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Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW), LLC, headquartered in St.

Practical evidence-based substance use/misuse prevention programs and training which promote healthy lifestyles, mental health, performance and happiness for youth and young adults. Augustine, Florida, is a family-run nation-wide education business providing brief evidence-based multi-health behavior youth, young adult and adult programs, parent training programs and multi-media campaigns for improving the mental and physical wellness of individuals and communities. PPW's "whole-health" programs address multiple co-occurring health risks in single interventions addressing alcohol, marijuana, e-cigarette, or opioid and fentanyl use, as well as physical inactivity, poor nutrition, lack of sleep and daily stress. Our one-session Screening and Brief Interventions (SBIs), including Screening, Brief Intervention & Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) programs, are a perfect solution to providing effective prevention in busy schools, organizations, clinics, and communities, as well as a cost-effective strategy for motivating youths’ healthy habit and identity development through built-in multi-behavior goal setting and monitoring. PPW program manuals include easy-to-follow scripted protocols to provide to youth and adults individually and in groups. Online and paper pretest and posttest and instructor's surveys allow providers to monitor program fidelity and effectiveness and online self-paced program implementer courses permit practitioner training at their convenience.

02/26/2026

All Inclusive & Unlimited PPW Program & Training Licenses

The All Inclusive Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) Program & Training License allows you and your organization to access and utilize ALL PPW digital program manuals and materials and online self-paced program implementer training courses, as well as share them with any number of prevention and health agencies across your entire county or even state.

This comprehensive license includes:

• All 19 PPW youth programs for preventing alcohol and drugs, e-cigarette, ma*****na and opioid use for children, young adolescents and older adolescents,
• Youth Leadership Training in PPW,
• Both (2) college/young adult programs addressing alcohol and drugs and opioid and stimulant misuse prevention,
• All 4 Parent Training PPW programs,
• All 4 PPW Media Campaigns, and
• Online Self-Paced Implementer Training for all programs.

Learn more about the All Inclusive PPW Programs & Training License: https://preventionpluswellness.com/products/all-inclusive-ppw-programs-training-license

Meanwhile, our Unlimited PPW Programs & Training Licenses allows you to share one or more PPW digital program manuals and materials with online self-paced program implementer training to an infinite number of prevention and health agencies.

With the Unlimited PPW License you can offer PPW programs and training across your entire county, or even state, cost-effectively.

Learn more about the Unlimited PPW Program & Training Licenses: https://preventionpluswellness.com/products/unlimited-ppw-program-training-license

02/25/2026

PPW Program Partnerships are to encourage school districts, health departments and other county and state organizations and agencies to collect pretest and follow-up posttest surveys evaluating the evidence-based one-session motivational SPORT (Alcohol/Drug) Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) program.

These Partnerships include discounted PPW program materials and implementer training for data sharing. Program implementer stipends are available.

To learn more about the PPW Logic Model and Theory for integrating substance misuse prevention with healthy lifestyle behaviors promotion (i.e., physical activity, nutrition, sleep, stress control and substance avoidance): https://preventionpluswellness.com/pages/ppw-logic-model

For more information about the PPW Program Partnership: info@preventionpluswellness.com.

02/20/2026

Exploring SPORT Prevention Plus Wellness: Webinar Handout & Recording

Session Objectives:
1. Explore the evidence-based SPORT (Substance Prevention Optimizing Resiliency Training) Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) program variations, training options, licenses, and online courses for preventing youth substance use/misuse while promoting healthy lifestyle behaviors and mental health.

2. Discuss how SPORT PPW can be implemented in your school, community, region and state.
Handout: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1117/8352/files/Exploring_SPORT_Prevention_Plus_Wellness.pdf?v=1771364232

Recorded Webinar: https://youtu.be/W8JXiUUtxFY

Session Objectives:1. Explore the evidence-based SPORT (Substance Prevention Optimizing Resiliency Training) Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) program variation...

02/16/2026

Free eBook on How to Integrate Wellness into Drug Prevention

The purpose of this eBook is to gain an understanding of wellness and its essential role in substance use prevention practice for enhancing the mental and physical wellbeing, performance and happiness of youth and young adults.

Sign up and download the free eBook today: https://preventionpluswellness.com

Single session substance abuse prevention programs and training promoting wellness for youth and young adults

02/16/2026

Integrating Wellness into Prevention Services - https://mailchi.mp/d879796c1397/integrating-wellness-into-prevention-services

02/13/2026

How to Integrate Wellness into Prevention Services

The national Youth Risk Behavior Survey shows that approximately three out of every four adolescents in America are not getting the minimum required physical activity, sleep or eating breakfast every day: https://www.cdc.gov/yrbs/index.html

These health behaviors, along with uncontrolled daily stress, are associated with greater substance use/misuse and poorer mental and physical wellbeing.

