1) REGISTRATION NOW OPEN FOR CADCA MID-YEAR TRAINING INSTITUTE, AUGUST 6-9

CADCA will present its first-ever Mid-Year Training Institute in Seattle, Washington, August 6-9. This exciting event will feature 12 of CADCA's most requested trainings for community coalition members, prevention specialists, and other interested individuals. Faculty for the Institute will include leading experts in the field of substance abuse prevention teaching subjects including grant writing, achieving outcomes, leadership, public policy, cultural competency, and media relations. CADCA will offer CEUs for the four-day Institute, which will culminate in a commencement exercise. For more information on how to register for this event, contact Nana Elliott at nelliott@cadca.org, 1-800-54-CADCA, ext. 256 or visit www.cadca.org and click on "Training Institute." Seating for each class is limited, so sign up today!

2) NATIONAL ALCOHOL AND DRUG ADDICTION RECOVERY MONTH PLANNING ACTIVITIES UNDERWAY

The 13th annual National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month will be September 2002, but activities have already begun to make this year's observance a tremendous success and capitalize on the stunning reach and lasting impact of 2001! Last year, the Recovery Month radio tour reached well over 4 million listeners - almost double the amount from the previous year. In addition, the Recovery Month 2001 website logged over half a million visitors, up from just over 100,000 the year before. Help kick off this year's celebration, "Join the Voices of Recovery: A Call to Action," and join in this year's activities.

The Recovery Month Web site will host a seven-part series of live webcasts and online chats to discuss and highlight key issues relevant to the Recovery Month 2002 observance. A prelude to these seven webcasts entitled "The Road to Recovery: 2002" will be held Wednesday, March 27, from 3:00 pm to 3:30 p.m. EST. Ivette Torres, CSAT's director of communications and external liaison for the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), will host the program with on-camera appearances from CSAT Director, Dr. H. Westley Clark, and Recovery Month partners from around the country who will address issues related to Recovery Month. For more information on this webcast or for instructions on how to view it live, go to http://www.health.org/recoverymonth/2002/multimedia/webcast1.htm.

You can also show your support of Recovery Month by placing a special 2002 banner on your website. Choose from five different banners and paste the block of HTML code right next to it, onto your Web page. Get the banner and the code today at http://health.org/recoverymonth/2002/banners/.

To find out more about upcoming Recovery Month event, visit http://www.health.org/recoverymonth/2002/multimedia/.

3) CADCA SATELLITE BROADCAST ON PRESCRIPTION DRUG ABUSE APRIL 4

There is still time to sign up for CADCA's "Prescription Drugs: Misuse, Abuse, and Addiction Update" satellite broadcast! This broadcast will contain updates on the current state of Prescription Drug Abuse and strategies for community organizations to combat this continually evolving problem.
Tune in Thursday, April 4, 2002, from 1:00-2:30 p.m., EST to:

• Explore and understand research about commonly abused medications and their health consequences
  
• Learn about trends and patterns of use, particularly in older adults, adolescents, and women
  
• Identify strategies to assess the scope and nature of the problem in your community
  
• Discover ways to mobilize local resources to prevent the continued abuse of these drugs

The broadcast will feature panelists Alan I. Leshner, PhD, Former Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse; Michael Cinque, RPh, Chief Operating Officer, excelleRx & President Elect on the APhA Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management Executive Committee; and James Robinson, Executive Director, Ohio County Together We Care.

For more information, visit www.cadca.org or e-mail Tanyanic Brown at tbrown@cadca.org; to register, visit www.counterdrugtv.com.

4) Join in the "REACH OUT NOW" Teach-in

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) reports that 17 and 18 year-olds are less likely to abuse alcohol if their parents communicated with them at ages 10 and 11, set clear expectations for their behaviors, and practiced good supervision and consistent discipline. In response to this research, the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) and Scholastic have joined with the Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free to develop a program called "REACH OUT NOW - Talk with Your Fifth Grader About Underage Drinking." Each fifth grade class in the nation has been sent a package of materials addressing the effects of alcohol, refusal skills, and community service in an easy-to-follow format.

Ohio is organizing a statewide teach-in of this program on April 30th, the last day of Alcohol Awareness Month. All statewide officials, statewide organizations, community coalitions, local school officials, and community leaders are being encouraged to volunteer to teach the "REACH OUT NOW" curriculum to a fifth grade class. The First Lady of Ohio, Hope Taft, has written the other members of the Leadership Initiative in an attempt to make this a statewide event in other states as well.

