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Alcohol and Other Drugs

Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute Library, University of Washington
Established in 1973, by the University of Washington, the Institute serves as a focal point for alcohol and drug use research, making information available to health and social professionals and policymakers.

California's Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Technical Assistance Project
The Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities (SDFSC) Technical Assistance project supports grantees of the SDFSC Governor's Program in implementing their alcohol, drug and violence prevention programming efforts, and provides no-cost technical assistance and training to support and enhance these prevention efforts. The website serves as an online resource and networking site for grantees.

Centers for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
The lead federal agency on the prevention of alcohol and other drug use that links research to services so that knowledge is developed through carefully evaluated demonstration projects. CSAP has identified effective, science-based, model prevention programs.

Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies(CAPT)
CAPT's mission is to bring research to practice. It is designed to work with states and local communities, policymakers and local leaders, agencies and task forces to apply science-based prevention technology that works.

Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America
The premier membership organization of over 5,000 Community Coalitions nationwide, each fighting the problems associated with substance abuse.

Community Prevention Initiative
The Community Prevention Initiative is funded and directed by the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs and serves California's Community Coalitions and Partnerships.

Decision Support System for Prevention of Substance Abuse
A highly interactive software program accessed through the World Wide Web that provides rapid access to all the science-based prevention content areas. Developed by SAMHSA/CSAP.

Drug Strategies
A non-profit research institute that promotes more effective approaches to the nation's drug problems and supports private and public initiatives that reduce the demand for drugs through prevention, treatment and law enforcement.

Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the Higher Education Center provides support to all institutions of higher education in their efforts to address alcohol and other drug problems.

Join Together Online
A project of the Boston University School of Public Health that is a national resource for communities working to reduce substance abuse and gun violence.

Justice Information Center
A service of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service that provides the most extensive sources of information on criminal and juvenile justice in the world.

National Association of State and Alcohol/Drug Abuse Directors
A private, not-for-profit educational, scientific, and informational organization.

National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University
A unique think/action tank that brings together under one roof all the professional desciplines needed to study and combat all forms of substance abuse, as they affect all aspects of society.

National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. (NCADD)
NCADD provides education, information, help and hope in the fight against chronic, often fatal disease of alcoholism and other drug addictions.

National Families in Action (NFIA)
NFIA is a national drug education, prevention and policy center, whose misson is to help families and communities prevent drug abuse among children by promoting policies based on science.

National Inhalant Prevention Coalition
A site that specializes in inhalant prevention and awareness education.

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
NIAAA supports and conducts biomedical and behavioral research on the causes, consequences, treatment, and prevention of alcoholism and alcohol-related problems. Publications, database, news and events, grant information and other resources are available at this site.

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
NIDA is part of the National Institutes of Health and conducts biomedical and behavioral research on the causes, consequences, treatment, and prevention of drug use. Publications, databases, news and events, grant information and other resources are available at this site.

Office of Juvenile Justice and Deliquency Prevention (OJJDP)
OJJDP provides federal leadership on juvenile justice and delinquency prevention efforts, which include alcohol and other substance use and abuse.

Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)
ONDCP's purpose is to establish policies, priorities, and objectives for the Nation's drug control program.

Office of Safe & Drug-Free Schools
The Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools is the Federal government's primary vehicle for reducing drug, alcohol and tobacco use, and violence, through education and prevention activities in our nation's schools.

Partnership for Drug-Free America
A private, non-profit, non-partisan coalition of professionals from the communications industry, whose mission is to reduce demand for illicit drugs in America through media communications.

Regional Alcohol and Drug Awareness Resource (RADAR) Network
The mission of the RADAR Network is to strengthen communication, prevention, and treatment activities so that a broad range of organizations can communicate and help each other prevent substance abuse problems. The RADAR Network consists of statewide clearinghouses, prevention resource centers, Department of Education Regional Training Centers, and national, international and local organizations supporting substance abuse prevention activities.

Society for Prevention Research
A professional organization focused upon the advancement of science-based prevention programs and policies through empirical research.

