THE SOUTHWEST COUNCIL INC

Community members, including parents, educators, law enforcement, faith-based and youth, are invited to join to discuss strategies to help reduce substance abuse. For more information visit, www.SWCcoalitions.org

A valuable service provided to local businesses that helps to identify and to assist employees with substance abuse and related problems. Certified staff provide intervention services to employers to assist them with various concerns.

Professional substance abuse evaluation, assessment, and treatment services provided as a professional service for adults.

This program, developed for NJ returning veteran's families, includes children in family skill training sessions. Both parents and children learn and practice new behaviors separately, followed by working together so that appropriate responses to various behaviors become easier to incorporate into family interpersonal relations. Dinner included!

A six-week prevention program for children in grades two and three that builds internal assets and teaches the important life skills students need to grow up healthy and drug-free. The program uses puppets and stories that feature ‘real life’ situations experienced by a children’s soccer team.

The Youth Network is a youth leadership group that is part of the Cumberland County Healthy Communities Coalition. The Youth Network brings together teens who want to make a positive difference in their community by encouraging peers to participate in healthy decision making by staying drug and alcohol free. Membership in the Youth Network not only gives teens an opportunity to make a positive impact on their community, but provides valuable leadership
experience. For more information visit, www.SWCcoalitions.org.

Engage individuals reversed from an opioid overdose to provide non-clinical assistance, recovery supports and appropriate referrals for assessment and substance use disorder treatment.

If a person has been convicted of an alcohol or drug-related traffic or boating offense in NJ, they must satisfy the
requirements of the Intoxicated Driving Program and the IDRC. If a person is sentenced as a first time offender, they will be detained, educated and evaluated for at least six hours each day on two consecutive days in the IDRC.

Provide a comprehensive outreach and educational program in Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem Counties specifically focused on providing older adults (age 60+) with practical information regarding (1) the appropriate use of non-opioid analgesic pain medication; and (2) non-pharmacological approaches to dealing with acute and chronic pain. The Agency shall utilize a two-prong approach in Cumberland, Salem, and Gloucester counties: (1) the facilitation of the evidence-based Wellness Initiative for Senior Education (WISE) program; and (2) raising community awareness through material/literature distribution, community seminars, presentations and health fairs.