Prevention Services presented ACE Interface at SVCC – Alberta Campus

    Prevention Services presented ACE Interface: Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences training at the Alberta campus of SVCC-Southside Virginia Community College on March 21. 2023. ACEs is an presentation on the brain science,  ACEs studies and the resiliency factors connected to the movement of creating a local trauma informed community network.   For more information…

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Prevention Services partners with SVHEC to host 2-day ASIST training

Prevention Services and the Southern Virginia Higher Education Center hosted an Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training on March 9 & 10, 2023 for 16 local community folks and staff. ASIST is a two day suicide prevention training focusing on new knowledge, empowering people and providing skilled, life-saving interventions. For more information on ASIST or other…

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SBH Partners with Local Business to Launch Youth Pledge Campaign to Reject Nicotine-Use

  BRUNSWICK , MECKLENBURG, & HALIFAX, VIRGINIA – Southside Behavioral Health is partnering with local businesses across the counties of Halifax, Mecklenburg, and Brunswick, Virginia to create a youth pledge campaign offering discounts to youth who take a pledge to be nicotine-free. “Despite a decrease in traditional cigarette-use, vaping and nicotine-use still exists in our…

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Prevention offers safeTALK at TJM Community Center

On Wednesday, December 14, Prevention Services held a safeTALK class hosted by A&M Family Services at the TJM Community Center in South Boston. 11 people from across the area participated in this important training that teaches participants to recognize and engage persons who may be having thoughts of suicide and  connect them to community resources trained in…

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De-Stress During the Holidays

Feeling overwhelmed thinking about the upcoming holidays and the logistics of spending time with family and friends, cooking large meals, buying groceries for those large meals, and everything in between? If you are noticing the signs of stress before the holiday season has even begun, read on! We are here to help you out by…

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