A comprehensive presentation designed to educate the community was given during a recent Substance Abuse Free Environments (SAFE) meeting. Residents in attendance learned ways social determinants of health (SDOH) and poverty affect the protective factors for youth.Clay County Public Health Center Community Engagement Specialist Monica Miller’s presentation provided an in-depth analysis of poverty and its correlation with SDOH. She thoroughly scrutinized the ways poverty and SDOH influence the development of young people, shedding light on specific protective factors that have the potential to alleviate these adverse effects.Miller describes poverty as the state in which an individual or a group lacks the necessary resources to sustain a basic standard of living.“There’s not one cause that most individuals or communities could point to being the root cause of an impoverished state,” explained Miller. “It is most often the result of a lo...