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Cash Stipends for SPORT PPW Program Implementers This Fall

Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) is providing cash stipends to selected prevention professionals this fall, 2026 who implement SPORT PPW and administer a brief end-of-semester online posttest survey.

Cash stipends will also be offered to teachers not implementing SPORT PPW but who just administer the brief online posttest survey to adolescents within the same school(s) or nearby school(s) receiving SPORT PPW.

Stipends will range from $50-$100 per person.

Eligibility requirements include:

• A minimum of 200 students receiving SPORT PPW and completing the end-of-semester posttest survey.
• Students must complete a brief online pretest and posttest immediately after the SPORT PPW program lesson.
• Program implementers must have successfully completed a SPORT PPW program implementer training.

For questions about eligibility or to register to participate: [email protected] or call: (904) 472-5022.

We are looking forward to hearing from you!

How Does Wellness & Healthy Behaviors Prevent Substance Use?

The connection between wellness and substance use prevention is deeply rooted in how our bodies and minds handle stress, seek rewards, and build resilience.

When young people (or older people) engage in healthy behaviors, they essentially create a protective buffer against the vulnerabilities that often lead to substance use and addiction.

Here is an overview of how different areas of wellness actively help prevent substance use and substance use disorders:

Learn more: How Does Wellness & Healthy Behaviors Prevent Substance Use? – Prevention Plus Wellness, LLC

How to Plan Practical Whole-Health Drug Prevention

Below is a structured, comprehensive and ready-to-use framework for planning and delivering practical whole-health substance use prevention programs for youth and young adults (or even adults).

This evidence-based framework is theoretically founded on the Behavior-Image Model (BIM) and empirically supported by multiple evaluation studies demonstrating the efficacy of Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) programs.

The greatest amount of scientific support for PPW program effectiveness is with the SPORT (Substance Prevention Optimizing Resiliency Training) PPW program for youth and the InShape PPW program for young adults.

Combined, this theoretical and empirical evidence base provides a unified planning system for strengthening and expanding substance use prevention by connecting healthy lifestyle behaviors and images, brief motivational strategies, and research-based behavioral change concepts.

Learn more: How to Plan Practical Whole-Health Drug Prevention – Prevention Plus Wellness, LLC

3 Tips for Sustaining a Drug Prevention Program

Sustainability, as it relates to substance use prevention, refers to being able to continue to implement a program with fidelity and efficacy over time and perhaps across settings.

If a drug prevention program isn’t sustained, its initial effects will eventually dissipate.

Substance use prevention programs can be sustained by three strategies: 1) building community ownership, 2) using practical evidence-based programs, and 3) planning for sustainability early.

Below is a description of each of these strategies for ensuring sustainability of your drug prevention program.

Learn more: 3 Tips for Sustaining a Drug Prevention Program – Prevention Plus Wellness, LLC

Solutions for Providing Drug Prevention in Schools & Communities

Some of the biggest problems or challenges to providing evidence-based drug prevention in schools and communities include limited resources, inconsistent implementation of programs, and interventions that address a limited number and diversity of risk and protective factors.

Below is a description of the major challenges with concrete examples of solutions.

Learn more: Solutions for Providing Drug Prevention in Schools & Communities – Prevention Plus Wellness, LLC

5 Free Resources for Drug Prevention Professionals

Here are 5 free resources for substance use prevention and health professionals and organizations to strengthen your Prevention Plus Wellness programming and training.

1. Grant Matching Program: PPW Drug Prevention & Wellness Grant Matching Program – Prevention Plus Wellness, LLC

2. Cash Stipends for Implementing Prevention Programs: Calling All SPORT PPW Program Implementers: Cash Stipends Available – Prevention Plus Wellness, LLC

3. Webinar on How to Provide Drug Prevention in Busy Schools: How to Provide Drug Prevention in Busy Schools: Free Webinar – Prevention Plus Wellness, LLC

4. EBook on How to Provide Drug Prevention in Busy Schools: NEW Free eBook on How to Provide Drug Prevention in Busy Schools – Prevention Plus Wellness, LLC

5. Prevention Grant Tool: Free PPW One-Page & Customizable Full Grant Application – Prevention Plus Wellness, LLC

Training in Prevention Plus Wellness

Getting trained to implement an evidence-based Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) intervention like the SPORT (Substance Prevention Optimizing Resiliency Training), Va**ng, Opioid, Ma*****na or InShape PPW program is easy and fast.

Our popular Self-Paced Online Program Implementer Training Courses usually take just 1-2 hours to complete and come with a 3-year certification: Online Self-Paced PPW Program Implementer Training – Prevention Plus Wellness, LLC

If you’d like to become a Certified Trainer, we offer the on-demand Online PPW Program Training of Trainer (TOT) course to learn how to train others to implement PPW programs: Online Training of Trainer Workshop – Prevention Plus Wellness, LLC

If you have a group of prevention or health specialists who wish to become trained to implement, and/or train others to implement, a PPW program, we provide the Live Online or Onsite PPW Program Implementer & TOT Workshop: Onsite Substance Use Prevention Program Workshop – Prevention Plus Wellness, LLC

Lastly, PPW frequently offers monthly free webinars showcasing our unique screening and brief prevention interventions which promote whole-health among youth and young adults.

Our webinar topics present the latest research and best practices associated with integrating substance use prevention with protective healthy lifestyle behavior promotion to enhance the mental and physical wellbeing, performance and happiness of young people: Prevention Plus Wellness Training Topics – Prevention Plus Wellness, LLC

Very shortly we will also be announcing a new “Grant Funding Readiness Course” especially created for substance use prevention and health providers.

Sign up on our website to receive notifications of all upcoming PPW training opportunities: https://preventionpluswellness.com

Prevention Plus Wellness Grant Matching Program

To celebrate our 20-year anniversary, Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) is providing dollar-for-dollar matching grant support for PPW programs, materials and training included in a grant application.

This doubles your prevention and wellness purchasing power, reach and sustainability.

Since many grants require matching funds, this offer will help you get funded!

Learn more: https://preventionpluswellness.com/blogs/news/ppw-drug-prevention-wellness-grant-matching-program

How to Integrate Drug Prevention into Health & Physical Education & Sports

Integrating drug prevention into Health and Physical Education (PE) and school athletics creates a powerful, multi-tiered safety net aimed at promoting lifelong health, fitness, and personal success.

While Health and PE provide the educational foundation, school sports offer a unique cultural environment where prevention can be tied directly to passion, performance, and peer accountability.

Here is a 4-point guide on how to integrate drug prevention across all three of these vital domains emphasizing the evidence-based Prevention Plus Wellness model.

Learn more: https://preventionpluswellness.com/blogs/news/how-to-integrate-drug-prevention-into-health-physical-education-sports

NEW Free eBook on How to Provide Drug Prevention in Busy Schools

A new eBook by Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) was created for help substance use prevention professionals and organizations challenged by providing drug prevention in busy schools.

The objectives of this new eBook are to:

1. Identify 6 practical, time-efficient strategies for evidence-based prevention.
2. Describe the problem with substance use prevention and solutions.
3. Review how to increase research-supported prevention program fidelity.
4. Explore resources and how to get started on providing drug prevention in busy schools.

Sign up and download a copy of the eBook from the banner at the top of our website homepage: https://preventionpluswellness.com

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