Substance Abuse Free Environment Inc

Safe opoid and heroin prevention task force safe opoid and heroin prevention task force was established out of a heroin prevention summit hosted by chesterfield county police and safe. The task force consists of education and prevention, law enforcement, medical, and treatment and recovery committees. Task force members include various public and private sector professionals as well as those who have been personally affected by substance use disorder or have lost a loved one to overdose. The state opoid response grant supports the safe opoid and heroin prevention task force to further increase collaboration with our community partners as we continue more in depth sustainable strategy implementation. Task force accomplishments include: (1) continued distribution of opoid and heroin treatment resource cards throughout the community.(2)completed year 3 of state opoid response grant with chesterfield county prevention services.(3) continued contribution of opoid prevention services at medication take-back events with chesterfield county police department and sheriffs office. (4) continued implementation of secured additional funding for related strategies: cara grants and sor grants. (5)safe in partnerhip with chesterfield county police department, continues to collect medications at the disposal box located at chesterfield county police department headquarters. (6)continued distribution of deterra medication disposal pouches to the community. (7) outreach to realtor and funeral homes with opoid prevention messaging and resources. (8)continually growing and adding new members to the task force for further collaboration.

Vhfy grant supported program works to prevent youth use of tobacco, nicotine, and vaping products by providing community education, youth engagement trhough the safe youth coalition, a media and merchant education campaign focused on retail access, and dissemination of 2023 pna data to guide local prevention efforts.