Going from Zero Youth to a City-Wide Youth Prevention Club | Episode 068 with Oshkosh Breakwater Coalition

Jesse Klapa and John West are on the team for Breakwater Coalition in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. In this episode they flip the script for The Drug Prevention Power Hour by co-interviewing our host, Jake White, about how he helped them start a youth prevention club from scratch. The previous 5 years the school district was resistant to any partnerships, but together with Vive18 they got into all the middle schools and one high school to develop relationships. The outcome was not only a student/peer led club, but even hosting their first event within 60 days of starting out, creating media content and gaining leadership skills. Now they’re ON FIRE for substance use prevention and mental health promotion! Enjoy this episode and gain some tips on how you can start your own youth substance use prevention club.Quotes from the episode: 10:43 “It really shows that students can have fun without substances”15:20 “It's absolutely important for us to change the narrative around substance use and prevention. It doesn’t have to be this scary topic we avoid, we can talk about this, we can talk about education, mental health, the things we need to do to take care of ourselves so that we can have fun, so we can be happy”Links from the episodeOshkosh Breakwater Podcast:https://breakwaterwi.org/podcast/Jake & Jesse in dinosaur costumes 🙂https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5ON-gluO1_/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==For feedback, questions and new episode [email protected]/vive18_