INHALANT ABUSE The NIPC Prevention Model SAMHSA Update The NIPC Prevention Model SAMHSA Update Harvey Weiss, B.A., M.B.A.

INHALANT ABUSEINHALANT ABUSEThe NIPC Prevention Model

SAMHSA Update

The NIPC Prevention Model

SAMHSA Update

Harvey Weiss, B.A., M.B.A.

Recipe for change:The NIPC Model

PREVENTION STRATEGIES

Regulation and LegislationProduct Reformulation and LabelingAwareness/Prevention/Education

Legislation/Regulation

ProductLabeling

Individuals

Schools

Families

Community

Public Awareness

Understanding Vulnerability:Communication

Accepting Vulnerability = Understanding Risks

Inhalant PreventionIs a Public Health Response

WHY?

Surrounding the Problem with Solutions

Broad-based Involvement

Society

Parents

Peers

Family

Educators

Community

Media

Personalities

INFLUENCES

CommunityBusiness/retailers

Health/medical personnel

Law enforcement

First responders

Poison Control

Faith-based

Community agencies

Volunteer organizations

Media

Media

Reaches a broad-based audience

Legitimizes the problem

The glue that holds things together

Define the problem & determine messages:

Determine & communicate the level of inhalant abuse

Paradigm shift:

APPROACH

Substance abuse problem

Public health issue

Determine public and private change agents to forge strategic partnerships at national, state & local levels Contact, inform and request help from change agent organizations

Provide resources

Link statewide and local constituencies to form & maintain partnerships (coalitions)

Involve media

Maintain communications

Evaluate, refine, continue

Remove Barriers

Facilitate Interaction

Tying It All Together

NIPAWNational Inhalant & Poisons Prevention Awareness Week

A media-driven public health campaign

CONTENTS

Getting Started• How to use the NIPAW Kit• NIPC permission to print and distribute copyrighted materials• Local coordinator’s checklist• Planning a community event• Involving local businesses• Receiving proclamations• Suggested activitiesMedia Tips• Media tips• News releases• Media advisories• Letters to the editor• Opinion-editorials• Public service announcements (PSAs)

CONTENTS

Appendix• Sample news release (short & long version)• Sample media advisory• Sample letter to the editor• Sample opinion-editorial• Sample public service announcements (PSAs)• Inhalant abuse fact sheet• Symptoms of inhalant abuse/harmful effects• Tips for teachers• How physicians can clear the air regarding inhalant abuse

CONTENTS

Camera-Ready Art• NIPAW flyer• Sheet of NIPAW logos• Magazine and Quarter page newspaper ads• Window flyer for placement in retail windows• ½ page 2-sided informational flyer• Tri-fold brochure• Tips for retailers

Presentation Overheads

Inhalant Statistics

Does It Work?

Harvey Weiss, Executive Director,

National Inhalant Prevention Coalition

423-265-4662

800-269-4237

[email protected] www.inhalants.org