Contributing Factors (What's helping the trend?):

• • School based prevention programs and education on the risks of using marijuana as an adolescence
  • Supportive family/friend network
  • Highlighting mental health and substance use/abuse in mainstream media campaigns and school programs

Restricting Factors (What's keeping the trend from improving?):

• • Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic restricted program activities, access, and availability
  • Influence of social media and culture (portraying the use of substances as cool)
  • Loosening laws surrounding recreational/medical marijuana; more accessible

Equity Issues (What disparities are contributing?):

• Racial and ethnic minorities
• Sexual orientation and gender minorities

Clermont County Educational Service Center

Clermont County Mental Health & Recovery Board

Coalition for a Drug-Free Clermont County

Evidence-based resources:

• Brief School-Based Interventions and Behavioral Outcomes for Substance-Using Adolescents
• Mentoring Adolescents to Prevent Drug and Alcohol Use

Community drug prevention coalitions

K - 12 drug prevention education

Community drug prevention coalitions

• Provide Wraparound support to youth with Juvenile Court involvement (Coalition for a Drug-Free Clermont County)

K-12 drug prevention education

• Provide K-12 drug prevention education (e.g. LifeSkills) (Clermont County Mental Health & Recovery Board, Clermont County Educational Service Center)
• Participate in Red Ribbon Weekm Hidden in Plain Sight, Community drug prevention efforts, youth-led prevention (Clermont County Mental Health & Recovery Board, Clermont County Educational Service Center)