We're committed to a multifaceted approach to keep our children, families and communities healthy, safe and drug free. My creativity comes in working with our excellent staff to try to find ways we can reach the community. We developed a training institute where we go out into the community and for a nominal fee, provide information on substance-abuse prevention. Any business can call us and have us present a program whether it's during lunch or after work. A part of what I do is to spread the word about our resource center.
People can come in and get a brochure about how to talk to kids about drugs.
We also end up talking to people who have questions about how to bring the subject up, or how to talk to their kids about substance-abuse prevention. We don't do actual substance-abuse counseling but we do refer people if they call here. I also worked at Monmouth Medical Center as a social worker and for Monmouth County as a vocational counselor. In the early '90s, I was actually a program monitor for Substance Abuse Resources. The agency had been around since 1967 but things were not going well.