Joy in Prevention

Joy in Prevention: How Do We Make the Healthy Choice the Fun Choice?

Substance use prevention practitioners deal with themes and topics of great weightiness and urgency every day. But can infusing our efforts with levity and fun actually make us more effective? This session will introduce the idea of making “the easy choice the fun choice,” which sits at the intersection of health promotion, behavioral science, and social marketing. 

We will explore how this concept has evolved over time and in alignment with other key milestones in the prevention field’s history, identify specific prevention strategies that are rooted in or could be enhanced by a focus on fun, and apply lessons from the “joy in work” movement, which aims to cultivate workplaces that foster meaning, purpose, and engagement rather than just focusing on efficiency, so that we as practitioners can enjoy what we do to the fullest.

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