Thursday, October 15, 2015
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
YMCA
Coordinator Anna Semple
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
MESI
Coordinator Brandee Tyree
Thursday, December 10, 2015
10:30 AM
Western Montana Mental Health Center
Coordinator Anna Semple
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News & Events
Safe Kids Missoula Fair
October 4, 2015
12:00 - 3:00 PM
Community Medical Center Campus
Rx Drug Forum
October 6, 2015
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
or 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Helena, MT
UM WGSS and SARC invite you to attend as they bring SLUT The Play to The Crystal Theater for its first production in Missoula.
Montana Prevention Coalition Communication Post
August Issue
The Prevention Resource Center's Hot News
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Adverse Childhood Experiences
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Lifelong Consequences of Trauma
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Many people can identify a person in their lives who struggles with a chronic illness like heart disease, diabetes, or hypertension. Most people also know someone who struggles with mental illness, substance abuse, or relationships in general. Traditionally, the health care system would point to high-risk behaviors such as poor diet, drug use, or a sedentary lifestyle as the primary causal factors. Questions for patients have focused on "What's wrong with you?" rather than "What happened to you?"
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2015 Children in the States Fact Sheets
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Check out how Montana is doing.
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These fact sheets provide basic statistics and rankings regarding poverty, health, hunger, child welfare, early childhood development, education and youth at risk for children in each state. We hope that providing key state and national data in a concise uniform format will enable readers to see how their own state is doing, look at neighboring states and the national average, and then urge their elected officials (at the federal, state, and local level) to do more for children.
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Pill Bottles and Prescription Drug Poisonings
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When many of us imagine a "poisoning" death, we think of a young child finding a household-cleanser under the kitchen sink. And while this type of poisoning is still an issue, until recently, the fastest growing type of poisoning death in the U.S. came from overdoses of prescription drugs. Today, heroin-related deaths are spiking, but prescription drug overdoses remain an enormous problem. As of 2013, there were more than 48,000 poisoning deaths in the U.S. Of these, more than 22,000 were from prescription drugs, including about 16,000 from opioid painkillers like oxycodone.
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Energy Drinks May Drive Kids to Distraction
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Middle schoolers who consume sweetened energy drinks are 66% more at risk for hyperactivity than other kids, according to a new study.
To assess the effect of a variety of beverages on middle schoolers, Yale School of Public Health researchers surveyed 1,649 students in 5th, 7th, and 8th grade about their beverage consumption and assessed their levels of hyperactivity and inattention.
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When does a person really become a 'grown up?' Surely age can't be the only determining factor. Laci Green looks at how the brain matures and what it means- from a scientific perspective- to be an adult.
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