facts and resources)
- SAMHSA’s Youth Vaping Risks and Reducing Youth Vaping
- NJ Cares (real-time dashboard on state/county opioid-related overdoses and other information and data)
- Power to the Parent
- Parents Against Vaping e-cigarettes (PAVe)
- Every Brain Matters
- Every Brain Matters' Youth Marijuana/THC Use Facts Sheets (English and Spanish)
- Parent Action Network (PAN)
- Smart Approaches to Marijuana (health-frst approach to marijuana policy)
- Delta-8 THC: 5 Things to Know from the FDA
- Partnership for a Drug-Free NJ
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- NIDA's Most Commonly Used Drugs Chart
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
- Psych Central's Mental Health Self-Assessment Tools
- Mental Health America's Mental Health Screening Tools
- Teen Suicide Prevention, Mayo Clinic Video
- “How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime,” TED Talk by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
- Mental Health First Aid
- Be There (mental health support and free online training certification)
- Born This Way: Lady Gaga’s Youth Wellness Foundation
- FDA Center for Tobacco and Nicotine Products (regulations and resources)
- Elks Drug Awareness Program (DAP)
- Preferred Behavioral Health Group’s Knowledge Toolkits
- Better Together: Answers for Parents/Guardians on School Concerns
- CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS; Most Recent Data)
- Health Risks of Vaping for Teens and Adults from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention
- Tobacco and E-Cig Prevention Toolkit
- How to Be a Good Influence to People with Disabilities
- Naloxone and Narcan Information, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Trending Topics!
Click here for Howell Township's updated ordinance "Smoking in Public Places; Electronic Smoking Device Use and Sales; Tobacco Sales" (O-23-8)
Click here for the FDA's "5 Things to Know About Delta-8 THC (sold legally with no age restrictions under the 2018 Farm Bill that legalized hemp products)
Click here for the Alliance’s 11-30-21 presentation, “Fact-Based Considerations for Responsible Recreational Cannabis Licensing Municipal Policy.”
Click here to visit Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM)
Click here to watch SAM's short video "How Legalizing Marijuana Affects Health and Safety"
Click here to watch Youth Time to Shine’s (YT2S) video “Vaping with Teens: The Truth About Vaping”
Click here to learn about Mental Health America's "B4Stage4 Philosophy" promoting early intervention for mental illness