The Kentucky Prevention Network (KPN) promotes evidence-based substance use/misuse prevention efforts, through training, education, and networking for prevention professionals, community partners, and supporters.
KPN:
- strives to increase the understanding of prevention strategies to reduce substance use/misuse as a key component of public health
- encourages collaboration among prevention professionals, volunteers, community members, and other stakeholders in the interest of a healthy Commonwealth
- supports and advocates for data-driven decisions and evidence-based practices for effective alcohol, nicotine, and other substance use/misuse prevention strategies, resources, and programs
- recognizes that there is a relationship between mental health wellness, suicide prevention, and substance use
- promotes the use of the Strategic Prevention Framework and upstream prevention strategies in the community