GRASP Coalition

06/04/2025

05/29/2025

🍽️ Drugs Over Dinner: Because Every Conversation Counts 💬

We're proud to support the Drugs Over Dinner initiative — a powerful effort to prevent substance use through meaningful conversations at home between parents/caretakers and youth. Tonight, we partnered with Picasso's Pizza & Restaurant and stickered 150 takeout bags and 110 pizza boxes. 🏠

This isn’t about lectures. It’s about listening, connecting, and creating a safe space to talk about the pressures and choices young people face today. When families talk openly, prevention becomes a shared priority.

📌 How it works: Set aside time for a meal. Use conversation starters and resources provided by the initiative to open the door to honest, judgment-free dialogue.

Because prevention starts not with punishment, but with presence.

Want to be part of the movement? Learn more and get the conversation going at southwestcouncil.org.

05/06/2025

🚨 Sticker Shock in Action! 🚨
We were proud to bring our youth-led Sticker Shock initiative to Kenny’s Liquors in Gloucester County! 🙌

Thanks to Kenny’s amazing support, our youth placed warning stickers on beer packs to remind adults: Providing alcohol to minors or using a fake ID is illegal and dangerous.

This evidence-based strategy helps reduce underage access to alcohol—and it works! 💪

🎉 Huge thanks to Kenny's Liquors for taking a stand and helping to keep our youth safe and alcohol-free.

04/04/2025

Community Alert: Xylazine Seminar – What You Need to Know🚨

Philadelphia is at the epicenter of a growing public health crisis: Xylazine, also known as “tranq,” is showing up in the street drug supply at alarming rates—and it's putting lives at risk. In Gloucester County are closest point to Philadelphia, where the xylazine epidemic center lies, is about 5-7 miles from West Deptford! Our communities need to be aware of xylazine!

Join us for a free, community seminar to learn:
✔️ What xylazine is and why it’s so dangerous
✔️ How it's impacting our neighborhoods—especially Kensington
✔️ Signs of xylazine-related overdose and wound care
✔️ Harm reduction strategies that save lives
✔️ How YOU can help fight this crisis

📅 Date: Friday, 4/11/25
📍 Location: Seabrook House, 133 Polk Lane, Bridgeton, NJ 08302
🕕 Time: 12pm-2pm (lunch provided)
💬 Q&A and resources available on-site

Whether you're a parent, healthcare worker, educator, or just someone who cares—your awareness can make a difference. This epidemic affects us all. Let’s get informed, stay prepared, and take action.

Please share and bring a friend. Together, we can protect our community. 💙



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT1bxOc-et0&ab_channel=CentersforDiseaseControlandPrevention%28CDC%29

02/27/2025

Calling all CAs! If you are going into 9th - 12th grade, looking for volunteer hours, and a fun way to gain leadership experience then look no further! Apply to be a CA!

02/27/2025

Do you, or someone you know, what the experience that we need? We are in search of a Health Director for Camp YEY! Please send all interests to campyey@southwestcouncil.org or call Freddie Vega, Camp Director, at (856) 794-1011 x 316

02/27/2025

💵💵💵WANT TO WIN $100? WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE FEATURED ON PROMOTIONAL FLYERS FOR YOUR CREATIVITY? HAVE YOUR TEEN ENTER OUR "TUXEDO CARD" SUBSTANCE USE PREVENTION CAMPAIGN FOR FREE!!!!💵💵💵

We invite you and your students to take part in an exciting and impactful initiative—the Tuxedo Card Substance Use Prevention Campaign! This initiative encourages students to digitally create artwork that promotes safe, fun, and substance-free activities after prom.

By participating, students can use their creativity to make a real difference in their peers' choices while also gaining valuable experience in digital design and advocacy. Selected artwork may even be featured in promotional materials!

Please join us in fostering a positive, healthy prom season.
Thank you for supporting this meaningful initiative!

02/24/2025

New and Emerging Alert:

Whippets, or galaxy gas, are nitrous oxide chargers used in whipped cream dispensers but are often misused for a brief euphoric high. This inhalant misuse is dangerous and potentially deadly. Recently, flavored and attractively packaged versions have been marketed to youth and are being sold online, including at stores like Walmart.

02/19/2025

Dates for Camp YEY 2025 below! With all of this cold, we are thinking warm thoughts of summer fun and dreaming of Camp YEY. Registration will open April 2, 2025 so be sure to mark your calendars!

02/19/2025

Join us today at 10am to network with other professionals and assist in the planning of substance use prevention initiatives in Gloucester County

Hybrid link: meet.google.com/rkc-ijzp-car

02/05/2025

https://youtu.be/VUFeL91knZA?si=Bg6NQflDRfMYWuVh

Dalton S., Jackson H., Yanely L., and Brian W. from Manchester, TN.Vote for your favorite Operation Prevention Video Challenge PSA at operationprevention.com...

02/05/2025

Join us for our next GRASP Coalition meeting on 2/19/25 from 10am-11:30am at 550 Bridgeton Pike Suite 2,3,4 (or hybrid option on flyer) to network with other agencies throughout Gloucester County in an effort to prevent addictive substance use! Come see how these meetings can benefit your organization!