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Wellness and Prevention Programs

We Enhance the Skills that Promote Healthy Choices

Life Guidance Wellness & Prevention Services helps children and families make healthy decisions. We provide prevention programs for school-aged children, student leadership training, alcohol abuse interventions for teens and their families, and we strengthen families by teaching parenting skills. Our collaborations with other organizations and communities help achieve and sustain positive system changes that support wellness. Our programs include:

  • PEPPE (Programming at the Elementary level for Primary Prevention Education): This is a five to seven sessions elementary and middle school substance abuse prevention program. Available in Montcalm County.
  • High School Leadership Teams: High school students are trained to teach prevention lessons and work with a prevention specialist in elementary and middle school classrooms. Available in Montcalm County.
  • Minors in Possession (MIP): MIP is for the first time a youth has been found to have used alcohol, marijuana, or other drugs. It is an educational program that both the youth and at least one of the parents attend. Available in Kent, Montcalm, and Ionia Counties.
  • Rites of Passage: This afterschool program presents a culturally specific program aimed at African American male youth. Available in Kent County.
  • Yo Puedo: This prevention program targets Hispanic youth attending selected middle or high schools within Grand Rapids Public Schools.
  • Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: This support group helped improve the lives of grandparent-led families.
  • FOCUS: - This program provides families with parenting education in partnership with Friend of the Court..

    • Contact Life Guidance Wellness and Prevention Services

    Main Office and Kent County Services

    (616) 464-2946
    1400 Leonard St NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49505

    Patti Warmington, Director of Wellness and Prevention Services
    (616) 464-2946 x184
    3351 Claystone SE Suite 212, Grand Rapids, MI 49546
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    Montcalm County

    John Kroneck, MA, LPC, CPC, Montcalm County Coordinator
    (989) 831-4591
    Mailing address: PO Box 836, Stanton MI 48888
    Physical address: 129 E. Main, Stanton MI 48888

    Email:

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