CADCA (Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America) announced Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Acting Director Richard Baum will keynote the National Leadership Forum\u2019s Opening Plenary on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018.<\/p>\n
Approximately 3,000 community leaders will unite at CADCA\u2019s 28e<\/sup> Annual National Leadership Forum. The week-long event will be held\u00a05-8 f\u00e9vrier 2018,<\/strong>\u00a0at the Gaylord National Hotel and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md. Forum will kick off with the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration\u2019s (SAMHSA) Prevention Day; feature 70+ training sessions covering topics ranging from the marijuana legislation landscape and tobacco cessation to the opioid epidemic and underage drinking; offer attendees the unique opportunity to meet with members of Congress on Capitol Hill Day; and welcome hundreds of youth to take part in CADCA\u2019s Youth Leadership Summit to learn how to become effective community leaders.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are thrilled to have Acting Director Baum serve as our keynote speaker at Forum and we are eager to hear what he will share with attendees,\u201d said General Arthur T. Dean, Chairman & CEO, CADCA. \u201cActing Director Baum brings decades of experience in the prevention field to the table and he has dedicated his career to drug issues. Together, alongside partners like him, we can bring prevention to the forefront and reduce the drug epidemic within the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n Acting Director Baum was appointed as head of the ONDCP in March 2017 by President Donald Trump. Previously, he worked for almost twenty years at the ONDCP in various positions. Among the highlights of his career is leading efforts to draft the National Drug Control Strategy in both the Bush and Obama Administration, and co-chairing work groups that put together the White House Transnational Organized Crime Strategy and the National Southwest Border Counternarcotics Strategy.<\/p>\n Le Forum national de leadership du CADCA est un \u00e9v\u00e9nement de quatre jours rempli d'occasions d'apprendre les derni\u00e8res strat\u00e9gies de lutte contre la toxicomanie et d'entendre des experts en pr\u00e9vention de renomm\u00e9e nationale, des administrateurs f\u00e9d\u00e9raux et des d\u00e9cideurs politiques concern\u00e9s. Le Forum rassemble des participants repr\u00e9sentant des coalitions de toutes les r\u00e9gions du pays et du monde entier, des dirigeants gouvernementaux, des jeunes, des sp\u00e9cialistes de la pr\u00e9vention, des professionnels du traitement de la toxicomanie, des d\u00e9fenseurs du r\u00e9tablissement de la toxicomanie, des chercheurs, des \u00e9ducateurs, des professionnels de l'application de la loi et des dirigeants religieux. Il s'agit du plus grand \u00e9v\u00e9nement de formation dans le domaine de la pr\u00e9vention.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" La CADCA (Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America) a annonc\u00e9 que le directeur par int\u00e9rim de l'Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), Richard Baum, prononcerait le discours d'ouverture<\/p>","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":1597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n