The 7 CSAP Strategies for Preventing Substance Abuse

  1. Trainings for Staff Working With Youth:
    We share information about the dangers of substance use through brochures, social media posts, and community events.
  2. Trainings for Staff to Use With Youth:
    We provide workshops, presentations, or curricula focused on life skills, healthy decision-making, and substance use prevention.
  3. Information Dissemination:
    We assist with creating educational print and digital materials, including handouts, flyers, posters, and billboards.
  4. Alternatives:
    We incorporate drug-free activities such as games, clubs, and volunteer opportunities as part of ongoing substance use prevention efforts.
  5. Environmental Strategies:
    We bring people together to build partnerships, including forming community groups focused on substance prevention.
  6. Community-Based Process:
    We work to strengthen the community’s ability to provide prevention and treatment services.
  7. Problem Identification and Referral:
    We identify training opportunities to increase staff capacity across prevention topics and provide referral lists of services for clients.

Training for Professionals Working With Youth

The KYC Center offers trainings designed for staff who work with youth. These sessions cover a range of topics related to prevention, substance use education, communication, and youth support.

Inclusion, Communication & Facilitation

  • LGBTQIA2S+ Awareness (101): Classroom etiquette, pronouns, and inclusive vocabulary
  • Facilitation Best Practices: Tailored presentations using an organizational checklist
  • Classroom Management: Techniques for prevention specialists
  • Public Speaking & Substance Use (101): Engaging audiences about substance use
  • Community Communication Campaign (101): Communicating substance use prevention
  • Mentorship Training: Mentoring youth in prevention efforts
  • Motivational Interviewing: Techniques to encourage positive choices

Substance Use Education & Prevention

  • Drug Usage Landscape: Drugs, laws, and treatment options for adolescents and young adults
  • Prescription Drug & Opioid Misuse: Misuse prevention education
  • Harm Reduction Approaches: Strategies for minimizing harm related to drug use
  • Narcan Training: Administering Narcan to reverse opioid overdoses

Youth Development, Trauma & Mental Health

  • Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Trauma and its connection to substance use
  • Trauma-Informed Approach (101): Trauma’s impact on youth
  • Positive Youth Development (101): Supporting healthy youth development
  • Youth Mental Health & Substance Use: Supporting youth mental health in the context of substance use

Trainings for Youth

The KYC Center offers trainings designed for youth. These sessions cover topics related to healthy life skills, adolescent development, bullying and cyberbullying, and DUI prevention from a substance use perspective.

Development & Life Skills

  • Healthy Life Skills: Physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development
  • Adolescent Development: Cognitive, emotional, and physical health, including reproductive health

Prevention & Safety

  • Bullying & Cyberbullying: Peer pressure and its connection to substance use
  • DUI Prevention Education: DUI prevention from a substance use perspective

Join Our Board!

We value you and your expertise! Join our local advisory board to help guide local prevention actions to prevent youth substance use.

Benefits of joining:

Shared Learning
Network with other youth-serving organizations across Suburban Cook County to share efforts and resources.
Be part of informing prevention efforts
Each meeting provides the opportunity to share what prevention activities are needed in your community.