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LINCS COVID-19 Update

by PIK

By: Matt McGovern (LINCS COVID-19 Epidemiologist/Data Manager) COVID-19 has continued to spread throughout Morris County and the state of New Jersey. This most recent surge of cases started...Learn More

The Prevention Team heads to Louisville, Kentucky

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By: Ashley Brown, Preventionist The Prevention Team headed to Louisville, Kentucky to share our Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment Project (SBIRT)! As we successfully...Learn More

Good News for Public Health

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New Jersey School Passive Consent Law Passed July 2nd, 2021 By: Matt McGovern Student health behavior-related data has been difficult to obtain for New Jersey school districts for some time...Learn More

Substance Use in the LGBTQ+ Community

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Substance use in the LGBTQ+ community is a significant problem. Statistics show that LGBTQ+ adults are more than twice as likely as their heterosexual counterparts to use illicit drugs and...Learn More

Where Does Harm Reduction Fall Within Prevention?

by PIK

By: Arielle Aigotti The first step of incorporating harm reduction in prevention is taking away the stigma in prevention work itself. At Prevention is Key, our goal is to be a peer to the...Learn More

How Becoming a Youth Mentor Changed My Life

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I could not have asked for a better first professional fulltime job. At the beginning of 2021, I was a fresh-faced...Learn More

The Connections between Alcohol, Sexual Assault, and Consent

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CW: sexual assault, victim blaming Why is it important to discuss alcohol consumption and consent? The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, “97,000 students between the ages...Learn More

Social Anxiety Post-Pandemic

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As more of America becomes vaccinated and states begin to open some of the Covid guidelines, everyone is itching to get back to “normal”. It has been an isolating year and the normal we once...Learn More


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