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:

Focus sur la coalition: Short-term Outcomes
Coalition d'excellence: Intermediate Outcomes
Coalition de l'année: Long-term Outcomes

TOUTES les coalitions sont invitées à postuler. Coalitions in year two of their Drug-Free Communities (DFC) grant are recommended to apply.

**La Blue Ribbon Coalition est une 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.

Détails de l'application + exigences

Téléchargez le dossier de candidature complet which includes:

• Exigences de candidature
• Étapes de candidature et soumission
• Modèles de produits de coalition
• Rubrique de notation de la phase I

Pour toute question, envoyez un e-mail blueribbon@cadca.org.

Support d'application

Si vous souhaitez une assistance supplémentaire et des commentaires sur vos produits d'application avant la soumission, veuillez contacter l'équipe d'assistance au développement de la coalition à l'adresse formation@cadca.org ou prenez rendez-vous 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