Spokane County, Living Here: Substance Abuse Prevention<br /><a href='http://www.spokanecountyprevention.org/'><i style='font-size:13px;'>www.spokanecountyprevention.org</i></a>

Come visit us at the Spokane County Fair

September 5 - 14
Our substance abuse prevention booth will be in Bay 2

For further information contact: Contact Alan Zeuge, Spokane County Community Services, 477-4508, azeuge@spokanecounty.org

Start Talking Now
www.starttalkingnow.org

Parents, start talking now to your youth before they start drinking. Check out the www.starttalkingnow.org site for lots of useful tips and information.

For additional information see the following document: Underage Drinking: Key Points for Parents

Also, there are two excellent printable parent brochures:

Your Child Needs You: www.drugfree.org/Parent/Resources/Docs/Pamphlets/parents_en/PWF_Pamphlet.pdf

Navigating the Teen Years: www.theantidrug.com/pdfs/nav_the_teen_years.pdf

Bus Board Ads

Have you seen these bus boards on the Spokane Transit buses? Spokane County Community Services entered into a contract with Gateway Outdoor Advertising to place these four images on 54 exterior bus boards and 30 interior panels until December 2007. Many of the bus boards may remain past December until new ads replace them.

The objective of this project is to reach two groups:

The Start Talking images are focused toward parents and encourages them to start talking to their children about the risks associated with alcohol consumption.

The Soberbreakin and Soberjammin images are focused toward teens and are designed to challenge a common myth that one must consume alcohol to have a good time.

Pictured are Denise Hulsizer of Gateway Advertising and Henry Ewald, former practicum student with the prevention unit. Denise, Henry and County staff were instrumental in getting the Bus Board project implemented.

It is the mission of the Community Services Substance Abuse Prevention Unit to support strategies that prevent the use and misuse alcohol, tobacco and other substances by youth and adults who reside within Spokane County.

Substance Abuse Prevention Services are primarily supported by federal Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment (SAPT) funds that come to the County from the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse. Funding is also provided by other local, state and federal sources.

The County contracts with several community not-for-profit organizations to provide prevention services. These services are targeted to specific populations and they address priority risk and protective factors. They are provided in community, family, school and peer/individual domains.

Children’s Home Society, Northeast Region
- www.volunteersolutions.org/unitedwayspokane/org/221378.html
- www.chs-wa.org
Liberty Park Child Development Center:
- www.lpcdc.org
Martin Luther King, Jr. Family Outreach Center:
- mlkjspokane.com
- www.volunteersolutions.org/unitedwayspokane/org/220019.html
Transitional Living Center (TLC):
- www.help4women.com
West Central Community Center:
- myspokane.net/wccc/
Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) of Spokane:
- www.ywca.org/spokane
Special Mentoring Project: MaST (Mentors and Students Together) at Mead Middle School. Funding provided by The Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Children's Transition Initiative Program.

The Substance Abuse Advisory Board consists of up to 12 members appointed by the Spokane County Board of Commissioners. Members are chosen for their demonstrated concern for alcoholism and other drug addiction problems. Members of the Board are representative of the community, and we encourage members of minority groups and people in recovery to participate in our Advisory Board. It is helpful in the review process if applicants identify themselves as people in recovery or as a member of a minority group.

Unless otherwise scheduled, the advisory board meets on the 4th Monday of the month at 4:00 p.m. in the Community Services Building at 312 West 8th Avenue in the 5th floor conference room.

If you are interested in applying to the Substance Abuse Advisory Board, please print the attached application below, complete and sign the document, and mail it to the Board of County Commissioners, 1116 West Broadway Avenue, Spokane, WA 99260, Attention Kristin Condon.

For additional information, you are encouraged to read the related advisory board attachments below or you may contact Dan Finn at (509) 477-4507 or .

Thank you for your interest.

Spokane County Board/Commission Membership Application	word	pdf
Substance Abuse Advisory Board Job Description	word	pdf
Substance Abuse Advisory Board Bylaws	word	pdf
Substance Abuse Advisory Board Meeting Agenda (July 28, 2008)	word	pdf
Substance Abuse Advisory Board Meeting Minutes (June 23, 2008)	word	pdf

Last Modified On: 1/4/2008