Community Mercy REACH extends quality, compassionate care to adults and youth who face one of today's most pervasive problems - chemical dependency.

Community Mercy Reach extends quality compassionate care to adults and youth who face on the today's most pervasive problems, chemical dependency. Offers assessment linked to inpatient detoxification. After a scheduled assessment may be admitted to the detox program at SRMC. REACH's certified chemical dependency counselors specialize in outpatient treatment and intervention to help free adults and adolescents from addiction to drugs and alcohol. Treatment is provided through individual group and family Counseling. Smoking Cessation program as well

Provides individual and group counseling sessions to stop smoking by a certified tobacco treatment specialist.

Program helps smokers improve overall health, reduce the smell of smoke on clothes, hair, breath, car and home, doing simple tasks without running out of breath, having fewer facial wrinkles, saving money, increasing life expectancy to be around longer for family and friends, and being in control of your life. Offers 4 to 8 weeks of tobacco cessation counseling with nicotine replacement products.

Provides a wide array of prevention activities for local school and other community entities. PAX Good Behavior Game which increases individual child self-regulation skills; Programs addressing alcohol, tobacco and substance use; Suicide prevention; and Community Kernels to strengthen positive behaviors across the general population

Provides various programs from breastfeeding support, WIC programs, tobacco cessation/education and birth control counseling, and blood tests.

Provides a variety of education programs through public and parochial schools; programs include special education, tobacco, drug and alcohol prevention, before and after school and summer enrichment and extended learning, youth employment services, and preschool services.

Provides a 12-week program of nicotine replacement therapy and one-on-one tobacco cessation counseling.

Provides support and information for those who are trying to quit smoking.

Provides substance abuse education and prevention programs.

Provides prevention education programs in schools and for community groups. Skills-based learning is conducted to help prevent teen sexual activity, alcohol and other drug use, marijuana, and tobacco/nicotine/vaping use. Youth-led prevention programs equip high school youth to avoid risky behaviors, form healthy relationships, and help struggling peers. Parent education programs are also available.

LCHD leads efforts to reduce the rate of youth and adult smoking, vaping, and other tobacco product use through education and system and policy change. Quitting tobacco is a process. Whether you are thinking about quitting, are not yet ready to quit, or have already quit, the Ohio Tobacco Quit Line can help you with each step of your quit journey. For free, convenient, safe, and secure help to quit, adults can call 1-800-QUIT-NOW (1-800-784-8669) to contact Ohio’s quit line. #MYLIFEMYQUIT. Free, confidential help to quit vaping and other tobacco or nicotine products for youth under 18. At My Life, My Quit we share the truth about nicotine, vaping and other tobacco products. If you decide you want to quit, we're here to help you do it successfully. Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in the United States. Each year, an estimated 443,000 people die prematurely from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, and another 8.6 million live with a serious illness caused by smoking. Despite these risks, approximately 46.6 million U.S. adults smoke cigarettes. Smokeless tobacco, cigars, and pipes also have deadly consequences, including lung, larynx, esophageal, and oral cancers. Tobacco Use Prevention LCHD leads efforts to reduce the rate of youth and adult smoking, vaping, and other tobacco product use through education and system and policy change. The Licking County Wellness Coalition and Tobacco Use Reduction Network (TURN) work toward system and policy changes to reduce tobacco use. • LCHD works with Our Futures Licking County to conduct "Reward and Reminder" tobacco sales compliance checks at tobacco retailers. • Our health educators work with schools to adopt 100% Tobacco-Free School policies. • We promote smoke-free multi-unit housing policies in apartment buildings. • Tobacco-Free Worksite Campus policies improve employee wellness and visitor comfort. • Kickin' Ash Splash Pool Party, and annual tobacco, drug, and alcohol-free event for the whole family hosted at the Heath City Water Park. If you are interested in sponsoring or volunteering, please contact us.

Catch my Breath is a youth E-cigarette and JUUL prevention program that equips students with knowledge and skills to make informed decisions about the use of E-cigarettes.

Provides counselors for help quitting, offer cessation support, and answers to smoking and vaping related questions by phone and online chat.

Provides advocacy and community health education, literature, workshops on lung diseases, cigarette smoking, air pollution; stop smoking programs/clinics, asthma management programs, including an Early Childhood Asthma Program. and special programs for children, as well as smoking cessation programs at the workplace.

Provides information about smoking, vaping, and nicotine addiction, the dangers associated with smoking or utilizing other substances containing nicotine, the risks associated with exposure to second hand smoke and different approaches to smoking cessation with the objective of preventing people from starting to smoke or of helping them find a way to give up the habit if they already use tobacco products.

Provides after-school and summer programs for English Language Learners with homework tutoring; arts and crafts; outdoor activities; ESL classes; and tobacco, drug and alcohol prevention education. Summer program helps participants work on academic issues. Program is designed with culturally relevant references for participants. Program is limited to 80 participants.