Sarah Harlow

Training and Technical Assistance Coordinator

AdCare Educational Institute of Maine

Sarah Johnson, MA, PS-C has worked in the field of prevention since 2014 in a variety of different capacities. She served as the outreach coordinator for a Drug Free Communities coalition in Central Maine, supporting positive youth development and connections to the community. She served Kennebec County as the Community Coordinator for a Child Abuse and Neglect prevention council. Sarah joined the New England PTTC, housed at AdCare Educational Institute of Maine, Inc. in 2020 as the Training and Technical Assistance Coordinator, and in the Summer of 2024 became the Co-Director. Sarah earned a BA in Social Science and a BS in Public Administration from the University of Maine at Augusta. In the same year she earned a master’s degree in Peace and Reconciliation studies at the University of Maine, she became a certified prevention specialist in her home state of Maine. Sarah has been lucky to work creatively to serve the prevention workforce through product creation, including collaborating on the Graphic Medicines In the Air (vaping prevention) and Against the Odds (problem gambling prevention), leading the Research and Design (RAD) Fellowship Program, co-chairing a national Prevention Stakeholder’s workgroup on marketing and communications, sitting on the NAADAC Prevention Committee, and facilitating national trainings on special subjects such as Climate Change and Prevention and Prevention Onboarding and Orientation. Sarah loves thinking about prevention and all its connections to the world around us and is happy to have conversations about all the ways connection heals us.