A toolkit that prevention professionals and communities working on cannabis related policy improvement can use to help support prevention and public health at a community level.
Mariah Flynn (she/her) has worked in the substance misuse field in Vermont for 20+ years as a counselor, a case manager, and for the last 14 years as the Director of the Burlington Partnership for a Healthy Community, a substance misuse prevention coalition serving Burlington, Vermont. She is a founding member of Prevention Works! VT and the Chittenden Prevention Network, a statewide and regional effort to coordinate substance use prevention resources and strategies for the areas, and still serves on the Steering Committees for both. Mariah served as the Coordinator of the Tobacco Free College Campus Initiative for the state of Vermont for many years until that position ended last year. In her personal time she is Co-Chair of Smart Approaches to Marijuana Vermont, a grassroots effort to bring public health research and science into policy decisions related to cannabis in VT. Mariah loves spending time with her two teenagers and is passionate about building communities that provide youth and families with the skills and environment to support healthy choices.
