Prevention Programs & Services
The Prevention Program Department strives to advance preventive health behaviors with programs that foster and develop healthy communities and healthy people through collaboration with community partners and service providers.
Prevention & Wellness
The NARBHA system of care provides quality, culturally competent, safe and effective prevention services as part of its full continuum of care. Prevention strategies are focused on the prevention of substance abuse, child abuse and suicide for individuals who do not have a diagnosable behavioral health problem, and who are not enrolled in the behavioral health system. This is done through: community education; collaboration between NARBHA, schools, social service agencies, human services and behavioral health providers; securing diversity in funding streams; and encouraging advocacy at the local and state levels.
NARBHA's visions for the promotion of prevention include:
- Reducing the incidence and prevalence of behavioral health disorders
- Reducing demand and need for more expensive and intensive treatment services
- Improving individual function through skill-building strategies
- Heightening community awareness of protective and risk factors for behavioral health dysfunction
- Effectively identifying, developing and utilizing current resources to address the needs of the communities
Community Development
NARBHA partners with communities and individuals throughout northern Arizona who actively strive to develop services and build on community assets to enhance the quality of life for northern Arizona residents.
NARBHA and our community partners seek to establish a "no wrong door" policy for entry into care, encourage families to become the driving forces for change within their communities, increase accessibility of training and peer-to-peer teaching opportunities for behavioral health recipients and develop partnerships between families and social service professionals for a locally-driven impact.
Programs:
- Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Northeastern Arizona
- Botvin Life Skills/Bullhead City Stop Teen/Underage Drinking Coalitions
- Connect2Help Circle
- Healthy Families/First Steps at YRMC
- Parent Resource Centers in Flagstaff
- Prescott Unified School District Family Support Services
- Project ALERT in Holbrook Junior High School
- Project Resiliency of The Guidance Center
- Reconnecting Youth/Suicide Prevention in Page
- WYGC Senior Peer Program
- Yavapai Big Brothers/Big Sisters