Andrea de la Flor

Andrea de la Flor is the Evaluation and Research Manager at CADCA’s National Community Anti-Drug Coalition Institute. In this role, Andrea supports a variety of Institute evaluation projects including the development and analysis of CADCA training evaluations and surveys, as well as helping to track and report Institute training goals. Andrea also assists with disseminating relevant research findings to the coalition field. She regularly reviews the scientific literature as it relates to prevention and provides updates on how coalition’s can apply the findings to their community-based work on substance abuse and related issues.

Prior to assuming her role as Evaluation and Research Manager, Andrea supported the Institute’s Evaluation and Research Department as a SAMHSA/CSAP Prevention Fellow for CADCA. Through the fellowship, Andrea gained invaluable experience with the CADCA Institute as well as received extensive training on a variety of key prevention topics focused around the Strategic Prevention Framework. As a result of this training and experience, Andrea became certified as a Prevention Specialist (CPS).

In addition to her experience with CADCA, Andrea interned and volunteered with various community service organizations in the Washington, DC area. She interned at the Latin American Youth Center in their Transitional Living Program, as well as in their Family-to-Family Mentoring Program, and she volunteered as a crisis hotline counselor and hospital advocate for the DC Rape Crisis Center. Andrea also spent a summer working with learning and behaviorally challenged children at the Lab School of Washington. Andrea holds a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from Michigan State University, and an M.A. in Psychology from the American University.