Get ready for Prevention Month in October with SAMHSA's new toolkit

October is Substance Use & Misuse Prevention Month, a time to lift up the national conversation and showcase prevention’s positive effects on communities across the country. Showcase your prevention story and inspire action with SAMHSA's new Prevention Month Toolkit.

The toolkit includes: 

• Shareable social media graphics and content 
• Website graphics
• Flyers
• PowerPoint slides
• Virtual meeting backgrounds
• Email signatures, and more!  

To inspire action, each of us can share how prevention is improving lives in our community.

• We aim to prevent substance use in the first place, prevent the progression of use (to a disorder), and prevent consequences associated with use. And we have the prevention playbook to do so.
• Prevention science (with decades of research and community-based experience) shows that prevention works.
• Prevention strengthens protective factors and reduces risk factors in individuals, families, schools, communities, and society.
• Prevention helps us get ahead of substance use and mental health challenges so that youth, families, and communities can thrive.

Please consider asking your networks to:

• Download, use, and share the 2025 toolkit
• Highlight prevention month on your website, e-newsletter, social media sites, PPTs, virtual meetings, email signature, etc.
• Get ready to share your #MyPreventionStory on social media
• Sign up for SAMHSA email updates (“prevention” topic) to stay updated.