Monday, June 9, 2025
6/9/2025
Winooski for a Healthy, Drug-Free Community - The Winooski Partnership for Prevention (WPP) serves the population of Winooski, Vermont. The WPP weekly youth programming, Above the Influence, is held at the Winooski School for 5-8th grade students, and sees an average of 10-12 students per session. The Drug-Free Communities Support Program will be used by the Winooski Partnership for Prevention in the second year to increase community collaboration and conduct activities that are consistent with reductions in community-level youth marijuana and alcohol use. The WPP will use CADCA’s Seven Strategies for Community Change as a guide for developing strategies that align with the risk factors and conditions unique to the city of Winooski through ongoing assessment and intervention. To reduce youth marijuana use, the WPP intends to carry out activities that will increase youth's and parent/guardian's perception of harm of alcohol and marijuana by providing information to youth through evidence-based programming, and enhancing skills of parents for talking with their kids about marijuana. To reduce youth alcohol use, the WPP intends to limit access to alcohol by training and empowering parents to talk to their kids about substances and ensure that they are locking up or securely storing alcohol in the home. The WPP will also continue to hold Sticker Shock campaign twice a year to increase awareness about the consequences of supplying minors with alcohol, as well as work towards decreasing retail density near the school.
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