Teen Crisis Intervention a Community Effort
Teen crisis intervention is usually not the purview of United Way. Long recognized for their work with the poor and homeless, the only contact they generally have with troubled teenagers is in that context. However, so impressed were they with the community’s concerns about drug addiction that they want to tackle that too.
Relevant Tags:communitywide, crisis intervention, drug addiction, substance abuse issues, teen crisis intervention, teen crisis, troubled teenagers“Brian Sipe, board president of the UWA, announced earlier this week that the organization would solicit proposals from nonprofit, governmental, educational and law enforcement agencies interested in garnering support for initiatives geared toward having a positive impact on substance abuse issues in Aroostook.
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The UWA’s decision to gather the proposals comes on the heels of findings received from the organization’s first-ever communitywide assessment project… Substance abuse was tagged as a major worry for community members, according to the assessment. Respondents expressed anxiety about the toll drug abuse and addiction has taken on communities. They also feared newer, more dangerous drugs eventually would arrive…
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“Everywhere we went, from the southernmost tip of Aroostook to the northernmost tip, we heard concerns about substance abuse,” Stevens, the executive director of the UWA, said Wednesday. “As a board, we read through the community assessment and we realized that there is a great deal of concern about this issue, but it is not something that we are really putting a lot of money into as an agency at this point.”
Teen Crisis Intervention