Beverly Watts Davis Honored with 2026 CADCA Lifetime Achievement Award
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Beverly Watts Davis Honored with 2026 CADCA Lifetime Achievement Award
For more than 40 years, Beverly Watts Davis has worked at nearly every level of the substance misuse prevention field, as an elected official, a federal agency Executive, a nonprofit Executive, and as a mentor to coalition leaders across the country. This year, CADCA is honoring her decades of service with its Lifetime Achievement Award at the 25th Annual Mid-Year Training Institute in Orlando, FL.
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Why Coalitions Are Heading to Orlando This July
Every July, coalition leaders, prevention specialists, and youth advocates from across the country pack their bags for CADCA’s Mid-Year Training Institute. And every year, they leave with more than a conference tote bag. They leave with tools they can put to use immediately.
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Coalitions in Action: Frontier Community Coalition
In the rural stretches of northern Nevada, where the nearest specialty clinic can be hours away and transportation is a constant barrier, Frontier Community Coalition (FCC) has spent more than four decades supporting its communities through prevention, recovery, and youth leadership initiatives.
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The Prevention Conference for the Next Generation
Young people aren’t waiting to make a difference. They’re already showing up for their communities. This July, CADCA’s 25th Annual Mid-Year Training Institute gives them the tools, training, and connections to lead prevention work in their homes and schools.
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Meet Your 2026 Keynote Speakers for CADCA’s 25th Annual Mid-Year Training Institute
Fentanyl remains the leading driver of the nation’s overdose crisis. According to the CDC, preliminary data predicts more than 70,000 drug overdose deaths for the 12-month period ending in November 2025 with synthetic opioids, primarily illicitly manufactured fentanyl, involved in the majority of those deaths. Only 2 milligrams of fentanyl, an amount small enough to fit on the tip of a pencil, can be a lethal dose.
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How Coalitions Can Lead Through Change
The only constant in life is change, something that most coalition leaders deal with constantly. And yet, it’s rarely something that they feel fully prepared for. This topic was front and center in CADCA’s Competencies in Focus webinar, which focused on change management.
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CADCA Unveils New Brand Identity Video
Prevention work doesn’t often translate easily into words, especially to people seeing it from the outside. It’s meetings in school cafeterias after hours, community data translated into action plans, and neighbors organizing around issues that are deeply personal.
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How Coalitions Can Treat Youth as Partners
Coalitions spend a lot of time thinking about how to reach young people, but what happens when you flip the script and start thinking about how to work with them instead?
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Welcoming the 2026-2027 CADCA National Youth Council
CADCA is proud to welcome the newest members of the National Youth Council (NYC), a select group of young leaders ages 15-18 who are shaping the future of substance misuse prevention.
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Smoke Is Smoke: Burning or Vaporizing Anything Causes Dangerous Secondhand Smoke
What is secondhand smoke? Secondhand smoke is the smoke or aerosol exhaled by a person who smokes any type of lighted or heated product. It is also the smoke or emission released directly from the product while it burns or heats. While the percentage of US adults that smoke cigarettes has reached a new low dropping below 10%, smoking and secondhand smoke exposure remain leading causes of preventable death and disease.
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