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Addictions
Addicted.org is a drug rehabilitation program that helps services to overcome addiction and prevent substance use.
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Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its partners promote tobacco control interventions, programs to help tobacco users quit, and steps to eliminate tobacco-related health disparities in different population groups.
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This page from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) includes information about sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevention, testing, and resources.
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Project Prevent is the statewide youth tobacco prevention coalition in Arkansas. Its members consist of local Chapters across the state that choose to live their lives free from tobacco and nicotine, and encourage others to do the same.
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SUPE is a group of people with over 50 years of combined experience in substance use. They have helped people with substance use disorder for decades. Their believe is that, "By educating people, we would not have to get them treatment. But most importantly, they would have a better future because most people with a substance problem do not have any future."
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There are many free resources available to help youth reject or quit vaping and all other tobacco use. This website has resources for parents, youth, educators, communities, etc.
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Suicide prevention
Suicide Prevention Allies’ primary goal is to educate community organizations, the public, and private sectors about mental health and wellness. Through a series of meetings, workshops and events, Suicide Prevention Allies seeks to provide relevant tools, training and updated research for everyone.
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The Alex Blackwood Foundation for Hope started in 2008 in Little Rock, Arkansas. Its mission is to promote collaboration for Suicide Awareness and prevention. Steven and Cindi Blackwood lost their son, Alex, in 2008 at age 19. Quickly realizing how important it is to break the cycle and the silence of depression and suicide, they, along with their daughter, Ariel, passionately began forming the ABF. With an understanding of the risks of depression leading to suicide, the foundation has rooted itself as a new source for delivering a message of HOPE. Depression is treatable, and suicide is preventable.
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Learn about suicide, how you can help prevent it, and resources for those affected, from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
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Grief
When someone dies, it can feel like you’re alone in your grief. At Dougy Center, you will find support, resources, and connection before and after a death.
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Their Mission is to provide, improve, and increase support and assistance given to bereaved children and families in Arkansas through education, program development, and grief support The Mourning News programs.
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The Coalition to Support Grieving Students is a unique collaboration of the leading professional organizations representing classroom teachers (including teachers, paraprofessionals, and other instructional staff), principals, assistant principals, superintendents, school board members, and central office staff, student support personnel (including school counselors, school nurses, school psychologists, school social workers, and other student support personnel), and other school professionals who have come together with a common conviction: grieving students need the support and care of the school community.
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Trauma and Mental Health
NAMI is the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.
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Children and adults can experience traumatic stress when exposed to shocking or frightening events or situations that overwhelm their ability to cope. More than two thirds of children report experiencing or witnessing at least one traumatic event by age 16.
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Their Mission is to raise the standard of care and improve access to services for traumatized children, their families and communities throughout the United States.
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At Bradley Hospital, their expert clinicians in children’s mental health work with kids and families every day, providing clinical care at the outpatient, partial hospitalization, and even inpatient and residential levels. They are now sharing some of our expertise in our new podcast, Mindcast: Healthy Mind, Healthy Child. On each episode they’ll interview a different Bradley Hospital clinician on topics ranging from teen depression, to processing grief and loss, to anxiety in kids and all things mental health in between.
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Mental Health America (MHA)'s work is driven by its commitment to promote mental health as a critical part of overall wellness, including prevention services for all; early identification and intervention for those at risk; integrated care, services, and supports for those who need them; with recovery as the goal.
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Click here to access information and resources about mental health.
Esta página está publicada por Mental Health America (MHA), una organización comprometida a promover la salud mental como una parte crítica del bienestar complete, incluyendo servicios de prevención para todos, identificación e intervención temprana para los que estén en riesgo, cuidado integral, servicios, y soporte para los que lo necesitan; con el objetivo de la recuperación.
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Social Media Safety
SMACtalk for Students offers resources to help with Social Media awareness and safety. This site has a lot of informative videos and documents.
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SMACtalk for Parents offers resources to help with Social Media awareness and safety. This site has a lot of informative videos and documents.
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SMACtalk for Teachers offers resources to help with Social Media awareness and safety. This site has a lot of informative videos and documents.
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Common Sense Media is a website that offers expert reviews and objective advice regarding movies, tv show, books, apps, games, and other media.
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The Wait Until 8th pledge empowers parents to rally together to delay giving children a smartphone until at least 8th grade. By banding together, this will decrease the pressure felt by kids and parents alike over the kids having a smartphone.
Smartphones are distracting and potentially dangerous for children yet are widespread in elementary and middle school because of unrealistic social pressure and expectations to have one.
If you would like your child to have a basic phone that just calls and texts or a two-way calling watch, you still can sign the pledge! The basic phone and two-way calling watch avoid many of the distractions and dangers of the smartphone.
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Other
Mainstream is a non-profit, non-residential, consumer-driven Independent Living Resource Center for people with disabilities in central Arkansas. Mainstream operates with the conviction that people with disabilities have the right and the responsibility to make choices, to control their lives, and to participate fully and equally in their community.
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Each highway patrol troop commander is responsible for establishing a regular schedule of driver’s license testing in each of the troop counties. The link below will take you to the Arkansas State Police website - Driver Examination page. On this page you will find the study guides and practice tests, as well as a map to determine your county’s troop headquarters and locations for Driver License Testing. Study guides are also available for download in Adobe PDF format below.
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Are you still in awe of your unplanned pregnancy? Find the support, education, and services you need at Options Pregnancy Center today. The first step to moving forward is starting your pregnancy confirmation process. Set up a free and confidential pregnancy test and ultrasound appointment with us to learn more about your pregnancy and get the clarity you need. Talk more about all your options and what options you’re eligible for. We are here for you along the way!
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No kid deserves to face the porn industry alone. Fight back!
No kid deserves to face the porn industry alone. Fight back!
Arm them with the best kid-to-kid digital safety program using our entertaining videos, engaging workbooks, and family activities to protect kids ages 7-11 from online dangers. Best of all, it is easy and addresses the digital dangers your child will face.
Click here to download the document "How to Talk to Kids about Pornography"
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50% of parents worry their child is struggling but don’t know what to do. This site teaches parents about each stage in their development.
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Find all kinds of resources to meet needs such as housing, medical, clothing assistance, schools, childcare, utility assistance, etc.
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Violence is an urgent public health problem. From infants to the elderly, it affects people in all stages of life and can lead to a lifetime of physical, emotional, and economic problems. CDC is committed to preventing violence so that everyone can be safe and healthy.
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The Teen Action and Support Center (TASC) is an organization that provides an array of free services just for teens. This group, along with a youth-led advisory team, felt that a positive and empowering approach to services would be essential in helping young people in the community become successful adults.
The organization implements best practices, innovative and high standards of care for adolescents, and advocate for the unique needs of teenagers. Arts and Culture programming are components to the many programs TASC offers to help teens become the best versions of themselves.
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The Morgan Nick Foundation (MNF) provides a support network to Arkansas parents and families of missing children and adults. The focus of the MNF falls into three categories: Intervention, Education, Legislation. The Morgan Nick Foundation believes that to reduce the number of child abductions in the future, we must educate our children and empower them with the skills necessary to protect them from predatory abduction. We can make a difference… one child at a time.
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