About US
What’s happening in APRIL?!
Another of our P Team Hero’s is off for Tobacco Cessation training. This is a week long in-depth program!
Aging Wisely classes
are underway in Ticonderoga and Lake Placid.
SIGN UP FOR AUSABLE FORKS!
Starts April 16th!
We now offer Triple P Positive Parenting sessions! The ultimate in Parent Empowerment
AND
We have not 1 but 2!!! new Community facilitators for Girls Circle (4 total).
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We now have 2!!! Boys Council facilitator.
*PARENTS/GUARDIANS:*
If you struggle with behaviors in your children 1-12, contact us to set up a 4 session consulting session that to help. Free to you, but effective worldwide.
It’s SPRING!!!!!
Check out S.A.R.A’s calendar of events for ways to jump into a fresh community of support. Only 48 hrs of sobriety needed!
Message from Executive Director
For 37 years, The Prevention Team has been a vital part of Essex County, working tirelessly to foster healthier, safer, and more resilient communities by proactively addressing issues before they escalate into more significant problems such as addiction, violence, chronic disease, suicide, overdose and injury. Our work often requires a combination of research, survey analysis, and data collection through community engagement & a spirit to challenge generational stigma and trauma.
Through the Bureau of Prevention & Problem Gambling under Prevention | Office of Addiction Services and Supports (ny.gov), we are equipped NO MATTER YOUR AGE to tackle life’s challenges together. Our culturally humble team is ready to facilitate evidence informed conversations that draw upon empowerment strategies, harm reduction education tools and recovery initiatives that give people the confidence to live their lives as authentically and fully as possible.
In Gratitude,
Traci Ploufe
Who We Are
The Prevention Team is a mission-driven not for profit with a fundamental commitment to COMMUNITY and PROGRESS. Our creative and empowering team is here to support you with all your prevention and well-being needs. Your success is our success!
Team-WORK makes the DREAM-work
How We Started
1985: After being confronted by kids in his youth group with questions about drugs and alcohol, a youth pastor sought information and answers. After finding there was no drug use prevention or treatment program in Essex County, he went on to form what would become the Prevention Team, along with the Moses Ludington Hospital, Essex County Community Services Board, in New York State. The rest is history-OUR HISTORY!
What We Do
We specialize in the field of Prevention Science, Peer Recovery, and Harm Reduction education/awareness requiring intensive courses of study to acquire Certifications in Prevention Professionals (CPP)and Certified Peer Recovery Advocates. (CRPA). We use evidence-based empowerment strategies and recovery initiatives to give people the confidence to live their lives as authentically and fully as possible.
Our team works closely with schools, educators, and leaders to bring evidence base practices to students, families, and communities, with the heart to change our corner of the world.
Our Mission
Join us in our mission to build a stronger, more resilient community, free from the harmful effects of addictions and positively impacting our emotional IQ (brain health). You will find us in your local educational establishments and with families where we believe all people can thrive.
Bold Purpose
We move forward with Prevention Science-minded determination to change the world of toxic stress that can lead to substance misuse, addictions, violence, chronic conditions and problem gambling by focusing not just on incremental change but monumental impact throughout the lifespan in Essex County.
Our Vision
We perform bold, purpose-driven work that positively impacts the lives of youth, their families, communities including veterans and our most precious senior champions. We are passionate about what we do and live by our Guiding Principles of upstream prevention:
Challenging Choices, Impacting Lives, Bold Purpose, Excellence and Accountability, Flexibility and Agility, Smart and Curious, and Collaborative Openness.
Challenging Choices, Impacting Lives
We respectfully challenge each other’s ideas and points of view because it makes us a stronger and a better organization. We enter into motivational conversations about upstream prevention without being confrontational. We want and expect individuals to advocate for their perspectives. Once everyone’s voice is heard and their ideas explored, we decide and commit, moving forward with collective determination on prevention health, wellbeing, recovery, and harm reduction for all.
Excellence & Accountability
We unequivocally demand excellence in our field of prevention education/counseling and positive alternatives in our uniquely rural county. Even though prevention budgets have remained stagnate over the past 10 Years, we will not settle for anything less from ourselves, our peers, our partners, and our profession of Addiction Services and Supports (NYOASAS) under the umbrella of the Bureau of NYS Prevention & Problem Gambling.
Smart & Curious
We are naturally inquisitive with a voracious appetite for learning and a boundless intellectual capacity for solving complicated problems in the field of prevention science and recovery initiatives.
Collaborative Openness
We are open-minded professionals first and foremost, recognizing teamwork is rooted in honest interactions and transparency.
Flexibility & Agility
We are open to new ways of doing things, able to pivot, and embrace change with zeal and ingenuity!