Protecting Your Family from Hidden Online Drug Threats

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Protecting Your Family from Hidden Online Drug Threats

At the inaugural DEA Fentanyl Free America Summit in July, coinciding with CADCA’s Mid-Year Training Institute, leading experts discussed how traffickers are exploiting the internet to reach vulnerable patients and young people. Here’s what coalition leaders need to know about the latest threats.

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What it Takes to Implement Prevention Strategies That Stick

Coalitions can have a good strategy on paper, but what determines whether it actually changes outcomes is implementation, the day-to-day work of putting that strategy into practice. That was the focus of the Competencies in Focus: Implementation webinar, the 13th session in CADCA’s 18-part Coalition Competencies webinar series, presented in partnership with the Center for Public Health Systems Science (CPHSS) at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Collecting Local Evaluation Data 

At the 2026 Mid-Year Training Institute, one session tackled a question that every coalition eventually runs into: how do you actually know if your prevention work is making a difference?

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A Look Back at CADCA’s 25th Annual Mid-Year Training Institute 

Nearly 2,500 attendees, including 365 youth, gathered at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando, Florida, from July 12-16 for CADCA's 25th Annual Mid-Year Training Institute, a milestone anniversary for one of the prevention field's longest-running training conferences.

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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.