Social impact toolkit

Toolkit on Engaging Clubs and Their Local Communities in Addiction Prevention

The Rotarian Action Group for Addiction Prevention partnered with Edventi to develop a toolkit for engaging Rotarians in community-based addiction prevention education.

The model relies on collaboration with public health and prevention leadership and brings together all community stakeholders to learn about the brain science and driving forces of addiction. Through the program clubs and districts will become active in this field to help communities, schools and youth organizations to invest in primary prevention education and addiction prevention programs.

The initial Rotary Addiction Prevention Seminar was launched by District 7910's Rotary Club of Newton in Massachusetts. This highly collaborative multi-district event brought community stakeholders together to learn about the driving forces of addiction.

A featured guest was Dr. Bertha Madras, an internationally respected public health authority on the addiction epidemic who served on the White House Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis. Read more about the event/