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SERVICES

Consultation and evaluation with individuals or families.
Initial counseling and referral to a certified alcoholism and drug counselor.
School programs specially designed for students, administrators, faculty, and staff of Union County schools (public or private). Prevention Links can provide curriculum guides and classroom materials including a curriculum for the communicatively impaired. Technical help is available for educators or employers to develop student or employee assistance programs. Available programs include:

DWI program: a 16-week state-approved course for persons subject to the penalties for driving under the influence of alcohol or other addictive drugs.
Professional training is available to individuals or groups who provide medical, social, criminal justice, religious or other human services. Training includes CADC (Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor) classes.

Prevention Links Resource Center with books, literature, and videos on issues surrounding addiction to alcohol, tobacco, or other substances. Literature is offered free of charge to individuals, groups, students, and businesses (some also available in Spanish).
Community awareness: Prevention Links representatives speak to community and professional groups. We also participate in health fairs and other local events. Prevention Links promotes public awareness through the media including television, radio, and print.
Advocacy: Prevention Links alerts local and state legislators to issues concerning alcoholism, tobacco use and drug addictions.
Specialty Programs: The Wellness Initiative for Senior Educators (WISE), the Congregational Assistance Program (CAP), and Parenting Programs: Strengthening Families
(Reaching everyone by exposing lies) - High School anti tobacco program. Click here for more information.
Union County Coalition for the Prevention of Substance Abuse