Prevention Services

Community Prevention Services | Communities that Care

Community Prevention Services of Westmoreland

Community Prevention Services of Westmoreland (CPSW) provides Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug (ATOD) prevention programs and activities.  We engage the community in substance abuse education and awareness, personal life skills development and alternative activities that help children and youth achieve a drug-free passage into adulthood. 

Our goal is to foster healthy lifestyles for all age groups.  We provide prevention services from "womb to tomb" throughout Westmoreland County.  CPS promotes positive attitudes and responsible citizenship in the community by providing prevention/education and outreach services.

CPSW collaborates with community-based events such as Red Ribbon Week, National Inhalants Awareness Week, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Day, National Recovery Month, Tobacco Enforcement Compliance Checks, Project "Sticker Shock" to combat underage drinking and the "Reality Tour" a portrayal of the life and death of a drug user. 

The general public is reached through outreach, newsletters, public service announcements, health fairs, puppet shows and speaking engagements.  We utilize Evidence-Based Programs that enable us to track outcomes and measure our successes, as well as our own innovative-interactive activities.

Prevention and Tobacco Specialists educate county residents on a diversity of topics including the dangers of alcohol and other drugs, making healthy decisions, learning refusal skills, and STD/HIV education and outreach services.  CPSW is funded by the Westmoreland Drug & Alcohol Commission (WEDAC) and the Bureau of Drug and Alcohol (BDAP).    

Eligibility for CPSW

For More Information

Contact Westmoreland Community Action for more information on the Community Prevention Program or call 724-834-1260 x 132.

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Communities that Care

It’s our goal to create a greater sense of community within the Monessen School District. Our desire is to develop a nurturing environment in which Monessen children can live, learn, grow and reach their fullest potential. We aim to equip our youth with the knowledge that their lives and their futures matter to us. The successful outcome of our efforts will be to better enable our youth to make consistent healthy life choices.

CTC provides a new opportunity to plan together to work together to build hope back into our young people.  We need your skills, knowledge, time, and involvement! This could be your chance to make a positive difference in Monessen.  The CTC grant provides the means for a comprehensive and community-wide approach to establish a shared vision and plan of action to promote the positive, healthy development of our youth.

Some proven benefits include a decrease in:

• Substance abuse
• Delinquency
• Teen pregnancy
• School dropout rate
• Youth violence

In the past 14 years, over 500 CTC communities across the United States have worked together to improve the future for their kids.

Eligibility for Communities that Care

Resident of the Monessen School District.

For More Information

For more information, on the Communities that Care Program, call Marsha Adams at 724-787-0688.

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Program Funding

• Funding for the Communities That Care is provided by the PA Commission on Crime & Delinquency and the Workforce Investment Board.  
• The Community Prevention Program is funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
  

We Provide Services to Residents of Westmoreland County

At Westmoreland Community Action, we provide services to residents in towns and townships throughout Westmoreland County, PA including: Adamsburg, Alverton, Arnold,
Bolivar, Claridge, Crabtree, Delmont, Derry, Donegal, East Vandergrift, Export, Greensburg, Harrison City, Herminie, Irwin, Jeannette, Kecksburg, Latrobe, Ligonier, 
Lower Burrell, Mammoth, Manor, Monessen, Mount Pleasant, Murrysville, New Alexandria, New Florence, New Kensington, New Stanton, North Belle Vernon, Norvelt, Scottdale,
Smithton, South Greensburg, Southwest Greensburg, Stahlstown, Trafford, Vandergrift, 
West Newton, Youngstown, and Youngwood.

Townships in Westmoreland County include:

Allegheny Township, Bell Township, Cook Township, Derry Township, Donegal Township,
East Huntingdon Township, Fairfield Township, Hempfield Township, Ligonier Township,
Lower Burrell Township, Loyalhanna Township, Mount Pleasant Township, Murrysville Township, North Huntingdon Township, Penn Township, Rostraver Township, Saint Clair Township, Salem Township, Sewickley Township, South Huntingdon Township, Upper Burrell Township, Unity Township, and Washington Township

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