Prevention Coordinator
High Point Treatment Center
Bridgewater, MA
Colby Myers is a current Junior at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Myers works as a Prevention Coordinator with High Point Treatment Center's Prevention Services Department. He has worked in the prevention field since 2018 starting as a youth leader and high school intern. Myers established a youth coalition at his high school in partnership with peer leaders who engaged in a Photovoice project alongside Myers. Myers and the youth group worked with school administration to change school policy around discipline for students caught vaping by adding an educational component which is still in use today. From 2019-2022 Myers worked with Prevention Services as a youth intern and then transitioned into his role as the Youth Group Developer for Prevention Services working with regional youth to coordinate prevention projects. Myers has been an offical member of the High Point Prevention Services team since June 2022 and his main focus is on youth prevention efforts and growing youth engagement across Southeastern Massachusetts.
Monday, April 10, 2023
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM