Our Story. Prevention Awareness Support Services offers mental wellness and prevention programming to varied audiences throughout West Central Ohio. Our popular school-based programs focus on substance use prevention, pro-social emotional learning, and suicide prevention. We also offer programming for adults who are parenting children from newborn through adolescence.
Our primary adult prevention program provides an overview of mental wellness and developing mental health challenges to enhance early recognition and intervention to prevent challenges from becoming worse. We also coordinate prevention coalitions and offer response to tragedies call postvention. PASS has grown from a one office, three county provider, to now serving eleven counties out of five offices.
Program delivery does vary by county based upon selected need and funding. Please feel free to explore our website or call the office with a particular program question. Our Beginning. It began as a coalition made up of individuals representing over 50 organizations in Allen County. PASS supports evidence-based programs in each of the prevention focus areas of child abuse, alcohol and other drugs, mental illness, suicide and problem gambling.
As referenced above, the next chapter in the PASS journey began in July, as we opened an office in Marysville to serve the citizens of Union County. The array of PASS programs is offered with the intent to keep the local community needs at the forefront of each interaction. Highlights of Our Journey. Currently PASS provides school-based programming in nearly all public and private schools, adult prevention programming, support groups and postvention services throughout counties.
Currently PASS provides school-based programming in all public schools, adult prevention programming, and support groups throughout Union County. Currently PASS provides school-based programming in public schools throughout the county. PASS provides school-based programming support to school staff to implement evidence-based programming throughout the counties.
