CPHI: Reducing Underage Use of Cannabis
The San Diego County Cannabis Public Health Initiative (CPHI) works to reduce youth access to cannabis by increasing public awareness regarding the adverse effects resulting from youth cannabis use. Our efforts are aimed at providing the science behind youth cannabis use and its public health impacts. The CPHI partners with schools/districts, treatment centers, agencies serving unhoused youth, probation, public safety, community colleges and local universities. The Initiative additionally supports regional capacity building through the SAMSHA Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) Region-9 as an Advisory Board Member.
CPHI: Reducing Underage Use of Cannabis
About CPHI
The San Diego County Cannabis Public Health Initiative (CPHI) works to reduce youth access to cannabis by increasing public awareness regarding the adverse effects resulting from youth cannabis use. Our efforts are aimed at providing the science behind youth cannabis use and its public health impacts.
The CPHI partners with schools/districts, treatment centers, agencies serving unhoused youth, probation, public safety, community colleges and local universities. The Initiative additionally supports regional capacity building through the SAMSHA Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) Region-9 as an Advisory Board Member.
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CPHI: Resources
Public Health Resource Library
The San Diego County Cannabis Public Health Initiative (CPHI) has developed numerous resources that provide important public health information regarding cannabis.
CPHI: News & Updates
Making a Difference
Much of our work involves measuring the difference others make. Getting involved and making our own difference is also an important part of who we are as individuals and as an organization. Click below to learn more about news and events in San Diego County.
Key Leadership Team
The CPHI focuses on providing resources and implementing recommendations identified by the Cannabis Initiative Key Leadership Team, a multi-sector leadership team working to advance innovative solutions to reduce youth access to cannabis throughout San Diego County.
- Joe Eberstein, CPS, Program Director for the San Diego County Cannabis Public Health Initiative. Advisory Board Member for SAMSHA PTTC Region 9
- Jim Crittenden, San Diego County Office of Education
- Patrick Foley, CATC, Community Outreach Director, McAlister Institute
- Salvador Garcia, Youth Development Assistant, San Diego County Office of Education Friday Night Live/Club Live Programs
- Jennifer Harmon, Crime Laboratory Director, San Diego Sheriff Department
- Dr. Joanna Jacobus, Assistant Professor in the UCSD Department of Psychiatry
- Jana Jahns, MEd, Education Specialist, Lesley Phillips, MPH, Marketing & Training Specialist Training Research and Education for Driving Safety (TREDS), UC San Diego
- Natalie Laub MD, MSHP, Director of Clinical Research, Division of Child Abuse Pediatrics; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego; Program Director, Child Abuse Pediatrics
- Roneet Lev, MD FACEP, Former Chief Medical Officer at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and current Chief of the Emergency Department at Scripps Mercy Hospital, High Truths Podcast Host
- Jeni Mendel, Behavioral Health Advisory Board Member, District 2
- Nathan A. Painter, Pharm.D., CDCES, FADCES, FCPhA, FCCP, Clinical Professor of Pharmacy, UC San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science
- San Diego Law Enforcement Coordinating Center, LECC
LIVE WELL, SAN DIEGO!
The work of the San Diego County Cannabis Public Health Initiative (CPHI) supports the Countywide strategic initiative, Live Well, San Diego! which aims to improve the health and well-being of residents.
Joe Eberstein has provided MHS North Inland Community Prevention staff and many of our regional stakeholders with tremendous insight on the various applications and topics in support of the Cannabis Public Health Initiative projects we are working on...Joe helped us organize to raise public awareness of the dangers of driving under the influence of alcohol, cannabis, or other drugs. He is incredibly well-informed, and instinctively intuitive. We are fortunate and privileged to have a trusted colleague like Joe and the CPHI contributing to the AOD prevention successes we are realizing in the San Diego North Inland region.
— Mental Health Systems,
North Inland Community Prevention Program
Explore Our Initiatives
CCR proudly serves the San Diego region through multiple key Initiatives and Programs aimed at addressing public health issues: the San Diego County Substance Use and Overdose Prevention Taskforce (SUOPT), the Countywide Media Advocacy Initiative (CWMA), the San Diego County Cannabis Public Health Initiative (CPHI), and Evaluation Resources.
Our success is based on our collaborative, community-based approach utilizing data to inform our campaigns.