Opioid Prevention Plus Wellness for Adolescents
Opioid Prevention Plus Wellness for Adolescents
Opioid Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) is a quick and easy to use positive youth development program for prevention and health professionals and parents who want to prevent opioid use disorder (OUD) and promote healthy lifestyle behaviors and positive identities among youth.
Opioid PPW is an adaptation of the evidence-based InShape Prevention Plus Wellness program which is listed on the National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP), Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development and other evidence-based program registries. In addition, Opioid PPW utilizes an evidence-based practices screening and brief intervention format recognized by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
Opioid PPW is the only single-session opioid use prevention program designed to increase wellness-enhancing behaviors including physical activity, healthy eating, getting adequate sleep, and practicing stress control. It can be implemented in any setting including school, community, health care, sports, recreation, juvenile justice, at home and others.
Opioid PPW is founded on the Behavior-Image Model, a positive youth development-related framework that targets naturally motivating peer and desired future images to increase motivation for change and multiple health behavior goal setting which in turn increases self-regulation skills and self-efficacy of participants.
Opioid PPW is highly flexible and can be used as a stand-alone intervention, or as an add-on component to other prevention, health, sports, fitness, recreation, education, intervention, or treatment programs. While it was created as a universal prevention intervention, many organizations use it as a selective and indicated prevention program for high-risk populations.
The Opioid PPW program was designed to help youth look and feel more active, fit, and healthy using a three-step process of:
Screening participants for their current health habits to increase awareness of their opioid misuse and healthy behaviors;
Providing feedback cueing positive future images and the benefits of engaging in healthy behaviors and how opioid misuse harms them, to increase motivation for change; and
Presenting a goal plan and contract to have participants set and monitor goals to avoid opioid misuse and increase protective wellness behaviors increasing self-control skills and self-efficacy.
For more information: PreventionPlusWellness.com, info@preventionpluswellness.com, (904) 472-5022.