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Your Local Prevention Coalition!

We're Hiring! Youth Prevention Coordinator

Healthy Lamoille Valley, a program of The Lamoille Family Center, is seeking to fill a 30 hour/week benefited permanent position. We are looking for a dynamic, youth focused, and thoughtful individual to develop and support youth prevention programs in the region as part of the Drug Free Communities Grant. Read more at: www.healthylamoillevalley.org/youth-coordinator.

Photovoice 2020

Extended Submission Deadline

Healthy Lamoille Valley and Lamoille Area Youth Council Are Proud to Announce the LAYC Fall 2020 PhotoVoice Project: MIXED MESSAGING. Our Fall Art Call features a photovoice project to highlight the impact of media and messaging relating to alcohol and drug use from a youth perspective. Artwork submissions will be accepted from now until Friday, October 23, 2020 at 5pm. Read more on our website: www.healthylamoillevalley.org/photovoice-2020.

November Coalition Meeting

Coalition is defined as an "alliance formed for action." Healthy Lamoille Valley is a coalition with the goals of reducing youth substance misuse and creating a healthy Lamoille Valley. This is the action... the other key piece of the definition is the word Alliance... it's not just one person or organization , but many coming together! Healthy Lamoille Valley needs YOU to be a part of our coalition to work together to create a healthier community!

Please mark your calendars and plan to come to the kickoff meeting of our new coalition format... Healthy Lamoille Valley will meet on the first Tuesday of each month from 6:00-7:00pm. The format of these meetings will include: Introductions, announcements, a short topic presentation, and then an action discussion on how we can work together to address that topic.

Our 11/3 meeting will feature two topics: a look at the newly released local 2019 Youth Risk Behavior Survey trends and explore ways for you to be involved in the Healthy Lamoille Valley Coalition! Also highlighted during the announcements will be our 2020 Prevention Honors Awards and Photovoice Submissions. Please register in advance for this meeting here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

NEW! Community Toolkit

Look out for the launch of our new and updated prevention primer, Community Planning Toolkit: Preventing Youth Substance Misuse and Building Protective Factors. It is a 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 is designed to help support those working to create healthy communities and to take some of the guesswork out of the process. The focus is on a systems and policy level intervention.

Planning resources are provided to create policies that use a substance prevention lens to help build healthy communities and reduce youth substance misuse.This Toolkit can be used as part of town or organizational planning processes or as a stand alone resource to support healthy community and policy development. For more information, contact alison@healthylamoillevalley.org.

Survey and Raffle for
Volunteer Youth Coaches and Administrators

Healthy Lamoille Valley (HLV) in collaboration with the HLV Youth Sports Workgroup, seeks the input from all volunteer leaders, coaches, parents and interested community members of youth sports.

We received a grant to assess the training needs of volunteer youth coaches and administrators across the Lamoille Valley to help support their roles as protective factors in the lives of their players while also helping to sustain our youth sports programs into the future. Even if you are not currently a coach, and you think that you might consider coaching in the future, we want to hear from you, too. Read more: www.healthylamoillevalley.org/coaches-survey.

National Prescription Drug Take-back Day

DEA's next National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is October 24, 2020 – 10AM to 2PM The National Prescription Drug Take Back Day aims to provide a safe, convenient, and responsible means of disposing of prescription drugs, while also educating the general public about the potential for abuse of medications. Read more on the DEA website.

In the Lamoille Valley, you can drop off your unwanted medication (pills only) at six year-round sites. These drop-boxes are self-service, call for normal business hours:

Copley Hospital, Morrisville, (802) 888-8888.
Cambridge Kinney Drugs, (802) 644-8811.
Hardwick Police Department, (802) 472-5475.
Lamoille County Sheriff’s Department, Hyde Park, (802) 888-5244.
Morristown Police Department, (802) 888-4211.
Stowe Police Department, (802) 253-7126.

Healthy Lamoille Valley has a supply of free prescription drug mail back envelopes. Proper disposal of unused, unwanted, or expired prescription medications is a one way that you can keep your home, community, and environment safer.
Please email jessica@healthylamoillevalley.org to request your envelope today!

October is Prevention Month!

October is National Substance Abuse Prevention Month! Look for our social media posts all month long as we highlight the work of the Healthy Lamoille Valley coalition in local prevention efforts, including:

What is prevention and how can you be involved?
Our community level policy work,
Youth engagement and our Live Your Why campaign.
Coalition Honors - Celebrating Prevention Stars!

News and Events from Your Local Prevention Coalition!