What's in Store? Legal Substances in Local Retail Settings
Room E
Breakout Session 1 - 10:10 am
Breakout Session 2 - 11:10 am
The presentation explains how environmental scans are used as a prevention strategy to collect data about how legal substances are sold and marketed in local retail settings. Environmental scans help communities identify risks, build support for policy change, and involve youth in prevention efforts. The scans are part of the Strategic Prevention Framework and look at factors such as price, product, promotion, and placement of substances in stores, restaurants, and advertising. Findings from scans often show that alcohol, tobacco, and other legal but potentially harmful substances—such as Delta-8, kratom, nitrous oxide, and similar products—are easily accessible and sometimes marketed in ways that appeal to youth. The results of environmental scans can be used to educate the community, work with store owners, support regulation, and guide prevention strategies to reduce youth access and improve public health.
Kelly Teague, CPS
Community Impact North Carolina
Kelly joined Community Impact NC in 2018. She is the VP of Innovations for Community Impact NC, while continue to provide direct support to communities in the western region of NC. Kelly received a B.S. in Business Administration from Western Carolina University. She started her first 501(c)(3) in 1996 to address physical fitness and family wellness in her county. During this time, she received training in adolescent mental health from SAMHSA and certification in Therapeutic Child Care. Her position at Haywood Community College started in 2002. She was an Adult High School Biology teacher, math instructor, and a then recruiter. She assisted her department in securing a grant to pilot an andragogical contextualized instruction program for parents of young children.
She attended American Grant Writing institute and was awarded title of Certified Grant Writer, CGW©. She moved into the grant writer and grant manager position under the president at Haywood Community College. She became a coalition coordinator in 2014 and received Coalition Academy training through Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America.
Kelly is a Certified Prevention Specialist (CPS) from the North Carolina Addictions Specialist Professional Practice Board (NCASPPB).