October is Substance Use Prevention Month!

October is Substance Use Prevention Month — and we’re Telling the Prevention Story. Join us as partners in prevention!

• To inspire action, we can share how prevention improves lives in our communities.

• We aim to prevent substance use in the first place, prevent its progression, and reduce harm. We have the prevention playbook to do so.

• Prevention science (with decades of research and community-based experience) shows prevention works.

• Prevention strengthens protective factors and reduces risk factors ― in individuals, families, schools, communities, and society.

• Prevention helps us get ahead of substance use and mental health challenges — so that youth, families, and communities can thrive.

  
  

Substance use disorders affect people from all walks of life and all ages. Prevention and early intervention strategies can reduce the impact of substance use in America’s communities. Prevention Month lifts the national conversation — to showcase prevention’s positive effects on communities nationwide.

Learn more about Substance Use Prevention in Illinois by visiting:

https://www.prevention.org/

To connect with your local Substance Use Prevention Integration Center:

Central Illinois: https://www.preventionintegrationcenter.org/

City of Chicago: https://phimc.org/initiatives/regional-substance-use-prevention-integration-center-chicago/

Suburban Cook County: https://www.integrateprevention.org/

(If your area is not listed, we are happy to connect you with the provider in your region)

#SubstanceUsePreventionMonth: www.samhsa.gov/newsroom/observances/prevention-month