That’s why Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) integrates substance use prevention with healthy lifestyle behavior promotion within single multi-health programs.

The evidence-based PPW Model is a simple 3-step process for cost-effectively enhancing the “whole health” of youth and young adults by integrating prevention and wellness.

These steps include:

Step #1: Screen Youth for Current Health Behaviors: Screening increases behavioral awareness and reflection on both healthy and substance use habits.

Step #2: Present a 45-minute Lesson Integrating Wellness & Drugs: The lesson provides feedback integrating and motivating behavior change to avoid and reduce substance use while promoting healthy lifestyle behaviors lacking among most US youths, including physical activity, eating breakfast and other healthy foods, sleep and stress control.

Step #3: Assist Youth in Setting Goals to Avoid Drugs & Increase Healthy Habits: The goal setting process initiates multiple behavior change and increases self-regulation skills and self-efficacy lacking among most youths.

Learn more: https://preventionpluswellness.com

02/08/2026

We exhibited at the CADCA Forum last week and met many talented and committed prevention specialists and youth leaders.

Thank you for teaching us about the amazing work you all are doing across the US to prevent youth and young adult substance use/misuse and promote healthy lifestyle behaviors and mental wellbeing.

We especially thank the incredibly impressive youth leaders from various states who came to our booth.

Several youth groups permitted us to demonstrate how to easily and quickly implement the evidence-based SPORT (Alcohol/Drug) Prevention Plus Wellness program to young people.

This group from Michigan was particularly inspiring. We believe they will make a positive difference in their families, schools and communities thanks to their dedicated adult mentors.

We can’t wait to attend the CADCA Mid-Year Training Institute!

02/02/2026

Solutions to Common Prevention Provider Problems -

This was a question raised to me recently from one of our Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) providers. She told us that her state was reducing funding for prevention and asked me if I had any thoughts on how to impress upon her state’s legislators the essential value of substance use prevention. This...

01/26/2026

New for Substance Use Prevention Providers - https://mailchi.mp/c84d32699352/new-for-substance-use-prevention-providers

01/26/2026

Current Practices and Options for Youth SBIRT

A new study published in JAMA Network (2025) examined the current practices surrounding substance use disorder screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) among youth-serving clinicians in the US.

The study found 57% of youth serving clinicians from multiple primary care specialties reported that they routinely screen adolescents for substance use disorders at every well visit. Only 39% reported using a screening tool at every well visit.

Multiple barriers exist to extend screening and brief intervention to all youth populations in clinical and non-clinical (i.e., school, community) settings.

Most notably barriers include the time required for training and implementation, as well as the need to address a myriad of other important health behaviors facing youth and young adults.

One solution is to use brief multiple health behavior interventions such as those offered by Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW).

PPW provides the single-session evidence-based SPORT PPW program for youths and the InShape PPW program for young adults.

Both brief preventive interventions provide the following advantages to typical SBIRT practices:
1. Scripted protocols significantly reduce training requirements and improve implementation ease and fidelity.
2. Implementation can be done either individually or in groups as well as virtually live or on demand, making them more flexible and practical regardless of setting.
3. They provide substance use prevention messaging while promoting critical healthy lifestyle behaviors lacking among most US youth, thereby permitting a more holistic and cost-effective strategy.
4. Protocols for one-on-one implementation include an optional validated screener (i.e., CRAFFT) to assess substance use risk level in addition to providing a prevention intervention for all youth/young adults.

In conclusion, implementing SBIRT to youth and young adult populations has been hampered due to several barriers.

These barriers can be overcome at least in part by implementing brief integrated multiple behavior prevention interventions, such as those offered by Prevention Plus Wellness.

These interventions can quickly and easily implemented in clinical and non-clinical settings for improving the mental and physical wellbeing of all young people.

Read the full study report: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2834257

Learn more about Prevention Plus Wellness: https://preventionpluswellness.com

01/24/2026

Protective Behaviors for Preventing Youth Drug Use & Promoting Mental Health: Webinar Recording, Slides & CEU Certificate

Session Objectives:
1. Explore protective behaviors for youth drug use at the individual, family, school and community levels.
2. Identify specific strategies to promote protective behaviors for preventing youth substance use.
3. Identify specific protective behaviors you’d like to target for preventing youth substance use in your community.

