CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) - Charleston County School District continues to work on curbing access to drugs that students have in the community, the district announced Wednesday. Alcohol, tobacco, and THC vapes are some of the items that officials mentioned at a monthly leadership press conference. School leaders said students are seeing the advertisements at local places in their neighborhoods including gas stations, convenience stores, and even online. "What we have is an access issue," Dr. Shavonna Coakley, associate superintendent of CCSD's Department of School Support and Community Engagement, said. "Even though it's not a problem within the schoolhouse, it is affecting us academically, it's affecting the attendance, it's affecting the emotional well-being of our students." School officials are seeing a trend that includes the drugs being disguised as regular, everyday snacks or as lighters in multilingual homes. "We're talking about MLL families, and we see that a lot now impacting our ML families because they're not aware of those devices that are out there," Dr. Coakley said. "It may look like a type of charger, it may look like a pen but it really is an illicit substance." CCSD's Department of Student Support is working with kids that they identify are using substances. Officials said they are focusing on students from elementary school up to high school. "We have a lot of really good programs in place here and I do not know of any other school district that offers a prevention and intervention program for substance use as a support rather than just being punitive," Linda Ballinger, prevention and intervention coordinator at CCSD, said. "The punitive part does give us an opportunity to work with students." Turning Point Academy is one of the branches of support that students may go through or "ADAPT - Alternative Programs for Teens" based on the needs they have. While leaders are looking to finding a solution to the access issue with agencies, they are continuing to try to prevent and educate their students, families, and communities. "We're looking at if something comes up if there we're having certain areas that are being impacted where students are maybe getting a lot of infractions going in that area, going into that community and seeing what's around," Ballinger said. "Making sure that we educate our community partners in that area as well as the parents of where these students may be getting this."