Prevention Plus educates the community that addiction is a disease that is both preventable and treatable, and offers programs designed to equip children, youth and adults with the skills and knowledge necessary to make healthy lifestyle choices. We also offer staff development and training to community agencies in order to enhance the ability of the Burlington County community to address the full range of needs of our diverse population. We utilize state-of-the-art resources tied to research-based, exemplary practices. We are committed to replace the denial and lack of understanding about substance abuse with accurate information concerning the symptoms, effects and treatment of addiction.

Collaborating with human service agencies, school systems, law enforcement, public policy makers, elected officials at all levels, the media and others, Prevention Plus seeks to maximize the resources necessary to bring about individual changes in knowledge, attitude and behavior as well as social and environmental change for our communities. Prevention Plus collaborates with our community partners by providing technical assistance to community agencies or individuals, participating in a wide variety of community task forces and committees, providing media events and contributing to community public awareness events.

Prevention Plus advocates for changes in public policy appropriate to the prevention and treatment fields by alerting local officials, state legislators and the media to issues and needs related to substance abuse. We are committed to facilitating changes in public policy appropriate to the prevention and treatment fields. Prevention Plus also serves as an advocate for individuals by referring those in need to the appropriate community resources for help with substance abuse or related problems. We can help arrange for treatment admissions and provide nonjudgmental, caring support to the person in need or to family members and significant others. As an advocate we are committed to ridding the disease of addiction of its stigma and its sufferers of their denial and shame.

Prevention Plus is an affiliate of the New Jersey Prevention Network (NJPN). NJPN is an incorporated organization composed of 19 independent, non-profit corporations with offices in each of New Jersey’s 21 counties. New Jersey is the first and the only state to have a statewide network of professionally staffed prevention agencies. NJPN is the only statewide network of agencies whose sole mission is the prevention of alcohol, tobacco and other drug use and abuse. The Network provides a seamless system of prevention work throughout the state. The Network is committed to advocacy and collaboration in its efforts to educate the citizens of New Jersey about the consequences of substance use, misuse and dependency.

Prevention Plus is also an affiliate of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc., the nation’s ninth largest voluntary health organization and the leader in substance abuse prevention, education and treatment.