Learn more:

Session Objectives: 1. Explore protective behaviors for youth drug use at the individual, family, school and community levels. 2. Identify specific strategies to promote protective behaviors for preventing youth substance use. 3. Identify specific protective behaviors you’d like to target for prev...

01/22/2026

Sleep Loss and Youth Substance Use Disorders

A new study published in Behavioral Sciences (2025) reviewed research on sleep loss and substance use in adolescents.

The authors concluded that the existing research suggests:
• A combination of biological factors, such as a delayed sleep phase and social aspects, including school schedules and the frequent use of electronic devices often reduce sleep duration and quality.
• The underdeveloped prefrontal cortex, associated with the heightened impulsiveness contributes to increased risk-taking behaviors, including substance use.
• This impulsiveness, in addition to recurrent sleep issues, makes adolescents particularly vulnerable to the development of SUDs.
• The bidirectional interactions between substance use and sleep disruption cause detrimental effects that can continue into adulthood.

These findings indicate that prevention providers have a unique opportunity to address adolescent substance use by targeting sleep quantity and quality.

By promoting sleep among youth, prevention specialists may be able to strengthen substance use prevention outcomes and improve mental health.

Read the full report: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15/2/220

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Our Mission

Prevention Plus Wellness, LLC is an education small business whose mission is to provide:

1) Quick and easy to use evidence-based and evidence-informed substance use prevention programs that promote protective wellness lifestyles and positive identities for youth, young adults and adults in all settings.

2) Online and onsite training workshops for prevention and health professionals and youth leaders so they can implement, and train others to implement, Prevention Plus Wellness programs with maximum fidelity and effectiveness.

3) Share 10% of net proceeds from sales of our training and programs to charities that serve the basic needs of the most poor and vulnerable children throughout America and the world.

To date we've been successful in our mission by:

Providing effective Prevention Plus Wellness programs across all 50 states in the US and abroad,

Training thousands of prevention and health professionals to provide and train others in using PPW programs in online and onsite workshops, and

Donating tens of thousands of dollars to "A" rated charities serving the basic needs of disadvantaged youth and families.

Our Vision

To protect all children, youth and adults from substance abuse harm while also promoting physically active and healthy lifestyles and positive identities. This is accomplished by cueing desired future wellness images, linking substance use as barriers to wellness behaviors and positive identity, and enhancing self-regulation skills to set and monitor multiple wellness and self-improvement goals. We also provide for the basic needs of the most poor and vulnerable children in the US and the world.

Our Story

You’ve heard Plato’s quote that “Necessity is the mother of invention.” Well, that’s exactly how Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) was born.

After years of developing substance abuse prevention programs, I was faced with the challenge of providing a prevention program for youth attending school sports physical exams. This problem demanded the development of a practical prevention program that could be implemented within a very tight time frame, and yet was also salient and enjoyable in its targeting of how to achieve broader well-being and personal performance outcomes.

The solution was a single-session screening and brief intervention that integrated the prevention of substance use with the promotion of fitness and health habits by cuing naturally motivating positive images and using multiple behavior goal setting to improve self-regulation skills.

Today Prevention Plus Wellness continues to provide the only evidence-based screening and brief intervention substance use prevention programs and training in the country that promote wellness, positive self-identity and self-control for general and high-risk populations in a fun, user-friendly single-session format.

Please join us in our mission to protect and improve the whole health of youth and young adults across America and the world, through the use of powerful but practical substance use prevention programs and training designed to improve fitness, health, self-image and drug awareness, while providing for the basic needs of our most poor and vulnerable children.

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Chudley Edward Werch, PhD, President & Founder

Prevention Plus Wellness, LLC

More Info:

Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) provides easy to access and quick online training workshops as well as onsite training at your setting for prevention and health professionals and youth leaders as program implementers and training of trainers in a single-day. We also offer convenient online training for program implementers and trainers.

The SPORT Prevention Plus Wellness program for youth and the InShape Prevention Plus Wellness program for college students and other young adults are evidence-based practices screening and brief interventions and are also listed on various evidence-based programs databases, including the Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP), Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development and other evidence-based registries.

We also offer several evidence-informed screening and brief interventions including: SPORT 2 Prevention Plus Wellness, Va**ng Prevention Plus Wellness, Ma*****na Prevention Plus Wellness, In God's Image, SPORT PPW-High Risk, InShape PPW-High Risk, SPORT 2 PPW-High Risk for high school adolescents, and Opioid Prevention Plus Wellness programs for high risk men, women and adolescents.

Call to learn more about Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) programs, training, and materials:

(904) 472-5022

info@preventionpluswellness.com