Before It Becomes a Cycle
(Part of SAMHSA’s Communities Talk Campaign to Prevent Alcohol and Other Drug Misuse)
Before It Becomes a Cycle
is a trauma-informed community campaign led by Strengthening Connections Community Services (SCCS).
Funded through SAMHSA’s Communities Talk initiative, this movement bridges prevention and healing by addressing how unhealed trauma, silence, and stress can evolve into substance misuse and generational pain.
Guided by the W.E. C.A.R.E.™ principle — Working Everywhere to Create A Resilient Environment —
this campaign meets people where they are to build awareness, safety, and resilience.
Through storytelling, pop-up conversations, and healing events, we bring prevention to the people — because connection is the cure.
Learn How To Be Involved This November Below
Before It Becomes a Cycle is more than a campaign — it’s a movement.
This SAMHSA-funded initiative by Strengthening Connections Community Services brings prevention and healing into the spaces people already live, work, and gather. From pop-up conversations to our Holiday Connection Drive and Smashing Cycles event, we’re showing that connection itself is prevention.
🎁 HOLIDAY CONNECTION DRIVE
Support Healing Through the Holidays
The Holiday Connection Drive is part of SAMHSA’s Communities Talk initiative and our Before It Becomes a Cycle campaign.
All donated items will be shared with families during our Smashing Cycles: A Community Talk for Healing Through the Holidays event on November 25th.
Donations accepted through
November 24th
📦 Drop-off or pick-up by appointment:
(614) 653-7016
Pop Up Conversations
Real Conversations in Real Places
Healing doesn’t wait for an invitation.
Pop-Up Conversations are part of our Before It Becomes a Cycle prevention campaign.
We’re taking healing into real places — gyms, grocery stores, barbershops, and neighborhoods — sparking raw conversations about the cycles families carry and how unhealed pain can show up as substance use or disconnection.
No registration. No stage. Just real people, healing out loud.
COMMUNITY TALK EVENT
Smashing Cycles:
A Community Talk for Healing
Through the Holidays
Tuesday, November 25 | 6–8 PM | Columbus, OH
A SAMHSA-funded event designed to bring storytelling, prevention, and community together before the holidays.
As part of our Before It Becomes a Cycle campaign, this SAMHSA-funded community talk brings together real stories, symbolic healing, and prevention resources — helping our community break cycles before they repeat.
Highlights:
Lived-experience panel
Symbolic plate-smashing ceremony
Resource & partner fair
Healing tools and reflection cards
GET INVOLVED / PARTNER WITH US
Join the Movement
We’re building connection through collaboration.
If your organization, business, or group would like to:
Host a pop-up
Table at the event
Donate or sponsor baskets
Provide swag or prevention materials
Email us at strengthening614connections@gmail.com or call (614) 653-7016
