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…

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.

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/

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 National Cancer Institute's Cancer Information Service (CIS) is a federally funded program that was established in 1975 as an essential part of NCI’s cancer education and information efforts. For over 35 years, NCI’s CIS has been providing scientifically based, unbiased information to patients, their families and friends, physicians and other health professionals, and the general public about all aspects of cancer including: cancer research and clinical trials, cancer prevention, risk factors, symptoms, early detection, diagnosis, treatment, living with cancer, quitting smoking, etc.

Talk with an information specialist from the NCI’s Cancer Information Service. NCI information specialists are available to help answer your cancer-related questions whether you are a patient, family member or friend, health care provider, or researcher.

Their information specialists are trained to answer cancer related questions by telephone (1 (800) 4-CANCER), LiveHelp instant messaging, and e-mail. I…

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

Start Your Recovery (SYR) is an online resource to help people with substance use disorder and mental health challenges. SYR aims to help people at any stage of their recovery and provide helpful information about substance use issues and information for their family members and friends. It’s a single source of reputable, objective information about signs, symptoms, conditions, treatment options. The resource locator offers a full breadth of recovery treatment options locally in California and across the US.

Web pages

• Home: https://startyourrecovery.org/treatment/rehab-centers/california

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…

Yuba Harm Reduction Collective offers low-barrier, person-centered, judgement-free resources, education, advocacy, and mutual support services in ways that reduce stigma, ensure dignity, maximize self-determination, decrease health risks, create open dialogues, and empower people who use drugs.
YHRC can provide NARCAN Naloxone and fentanyl test strips.

Warmline Delivery offers a delivery of harm reduction supplies to the greater Nevada County region Monday-Friday from 10am-6pm. Text or call 530-362-8163 to request any of the following, as supplied by NASEN:

• Naloxone (Narcan) nasal spray

• Testing strips for: Benzodiazepines, Xylazine, and Fentanyl

• Safer injection supplies & sterile syringes

• Sharps containers

• Safer smoking supplies

• Sexual health supplies: condoms, pregnancy tests, Plan B

• Toiletries: toothpaste/brushes, mouthwash, cleansing wipes, first aid supplies, sunblock, bug spray, antacids, motrin/tylenol packets, razors and shaving cream, body wash, hand sanitizer, and much more!

Web pa…