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UW Extension highlights substance-use declines, recovery app and SNAP-related strain in Winnebago County
Summary
At a Winnebago County UW Extension oversight meeting, staff celebrated a national award for local prevention work and reported survey declines in teen substance use while warning that SNAP changes are straining local food services and spurring new coordination efforts.
Katie, the committee's health and well-being educator, told the oversight committee that the Breakwater Coalition received national recognition and that local prevention work has shown measurable improvements among students.
“We have seen only decreases in our substance use among high school students in Oshkosh,” Katie said, citing the coalition’s surveys of 2019–2023 trends and noting that the coalition presented its results to U.S. senators during recent advocacy visits in Washington, D.C. She said coalition members accepted a Major General Arthur T. Dean Chairman’s Award and brought local impact graphs to meetings with office…
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