Substance Abuse Librarians & Information Specialist (SALIS)
SALIS is an international association of individuals and organizations with special interests in the exchange and dissemination of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug information. The site includes a guide to alcohol and other drug libraries and information centers and/or special collections, along with a list of alcohol, tobacco and other drug journal titles, books and database lists.

Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
SAMHSA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that is charged with improving the quality and availability of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and cost to society resulting in substance abuse and mental illnesses.

SAMHSA's National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
SAMHSA's National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information is a collection of links to numerous prevention resouces, programs, and information, including daily news updates and research statistics, online forms, and a multi-website database search.

SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-based Prevention Programs (NREPP)
This site gives you the opportunity to register prevention programs and share information with others in the field.

Tanglewood Research
Tanglewood Research is dedicated to developing, testing, training, and marketing highly effective educational materials for preventing drug use, violence, delinquency, and premature sexual activity among teens.

Western Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (WestCAPT)
WestCAPT is one of five regional centers funded by the Center for Abuse Prevention. The purpose of WestCAPT is to assist states, jurisdictions, and community-based prevention programs in the Western Region to apply scientifically-defensible strategies in their efforts to prevent substance abuse.

American Legacy Foundation (Legacy)
Legacy is a national, independent, public health foundation located in Washington, D.C. The foundation collaborates with national, state, and local organizations through grant awards, research initiatives, marketing efforts, and training programs in an effort to reduce tobacco use in the United States.

CDC's Guidelines to Prevent Tobacco Use and Addiction
These guidelines identify strategies most likely to be effective in preventing tobacco use and addiction among young people. The guidelines were developed by CDC staff in collaboration with experts from other federal agencies, state agencies, universities, voluntary organizations, and professional associations.

CDC's National Tobacco Information Online System (NATIONS)
NATIONS is an electronically integrated information system containing county-specific information on a wide variety of tobacco control issues. It provides a standardized structure to monitor and assess the impact of tobacco, assist in the design of tobacco prevention and control programs and policies, and enhance future tobacco surveillance and evaluation research.

CDC's Office on Smoking and Health (OSH)
OSH is a division within the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), which is one of the centers within CDC. OSH is responsible for leading and coordinating strategtic efforts aimed at preventing tobacco use among youth, promoting smoking cessation among youth and adults, protecting nonsmokers from environmental tobaaco smoke (ETS), and eliminateing tobacco-related health disparities.

SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
The mission of the Center is to decrease substance use and abuse by bringing effective prevention to every community. To further this mission, the Partners website is a virtual meeting place for all organizations that want to become involved in the substance abuse prevention effort or want to enhance or expand their current substance abuse prevention activities. This website provides organization with networking opportunities, information, and resources to enable those already in the field to continue and enhance their work and to help newcomers become active in substance abuse prevention.

Tobacco Control Archives (TCA)
Sponsored by UCSF Library & Center for Knowledge Management, Department of Archives and Special Collections, the TCA is a central, organized source of information. TCA's purpose is to collect, preserve, and provide access to papers, unpublished documents and electronic resources relevant to tobacco control issues primarily in California.

Tobacco Control Online
Tobacco Control is a quarterly scientific journal launched in 1992 to consider all aspects of tobacco prevention and control. The journal aims to study the nature and consequences of tobacco use worldwide; the effect of tobacco use on health, economy, the environment and society; the efforts of the health community and health advocates to prevent and control tobacco use; and the activities of the tobacco industry and its allies to promote tobacco use.

Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP)
The mission of TRDRP is to support research that focuses on the prevention, causes, and treatment of tobacco-related disease and the reduction of the human and economic costs of tobacco use in California.

Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV)
Founded in 1992, CSPV provides informed assistance to groups committed to understanding and preventing violence, particularly adolescent violence.

Children's Safety Network (CSN) National Injury and Violence Prevention Resource Center
CSN provides resources and technical assistance to maternal and child health agencies and other organizations seeking to reduce unintentional injuries and violence to children and adolescence.

Join Together Online
A project of the Boston University School of Public Health that is a national resource for communities working to reduce substance abuse and gun violence.

Justice Information Center
A service of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service that provides the most extensive sources of information on criminal and juvenile justice in the world.

Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse (MINCAVA)
A clearinghouse that provides a quick and user-friendly access point to the extensive violence and abuse resources available on the Internet.

National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Established by the CDC in 1992 to reduce morbidity, disability, mortality, and cost associated with injuries.

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
NIMH is a federal agency that conducts and supports research nationwide on mental illneses and mental health, including studies of the brain, behavior and mental health services.

National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center
The National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center provides current information developed by Federal agencies or with Federal support pertaining to youth violence, including information on prevention and intervention programs, publications, research, and statistics on violence committed by and against children and teens. It is a partnership of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other Federal agencies.

Office of Juvenile Justice and Deliquency Prevention (OJJDP)
OJJDP provides federal leadership on juvenile justice and delinquency prevention efforts, which include alcohol and other substance use and abuse.

Office of Safe & Drug-Free Schools
The Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools is the Federal government's primary vehicle for reducing drug, alcohol and tobacco use, and violence, through education and prevention activities in our nation's schools.

Partnerships Against Violence Network (PAVNET)
PAVNET online is a "virtual library" of information about violence and youth-at-risk, representing data from seven different federal agencies. It is a "one-stop," searchable, information resource to help reduce redundancy in information management and provide clear and comprehensive access to information for States and local communities.

Public/Private Ventures
Public/Private Ventures ia a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to improve the effectiveness of social policies, programs and community iniatives, especially as they affect youth and young adults. In carrying out this mission, P/PV works with philanthropies, the public and business sectors, and nonprofit organizations.

Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative
The Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative, a comprehensive approach to youth violence prevention, is a Federal grant-making program designed to prevent violence and substance abuse among youth, schools, and communities.

Safetyzone
The Safetyzone works is a clearinghouse for information and material related to school safety.

Society for Prevention Research
A professional organization focused upon the advancement of science-based prevention programs and policies through empirical research.

Tanglewood Research
Tanglewood Research is dedicated to developing, testing, training, and marketing highly effective educational materials for preventing drug use, violence, delinquency, and premature sexual activity among teens.

Children, Youth and Families Education and Research Network (CYFERnet)
CYFERnet's website brings together the best children, youth, and family resources of all the public land-grant universities in the country. CYFERnet can provide tools and information for working with youth, parents, families, and communities; share practical research-based tools, curricula and activities; help locate experts in the areas of children, youth, and family across the country; provide access to the latest research, statistical, and demograhic information; locate funding opporunities; provide resources; and instruments for program evaluation.

Community Youth Development (CYD) Journal
CYD Journal is the leading publication for youth and community workers, educators, administrators, researchers, policymakers, and other practitioners committed to the development of young people and communities. CYD Journal is published quarterly by the Institute for Just Communities and the Institute for Sustainable Development, Heller School of Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University. It is produced in collaboration with the National Association of Extension 4-H Agents.

Hemingway: Measure of Adolescent Connectedness
This site provides information and resources to aid in the distribution and effective use of the Hemingway Measure of Adolescent Connectedness, a research-based measure of adolescent connectedness. The site is intended to serve researchers and educators by making the Hemingway scales, examples of real-world applications, and the underlaying research freely available for download.

ResilienceNet
ResilienceNet brings together information available through the Internet and conventional published sources about the development and expression of human resilience. ResilienceNet provides information about resilience in the following forms: comprehensive bibliographies of the resilience literature; descriptions of and links to web sites containing information about resilience; full texts of selected publications focused on resilience; and tips on promoting resilience in everyday life settings.

Resiliency in Action
This is the web site of the Resiliency in Action Journal whose purpose is to spread the news of resiliency through sharing research and faciliating the practical application and evaluation of the resiliency paradigm.

Search Institute
Search Institute is an independent, nonprofit, nonsectarin organization whose mission is to advance the well-being of adolescents and children by generating knowledge and promoting its application. To accomplish this mission, the Institute generates, synthesizes, and communicates new knowledge, convenes organizational and community leaders, and works with state and national organizations. At the heart of the Institute's work is the framework of 40 development assets which are positive experiences, relationships, opportunities, and personal qualities that young people need to grow up healthy, caring, and responsible.