TYSA News and Commentary
About TYSA
The TYSA coalition is a data-driven collaboration aimed at leveraging the power of collective impact to improve behavioral health outcomes for Staten Island’s youth. Through the lens of equity and inclusion, this project seeks to drive major improvements in youth substance use and mental health prevention, treatment, and recovery on Staten Island. TYSA seeks to:
- Engage diverse communities and constituencies, inclusive of lived experience, race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, ability status and all of the other rich diversity on Staten Island
- Achieve major gains, not minor improvements
- Use clear metrics, at the youth, organization, and system-levels
- Support the success of partner implementers
- Align and improve efforts to achieve greater collective impact
- Avoid reinventing the wheel or duplicating existing existing programs
- Identify and address disparities
- Identify root causes such as adverse childhood experiences, and support community level change
- Create a culture of equity in systems and partnerships
Contact TYSA
ADDRESS:
444 St. Marks Place, 3FL
Staten Island, NY 10301
PHONE NUMBER:
(718) 226-0258
Letter to the Editor: Combatting Overdoses in Staten Island Public Restrooms
/in News, TYSA/by RosanneIf you’ve been paying attention, this week wasn’t the first time you saw a tragic headline about a heroin or opioid overdose in a restroom on Staten Island. At Tackling Youth Substance Abuse (TYSA) we have been following trends and data, and have noted the uptick of (often fatal) overdoses in both public and business restrooms.
TYSA Reminds Staten Islanders to Dispose of Unused Prescriptions on National Drug Take Back Day
/in News, TYSA/by RosanneOn Saturday, October 22 the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will celebrate National Drug Take Back Day to remind the public to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.