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Database of Iowa Community Coalitions

Check out the ISAIC database of Community Coalitions for information on Coalitions in your area. If you are a coalition and you're not listed, send us an email with your information and you'll be added.

Linn County Partnership on Substance Abuse

Seeks to provide a unified community effort for sharing resources, increasing awareness of substance abuse through education, building relationships, and advocating for people affected by substance abuse. Also LCPSA blog.

Community How To Guides On Underage Drinking

These Guides address fundamental components of planning and implementing a comprehensive underage drinking prevention program. They are designed to be brief, easy to read, and easy to use. Each guide contains a resource section to assist readers in obtaining additional and detailed information about the topics covered in that guide. The appendices include useful tools for each topic area that provide coalitions and organizations with a jump-start in their planning and implementation activities

FindYouthInfo.gov

Offers Federally-developed interactive tools and other resources to help community organizations and partnerships in their efforts to support youth. Included are tools and resources to help you form effective partnerships, assess community assets, understand risk factors and protective factors, generate maps of local and Federal resources, and search for evidence-based youth programs.

Community Anti-Drug Coalition

CADCA's mission is to build and strengthen the capacity of community coalitions to create safe, healthy and drug-free communities. The organization supports its members with technical assistance and training, public policy, media strategies and marketing programs, conferences and special events.

CADCA’s Support 21 Community Toolkit

The Amethyst Initiative, which seeks to revisit the debate on the legal drinking age and encourages lawmakers to lower it, generated media coverage and sparked a public debate on the merits of lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18. CADCA joined MADD in opposing the initiative and is urging grassroots prevention organizations to launch a community-wide educational campaign to shed light on the importance of keeping the drinking age at 21.

Drugs Hurt Kids

An Iowa web site designed to help you learn more about drug endangered children and how to help them. Iowa's drug endangered children are often found to be living in deplorable conditions, neglected beyond imagination, and suffering at the hands of parents who use drugs.

Community Toolbox

Promoting community health and development by connecting people, ideas and resources. Provides over 7,000 pages of practical skill-building information on over 250 different topics. Topic sections include step-by-step instruction, examples, check-lists, and related resources.

Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free

An initiative of a unique coalition of agencies and organizations to prevent the use of alcohol by children ages 9 to 15. It is the only national effort that focuses on alcohol use in this age group.

Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) at Georgetown University

CAMY monitors the marketing practices of the alcohol industry to focus attention and action on industry practices that jeopardize the health and safety of America's youth. Reducing high rates of underage alcohol consumption and the suffering caused by alcohol-related injuries and deaths among young people requires using the public health strategies of limiting the access to and the appeal of alcohol to underage persons.

Meth Action Clearinghouse

The National Association of Counties' (NACO) clearinghouse of information on methamphetamines. The website has results of research and surveys, updates on federal legislation and advocacy, new releases, and other resources. NACo is committed to raising public awareness about and helping counties respond to the nation’s methamphetamine drug epidemic.

Meth 360

A community-based meth prevention program uniting law enforcement officers with treatment and prevention professionals to deliver multimedia presentations to groups of concerned citizens, parents and community leaders. Created by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America and currently operating in more than 20 states, Meth360 is a turnkey program available to all communities, free of charge. Facts About Meth.

National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign

From the Office of National Drug Control Policy, this site offers resources for a school or community to mount a media anti-drug campaign. Brochures, fact sheets, links.

Communities That Care®

A CSAP and SAMHSA initiative that offers informational resources and interactive tools for both the professional and non-professional.

Join Together Online

National resource center working to reduce substance abuse by providing individuals and communities the necessary tools and information to successfully deal with the effects of substance abuse. News wire, resource material, funding news, more

America's Promise

The Alliance for Youth is mobilizing people from every sector of American life to build the character and competence of our nation's youth. Communities of Promise are forming diverse grassroots coalitions among the public, private and not-for-profit sectors to create a web of support that increases resources and opportunities for young people who need them.

Iowa Collaboration for Youth Development

Every Iowa youth has something valuable to contribute to our state. The Iowa Collaboration for Youth Development, working with public and private organizations throughout the state, is promoting opportunities for youth to develop the competencies and connections to contribute to their communities.

Suicide Prevention Advocacy Network

The Suicide Prevention Advocacy Network is dedicated to raise awareness about suicide. It offers resources and contact information for those bereaved by suicide.

Teens, Crime and the Community

TCC is a national program all about teens getting involved in crime prevention to make themselves safer and their communities stronger.

Iowa Mentoring Partnership

A statewide network that will allow mentoring programs and providers within Iowa to become aware of each other's programs and strengths. IMP serves as an advocate of and resource for mentoring programs across the State. See Directory of Iowa mentoring programs. Mentoring Tool-kit.

National Mentoring Center

Training information and technical assistance. How to Build a Successful Mentoring Program Using the Elements of Effective Practice .

Connected Communities

CADCA's new social network site that provides coalition leaders and members the opportunity to connect, communicate and collaborate with others in the field.

The Alliance of Coalitions For Change

A statewide network seeking to increase the synergy of substance abuse prevention efforts in Iowa.

State Action Guide: Mandatory Point-of-Purchase Messaging on Alcohol and Pregnancy - a resource to promote the expansion of state and local policies that mandate point-of-purchase warnings on the risks of alcohol consumption during pregnancy.

Reducing Tobacco Use Among Youth: Community-Based Approaches - A Guideline for Prevention Practitioners

The Weed and Seed Toolbox This manual provides communities with the tools to craft sustainable prevention and intervention strategies to improve conditions in neighborhoods or communities, making them better, healthier, and safer places to live and work.