Prevention Services

Rockbridge Area Community Services (RACS) provides Prevention Services, a broad array of substance use prevention and behavioral health promotion activities for populations across the lifespan. Prevention Services houses the Rockbridge Area Prevention Coalition (RAPC) which establishes and strengthens collaboration among communities, nonprofit agencies, and federal, state and local governments to achieve prevention goals.​​

Prevention Services employs community focused strategies to:

• reduce youth access to and use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs;
• promote violence and suicide prevention;
• address family management issues;
• modify community and school policies to provide structure for positive community norms;
• and support collaborative community coalition approaches to promote healthy youth development.​

Prevention Services offers:

• ASIST: Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training
• Too Good For Drugs
• Girl Power!
• SafeTALK: Suicide Alertness
• Mental Health First Aid and Youth Mental Health First Aid
• Topical presentations that can be catered to an agency or group need.