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LONG ISLAND SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES
RECEIVE DRUG FREE COMMUNITY (DFC)
COALITION GRANTS
(Hauppauge, NY) - Suffolk Coalition to Prevent Alcohol and Drug Dependencies, Inc., is pleased to announce that it has received one of ten DFC Mentoring Grants issued in the United States to mentor the South Country community. It has also received a Continuation Grant for its work in the Bay Shore/Brightwaters community to complete its tenth year grant cycle. Jeffrey Levy, Board President, stated, “We are also proud to be involved with the following five communities who received Continuation Grants: Amityville, Manhasset, Southampton, West Islip, and Wyandanch. Suffolk Coalition was also involved with the Commack Coalition of Caring, representing the school and community of Commack, which was the only Long Island recipient of a new DFC Grant.”
Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), announced on August 27, 2009, $21 million in new Drug Free Communities grants to 161 communities across the country and ten new DFC Mentoring Grants. The awards announced were in addition to the $60 million in Continuation Grants released earlier this month to 565 Drug Free Communities coalitions and ten DFC Mentor Continuation coalitions. These grants provide community coalitions needed support as they work to prevent and reduce youth substance abuse.
“The Drug Free Communities program embodies the Obama Administration’s dedication to preventing drug abuse in youth before it starts,” said Director Kerlikowske. “Evidence shows that communities receiving DFC funding have lower instances of youth using tobacco, alcohol and marijuana. I commend the community leaders, parents, youth, teachers, health care professionals, and law enforcement officials who work tirelessly to prevent and reduce youth drug use across the Nation through DFC-funded coalitions.”
“The Drug Free Communities Support Program bolsters individuals and groups across the Nation that are improving their communities by preventing drug abuse,” said Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration Acting Administrator, Eric Broderick. “SAMHSA is honored to play a role in this innovative program, which has done so much to promote well-being, hope and feelings of empowerment among so many young people.”
The Drug Free Communities program is directed by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy in partnership with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The DFC program provides grants of up to $625,000 over five years to community organizations that facilitate citizen participation in local drug prevention efforts. Coalitions are comprised of community leaders, parents, youth, teachers, religious and fraternal organizations, health care and business professionals, law enforcement, and the media.
The 161 new grantees were selected from 417 applicants through a competitive peer review process. To qualify for matching grants, all awardees must have at least a six-month history of working together on substance abuse reduction initiatives, have representation from 12 specific sectors of the community, develop a long-term plan to reduce substance abuse, and participate in a national evaluation of the DFC program.
The DFC program was created by the Drug Free Communities Act of 1997, and was re-authorized by Congress in 2001 and 2006. Since 1998, ONDCP has awarded approximately 1,500 Drug-Free Communities grants to local communities in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, Palau, American Samoa and the US Virgin Islands.
More information about the Drug Free Communities Program is available at: www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/dfc. If your school/community is interested in fighting alcohol and drug usage, please call Barbara Keller, Executive Director, Suffolk Coalition to Prevent Alcohol and Drug Dependencies, Inc., at (631) 366-1717 or by e-mail at bkeller@preventionLI.org.
SUFFOLK COALITION
TO PREVENT ALCOHOL AND DRUG DEPENDENCIES, INC.
Proudly Announces a
Second Year Grant Award
From
LONG ISLAND UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FUND
In The
LONG ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
This funding will support an initiative to implement
Restorative Justice practices within the
juvenile justice and criminal justice systems
of Suffolk County
Katherine Hoak, Advisory Board Member, Long Island Unitarian Universalist Fund, (left) with Barbara Keller, Executive Director, Suffolk Coalition to Prevent Alcohol and Drug Dependencies, Inc., at a grantee award luncheon at the offices of Long Island Community Foundation, Syosset, NY.
A Dose of Prevention:
Stopping Cough Medicine and
Prescription Drug Abuse Before It Starts
General Arthur T. Dean, Chairman and CEO of CADCA; Legislator Lynne C. Nowick, 13th Suffolk County Legislative District; Commissioner Humayun J. Chaudhry, Suffolk County Department of Health Services; Barbara Keller, Executive Director, Suffolk Coalition to Prevent Alcohol and Drug Dependencies, Inc.; Jack Jerdan, Executive Director, Long Island Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependence, Inc.
A Town Hall Meeting was held on August 20, 2007, commemorating August as "Medicine Abuse Awareness Month."
The purpose of this Town Hall Meeting was to mobilize the community and educate parents on the recent trend of over-the-counter (OTC) cough medicine abuse among teens. It is part of a national initiative to combat OTC cough medicine abuse sponsored by the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) and the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA).
Suffolk County has been selected to hold this Town Hall Meeting due to Resolution No. 1514-2007, proposed by Legislator Lynne C. Nowick and recently passed in the Suffolk County Legislature, related to the sale of cough medicine containing dextromethorphan (DXM) to minors.
General Arthur T. Dean, Chairman and CEO of CADCA,
was in attendance.
For more information on this important issue
please contact us at (631) 366-1717
Did you know....?
If a typical 160-pound male drinks 5 standard drinks over a 2-hour period, he would reach a BAC of .08, making him legally intoxicated in all 50 states and DC. Source: http://www.niaaa.nih.gov
Almost half of the approximately 2,200 persons who die annually in traffic crashes involving drinking drivers under 21 are persons other than the drinking driver. Source: Hingson & Winter, 2003
NEW USE FOR IPODS
Those with a few pints under their belts on a Friday night can now gauge how much liquor they've consumed by using their iPod.
David Steele Enterprises is selling the iBreath – an alcohol breathalyser, which also has a wireless transmitter to send your tunes on to any FM radio.
To make use of the breathalyser, a user needs to fold out the "blow wand" and exhale into it for five seconds and the iBreath works out your level of alcohol consumption.
It comes in black or white and costs $79. ®
METHAMPHETAMINE ALERT
One of our nation's most serious drug threats!
Obtain vital information and articles as well as a CD copy of the Meth Education Tool Kit on www.methresources.org
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