2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART X - Health Professionals (§§ 10001 — 12020) › Chapter 505 - Evaluating Commission for Psychoactive Substance Use Prevention Specialist Certification Act (§§ 10051 — 10067) › § 10061 - Assistants and specialists; duties

(a) Prevention assistants, under the direct supervision of a psychoactive substance use prevention specialist. —
(1) To provide information to individuals or community groups who wish to adopt healthy, drug-free lifestyles.
(2) To provide scientific information, develop prevention activities, and provide early intervention services to individuals, families and groups at risk.
(3) To provide opportunities for the exchange of information and the development of skills.
(4) To use and coordinate innovative public relations and common techniques to maximize the impact of prevention messages.
(5) To recognize the limitations of their professional competencies and be capable of referring and using other related services.
(6) To recognize and abide by the Code of Ethics for Psychoactive Substance Use Prevention Specialists.
(7) To handle results from evaluations, intervention plans, reports, progress notes, summaries, and other data related to client/participant records pursuant to the regulations on confidentiality in effect.
(b) Prevention specialists. —
(1) To identify problems such as experimentation, use and abuse of psychoactive substances which affect the general public and to provide the necessary support on a case-by-case basis.
(2) To provide information, education, training, and consultant services to individuals or community groups that wish to adopt healthy, drug-free lifestyles.
(3) To provide scientific information, develop prevention activities and provide early intervention services to individuals, families and groups at risk.
(4) To conduct a necessity study to identify risk factors specific to psychoactive substance use prevention.
(5) To see that the information presented to the population served be concrete and strategic.
(6) To provide active support in identifying prevention priorities for a specific population and causes in order to influence the public policy at the corresponding forum.
(7) To facilitate formal and informal connections between persons and systems in order to share information, resources, and mutual support.
(8) To provide opportunities for the exchange of information and the development of skills.
(9) To use and coordinate innovative public relations and common techniques to maximize the impact of prevention messages.
(10) To raise awareness in public communicators so that prevention messages are clear and effective when transmitted.
(11) To recognize the limitations of their professional competencies and be capable of referring and using other related services.
(12) To recognize and abide by the Code of Ethics for Psychoactive Substance Use Prevention Specialists.
(13) To handle results from evaluations, intervention plans, reports, progress notes, summaries, and other data related to client/participant records pursuant to the regulations on confidentiality in effect.
History —Sept. 16, 2004, No. 369, § 12, eff. 90 days after Sept. 16, 2004.