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Community outreach service providing educational programs to interested groups.

Provides information and classes that help the public make choices to promote personal health, prevent illness and disability, take advantage of opportunities for early detection, and support their ability to deal effectively with health problems when they arise. Offers a wide variety of health related topics, including blood pressure screenings, smoking cessation, and nutrition information.

Offers daily prevention programs that discuss and help youth with a number of topics. Topics include: self-esteem, drugs. alcohol, violence, and high risk behaviors.

Provides a diverse range of prevention, education, and intervention activities to prevent or reduce the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.

Conducts tobacco use prevention education programs, assists local communities through the Tobacco-Free Coalitions, works with tobacco contractors & sub-contractors, coordinates Synar Surveys, and conducts school surveys.

Provides speakers for community organizations on various prevention-related topics. Offers availability to set up resource tables at community health fairs and give out resource materials.

Provides drug and alcohol treatment services on an outpatient and intensive outpatient basis in an environment that is non- threatening, safe and comfortable for adults and adolescents. Gender specific groups provide the opportunities to address concerns regarding responsibilities as parents, self esteem, anger management, marriage, co-dependency, boundaries, assertiveness and letting go of resentments. Services offered include: Referral, Evaluation, and Intake Detoxification Referrals Individualized Treatment Planning Individual and Group Counseling Intensive Outpatient Family Reintegration and Counseling Vocational and Educational Referrals Gender Specific Groups Parent Education/Support Groups Aftercare Planning and Referral Follow â Up Legal, Medical and Psychiatric Services Referral AA, NA and Double Trouble Involvement Urinalysis Drug/Alcohol Screens Chemical Dependency and Mental Health Education

Single County Authority (SCA) for substance abuse services in the two-county area. Responsible for the planning, funding, and coordination of local alcohol, gambling and other drug programs. Direct services provided by the Commission are Case Management, Prevention, Student Assistance Program services and trainings, Hepatitis C screenings and referrals. Treatment services are subcontracted to other agencies.

The general goal of prevention services are to reduce the risk factors, which lead to drug or alcohol abuse, and strengthen the protective factors, which reduce the risk of drug and alcohol abuse. These risk factors can be addressed with individuals, families, in our schools and in our community.

Offers psychoeducational classes/programs that are accepted by most area District Justices, School Districts and Youth Aid Panels as part of an alternative sentencing diversion program.

Provides services geared towards individuals experiencing a substance use disorder, including education and intervention, brief therapy, relapse prevention, adolescent outpatient programs, women in recovery programs, intensive outpatient programs, and more.

For those battling addictions, Diakon Family Life Services - Capital Region offers licensed outpatient substance-abuse treatment at the its Harrisburg office. Certified addictions counselors can help individuals and their families overcome addictions and the many issues that accompany them. In addition, Diakon Family Life Services provides counseling services for individuals struggling with substance abuse-related issues. The program also offers substance abuse prevention and education programs to school, church, and community groups.

Up to six session drug and alcohol awareness education program. Program is also used as an assessment to determine level of care.

Project TND is an effective, interactive substance use prevention program that that focuses on three factors that predict drug use, violence, and other problem behaviors among youth, including: - Motivation factors (students’ attitudes, beliefs, expectations, and desires) - Skills (effective communication, social self-control, and coping) - Decision-making (how to make decisions that lead to healthy behaviors)

Provides programming designed to reduce the risk factors leading to substance abuse and violence. Available as a stand-alone program and incorporated into all services for children and youth, Project Rediscovery includes age-appropriate education, refusal and resistance skills, and community advocacy.

Provides harm reduction supplies for safer substance use including syringes, naloxone, fentanyl test strips, and more.

Provides a wide range of training and technical assistance in the areas of substance use prevention, youth development, gambling/gaming addiction, drug trends and research, and Student Assistance Program (SAP) services.

Provides drug and alcohol services to include prevention, intervention, outpatient, intensive outpatient, case management, and recovery support. Also provides gambling outpatient treatment.

Provides recovery support services and resources and opportunities to reduce the impact of addiction and to improve related health issues for the communities of Southeast Pennsylvania (Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties). Services include prevention, consultation, education, advocacy, assessment, intervention and treatment services designed to help an individual to stay in recovery.

Provides recovery support services and resources and opportunities to reduce the impact of addiction and to improve related health issues for the communities of Southeast Pennsylvania (Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties). Services include prevention, consultation, education, advocacy, assessment, intervention and treatment services designed to help an individual to stay in recovery.

Maintains county-wide leadership in the development and implementation of policies, programs, and a system of prevention and intervention services that prevent the onset of illegal alcohol, tobacco and drug use, problem gambling and gaming, and treatment services that promote recovery from addiction to all substances. Provides Naloxone kits for Berks County residents and businesses, requested at: cocaberks.org/narcan, that can be picked up at the RISE Center, Hispanic Center or at the COCA office.

Addresses the treatment needs of teens seeking recovery from chemical dependency. Gaudenzia offers both residential and outpatient programs

WellSpan Health offers the Freedom From Smoking program developed by the American Lung Association. The eight session program is designed to:

Help you quit smoking

Fight the addiction

Develop a smoke-free lifestyle The program is offered free of charge. Wellspan Health offers free one-on-one tobacco treatment planning sessions to Adams and York county residents. At these counseling sessions, a certified tobacco cessation counselor will:

Assess your dependence on nicotine

Discuss any past attempts to quit

Review strategies and coping skills to get you through urges to smoke or chew

Develop a tailored "quit plan" specific to your lifestyle. Wellspan Health also offers a self guided program for those who want to quit on their own. WellSpan also provides referrals to the PA quitline at 1800-quitnow

An evidence-based home visiting program that focuses on three primary topics: Health, Safety, and Parent-Child Interaction. Program Emphasis: A) introducing a set of skills that help parents and families feel confident in making health decisions on behalf of their child, discussing the importance of keeping health records, nutrition, prevention of illness/injury, and temperature taking (free thermometer and first aid kits given) B) helping parents identify hazards in their environment and giving them free safety supplies to help create a safe environment for their child to explore and learn C) introducing a set of skills that increase positive parent-child interactions, and increase bonding between caregiver and child

Compass Mark offers a variety of evidence-based prevention programs for students in Grades K-12. Programs are designed to prevent or reduce substance use and increase well-being by teaching social & emotional skills. Programs include Project Toward No Drug Abuse, Positive Action, Support for Students Exposed to Trauma, and Catch My Breath, among others.