Professional:
LaMar has worked as a Prevention Specialist since 1994 and was also a Prevention Coordinator for Southwest Behavioral Health Center. He is currently a licensed Prevention Specialist through the International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium. In this role, LaMar is responsible for supervising volunteers, developing and implementing programs, and reporting their outcomes. One of LaMar's crowning achievements at Southwest Prevention is his creation and implementation of the Power Programs, which have been used for two decades in the Iron County School District. These programs provide elementary and middle school students with education, life skills, coping and refusal skills, and as LaMar likes to say: helps them to "practice life". LaMar is also the host of a talk radio program called "An Ounce of Prevention", on KSUB AM 590, that has been on the air since 1996. During his 20 plus years with the Southwest Behavioral Health Center, LaMar has helped to address issues such as underage drinking, tobacco and substance abuse, antisocial behaviors, bullying and hazing, reducing risk factors, and has received awards from the Governing Youth Council and the Southwest Utah Health Department.
LaMar has worked as a Prevention Specialist since 1994 and was also a Prevention Coordinator for Southwest Behavioral Health Center. He is currently a licensed Prevention Specialist through the International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium. In this role, LaMar is responsible for supervising volunteers, developing and implementing programs, and reporting their outcomes. One of LaMar's crowning achievements at Southwest Prevention is his creation and implementation of the Power Programs, which have been used for two decades in the Iron County School District. These programs provide elementary and middle school students with education, life skills, coping and refusal skills, and as LaMar likes to say: helps them to "practice life". LaMar is also the host of a talk radio program called "An Ounce of Prevention", on KSUB AM 590, that has been on the air since 1996. During his 20 plus years with the Southwest Behavioral Health Center, LaMar has helped to address issues such as underage drinking, tobacco and substance abuse, antisocial behaviors, bullying and hazing, reducing risk factors, and has received awards from the Governing Youth Council and the Southwest Utah Health Department.
"Whether it is talking to a classroom full of kids, or an auditorium full of youth, or on the radio talking to who knows how many people, my message and wish is the same: that maybe just one person is there listening, hearing my voice, enduring my humor, believing the message, and gaining some kind of insight or answer or inspiration that helps them take that next tough step to keep going through whatever adversity or down whatever path they might be struggling with at that moment. I love what I do, and for whatever reason people seem to love that I am doing it. "
- LaMar C. Macklin, II |
Personal:
I have lived my entire professional life in the service of others, from my time in the United States Coast Guard, then as a Police Officer for the Salt Lake City International Airport Authority, and since 1994 for the Southwest Behavioral Health Center. I have dedicated myself in this way for several reasons stemming from being raised in a world full of poverty and substance abuse and being raised as a religious and ethnic minority in my community. I have experienced firsthand how substance abuse disorder can ruin the life of even the strongest among us as I've seen the lives of friends and families destroyed as a result.
I have a passion and a drive from this upbringing that I share with others. I try to use humor and explain things from both a personal and a professional perspective. I don't mean to sound boastful in saying I get to be "Mr. Macklin", but I am proud of that. I love the students, teachers administrators and staff I work with everyday that make me feel so loved. I feel very humbled and undeserving of all the love for me in this community; I do this as a mission and have a cause to spread the great news that: "we get to choose our lives". And the tough news is that: "we get to choose our lives, so choose wisely".
I have worked doing what I love for the past two decades. I can't think of any better way to finish my professional career than as a Prevention Specialist.
I have lived my entire professional life in the service of others, from my time in the United States Coast Guard, then as a Police Officer for the Salt Lake City International Airport Authority, and since 1994 for the Southwest Behavioral Health Center. I have dedicated myself in this way for several reasons stemming from being raised in a world full of poverty and substance abuse and being raised as a religious and ethnic minority in my community. I have experienced firsthand how substance abuse disorder can ruin the life of even the strongest among us as I've seen the lives of friends and families destroyed as a result.
I have a passion and a drive from this upbringing that I share with others. I try to use humor and explain things from both a personal and a professional perspective. I don't mean to sound boastful in saying I get to be "Mr. Macklin", but I am proud of that. I love the students, teachers administrators and staff I work with everyday that make me feel so loved. I feel very humbled and undeserving of all the love for me in this community; I do this as a mission and have a cause to spread the great news that: "we get to choose our lives". And the tough news is that: "we get to choose our lives, so choose wisely".
I have worked doing what I love for the past two decades. I can't think of any better way to finish my professional career than as a Prevention Specialist.