Prevention hosts ACEs and Lock & Talk VA at SVCC – Keysville

  Prevention Services hosted an Understanding Adverse Childhood Experience training and a Lock and Talk VA presentation on the Keysville Campus of Southside Virginia Community College on Wednesday, March 22 in the library. Understanding Adverse Childhood Experience (ACEs) helps raise awareness and provide resources in an effort to reduce ACEs, foster resilience, and improve the…

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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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