Granite Wellness provides an Adolescent Services program which focuses on substance use prevention and making healthy and responsible choices.

• Weekly at Nevada County Juvenile Hall and Placer County Juvenile Hall for incarcerated adolescents – no cost to the participant
• Weekly Drug Diversion & Support groups at select local high schools – for students – no cost to the participant
  
  

Web pages

• Home - https://www.granitewellness.org/
• Adolescent Services - https://www.granitewellness.org/services/adolescent-treatment/

Your local American Cancer Society office is your source for the most relevant information to help guide you.

Services include:

• Cancer information
• Referral to resources including support groups and medical equipment
• Transportation to and from treatment (for people with Cancer who do not have a ride or are unable to drive)
• Lodging (when Cancer treatment is far from home)
• Advocacy
• Wig bank
• American Cancer Society events

American Cancer Society's National Cancer Information Specialists are available to help you with any patient services, resource requests, or cancer information questions 24/7 at 1-800-227-2345.

Granite Wellness partners with the community to focus on youth substance use prevention. Granite Wellness is the fiscal agent for the following coalitions in Nevada and Placer Counties:

• Coalition for Nevada County Youth (CNCY) - The Coalition for Nevada County Youth works with the collective expertise of the community, families, and youth to support a community-wide prevention movement to eliminate substance abuse among Nevada County’s youth.
• Coalition for Auburn and Lincoln Youth (CALY) - The Coalition for Auburn and Lincoln Youth works with communities to prevent youth substance use, promote healthy environments and support promising futures. Their vision is that young people in Auburn and Lincoln are free from substance use and have every opportunity to grow up healthy and with a positive vision for their future.
• Raising Placer is a network of community members, prevention educators, and coalitions in Placer County currently or previously funded by the Drug Free Communities Suppor…

Golden Sierra Life Skills Father and Family Center offers the following programs.

• Men, Infants, & Children (MIC)
• Co-Parenting
• Anger Management
• Male Engagement/Male Ambassador Program
• KIND – Kids In Need of Diversion
• Teen Classes - Skills for teen parents

The center also provides consulting services, program design and customization, and program facilitation training. For more information about programs and additional services call 530-305-4004.

Web pages

• Home - https://goldenlifeskills.org
• Programs - https://goldenlifeskills.org/programs/
• Men, Infants, & Children (MIC) - https://goldenlifeskills.org/programs/men-infant-and-children-mic-male-parenting-and-life-skills/
• Co-Parenting - https://goldenlifeskills.org/programs/co-parenting/
• Anger Management - https://goldenlifeskills.org/programs/anger-management/
• Male Engagement/Male Ambassador Program - https://goldenlifeskills.org/programs/male-involvementmale-ambassador-program/
• KIND – Kids…

The US Food & Drug Administration protects public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, and medical devices; and by ensuring the safety of the nation's food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation.

Web pages

• Home - https://www.fda.gov/
• Contact - https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/contact-fda

Kick It California (formerly the California Smokers' Helpline) provides a free telephone-based stop smoking/stop tobacco use program.

​KIC Helpline​

The Helpline offers telephone counseling to develop an individualized quitting plan for stopping tobacco use. Services are available in multiple languages and special services are available for tobacco chewers, pregnant smokers, teens and e-cigarette users. Offers text message support each day during the first important weeks of quitting.

Web pages

• Home - https://kickitca.org/
• Text message support - https://kickitca.org/quit-smoking-text
• Partner program - Asian Smokers' Quitline (Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, and Vietnamese) - https://www.asiansmokersquitline.org/https://www.asiansmokersquitline.org/

The Tips from Former Smokers campaign increases awareness of free quit-smoking resources among adults, no matter who they are, where they live, or how much money they make.

Campaign resources available on the website include:

• Overviews of the health conditions featured in the campaign
• English and Spanish campaign resources
• A quitting assistance area

You can call 800-QUIT-NOW to ask about free or reduced-cost quit medicines, and:

• Quit coaches can help connect you with quit-smoking medicines through community programs. Some states have special programs for people who smoke and don’t have health insurance.
• They may also be able to provide you with free medicines directly; for example, by sending nicotine patches, lozenges, or gum to your home.
  
  

Web pages

• Home - https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/campaign/tips/index.html
• Health Conditions - https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/campaign/tips/diseases/index.html
• English Resources - https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/campaign/tips/resources/index.html
• Spanish Resources - ht…

Granite Wellness Centers (GWC), formerly known as Community Recovery Resources or CoRR, provides comprehensive services to promote wellness for individuals and families with a focus on addressing substance use disorders.

GWC is a source of naloxone, a medication used to rapidly reverse opioid overdose.

Granite Wellness offers residential and outpatient substance use disorder treatment services for adults and youth with personalized treatment plans including group and individual counseling and other services.

Granite Wellness also provides transitional housing up to six months for adult men, women, and women with young children for people enrolled in outpatient services. Other services include educational groups for parenting, anger management, DUI services, Resilient Child program, Family Educational Series, and more.

Services include:

• Inpatient treatment
• Outpatient treatment
• Medical services, including Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)
• Detoxification services
• DUI classes
• Recovery resid…

The Nevada County Public Health Department provides Health Education and Prevention Programs

• Alcohol and drug use prevention education
• CalFresh healthy living
• Emergency Preparedness & Planning
• Oral health program
• Suicide prevention education
• Tobacco use prevention
• WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) program

Mental Health Matters Nevada County is a website for learning about mental health services and suicide prevention resources. It was created by Nevada County Public Health and Nevada County Behavioral Health.

Web pages

• Home - https://www.nevadacountyca.gov/3962/Public-Health _​
• Health Education and Wellness - https://www.nevadacountyca.gov/678/Healthy-Community-Programs
• Prescription Drug Take Back info - https://www.nevadacountyca.gov/683/Prescription-Drug-Take-Back
• Mental Health Matters Nevada County - https://mentalhealthmattersnc.com/

The Health Education Council partners and collaborates with a wide range of individuals and organizations to provide access, education, advocacy and training to empower individuals towards a healthy life.

Their programs are run largely by volunteers and geared to promote healthy eating and active living, as well as to promote safer communities by addressing violence as a public health issue.

Web pages

• Home - http://healthedcouncil.org/