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To Strengthen the Capacity of Community Coalitions to Create and Maintain
Safe, Healthy and Drug-Free Communities.
CADCA supports its members with training and technical assistance, public policy
advocacy, media strategies and marketing programs, conferences and special events.
An Organization of Excellence Building Drug-Free Communities.
Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) works on behalf of over 5,000
community coalitions from across the country to realize its vision. More than
any other entity, community coalitions are poised to connect multiple sectors
of the community, including businesses, parents, media, law enforcement, schools,
faith organizations, health providers, social service agencies, and government.
By acting in concert through the coalition, all of the partners gain a more
complete understanding of the community's problems. Together, the partners
organize and develop plans and programs to coordinate their anti-drug efforts.
The result is a comprehensive, community-wide approach to substance abuse
and its related problems.
In 1992 the President's Drug Advisory Council (PDAC), under the leadership of
Jim Burke, the former Chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson and Chairman Emeritus
of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, encouraged the formation of CADCA to
respond to the dramatic growth in the number of substance abuse coalitions and
their need to share ideas, problems, and solutions. The organization was
officially launched in October 1992 under the leadership of Alvah Chapman, the
Director and retired Chairman and CEO of Knight Ridder, Inc., who became
CADCA's first chairman. With their guidance, the organization has evolved
to become the principal national substance abuse prevention organization
working with community-based coalitions and representing their interests
at the national level.
CADCA receives its funding from a diverse mix of resources, including
foundation grants, government grants and contracts, corporate partnerships,
individual philanthropy, membership dues, and fee-for-service activities
such as training and technical assistance, meetings and events management,
and other consulting to government and non-governmental organizations.
CADCA works daily with over 30 public, private and non-profit organizations.
CADCA engages partners and seeks their expertise to increase our effectiveness,
whether it be by jointly producing a publication, delivering training, co-chairing
a committee or task force, or advocating a policy position. CADCA is currently
sharing its coalition expertise with the following partners: the Office of
National Drug Control Policy, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA and its centers, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention,
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and the Center for Mental Health Services),
the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute on Alcoholism and
Alcohol Abuse, the Department of Justice Community Capacity Development Office
and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Drug Enforcement
Administration, the National Guard Bureau, the National Highway Traffic and Safety
Administration, the Department of Education, and the Department of State.
Foundation partners currently include the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, the Sue
Ann and John L. Weinberg Foundation, and the The Alvah H. & Wyline P. Chapman
Foundation.
Corporate partnerships have been forged to focus on issues such as student drug
testing and prescription drug abuse. CADCA has produced a prescription drug abuse
prevention tool kit and sponsored multiple forums in communities reporting
prescription drug abuse problems. Corporate partners recognize and appreciate
CADCA's commitment as an advocate for substance abuse education, prevention,
treatment and research.
CADCA also has significant partnerships within the field with the following
organizations: the Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University,
the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, Join Together, National Association of Drug
Court Professionals, White Bison, National Association of Children of Alcoholics,
National Association for Alcohol and Drug Addiction Counselors, National Association
of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors, the Johnson Institute, National Families
in Action, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Legal Action Center, Center for Science in
the Public Interest, Child Welfare League of America, PRIDE Youth Programs, Campaign
for Tobacco Free Kids, Teen Challenge, National Family Partnership and the Elks Drug
Awareness Program. All these national organizations attend CADCA's National Leadership
Forum and other events and partner with CADCA each year on a number of initiatives.
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