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New Releases!

DHSS releases the FFY2010 Annual Synar Report, showing significant improvement in retailer rate of sales of tobacco to minors.  This year’s rate of illegal sales of tobacco products to minors is 9%; a decreased from last year’s rate of 15.1%.  CONGRATULATIONS to our tobacco retailer community for working hard to promote healthy Alaskan youth, free from tobacco use, dependency and addiction. 

 

List of Alaska tobacco vendors with no sales to minors

 

FFY 2010 Annual Synar Report

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Check out our latest publication of Prevention e-Notes that includes information and developments in Alaska including prevention of underage drinking, new grant opportunities to prevent substance use, how to support positive community youth development, our events calendar and more…

• Prevention e-Notes Oct-Dec

 

Alaska Plan to Reduce & Prevent Underage Drinking
October 2009

Coming Events

Anchorage Youth Development Academy
October 2009 – March 2010. The Youth Development Academy is for people who work directly with youth (ages 12-18.)  This is an intensive 38 hour training spanning 6 months, based on the highly researched methods from the Center for Youth Program Quality: a partnership between the Forum for Youth Investment and High/Scope Educational Research Foundation.  It will consist of an initial three-day training session, four follow-up & coaching sessions, with a final wrap-up session on March 4, 2010.  For Academy registration information; and a description of the Academy curriculum.   www.aydc.org (DOCUMENTS:EVENTS and ANNOUNCEMENTS). Register as soon as you are able – seats are going fast!

• Registration
• Flyer

Items of Interest

• New report from the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine.  Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and Possibilities.  March 2009.  For information or to order a copy go to: www.iom.edu/CMS/12552/45572/64120.aspx.

• Behavioral Health receives federal $10.7 million Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant to develop rural substance abuse prevention capacity. (7/14/09)

• DHSS now on Twitter and Facebook! (8/10/09)
  Click on links at the bottom of this page to go to them.

• State receives$1.5 million federal SAMHSA grant to reduce and prevent youth suicide in Alaska.

• Prevention Works, Prevention Handbook
  National publication published by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and the National Prevention Network, 2006.

• Suicide Prevention Resource Center - fact sheets which describe statistics on deaths by suicide, estimated hospitalized attempts, and data on medical costs, work loss costs, gender, race/ethnicity, age and method. Go to here to view the updated documents for national data as well as many states including Alaska.

   

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