Strategic Prevention Aligning Recovery Communities connects prevention and recovery communities to help youth and young adults build healthy, connected, resilient futures.
SPARC
13 -25
YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULTS
Prevention
EDUCATION + CONNECTION
Recovery
LIVED EXPERIENCE + HOPE
What is SPARC?
Through Strategic Prevention Aligning Recovery Communities, we bring young people, families, schools, community organizations, prevention professionals, and recovery communities together around a shared goal: healthier futures for young people.
SPARC focuses on strengthening protective factors, building connection, increasing awareness, creating positive opportunities, and making sure youth have a voice in the prevention conversation.
Prevention Builds the Foundation.
Recovery Brings Hope.
Community Connects Us All.
OUR APPROACH
Prevention isn't simply about telling young people what not to do. It's about giving them the skills, relationships, opportunities, and support they need
to thrive.
Prevention and recovery are stronger together.
The SPARC Difference
SPARC intentionally creates bridges between prevention and recovery communities so that lived experience, youth voice, education, resilience, and hope can inform the way communities approach prevention.
Build protective factors, strengthen resilience, increase awareness, create positive alternatives, and give young people tools for healthy decision-making.
Prevention
SPARC
Connecting prevention and recovery communities around youth, wellness, connection, and hope.
Recovery
Bring lived experience, resilience, knowledge, advocacy, and hope into the prevention conversation.
Prevention builds the foundation. Recovery demonstrates that change is possible. Community connects us all.
Prevention that builds
strengths.
Our approach goes beyond awareness. We create opportunities for young people and communities to learn, connect, lead, and grow.
Education & Awareness
Engaging prevention education focused on substance use, resilience, wellness, decision-making, and healthy coping.
Youth Voice & Leadership
Young people are partners in prevention. We create meaningful opportunities for youth to share ideas, lead, and shape prevention efforts.
Community Connection
Connecting schools, families, prevention professionals, organizations, recovery communities, and young people.
Healthy Alternatives
Promoting positive activities, wellness, recreation, creativity, leadership, and meaningful community engagement.
Family Engagement
Helping parents, caregivers, educators, and trusted adults support healthy youth development and prevention.
Prevention + Recovery
Creating meaningful opportunities for prevention and recovery communities to learn from and strengthen one another.