Our Goals:
1. Decrease the use and misuse of alcohol by youth and young adults in Stewart County.
- Educating youth, parents, and young adults on alcohol use consequences and social hosting
- Partnering with local law enforcement to conduct retail compliance checks
- Working with retailers to ensure employees have received proper training on carding
- Working with local beer boards to create effective policies and rules to ensure retailers are not providing alcohol to underage individuals
2. Decrease the misuse of prescription medications by youth and young adults.
- Educating youth, parents, young adults, and community members on prescription drug misuse and abuse by
- Reminding community to safely lock their prescription medications in one of our FREE lock boxes
- Remind members to properly dispose of their prescription medications when they are no longer being used in one the six drop boxes in the county at the following locations: Stewart County Sheriff Office and Dover Family Pharmacy
- Encouraging medical professionals to utilize the Controlled Substance Monitoring Database (CSMD) for prescribing practices
- Hosting Drug Take Back events twice yearly for community members to safely dispose of their prescription medications for incineration
3. Decrease the use of tobacco, e-cigarette, and vaping products by youth and young adults.
- Education youth, parents, young adults, and community on the consequences of product use
- Promoting the Tennessee Tobacco Quitline as a resource
- Partnering with local law enforcement to conduct retail compliance checks
- Working with retailers to ensure employees have received proper training on carding
4. Strengthen Stewart County Prevention Coalition’s current prevention capacity and infrastructure at the community level in support of prevention efforts.
- Cultural competency and Ethics training
- Leadership development
- Strategic planning
- Sustainability
- Community mobilization
- Developing future leaders and champions for change in substance abuse prevention with our youth
5. Strengthen the capacity of the prevention data management and systems infrastructure at the community level through implementing a comprehensive community assessment to expand availability of data to be used by partners to make data- driven decisions on evidence-based programs/practices within Stewart County.
Narcan Training
Naloxone (or Narcan) is a proven tool in the battle against drug misuse and overdose death. When too much of an opioid medication is taken, it can slow breathing to a dangerously low rate. When breathing slows too much, overdose death can occur. Naloxone can reverse this potentially fatal situation by allowing the person to breathe normally again temporarily (30-90 minutes). An individual can fall back into an overdose situation after that time if they have a long-acting medication or substance in their system. Naloxone is not a “cure” but is only intended to provide time for emergency medical services to arrive.
Naloxone is not a dangerous medicine. However, proper training is required by law. Any time an overdose is suspected, first responders should be notified by calling 911 immediately and stay with the patient until first responders arrive. It is important to know that some patients may awake disoriented or agitated after receiving naloxone. This is a good sign, but calling 911 is still very important to help the person survive.
Youth Tobacco Cessation
Stewart County Prevention Coalition offers Responsible Youth Tobacco Cessation to local businesses and organizations.
The cost of these classes are $50 per student. Each class lasts approximately 3 hours and can takes place at the SCPC office located at:
110 Natcor Dr. Dover,
TN 37058
or at your business.
Classes may be requested by contacting us here.
Look out for free training classes by checking out our events page.