Prevention Services at O'Brien House : Saving lives and families from drug and alcohol addiction

The O'Brien House Prevention Department has a long history of serving the city of Baton Rouge. The prevention program began in 1965 to increase the understanding of the nature of alcoholism, treatment, and its prevention. Today, O'Brien House Prevention Services focuses on youth programming and community education through their education and prevention programs, literature, and a video lending library. Prevention Services works to build and maintain six pillars of character: trustworthiness, responsibility, citizenship, fairness, respect, and caring.

Millennium Kids Club

An alcohol, tobacco and other drugs and violence prevention programming for youth ages 6 to 14 years old. The program aims at preventing the use of substances through education while providing fun activities to enrich the children's lives. The program is ongoing throughout Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. Young people living in or near Housing Authority apartment complexes in the following locations are eligible to participate:

Roosevelt Terrace Community Room
1255 W. Roosevelt Street, Baton Rouge

Scotland Villa Community Room
10006 Scotland Avenue, Baton Rouge

Wood Plaza Community Room
9990 Avenue J, Baton Rouge

Strengthening Families Program

This program is one of the most powerful family programs in the country because it involves both parent and child.

The program's purpose is to:
-Increase protective factors while decreasing risk factors for addiction in the future
-Improve family relations and parenting skills within the family unit
-Increases awareness in appropriate child rearing, supervision and relationship skills
-Enforce appropriate moral, ethical, and behavioral characteristics within the family

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News

March 15, 2007 South BR Journal, "Groundbreaking Ceremony
March 24, 2007 The Advocate, "O'Brien House Renovates -Emily Kearn
June 11, 2007 The Advocate, "'Spotlight-dressed to impress"
July 25, 2007 The Advocate, "Fire destroys O'Brien House facility" - Jared Janes
July 26, 2007 The Advocate, "O'Brien House gets aid offers"
July 27, 2007 The Advocate, "O'Brien residents need items"
August 2, 2007 The Advocate, "Single mothers"
September 2007 In Register, "Rising like the phoenix"
September 17, 2007 The Advocate, O'Brien House back on track" - Jared Janes
September 20, 2007 The Advocate, "O'Brien House Anniversary marked" - People Section
October 27, 2007 The Advocate, "Festival honors youth's choices" - Donald Lee
November 13, 2007 The Advocate, "Fire damages O'Brien House Trailer" - Jared Janes
November 18, 2007 The Advocate, "Business honors"
December 27, 2007 The Advocate, "O'Brien House Christmas party"