Why Teens Should Be THC Free 

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Why Teens Should Be THC Free 

If you attended Johnny’s Ambassadors Founder & CEO Laura Stack’s training session at CADCA’s 25th Annual Mid-Year Training Institute this year, you likely left with the same unsettling question that seemed to hang in the air: how did we get here? Here, meaning a place where the average potency of THC products has skyrocketed from roughly 2% in the 1980s to 20% for standard dispensary marijuana today, with concentrates averaging 60% THC or higher.

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A Kansas City Model for Youth Responders

At CADCA's 25th Annual Mid-Year Training Institute, we learned about a program that demonstrated what youth development and emergency preparedness can look like when they're woven together.

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Why Your Coalition’s Planning Process Matters

At the end of August, CADCA convened community coalition leaders for the 14th installment of its 18-part webinar series on CADCA’s Coalition Competencies, a research-backed framework that outlines the essential knowledge, skills, and abilities needed for effective coalition work.

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CADCA’s Congressional Election Guide for 2026

All politics is local, and right now, candidates for Congress need to hear from you about substance use prevention, treatment, recovery, and rescue/overdose response.

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Results from 2025 National Survey on Drug Use and Mental Health Show Need to Address Nicotine  

In July, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released data from the 2025 National Survey on Drug Use and Mental Health (NSDUH). This annual, nationally representative survey measures substance use and mental health indicators, and it provides critical insights into both current use rates of tobacco and nicotine products and trends over the past few years.

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The Odds Against Us: Recognizing Gambling Addiction in the Digital Age

At CADCA’s Mid-Year Training Institute, Addiction Counselor Brian Dolan, MHC, CRC, shared that the gambling landscape has changed so dramatically in the last five years that if he struggled with problem gambling today, he likely wouldn’t have survived it.

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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.