Prevention Blog

Life is a lot of work. How is a person expected to stay positive and motivated when the world seems to keep knocking you down? Here are some strategies from mindresiliance.org: Laugh out [...]

The onset of the current opioid crisis has produced a wide spectrum of collaborative outreach efforts intended to prevent substance misuse. These challenging and uncertain times require a reexamination of how to keep [...]

My name is Stacey and I am in long-term recovery. My recovery journey began on January 30, 2011, when I regained consciousness in an emergency room in Austin, TX. My recovery journey has [...]

Prevention: Action Checklist for Parents What You Can Do: Establish a loving, trusting relationship with your child. Make it easy for your teen to talk honestly with you. Talk with your child about alcohol [...]

Your child can learn to resist alcohol or anything else he or she may feel pressured into. Let him or her know that the best way to say “no” is to be assertive—that is, say [...]

While parent-child conversations about not drinking are essential, talking isn’t enough—you also need to take concrete action to help your child resist alcohol. Research strongly shows that active, supportive involvement by parents and guardians [...]

As I sit here and ponder whether or not I’m going to be able to finish out my senior year of high school doing what I’ve watched every other senior class do since I [...]

We are in uncharted territory right now with this concept of social distancing. Navigating prevention is going to look much different. It is well known that engaging youth and teens in activities, hobbies and meaningful [...]