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Impact: Healthy Delaware County
BySupport Helping Services for Youth & Families May 15, 2024May 15, 2024

One of the most impactful prevention strategies in Delaware County is the facilitation of the Healthy Delaware County Coalition. This coalition started back in 2000 when there was a huge uptick in children being removed from their homes due to methamphetamine use. Substance use prevention efforts haven’t stopped since. Formerly known as the Delaware County…

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Nicotine-Free Parks & Trails in Allamakee County
BySupport Helping Services for Youth & Families August 15, 2023August 15, 2023

Many communities across Northeast Iowa & throughout the state have adopted nicotine-free parks & trails. The Allamakee Prevention Advisory Group is working on increasing the number of supporting communities in Allamakee County. Check out the list of communities that have supported this initiative. There are a variety of benefits to nicotine-free parks & trails. Those…

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Allamakee Prevention Advisory Group
BySupport Helping Services for Youth & Families March 29, 2022March 29, 2022

The rising concerns over substance misuse, problem gambling, teen pregnancy, and more led a group of concerned citizens and professionals to start meeting to address these difficult topics. Allamakee Prevention Advisory, formed in late 2021, has a mission to “advocate, educate, and provide awareness to positively impact the health and wellness of Allamakee County.” The…

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Resources to Quit Tobacco
BySupport Helping Services for Youth & Families February 16, 2022February 16, 2022

Due to the wide array of flavored e-liquids, sleek/discrete-looking designs, and youth-oriented advertising vaping has become a concern among our youth population. Over 99% of these products that are on the market contain nicotine. A majority of the ones most popular among youth, such as JUUL’s, often contain 2 or more times the amount of…

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September is Recovery Month
BySupport Helping Services for Youth & Families September 2, 2021September 2, 2021

September is Recovery Month! Recovery Month was first proclaimed in 1989 as Treatment Works! This brought recognition and awareness to the work that substance use treatment professionals were doing to support those with a substance use disorder. In 1998 this was expanded to bring recognition to individuals who suffered from substance use disorder along with…

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Introducing Prevention Intern, Karen
BySupport Helping Services for Youth & Families September 4, 2020September 4, 2020

My name is Karen, a non-traditional student at the University of Northern Iowa. I am excited about the opportunity to intern with Helping Services for Youth & Families. As a Cresco native, it is my dream to work within the communities served by Helping Services. I feel that prevention work is important as I am…

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Substance Abuse Prevention Community Coalitions
BySupport Helping Services for Youth & Families September 1, 2020September 1, 2020

Substance abuse is an issue that every community deals with. It does not discriminate and it does not only happen in certain places or to certain people. One way that many communities are addressing this issue is through establishing local substance abuse prevention coalitions. Many of you may have heard the term coalition but wondered…

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Community Support for Nicotine Free Parks & Trails
BySupport Helping Services for Youth & Families January 14, 2020January 14, 2020

Many communities have adopted nicotine free parks and trails over the past several years, including quite a list we have worked with from our corner of the state. The Prevention 5 Coalition in Howard County along with the Crestwood HEROES High School leadership group wanted to add Cresco to this list. Community support started to…

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Oral Screens for Upper Iowa University Were a Success
ByHelping Services March 2, 2015May 24, 2019

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