Provide information

Educating stakeholders (e.g., community members, municipal stakeholders, tobacco retailers,) on various substance regulations.

Educating youth and families on the risks associated with substance use.

Sharing latest data with stakeholders.

Building Skills

Training package stores, bars and restaurants.

Providing opportunities for middle schoolers to practice refusal skills.

Hosting conferences and workshops for parenting and prevention skills.

Providing in-service training for law enforcement.

Provide Support & Reduce Risk

Providing opportunity for creative student social media projects; social norming projects.

Change Consequences

Convening a work group to explore supportive changes to school-based consequences.

Change Physical Design

Adding vape detectors in restrooms.

Installing ID scanners at establishments that sell alcohol.

Building gates at parks that have underage drinking or drug use.

Increasing police patrols in hotspot areas.

modify policies

Strengthening local licensing policies.

Rewriting the Substance Misuse Prevention Policy for Scituate Public Schools.

Establish Barriers or Enhance Treatment

Implementing local control policies (e.g., limit youth access to marijuana).

Conducting compliance checks.

Enforcing substance regulations.

Offering psycho-educational support groups for high school students.

Conducting confidential Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) health screenings in 8th and 10th grade.