Snack Chat: Substance Use Prevention Services

Under the umbrella of Portland Prevention, substance use prevention programs use an array of strategies to target populations, ranging from adolescents to adults, with the goal of empowering people to make choices that will ensure healthy and productive lives while providing options that help reduce the harm caused by drug use.

Substance Use Prevention Services, part of the City of Portland’s Division of Public Health.

Our goal is to bring topical and relevant conversations directly to the young people who use our library. We invite teens to share a snack and a conversation with a diverse array of passionate professionals working in the Portland community. Topics can be hyper-local all the way to global and universal — you never know where the conversation will take us. Past Snack Chat topics include “Bystander Intervention”, “Opioid Addiction,” “Dating Violence,” and “Understanding STIs.”

If you have any questions about this program or are a community partner interested in presenting, please contact the Teen Library at (207) 871-1700 x773, or email teens@portlib.org.