The PIC is a library and information center providing access to a broad spectrum of substance abuse prevention and health promotion topics.
Materials are available on loan to anyone living in Colorado.
Schools, local businesses, the City of Lakewood, and the Jefferson County Department of Public Health and Environment are working together with RMC to develop a community park, provide health education training and technical assistance to neighborhood schools, and safe havens for youth. Technical assistance and capacity-building efforts will target underserved or nonserved populations and will address identified regional prevention needs. The RPCS is committed to bringing about significant reductions in the abuse of harmful substances alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. By bolstering already-existing prevention efforts, the RPCS reinforces ADAD s values emphasizing diversity and community support. The RPCS is not designed to impose prevention efforts upon communities as an outside agency, but rather to support current prevention gatekeepers expertise and deep experience within those commu-nities.