Southeast Prevention Resource Center

10/28/2025

November and December 2025 Coalition Meetings! 🦃☃️

10/27/2025

It's Red Ribbon Week! 🎀
Here is a list of activities to celebrate in your schools and communities!

10/24/2025

October 29th is Buckle Up Phone Down (BUPD) Day!

10/10/2025

RED RIBBON WEEK is Celebrated Annually October 23-31.

Red Ribbon Week highlights the importance of living a drug-free life. It presents an opportunity for parents, educators, and communities to reinforce the drug-free messages they share with their children throughout the year. During Red Ribbon Week, youth and adults around the nation pledge to increase their knowledge by learning more about the destructive effects of drug abuse, including prescription drug misuse, and renew their commitment to live a healthy, drug-free lifestyle.

https://www.dea.gov/redribbon #:~:text=During%20Red%20Ribbon%20Week%2C%20youth,healthy%2C%20drug%2Dfree%20lifestyle.

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10/04/2025

Join us for the 2nd Annual Discovery to Recovery Symposium on Substance Use Disorder.

This free event will explore the impact of childhood trauma on brain development and its connection to substance use, featuring leading experts in trauma-informed care and addiction medicine.

Learn more and register: https://bit.ly/4esRIKu

10/04/2025

The PRC Staff hosted the Fall Coalition Prevention Networking Event in Cape Girardeau County, providing information on coalition guidelines, SMART goals, free rental resources offered by the PRC, 40 Developmental Assets, Evidence-Based Curriculums, and the Missouri Student Survey. Each of the coalitions were able to present on what they are working on and network with each other. Many great conversations were taking place!

09/26/2025

DEA National Rx Take Back Day is Saturday, October 25, 2025!

Please click on https://www.dea.gov/takebackday for more information and to find your collection site.

*Please also see in the comments for more local Rx dropbox locations.

Southeast Missouri State University offers students groundbreaking academics and personal support that launch extraordinary careers.

09/10/2025

40 Developmental Assets!
The Developmental Assets® are 40 research-based, positive experiences and qualities that influence young people’s development, helping them become caring, responsible, and productive adults.

Over time, studies of more than 5 million young people consistently show that the more assets that young people have, the less likely they are to engage in a wide range of high-risk behaviors and the more likely they are to thrive.
https://rockdalecoalition.org/40-assets-2/

09/09/2025

08/29/2025

Top 25 Things to Do Instead of Drugs or Alcohol:

1. Call a friend to chat and catch up.
2. Read a book.
3. Throw a Frisbee or ball for your dog.
4. Make a quilt out of your old t-shirts.
5. Go for a walk in the woods.
6. Go for a walk in the city.
7. Plan a road trip for the future.
8. Take a drive in the mountains.
9. Visit a museum.
10. Tie-dye something.
11. Make and try a food you never tried before.
12. Drive for an hour in any direction and see where you end up.
13. Play video games.
14. Write in a journal.
15. Go to the pet store or animal shelter and look at animals.
16. Call and visit an old friend.
17. Go to the gym.
18. Go bowling.
19. Research another country you would like to visit.
20. Learn about another culture.
21. Write a letter of gratitude to a friend.
22. Make a list of things for which you are thankful.
23. Go solo camping.
24. Clean your house, top to bottom.
25. Sort through old clothes and donate things you don’t wear anymore.

The journey to recovery isn't an easy one, but there are ample options to fill up your time with activities that do not include drugs or alcohol. Read more!