State Resources – Green Peak Alliance

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Alcohol

Community Planning Toolkit: Preventing Youth Substance Use and Building Protective Factors by Healthy Lamoille Valley – A community planning guide focusing on reducing youth misuse of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis and prescription drugs, while supporting efforts to help youth make healthy substance-free choices. This toolkit focuses on the community, policy and systems levels.

Healthy Policy Clearinghouse by Two Rivers-Outtauquechee Regional Commission – The Health Policy Clearinghouse is a collection of resources for policy makers seeking examples and information to form policies that support healthy communities.

Parent Up Vermont – Vermont Department of Health’s resource to help parents to know when their teens are at risk for substance use. Learn about risks from parents to help teens make safe decisions.

Cannabis

Let’s Talk Cannabis: Vermont Department of Health – Let’s Talk Cannabis provides science-based information about the health
considerations and consequences of non-medical cannabis use to help
Vermonters make safe and informed choices. Let’s Talk Cannabis has been adapted courtesy of the California Department of Public Health.

Parent Up Vermont – The ParentUp campaign has a lot of great information for parents and caregivers on the health impacts of youth substance use (including alcohol and cannabis) and helpful tips on how to address this with their children.

View 2022 Cannabis Media Overview

Child Care

Building Bright Futures – Building Bright Futures is Vermont’s early childhood public-private partnership, charged under Vermont Title 33 § Chapter 46 and the Federal Head Start Act (Public Law 110-134) as Vermont’s Early Childhood State Advisory Council (SAC) and Network.

Let’s Go Kids: Child Care is Essential Campaign – Known for its transformational social mission and family-friendly policies, Let’s Grow Kids staff, board of directors, and volunteers include state government leaders, national nonprofit directors, business executives, marketers, grassroots organizers, and early childhood educators and administrators with proven successes creating social transformation, advocating for policy change, and upgrading Vermont’s child care system.

Civic Engagement

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Vermont – Creates and supports one-on-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Mentor Vermont – Empowering youth by providing support and resources to the youth mentoring field in Vermont to strengthen the quality and broaden the reach of mentoring relationships in our communities.

Family Support

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Vermont – Creates and supports one-on-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Prevention Child Abuse Vermont – Prevent Child Abuse Vermont (PCAVT) is the Vermont Chapter of Prevent Child Abuse America and the National Circle of Parents. Their mission is to promote and support healthy relationships within families, schools and communities to eliminate child abuse.

SELVT – Free social emotional learning training for parents and educators sponsored by the Vermont Agency of Education.

Vermont Family Network – The mission of Vermont Family Network is to empower and support all Vermont children, youth, and families, especially those with disabilities or special health needs. They do this by giving a strong start, lifting family voices, and advancing inclusive communities. Their vision is that all Vermont children and youth reach their full potential.

Health & Wellness

Vermont Department of Health – Statewide agency focused on prevention, promoting healthy activities and behaviors, improving access to healthcare, licensing physicians and facilities, and tracking the health outcomes of Vermonters.

Housing

Pathways Vermont – Pathways Vermont’s mission is to end homelessness in Vermont and provide innovative mental health alternatives.

LGBTQIA+

Outright Vermont – Outright Vermont’s mission is building a Vermont where all LGBTQ+ youth have hope, equity, and power.

Mental Health

Parent Up Vermont – Vermont Department of Health’s resource to help parents to know when their teens are at risk for substance use and mental health. Learn about risks from parents to help teens make safe decisions.

Pathways Vermont – Pathways Vermont’s mission is to end homelessness in Vermont and provide innovative mental health alternatives.

Mentoring

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Vermont – Creates and supports one-on-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Nicotine

My Life My Quit – Get the truth about vaping, smoking and other tobacco products. When you decide you want to quit, we have the tools to help you be successful. My Life, My Quit™ is available to youth in partnership with the Vermont Department of Health.

Opioids

Naloxone Request Form – Request free Naloxone through the Vermont Department of Health’s program.

Opioid Overdose Prevention & Naloxone Rescue Program – The Health Department provides naloxone (Narcan®) and training through collaborations with community-based organizations. These partners distribute naloxone and provide overdose response training, opioid misuse prevention training and referrals to treatment across Vermont.

Overdose Response Strategies: New England High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area – New England HIDTA has been awarded discretionary funds to support the regional Overdose Response Strategy (ORS) developed and implemented by five HIDTAs most affected by the heroin/opioid epidemic sweeping the northeast. The ORS launched a comprehensive and unified strategy with the overarching goal of reducing drug overdose deaths by facilitating collaboration between public health and public safety.

Prescription Drugs

Prescription Drug Disposal System: Vermont Department of Health – Learn about how to properly store and dispose of prescription medications and access free disposal resources via the Vermont Department of Health.

Prescription Drug Mail-back Envelope Reorder Form – Request free mailing envelops from the Vermont Department of Health to use for safe disposal of prescription medications.

Prescription Drug Project: New England High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area – The New England HIDTA prescription drug project embraces a balanced strategy to effectively impact controlled prescription opioid drug abuse.

Recovery

Worth While – Emergency assistance and support for substance use disorder. Read stories and get the help that can change your life, with support from peers in Vermont who are in recovery.

Substance Use Disorder

University of Vermont Center on Rural Addiction – UVM CORA leverages innovative technology and telehealth strategies to deliver support to providers in rural counties. Their patient-focused approaches are sensitive to the demographics and needs of rural populations, which have been disproportionately impacted by Substance Use Disorder.

Substance Use Prevention

New England High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area – One of thirty-two HIDTAs under the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and is comprised of the six New England states, including Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Based on regional drug threat assessments, including the New England HIDTA Drug Threat Assessment published annually by the New England HIDTA Investigative Support Center (ISC), the New England HIDTA has formulated strategies in response to the most serious drug threats to the region.

Prevention Works VT! – Their mission is to unify voices and be a guiding force on policy, practice and attitudes that promote substance misuse prevention, health and wellness in Vermont. Their vision is a strong, sustainable and unified system to prevention substance misuse in the state. Prevention Works! VT collaborates with local substance misuse coalitions and other community organizations to supporting healthy living for all Vermonters.

Vermont Health Prevention Area Map – A state-wide map of towns showing the distribution of Regional Prevention Partnership towns, Prevention Centers of Excellence towns, local prevention coalitions, Vermont Department of Health districts, and regional planning commissions.

Vermont Substance Use Prevention Workforce Market Survey – This report focuses on an initiative within the Prevention Coalition community in Vermont to elevate prevention as a profession and a field.

Suicide Prevention

Vermont Suicide Prevention Center – The Vermont Suicide Prevention Coalition consists of over 70 active members across public, private and non-profit sectors representing public health, health care, education, community and social services, state agencies and people with lived experience.

Training

Essex County Youth Leadership Academy: New England High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area – A summer program designed to offer at-risk children, ages 8-15, a safe, challenging, and fun atmosphere through the completion of various projects and classes. This drug, alcohol and tobacco free program provides instruction in anger management, ethics, peer counseling, teamwork, illegal drug use, and cooperation in a gang-free and drug-free environment.

SELVT – Free social emotional learning training for parents and educators sponsored by the Vermont Agency of Education.