National Prevention Week (NPW) is a national public education platform bringing together communities and organizations to raise awareness about the importance of substance use prevention and positive mental health.
Click HERE for information on Prevention Day.
Click HERE for the Agenda at a Glance.
The three primary goals of National Prevention Week are to:
Each year, National Prevention Week includes daily themes to focus on major substance use and mental health topics. The 2022 daily themes are:
Monday, May 9: Strengthening Community Resilience: Substance Misuse and Overdose Prevention
SAMHSA's Telling Prevention Story: Updates from SAMHSA Prevention Technology Transfer Centers on May 9, 2022, at 12:15 - 1:15 pm EST. REGISTER FOR THE SESSION: Select "SAMHSA's 18th Annual Prevention Day".
Tuesday, May 10: Preventing Substance Use and Promoting Mental Health in Youth
Wednesday, May 11: Preventing Suicide: Everyone Plays a Role
Thursday, May 12: The Talent Pipeline: Enhancing the Prevention Workforce
Friday, May 13: Prevention is Everywhere: Highlighting Efforts Across Settings and Communities
Saturday, May 14: Celebrating Prevention Heroes
This year, SAMHSA is creating a new way to participate in National Prevention Week (NPW) through #MyPreventionStory. It is a way for us to acknowledge our mental health and substance use prevention experiences.
Leading up to NPW, SAMHSA will be encouraging individuals and organizations to create and share a prevention story on social media—whether it’s telling how they are helping to prevent substance use or sharing the ways they’re promoting mental health during COVID-19. Be a part of the national conversation about how prevention works!
How You Can Be Included: #MyPreventionStory is about capturing our collective mental health and substance misuse prevention experiences. Here are some ideas for how individuals and organizations can get involved. This is not a complete list, and all entries are welcome, including videos, photos, artwork, poems, written stories, etc. Feel free to submit multiple entries. Get involved.
We will be sharing resources all week based on the daily themes for #NPW2022. Follow @NewEnglandPTTC on Twitter and Facebook.
Download toolkits and learn more: https://www.samhsa.gov/prevention-week/about