Featured LinksFrom The Partnership at Drugfree.OrgClick HERE for 10 Tips for Talking to Teens About Sex, Drugs, & Alcohol"Bath Salts, Alcopops, and Bowling/Pharming Parties"On Wednesday, June 29th, VMAC sponsored a presentation by Essex Prevention Resources Inc.
Alcoholics Anonymous® is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.
For over 55 years, Al-Anon (which includes Alateen for younger members) has been offering strength and hope for friends and families of problem drinkers. No matter what relationship you have with an alcoholic, whether they are still drinking or not, all who have been affected by someone else’s drinking can find solutions that lead to serenity in the Al-Anon/Alateen fellowship.
New Jersey 's Childhood Drinking (CD) Coalition is a collaboration of statewide stakeholder organizations that have partnered to initiate a comprehensive strategy to prevent the serious issue of childhood drinking.
Bullying
The mission of the NJ Coalition for Bullying Awareness and Prevention is to increase community awareness of bullying as a common serious problem of school-age children and to advocate for the implementation of effective bullying prevention approaches in the State of New Jersey.
Stop Bullying Now!
Presenting practical research-based strategies to reduce bullying in schools.
TheAntiDrug.com was created by the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign to equip parents and other adult caregivers with the tools they need to raise drug-free kids. Working with the nation's leading experts in the fields of parenting and substance abuse prevention, TheAntiDrug.com serves as a drug prevention information center, and a supportive community for parents to interact and learn from each other.
Parent Check NJ
The NJ Social Marketing Collaborative was developed by the New Jersey Prevention Network (NJPN), the Partnership for a Drug Free New Jersey (PDFNJ) and the New Jersey AD Club in order to positively impact the 18 to 25 year olds and their parents. Bringing together the expertise of these three organizations and adding the full Collaborative membership establishes a strong base to develop and implement a statewide effective prevention program. Narcotics Anonymous Narcotics Anonymous is a nonprofit Fellowship or society of
men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem. We are
recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other stay clean.
--Narcotics Anonymous Basic Text, page 9.
Narcotics Anonymous is an international,
community-based association of recovering drug addicts with over 31,000
weekly meetings in over 100 countries worldwide.
Created for the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign (a program of the Office of National Drug Control Policy). This campaign reflects what teens across the country say is going on in their lives. The goal is to help kids stay above the influence. The more aware they are of the influences around them, the better prepared they will be to stand up to the pressures.
D.A.R.E. is a police officer-led series of classroom lessons that teaches children from kindergarten through 12th grade how to resist peer pressure and live productive drug and violence-free lives.
Teen Dating Abuse
National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline
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Internet Safety
GetNetWise is a public service brought to you by Internet industry corporations and public interest organizations to help ensure that Internet users have safe, constructive, educational, and entertaining online experiences. The GetNetWise coalition wants Internet users to be just "one click away" from the resources they need to make informed decisions about their and their family's use of the Internet. More information is available. GetNetWise is a project of the Internet Education Foundation.
The NetSmartz Workshop is an interactive, educational safety resource from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) and Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) for children aged 5 to 17, parents, guardians, educators, and law enforcement that uses age-appropriate, 3-D activities to teach children how to stay safer on the Internet.
New Jersey Prevention Sites
The New Jersey Prevention Network, Inc. (NJPN) and its member agencies provide a coordinated approach to advocacy, collaboration, education and professional training to promote wellness and to keep individuals, families and communities healthy and safe.
The Governor’s Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse was established by the Legislature to be an independent body that would review and coordinate New Jersey’s efforts regarding the education, prevention, treatment, research and evaluation for, and public awareness of, alcoholism and drug abuse.
Tobacco
This site offers educational videos, K-12 assembly programs, speakers, quit smoking info, anti-tobacco news, and a great anti-smoking links guide for teen smoking prevention. The mission of our sister group, Smokefree America, is to motivate youth to stay tobacco-free and to empower smokers to quit successfully. Our efforts, combined with those of many other groups fighting tobacco, will help reduce the prevalence of the major diseases caused by smoking: lung cancer, heart disease, and emphysema. Your gift to Smokefree America will make a real difference in the fight against tobacco, and help reduce future suffering among families with loved ones afflicted by smoking-caused disease.
REBEL is a statewide, youth-led anti-tobacco movement. REBEL teens educate their peers, middle and elementary school children, and other members of the community that smoking is dangerous and anything but cool.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), through its Office on Smoking and Health (OSH), is the lead federal agency for comprehensive tobacco prevention and control. OSH is a division within the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, which is located within CDC’s Coordinating Center for Health Promotion.
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