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NEW!

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!

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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.

• Alaska Plan to Reduce and Prevent Underage Drinking 2008

• FFY 2008 Annual Synar Report - Tobacco Enforcement

• The Partners in Policymaking Program

• 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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