Prevention Campaigns & Toolkits
We believe “local problems require local solutions.” That’s why EPIC collaborates with Prevent Coalition to promote campaigns for prevention.
Find Your Good Toolkit
The campaign aims to promote healthy activities and positive interactions between youth, to help youth recognize there are other choices than using substances.
This toolkit is part of our Youth Now initiative and materials are available to download at the Youth Now website.
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Secure Your Cannabis Campaign
Most Washington and Cowlitz County teens are not using cannabis, yet 44% of Cowlitz County and 49% of Washington tenth graders in 2018 said cannabis was easy to get. To protect young minds you can know the Washington laws, start talking with youth about underage cannabis use and keep cannabis secure.
This campaign was developed to deliver prevention messaging and a call to action directly to cannabis consumers and is developed in partnership with prevention professionals, educators, health care providers and cannabis retailers.
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Cannabis Conversations Toolkit
The Cannabis Conversations toolkit gives tips to adults on starting prevention talks with youth about marijuana. These conversation-starter ideas are open to all adults including parents, educators, healthcare professionals, aunts, uncles, youth leaders and more.
This toolkit is part of our Youth Now initiative and materials are available to download at the Youth Now website.
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Locks Save Lives
This campaign prevents youth opioid abuse by encouraging adults to use lock boxes for their prescription medications. Ease of access is the #1 reason youth misuse prescription drugs. A toolkit is available that includes a collection of high-quality downloadable materials for use by prevention coalitions and community organizations in their communities.
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Weed Can Wait Campaign
This campaign is intended to reach high risk youth, and may not be a prevention message that suits all youth. This is a positive campaign focusing on reminding youth of the many reasons they can choose not to use marijuana.
This campaign has been made available via licensing agreement to local organizations and community partners who want to share this messaging. View the campaign details, research and licensing agreements below.
Making the Connection Toolkit
The Making the Connection Toolkit provides interactive modules that reveal the connection between ACEs, toxic stress, brain development, and youth substance use. The toolkit helps educators engage youth with realistic examples, current science, and engaging activities to help youth make personal connections to the material while building resilience and coping skills.
This toolkit is intended for parents and adults to present to the youth they work with, mentor, or care for and is part of the Youth Now initiative.
Additional Campaigns & Toolkits
More evidence-based prevention campaigns:
Starts with One Campaign
Opioids are now one of the leading causes of injury-related deaths in Washington State. More people die from overdose than from car crashes. The Starts with One campaign is designed to inform and educate young adults, their parents, and older adults about the dangers of prescription drug misuse and the importance of safe storage, use, and disposal.
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Rethinking College Drinking
A statewide effort to prevent underage drinking in Washington among college students ages 18-20. The campaign offers suggestions for healthy alternatives to using alcohol for stress, boredom and to be social.
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Truth Initiative
Truth Initiative aims to have all youth and young adults reject tobacco through education, tobacco control research and policy studies, and community activism and engagement.
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#outofthepicture Campaign
Underage drinking prevention public education campaign
Under the Influence...Of You Campaign
The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) is relaunching a statewide campaign, Under the Influence…Of You, to encourage influential adults to talk to the teens in their lives about the risks and consequences of using marijuana.
You Can Toolkit
You Can, the next evolution of Listen2YourSelfie, encourages young people to pursue their future dreams and immediate personal goals – and helps them to see that marijuana may distract from those dreams and goals.
The Medicine Abuse Project
The campaign emphasizes the importance of medication safety conversations with children, safe disposal of medications, and securing all medications properly.
Tobacco Prevention Toolkit
This toolkit is a theory-based, evidence-informed educational resource aimed at preventing middle and high school students’ use of tobacco products. This toolkit contains a set of modules focused on tobacco, addiction, youth development and more.
Cannabis Awareness & Prevention Toolkit
This is a theory-based and evidence-informed resource created by educators, parents, and researchers for preventing middle and high school students’ use of cannabis/marijuana.
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