FentAlert: Empowering Youth for Safer Choices - SAMHSA Fentanyl Awareness Youth Challenge

 

FentAlert

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is challenging teens aged 14-18 to create a community strategy to increase youth awareness, education, and prevention around the dangers of fentanyl, especially the hidden dangers of fake pills and other contaminants that can lead to drug overdose deaths.

What is the best way to make your friends aware of these risks and keep them safe? You have the answers. You are a trusted resource with your friends and in your community. You are an important part of the solution.

SAMHSA wants you to pitch your idea that educates youth in your community (among your friends, or at school, or within an organization to which you belong) about fentanyl and fake pills, and prevents overdose. Your idea could include any innovative ways to reach youth on this topic like social media posts, vlogs, podcasts, video journals, etc.

Award Information

Challenge Launch: December 1, 2023

  • Submission Start/End: December 1, 2023, to February 26, 2024 -- 6 p.m. ET
  • Judging: February/March 2024
  • Winner Announced: April 2024

The top 6 ideas will be awarded a $5,000 prize each, and up to 25 youth will receive a $2,000 honorable mention prize.

For more information, visit https://www.samhsa.gov/about-us/who-we-are/offices-centers/csap/fentanyl-awareness-youth-challenge