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Coalition Influences City Hall to Dump Drug Paraphernalia

A coalition in Detroit wants drug paraphernalia to be out of sight, but on the minds of city council. The Drug Free Communities Coalition is asking the Detroit City Council to regulate store owners who display drug paraphernalia at the checkout counter.

CADCA Now Recruiting for 2011 Ambassador Program Cohort

To answer the call to help strengthen coalitions, especially in economically disadvantaged communities, CADCA's National Coalition Institute designed the Ambassador Program, which is an initiative to help increase the number of young adult coalition workforce leaders in the coalition field.

Public Smoking Bans Cut Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Heart Attacks

Multiple studies have found that fewer workers are exposed to tobacco smoke and that hospital admissions for heart attacks have fallen in communities that have banned indoor smoking, according to a literature review by researcher Cicily Kelleher, M.D., of University College Dublin and colleagues.

SAMHSA, Ad Council, and Inspire USA Foundation Launch National Suicide Prevention Campaign for Teens

Suicide Is the Third Leading Cause of Death Among 15- to 24-Year-Olds

SAMHSA, along with the Ad Council and the Inspire USA Foundation, today launched a new Teen Suicide Prevention national public service campaign, the first teen suicide prevention effort from SAMHSA to utilize a national mass media strategy, as well as a robust digital outreach program.

The public service announcement (PSA) campaign—We Can Help Us—was developed out of the acquired insight that, although many teens encounter the same tough times, many also develop positive solutions to help overcome them. The campaign empowers teens by reminding them that there are ways to get through whatever problems they face and directs them to visit reachout.com to hear stories from others who successfully conquered their tough times.

The campaign includes TV, radio, and print advertising, and mall and
in-school posters and viral videos. The reachout.com Web site features stories from teens, as well as tips to help cope with tough issues and links to resources, including the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, for teens who need immediate help. The PSAs will be distributed widely in the national media this week.

We hope your organization can help extend the campaign’s reach to youth who may be at risk and amplify these potentially lifesaving messages. To view the PSAs, the press release, and more details about how your organization can help support the campaign, please view the National Suicide Prevention Campaign for Teens Multimedia News Release. You can also visit SAMHSA's Web site or the Ad Council Web site to learn more.

How You Can Support the Campaign

Man Charged With Killing Unum Employee Had Been "Drinking All Night" http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_165564.asp

Deadline Extension: Scholarship Applications, Call for Proposals and Award Nominations for CADCA’s Forum XX Open Until Oct 23 Deadline Extension: Scholarship Applications, Call for Proposals and Award Nominations for CADCA’s Forum XX Open Until Oct 23--

Don’t miss an opportunity to attend the CADCA’s 20th Anniversary National Leadership Forum at the Gaylord National Harbor Resort and Spa on February 8-11, 2010. Scholarship recipients will receive hotel accommodations for up to four nights (excluding incidentals) and registration fee to attend the forum. Click here to submit a Scholarship application.

The fight among students in Chicago that resulted in the death of 16-year-old Derrion Albert highlights the critical need for schools to implement evidence-based violence prevention programs, says forensic clinical psychologist Dewey Cornell in a recent commentary on CNN. In light of these violent acts, Cornell questions why the White House proposes cutting the Safe and Drug Free Schools program, the only source of federal funding for school-based violence and substance abuse prevention.

It all started with one letter from a prevention specialist in Bend, Oregon. On a recent back-to-school shopping trip, Cameo Chambers found t-shirts promoting binge drinking in her local Old Navy store. The shirts carry messages such as “Beer Pressure – Worth Giving In To!” and “Sloshball Champions – Staggerin Falls, Hi.” She wrote to the company and shared her concern with Oregon Partnership, a statewide organization dedicated to ending substance abuse and suicide. In response, Oregon Partnership has launched a campaign to have the shirts removed from stores. CADCA encourages all coalitions to follow suit and write to Old Navy’s parent company, Gap, Inc, requesting that they remove the shirts from store shelves.

Shorts, sweaters—sometimes CADCA’s trainers just don’t know what to pack. In late August, CADCA trainers were in Hawaii reaching coalitions from the 50th state and U.S. territories in the Pacific. Two weeks later, they made the 3,500 mile journey to the 49th state, Alaska.

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Reserve your seat today for a webinar held on Oct 20, 2009 that will showcase a new free toolkit aimed at helping prevent underage drinking. The toolkit, WORKING to Prevent Underage Drinking: Workplace is the Key!, is designed to encourage the adoption of Drug-Free Workplace Programs that deliver education to working parents and other caring adults on how to prevent underage drinking.

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