Charles Curie, Administrator of SAMHSA, will be in the classroom on April 30, as will Mrs. Taft. We hope national leaders in Washington D.C., along with you and your community leaders, will participate and make this a national event. For this event to become a standard part of Alcohol Awareness Month, we need your participation this year!

Here's what to do to get involved:

• Contact your local elementary schools to make sure they receive the material from Scholastic and CSAP for use on April 30th.
  
• Volunteer to teach the "REACH OUT NOW" lesson plan in a fifth grade classroom.
  
• Encourage your board members and other community leaders to participate.
  
• Alert the media to your efforts to reach all fifth grade students and their parents in your community on the same day - April 30.
  
• Log on to www.hopetaft.org for letter and media templates or to see or download the "REACH OUT NOW" materials. If you have questions, call Stephen Wing at SAMHSA at 301-443-0593.
  
• E-mail your comments about the success of your efforts, the difficulties you had, and your desire for the "REACH OUT NOW" Teach-in to become part of the national Alcohol Awareness Month activities to Stephen Wing at swing@samhsa.gov.

5) NEW AMA DOCUMENT ON ALCOHOL INDUSTRY AVAILABLE ONLINE

The American Medical Association (AMA) just released a new policy briefing paper titled, " The Alcohol Industry: Partner or Foe?" that is of interest to those working in community and environmental prevention.

The 16-page paper addresses social marketing, environmental prevention, industry sponsorship, and other timely issues. It can be downloaded using Acrobat Reader from http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/3568.html.

6) NEW COLLEGE DRINKING STUDIES RELEASED SHOW TRENDS OVER 8-YEAR PERIOD

On Monday, the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study (CAS) released new findings to encompass the 2001 CAS survey of more than 10,000 college students at 119 nationally representative, four-year colleges in 38 states and the District of Columbia. These results are compared to surveys of college students at the same schools conducted in 1993, 1997, and 1999. The findings appear in the March issue of the Journal of American College Health.

The study examines trends in binge drinking over an eight-year period, as well as the steps that colleges are taking to address this problem. In addition, a second article in the Journal describes drinking behaviors of underage college students and assesses the impact of the minimum drinking age laws and controls on volume of alcohol sales. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (www.rwjf.org) funded this research.

"Trends in College Binge Drinking During a Period of Increased Prevention Efforts: Findings From 4 Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study Surveys: 1993-2001" is available at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cas/Documents/trends.

"Underage College Students' Drinking Behavior, Access to Alcohol, and the Influence of Deterrence Policies: Findings From the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study" is available at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cas/Documents/underminimum.

7) YOUTH TO YOUTH INTERNATIONAL SUMMER CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Youth to Youth International is a non-profit drug-prevention and youth leadership/development program. Since 1982, Youth to Youth has been working with and supporting drug free teens and the adults who work with them. Youth to Youth hosts three summer conferences annually. The prices are all-inclusive - $329 for youth and $349 for adults.

*June 26-29, 2002
Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio

*July 10-13, 2002
Western States Regional Conference
Claremont-McKenna College, Claremont, California

*July 28-31, 2002
Eastern States Regional Conference
Bryant College, Smithfield, Rhode Island

For more information on these conferences, call 614-224-4506, ext.151, or go to www.y2yint.com.

8) FAMILY DAY IS SEPTEMBER 23 - START PLANNING NOW FOR A SUCCESSFUL EVENT

September 23 is "Family Day - A Day to Eat Dinner with Your Children," sponsored by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA). Each year, CADCA coalitions participate in this observance because it focuses on our mission of building drug-free communities, through healthy and involved families. Coalition activities can include:

• Writing an article about Family Day in your organization's newsletter
  
• Contacting your local paper/radio station/tv station and asking them to do a story about Family Day
  
• Hosting a Family Day event - a speaker, a dinner, a game night, or a volunteering opportunity
  
• Contacting government officials - the governor, the mayor, county officials - and asking them to issue a Family Day proclamation
  
• Contacting your local schools/school district and ask them to distribute information about Family Day to children and parents

Activities such as these take planning, so the time to start thinking about what you and your coalition would like to do in observance of Family Day is now! For more information on Family Day, contact Sarah Winkeller, National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, 663 Third Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10017, 212-841-5215, or go to www.casacolumbia.org.

OTHER USEFUL CADCA LINKS

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