Bioethics, 2004 Public health communication campaigns have been credited with helping raise awareness of risk from chronic illness and new infectious diseases and with helping promote the adoption of recommended treatment regimens. Yet many aspects of public health...
Resources
Portsmouth This Week – Sep 26, 2014 – Prevention Coalition
Portsmouth This Week, 2014 Series under the auspices of John Klimm, Portsmouth RI Town Administrator. This episode, a discussion on drug abuse issues with the Portsmouth Prevention Coalition.
Parents Teaching Teens “Responsible Drinking” is a Myth: Study
Partnership for Drug-Free Kids, 2014 Parents who provide their teens with alcohol and a place to consume it may think they are teaching their children “responsible drinking.” A new review of studies concludes this view is misguided. Researchers found parental...
Reducing the Use of Marijuana and Other Drugs (MOD) Process Evaluation Briefing
Community Research and Services Team, University of Rhode Island This is a handout from Dr. Paul Florin's presentation to the Governor's Council on August 5th, 2014.
The Power of Youth in Improving Community Conditions for Health
Institute of Medicine of the National Academies Though a common target for health-improving efforts, young people are not often regarded as agents of change for healthier communities. However, a growing number of successful health-supportive policy, environment, and...
Rhode Island Community Profiles
The Providence Plan This site is designed to provide Rhode Islanders with easy access to data about their communities and assist them in making sense of this information. It hopes to empower the government, businesses, nonprofits, institutes of higher education, and...
Building Capacity to Reduce Bullying: Workshop Summary
Institute of Medicine and National Research Council, 2014 Building Capacity to Reduce Bullying is the summary of a workshop convened by the Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council in April 2014 to identify the...
The Maryland Collaborative to Reduce College Drinking and Related Problems
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene The Collaborative brings together Maryland colleges to address the problem of excessive drinking and its consequences on their campuses and in their communities. College student drinking problems exact enormous social...
Talk. They Hear You.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2014 SAMHSA's underage drinking prevention campaign helps parents and caregivers start talking to their children early—as early as 9 years old—about the dangers of alcohol.
Preventing Youth Marijuana Use: An Annotated Bibliography
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies, 2014 This annotated bibliography was developed for use by substance abuse prevention practitioners charged with providing guidance or technical...