Youth Substance Abuse Prevention

Your Course Description

Your Competency Focus Area

At-Risk Behaviors

You can help prevent substance abuse in the youth you serve. Understanding different types of risk and protective factors that impact substance abuse will assist your prevention efforts.
Lessons learned in Minnesota by the Regional Prevention Coordinators offer proven substance abuse prevention skills for any community.
You’ll learn about effective protective factors, gain tools you can use, and explore practical action steps to apply in your youth programs. You’ll also be able to find and use local data to strengthen your own prevention efforts.

Your Learning Objectives

Learn about the Regional Prevention Coordinators and other substance abuse prevention resources
Understand why coalitions are an important part of substance abuse prevention
Be able to recognize risk and protective factors that can affect the likelihood of youth substance use and abuse
Know how to find and use local substance abuse data to enhance your prevention efforts
Identify how you and your organization can be active partners in substance abuse prevention

Your Course Details

Interactive
Completion Certificate
Youth Worker Track
This training will count as 1.5 CE hours for most boards. Please contact your board directly with questions on submitting. Course details for CE submissions provided.

Your Trainer

Laura Bennett is the Northeast MN Regional Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Prevention Coordinator (RPC), located at the Carlton-Cook-Lake-St Louis Community Health Board in Duluth. She has served as the RPC for Northeast MN since March 2007. Laura is a Certified Prevention Professional Reciprocal (CPPR) and has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Health Sciences from The College of St. Scholastica (CSS).

Kjirsten Anderson is a Regional Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Prevention Coordinator (RPC), at the Association for Nonsmokers-Minnesota. Kjirsten serves Minnesota’s seven county metro area. She completed her Master’s degree in Public Health, with a concentration in Community Health Education, from UW La Crosse in 2017. Kjirsten is also a Certified Health Education Specialist and a Certified Prevention Professional.