The Center for Prevention Services

Who We Are

Founded in 1971, our vision is to provide a supportive and socially integrated network where all community members can thrive.
Our mission is to promote health and resilience through progressive approaches that integrate evidence-based substance use prevention
programming, harm reduction, and multifaceted systems of care. Specifically, we:

• Deliver programs that support social and emotional growth that is centered on resiliency, encouraging youth to adopt healthy coping
  behaviors.
• Reduce youth access to substances through community and merchant education.
• Educate the community at large on practical, safe and effective strategies that enable individuals to make informed and healthy decisions for themselves.
• Provide messaging and educational programming to address the stigma associated with drug use, infectious disease, and mental health conditions.
• Reduce the spread of infectious disease and overdose through syringe access and other harm reduction strategies.
• Advocate for policies and regulations that protect the communities we serve.
• Empower youth leaders and community partners to address health disparities across all ages, races, genders, and ethnicities.

The Center for Prevention Services is committed to honoring the privacy and the wishes of our supporters at all times. We collect and maintain only personal information that is specifically and knowledgeably provided to us by individuals or their companies. We will never rent, exchange or sell information of our contributors. We will only share personally identifiable information with a third party if we are required to by law or when necessary for completing an authorized operation, for instance to process a credit card transaction, or if the person submitting the information asks that it be shared. We do maintain records on our contributors, which we regard as private and confidential and store securely with access limited to authorized staff.

If you provide us with contact information, we may contact you for additional information or send you updates about how donations are being put to use in our community. You can contact us to restrict our use of your contact information at any time.

In addition, like almost all Websites, we do collect broad, general statistical information about how visitors use our site, such as how often each page is visited, for the purpose of creating a better site for our community. We do not collect information on individual visits to the site without the expressed permission of the user.

There are links to other Websites throughout our site for the purpose of providing more useful and complete information to our visitors. We do not take responsibility for the contents or privacy practices of any Website other than our own. If you have any questions about our privacy policies, please contact us.

Form 990 for the Center for Prevention Services can be found here.