Prevention is an important tool in providing people with healthier pathways and interventions. Community mobilization is the primary prevention strategy that educates people on the harms of methamphetamine use/abuse. Prevention education provides citizens with options to help people who may think there is no other way but to use drugs to feel better. The following are links to a few resources to help think through a comprehensive prevention strategy:

• You From My Heart: This film highlights community based participatory research on the Fort Peck Reservation with the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes during the winter of 2009. Health researchers working for Fort Peck Tribal Health and Montana State University in collaboration with The Center For Native Health Partnerships address research on HIV and Hepatitis C. This film also offers historical perspectives on the general health issues facing tribal communities in Montana.
• Kansas Methamphetamine Prevention Project:  KMPP provides training, technical assistance, strategies and resources for addressing the methamphetamine problem at the local and state levels. Prevention strategies target groups such as retailers, rural populations, home visitors, youth, parents and children affected by their parents' meth use and manufacture.
• What Have We Learned From Evaluations of Methamphetamine Programs/Strategies? Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Center for Program Evaluation and Performance Measurement.
• Indian Health Service Methamphetamine Initiative Site: This is the online source for information about METH prevention activities across Indian Country and across the United States.
• Drugfree.org:  Learn how to prevent your child from getting involved with drugs and alcohol.
• Methamphetamine Prevention Education: Extension Responds to a National Issue: An article from Journal of Exension reviewing Montana's Extension based prevention program. To assecess the Meth Free Montana program materials directly, click here.
• MI Methamphetamine Prevention Grant Final Project Evaluation Report (4-2007): this evaluation report, prepared by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, describes Michigan’s program and program outcomes.
• Report Tips on Clandestine Labs or Methamphetamine, MSP
• Adult Methamphetamine Education/Awareness Guidelines (Task Force paper 7-2006)

Michigan Government Meth Awareness Posters

• Methamphetamine Warning Bulletin for Hotel and Motel Owners/Operators
• Methamphetamine Warning Bulletin for Landlords, Real Estate Agents, and Property Managers
• Methamphetamine Warning Bulletin for Mobile Home Park Owners/Operators
• Methamphetamine Warning Bulletin for Community Health Care and Social Workers
• Methamphetamine Warning Bulletin for Propane Dealers
• Methamphetamine Awareness Prevention Poster - Agricultural Interests
• Methamphetamine 911 Dispatch Card
• Community Workers, Meter Reader and Utility Workers Poster  
• Methamphetamine Firefighters Poster
• Methamphetamine Law Enforcement and First Responders Poster
• Methamphetamine Media and Public Awareness Materials