Prevention
Services Staff
Education Service Network
Prevention Services Staff funded
primarily by a grant from the Illinois
Department of Human Services Bureau of
Substance Abuse Prevention.
The NTTF is funded through the Grundy
County Sheriff’s Office. Learn
more.
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Prevention
in the Community
Research is improving the ability of
prevention professionals and advocates
to understand the root causes of
substance abuse among youth. Youth are
influenced, and sometimes even
encouraged to engage in harmful and
risky behaviors as a result of many
different risk factors that are rooted
in community conditions, Learn
more. |
School-Based
Programs
ESN Substance Abuse Prevention Services
staff members teach classes and deliver
other programs in schools that wish to
develop prevention strategies for
substance abuse. ESN preventionists use
research-based model programs designed
to give youth the knowledge and skills
they need to understand the dangers of
alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs and
resist becoming involved with
them. Learn
more. |
ESN
Prevention Library
Educators, preventionists, and
community advocates in Grundy, Kendall,
and Will counties are invited to use the
ESN Prevention Library located in the
Grundy-Kendall Regional Office of
Education (ROE), 1320 Union St., Morris.
The library is open during the ROE hours
of 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through
Friday. Learn
more. |
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Substance
Abuse News & Links |
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