Since April 2016, Janina Kean, substances use disorders expert and Yale trained, board certified psychiatric and mental health nurse practitioner, has been teaching a two day course called the Family Awareness Program on Addiction. This is the same course she offered to families and individuals whose lives are impacted by addiction during her 18 year tenure as CEO of a treatment facility in Ct. The free program as been made available to the Nantucket community through A.S.A.P. and the Nantucket Behavioral Health Task Force through a generous donation from the Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation. A.S.A. P. is currently seeking funding to continue this program for one more year. If you wou
ASAP worked with Drug Free Communities grant consultant Dr. Jeffrey Rodman, to compile a report on the needs and youth risk factors for substance abuse in the Nantucket community. Nantucket scored moderately high to high in 8 out of the 16 risk factors. We had Janina Kean present the report in a community forum at the high school cafeteria in January 2017.
During A.S.A.P's Red Ribbon Week Substance Abuse Prevention Campaign, middle school students engage in an anti-drug use messaging poster contest.
