By providing a comprehensive alcohol and drug abuse prevention and education program (of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs---i.e., ATOD), one’s knowledge of substance abuse issues should increase significantly. Moreover, people must be informed about what drugs do, how to identify a problem when it exists---and also what can be done to resolve it. In the simplest terms, prevention means to keep something from happening. Thus the program’s mission is to provide prevention and education services so as to help high-risk/targeted groups (especially young children and youth) avoid, reduce, or eliminate altogether the adverse consequences of misusing and abusing psychoactive drugs.

Thru coordinated activities within the greater Birmingham/Jefferson County metropolitan area, the Center provides services for various groups: children and youth, families, the elderly, school districts, neighborhoods, community recreation centers, churches, etc. Moreover, given that education is considered a tool for controlling drug abuse (particularly among youth), the program’s major emphasis is on substance-abuse prevention, and the promotion of alternative behaviors as a substitute for using drugs.

Oakmont’s levels of intervention and services include the following Prevention Objectives...

• High-Risk Youth Identification
• High-Risk Youth Education
• High-Risk Youth Alternative
• Family Strengthening Program
• Parenting Program
• Program for Pregnant Women
• HIV/AIDS Education and Prevention
• Workshops