The 2024 Blue Ribbon Coalition Initiative

Thank you for your interest in becoming a 2024 CADCA Blue Ribbon Coalition! This is your opportunity to receive national recognition from CADCA and the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) for achieving evidence-based and positive community-level outcomes.

Blue Ribbon is the only community credential awarded to coalitions for their proven coalition products and successful community outcomes.

The Application Process

The application process draws on the products used by coalitions and their contributions to community level outcomes.

This is a two-phase application process. In Phase I, NCI will review and score each of the coalition’s products (e.g., Community Assessment, Logic Model, etc.). Coalitions meeting a certain threshold score will achieve Blue Ribbon Coalition status and advance to Phase II.

Advancing finalists will be invited to tell their coalition’s story of how they have contributed to changes in their community-level outcomes. The highest scoring Phase II applicants will receive a prestigious award in one of the following categories:

Coalición en foco: Short-term Outcomes
Coalición de Excelencia: Intermediate Outcomes
Coalición del año: Long-term Outcomes

TODAS las coaliciones pueden postularse. Coalitions in year two of their Drug-Free Communities (DFC) grant are recommended to apply.

**La Coalición Listón Azul es una two-year certification. Once two years have passed, coalitions can re-earn their certification status through the Blue Ribbon Application process. Coalitions who re-apply before the two years are expired and achieve Blue Ribbon Coalition status will have their two-year status restarted.

Detalles de la solicitud + requisitos

Descargar el paquete de solicitud completo which includes:

• requerimientos de aplicacion
• Pasos y envío de la solicitud
• Plantillas de productos de la coalición
• Rúbrica de calificación de la fase I

Para cualquier pregunta, correo electrónico blueribbon@cadca.org.

Soporte de aplicaciones

Si desea asistencia adicional y comentarios sobre los productos de su aplicación antes de enviarlos, comuníquese con el equipo de soporte de desarrollo de Coalition en formación@cadca.org o reservar una cita with them and mention “Blue Ribbon Application.”

2024 Blue Ribbon Application Timeline (subject to change)

Map of 2022 & 2023 Coalitions who received the Blue Ribbon Certification