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Back to Episodes263 – Substance Use Prevention in Schools with Stephan Lambert
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Published 4 years, 5 months ago
Description
Dr. Sandie Morgan is joined by Stephan Lambert, the Prevention Coordinator with OCDE. Together, they discuss the prevalence of substance use amongst youth, prevention strategies, and intervention to teach youth about the harms of substance use and the signs of withdrawals, addiction, and mental health disorders.
Stephan Lambert
Stephan Lambert is the Prevention Coordinator at the Orange County Department of Education. He has fourteen years of experience in substance abuse prevention, positive youth development, family and community engagement, and developmental asset building. In his role at OCDE, he supports schools and districts with training and technical assistance around alcohol, tobacco, and other drug prevention.
Key Points
- Orange County fentanyl overdoses have significantly increased
- Substance use prevention strategies:
- Start conversations around health, safety, and poison control
- Cultivating a warm and supportive relationship
- Be a role model
- Knowing the risk factors
- Know their friends
- Monitoring, supervising and setting boundaries
- Have conversations with youth to help them understand the signs of addiction and mental health disorders so they know when to seek help.
- Building a healthy and caring relationship with youth so they understand they have safe place to turn for help.
- Orange County fentanyl overdoses have significantly increased
- Substance use prevention strategies:
- Start conversations around health, safety, and poison control
- Cultivating a warm and supportive relationship
- Be a role model
- Knowing the risk factors
- Know their friends
- Monitoring, supervising and setting boundaries
- Have conversations with youth to help them understand the signs of addiction and mental health disorders so they know when to seek help.
- Building a healthy and caring relationship with youth so they understand they have safe place to turn for help.
Resources
- Fentanyl visuals showing the potency of fentanyl and the appearance of real vs counterfeit pills
- A comprehensive resource e-book for families with a young person struggling with opioid use
- The Six Parenting Practices to help prevent substance use
- A guide from the CA Department of Public Health on what parents and mentors need to know about cannabis
- Free support to quit vaping or smoking, or call 1-866-NEW-LUNG
- NAMI WarmLine – National HelpLine Directory
- Health Care Agency Behavioral Health line online chat, or call 1-855-OC-LINKS
- Ensure Justice Conference | March 4-5, 2022
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Transcript
Dave [00:00:00] You’re listening to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. This is episode number 263, Substance Use Prevention in Schools with Stephan Lambert.
Production Credits [00:00:10] Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential.
Dave [00:00:30] Welcome to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. My name is Dave Stachowiak.
Sandie [00:00:36]