Our Mission
The VPLO Region 2 champions inclusion, promotes health equity, and reduces disparities by funding and supporting community projects that actively dismantle systemic barriers to well-being, especially for the most vulnerable in our community.
Our Vision
We envision a future where every VPLO Region 2 resident achieves their highest overall well-being, free from the impact of substance use, with no gaps in essential services throughout the lifespan.
VPLO Goals
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Build additional capacity in all levels of prevention (primary, secondary, and tertiary) and to engage non-traditional partners.
Leverage state and federal funding to fill gaps and expand access to prevention statewide.
Coordinate, support and leverage substance use prevention efforts at the community, regional, and state levels.
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Prevent and reduce substance use across all ages and all substances.
Ensure all Vermonters have access to substance use prevention strategies statewide that allows for and optimizes regional assets and variability.
Decrease geographic and other health disparities through a regional approach to prevention.
Increase efficiency and collaboration on prevention efforts across all state, public, and private entities.
Define and implement sustainable, scalable, and equitable prevention.
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A sustainable, scalable, and equitable statewide system in Vermont that prevents or reduces substance use across all ages and substances that includes and reflects:
Relevant and effective substance use prevention efforts statewide;
Collaborative efforts driven by reliable and timely data, that address contributing factors that lead to use and includes participation from priority populations, including, but not limited to, youth;
An increase in substance use coalitions that are sustained and thriving;
Inclusion of innovation and non-traditional prevention partners in this work;
An understanding by communities and stakeholders about what substance use prevention is and its impact.