Dr. Sandie Morgan is joined by Stephan Lambert, the Prevention Coordinator with OCDE. Together, they discuss the prevalence of substance use amongst youth, prevention strategies, and intervention to teach youth about the harms of substance use and the signs of withdrawals, addiction, and mental health disorders.

Stephan Lambert

Stephan Lambert is the Prevention Coordinator at the Orange County Department of Education. He has fourteen years of experience in substance abuse prevention, positive youth development, family and community engagement, and developmental asset building. In his role at OCDE, he supports schools and districts with training and technical assistance around alcohol, tobacco, and other drug prevention.
Key Points

Orange County fentanyl overdoses have significantly increased
Substance use prevention strategies:

Start conversations around health, safety, and poison control
Cultivating a warm and supportive relationship
Be a role model
Knowing the risk factors
Know their friends
Monitoring, supervising and setting boundaries


Have conversations with youth to help them understand the signs of addiction and mental health disorders so they know when to seek help.
Building a healthy and caring relationship with youth so they understand they have safe place to turn for help.

Resources

Fentanyl visuals showing the potency of fentanyl and the appearance of real vs counterfeit pills
A comprehensive resource e-book for families with a young person struggling with opioid use
The Six Parenting Practices to help prevent substance use
A guide from the CA Department of Public Health on what parents and mentors need to know about cannabis
Free support to quit vaping or smoking, or call 1-866-NEW-LUNG
NAMI WarmLine - National HelpLine Directory

Orange County, California NAMI WarmLine


Health Care Agency Behavioral Health line online chat, or call 1-855-OC-LINKS
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Transcript
Dave [00:00:00] You're listening to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. This is episode number 263, Substance Use Prevention in Schools with Stephan Lambert.

Production Credits [00:00:10] Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential.

Dave [00:00:30] Welcome to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. My name is Dave Stachowiak.

Sandie [00:00:36] And my name is Sandie Morgan.

Dave [00:00:39] And this is the show where we empower you to study the issues, be a voice, and make a difference in ending human trafficking. Sandie, we've had so many conversations over the years about partnership, and of course, schools have come up in these conversations often. Today, I'm so glad for us to be able to welcome an expert that will help us to look at this issue through the lens of school. And of course, some of the current things that are happening right now that'll help us all to be better educated and to be able to take the next steps. I'm so pleased to welcome Stephan Lambert to the show today. He is the prevention coordinator at the Orange County Department of Education. His 14 years of experience and substance abuse prevention, positive youth development, family and community engagement and developmental asset building. In his role at OCDE, he supports schools and districts with training and technical assistance around alcohol, tobacco and other drug prevention. Stephan, we're so glad to have you on the show.

Stephan [00:01:37] Thank you. So glad to be here.

Sandie [00:01:39] Well, I'm excited to have this conversation. Every time I have the opportunity to learn from you I walk away shocked, sometimes a little overwhelmed, but definitely better equipped to deal with what our kids are facing a...