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

nipc@io.com www.inhalants.org