Youth Leaders Awarded Scholarships to Attend CADCA Conferences
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Youth Leaders Awarded Scholarships to Attend CADCA Conferences
CADCA is proud to spotlight nine youth leaders selected for its Voices of Youth program, a SAMHSA-funded initiative run by CADCA in partnership with the HOSA Future Health Professionals. These students received scholarships to attend CADCA’s 35th Annual National Leadership Forum in February, where they presented their community assessments and participated in youth-focused prevention trainings. They also received scholarships to attend CADCA’s 2025 Mid-Year Training Institute, July 20-24, in Nashville, TN, where they’ll present their completed projects.
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Maryland Teens Call Out Tobacco’s Influence
On June 14, teens from across the state of Maryland gathered for the Take Back Your 10 (TB10) Youth Summit, a day dedicated to celebrating the high school students’ efforts throughout the year and exploring how tobacco shows up in their everyday lives. TB10 is a youth-led, adult-guided program aimed at promoting youth voices through education and awareness of how the tobacco industry markets in their own neighborhoods.
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Partnering to Save Lives
Since 2020, CADCA and Walmart have partnered to educate community members about naloxone, a life-saving medication that can reverse an opioid overdose.
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What Evaluation Looks Like When It’s Done Right
To bring the content to life, the webinar featured real-world examples from PreventEd and the Lincoln County Community Opioid Response Effort (CORE), two Missouri-based organizations working in partnership with CPHSS to integrate evaluation into their daily operations.
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President’s Budget Release
CADCA will be holding a webinar on June 17 at 2:00 PM, in which our Public Policy Consultant, Sue Thau, will provide a more detailed briefing about the President’s Budget Request including what we are advocating for with Congress and to answer questions from the field.
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What’s My Role? Helping Youth Lead in Your Coalition
We talk a lot about bringing youth to the table and engaging them in coalition work, but what happens once they’re there? If we want to be serious about our prevention efforts, we must invest in youth leadership and make space for them to lead within the community coalition structure.
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Youth Leaders Convene for First Annual National Youth Action Council Retreat
Seventeen members of CADCA’s National Youth Action Council (NYAC) gathered at our headquarters in Alexandria, VA, for the first-ever NYAC retreat. Held April 11-13, youth leaders engaged in workshops on goal setting and action planning and collaborated in small groups to develop projects on key issues like fentanyl awareness and social media education.
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CADCA Welcomes the 2024-2025 Humphrey Fellows
This spring, CADCA is honored to once again welcome two distinguished professionals through the prestigious Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program, a Fulbright Exchange initiative that fosters learning and leadership development between the United States and countries around the world.
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Coalitions in Action: Monroe County Prevention & Wellness Coalition
Originally founded as the Monroe County Drug and Alcohol Task Force, the coalition has grown and evolved over the years, but its mission has always stayed the same: mobilize communities, parents, and organizations to prevent youth substance use and reduce overall misuse and dependency in Monroe County.
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How Competencies Help You Build a Stronger Coalition
CADCA has launched a new webinar series called Competencies in Focus. The first webinar took place on April 23 and highlighted the sustainability competency.
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