Below is the weekly newsletter from our CEO, Morgan Thompson:

Dear Friends,

When people think about prevention, they often picture Red Ribbon Week or classroom lessons on the dangers of drugs. And those efforts matter—they raise awareness, build knowledge, and empower young people to make healthy choices. But prevention is much bigger than that.

What are we really preventing?

We’re working to prevent the kinds of conditions that increase risk—things like childhood trauma, mental health struggles, and social isolation at the individual level.

We’re working to buffer family-level risks like parental substance use, housing instability, or domestic violence.

And we’re addressing  … READ MORE