The Kansas Prevention Collaborative (KPC) is about prevention AND the promotion of Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs). The KPC is in the midst of celebrating National Prevention Week (NPW) with communities across Kansas and the United States. NPW is a national educational campaign that promotes prevention year-round through providing ideas and resources to help individuals and communities make substance misuse prevention happen daily.

Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA’s) National Prevention Week is celebrated May 9 through 15, 2021 (https://www.samhsa.gov/prevention-week). Annually, communities across the country unify to increase awareness about the importance of substance misuse prevention and mental health with the goal of inspiring action and preventing substance misuse and behavioral health difficulties.

This week, the KPC is spotlighting where prevention efforts are happening, providing resources, and sparking conversations to build PCEs and positive adult experiences. While carrying on most of our information dissemination and resource sharing virtually during the pandemic, the KPC has continued with much of the promotion being shared through Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Join the KPC's National Prevention Week campaign at https://www.facebook.com/kansa...ventioncollaborative, https://twitter.com/KsPrevention, https://www.instagram.com/ksprevention/ and check out the resources shared every day this week.

The KPC will highlight #YouthLeadingPrevention throughout National Prevention Week, including compiling and sharing some of the best videos submitted to SAMHSA's Prevention Challenge, with the #YouthLeadingPrevention hashtag.

Join the KPC in lighting up social media across Kansas to highlight that #PreventionHappensHere, highlighting the work of area coalitions and organizations with prevention missions. The KPC will say "thank you" to those that support prevention efforts and will contact state and local legislators and remind them of Kansas prevention missions and efforts carried out by people like you! Let's connect to help PCEs spread so much faster and further than ACEs, year-round.