the vital role of prevention

UMADAOP Lucas County provides prevention programs tailored to youth, adults, and families, ensuring age-appropriate and impactful support. Our diverse programs are designed to reach the wider community, utilizing effective, specialized, and adaptable approaches recommended by SAMHSA’s National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP).

Naloxone Vending Machine:

A Lifesaving Resource

UMADAOP Lucas County provides a free Naloxone vending machine on-site, ensuring immediate, confidential access to this lifesaving medication. Naloxone (Narcan) can quickly reverse opioid overdoses, preventing unnecessary loss of life and offering individuals a second chance. By removing barriers to critical resources, we strengthen our community’s safety net and support pathways to recovery. Our commitment to prevention empowers everyone to play a role in saving lives and creating a healthier future.

If you or someone you know is at increased risk for opioid overdose, especially those experiencing opioid use disorder (OUD), you should carry naloxone and keep it at home. People who are taking high-dose opioid medications (greater or equal to 50 morphine milligram equivalents per day) prescribed by a doctor, people who use opioids and benzodiazepines together, and people who use illegal opioids like heroin or fentanyl should all carry naloxone. Because you can't use naloxone on yourself, let others know you have it in case you experience an opioid overdose.

Opiate Education Initiative

This program provides opiate education and prevention services for all Lucas County residents. The program delivers a wide array of informational and educational services utilizing mass media, literature distribution, and organized campaign events.

Safe Neighborhoods Project

This project was created to help enhance school achievement to prevent educational underachievement and violence among youth. This initiative is a targeted population-based, community-level intervention project. It has been implemented to engage youth, parents, and residents that reside in high-risk neighborhoods to become engaged and mobilized to support safety practices and lifestyles to avoid becoming victims and perpetrators of violence.

Sound the Alarm

This program was created to help prevent suicide attempts and completions among adults 25 years of age and older. The program works closely with African American churches as a program strategy to help reach the target population.

Think, Act, and Live…One Pill Can Kill

UMADAOP Lucas County serves as the fiduciary and lead agency for the 11 Ohio UMADAOP organizations that have been awarded funding for this initiative. This campaign designs and implements mass media marketing products to help address the opioid overdose crisis in Ohio.

Black Youth and Young Adult Suicide

Choose Life Suicide Prevention Project is funded by Ohio’s Black Youth and Young Adult Suicide Prevention Initiative to help prevent suicide among Black youth and young adults in the state of Ohio. UMADAOP Lucas County serves as the fiduciary organization for this project and has partnered with the Akron, Cleveland, Lorain, and Dayton UMADAOPs to address to provide curriculum-based suicide prevention trainings and information dissemination and educational materials for the project.

Ageless and Active Project for Older Adults

This project is an initiative designed to provide weekly activities for older adults. The project offers vital information regarding health, wellness, and mindfulness activities for participants. The activities include weekly luncheons, physical exercise activities, health and wellness presentations, safety seminars, scavenger hunts, fun-filled discussions, and curriculum guided trainings.

Let's Spread the Love

Wuddup Fam—Let’s Spread the Love is an initiative all about uplifting communities, bringing families together across every generation, and celebrating the power of love. We believe that when people unite with open hearts, neighborhoods flourish, and everyone feels like they belong.

We keep compassion, grace, and empathy at the core of everything we do, using branded clothing and merchandise as a reminder that unity is always within reach. Our youth-led campaigns bridge the gap between different generations, inspiring understanding and a shared sense of purpose. We also join in local festivals and community gatherings, creating spaces where everyone is welcome and can experience the joy of caring for one another.

Rooted in the belief that love has the power to transform us all, Let’s Spread the Love encourages kindness and inclusion every step of the way—inviting each of us to lift one another up, strengthen our bonds, and build the type of close-knit communities where love truly thrives.

Church Alliance for Healthy & Caring Communities

The Church Alliance for Healthy & Caring Communities is committed to fostering well-being and connection in neighborhoods by bringing families and resources together. With a focus on care, education, and support, the alliance helps create spaces where communities can grow stronger and healthier.

By working alongside local organizations and leaders, the alliance provides valuable resources, learning opportunities, and pathways to wellness. Through shared efforts, communities cultivate a sense of belonging, resilience, and lasting well-being for generations to come.

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