Prevention Programs
Alcohol and Drug Education and Prevention Team (ADEPT

Community Prevention Projects

Underage Drinking
National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence - Orange County (NCADD – OC) / Community Alliance Network (CAN)

CAN is the prevention arm of NCADD-OC and is dedicated to creating and implementing prevention strategies that reduce underage drinking. Project staff provide education, training and technical assistance in the cities of Laguna Beach, Newport Beach, Dana Point and Anaheim. Efforts focus on increasing adult awareness of the prevalence and consequences of underage drinking, as well as a better understanding of effective prevention strategies that address this problem. For more information on their prevention activities, call (949) 595-2288.

AOD Impaired Driving
Community Service Programs: Positive Actions Toward Health (CSP/PATH)
CSP~PATH is a community-based prevention project that aims to create safe and healthy communities by reducing problems associated with alcohol and other drug (AOD) impaired driving. Project staff provide education, training, and technical assistance in the cities of Anaheim, Huntington Beach, Santa Ana and Irvine. Efforts focus on increasing community awareness of driving under the influence (DUI) enforcement operations conducted by local law enforcement and educating community members on effective prevention strategies that address this problem. For more information on their prevention activities, call (949) 757-1096. 

Prescription and Over-The-Counter Drug Abuse
Community Service Programs: Positive Actions Toward Health (CSP/PATH)
CSP~PATH is a community-based prevention project that aims to create safe and healthy communities by reducing problems associated with prescription and over-the-counter (Rx/OTC) drug use. Project staff provide education, training, and technical assistance in the cities of Fullerton, Orange, Newport Beach and Mission Viejo. Efforts focus on increasing adult awareness of the problems of Rx/OTC drug abuse and educating health professionals on effective strategies that address this problem.  For more information on their prevention activities, call (714) 441-0807. 

School-Based and Youth-Focused Projects

Friday Night Live Partnership—Orange County Department of Education
Friday Night Live builds partnerships for positive and healthy youth development and engages youth as active leaders and resources in their communities.  Youth take the lead in implementing prevention projects and activities at their school and in their community to build protective factors that counter or buffer the risks of alcohol and other drug use.  The Orange County Friday Night Live Partnership (OCFNLP) partners with youth attending public, alternative and continuation schools, and with young people participating in community, faith-based, and youth-serving organizations.  For more information, call (714) 966-4387.

Youth Connect—Orange County Department of Education
Youth Connect is a school-based alcohol and other drug prevention project that focuses on building protective factors that counter or buffer the risks of alcohol and other drug use. The project emphasizes training students to guide their peers in staying alcohol and drug free. Youth take on leadership roles by developing and implementing prevention activities with freshmen students at four Orange County public schools. For more information call (714) 966-4458.

California Hispanic Commission on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse (CHCADA)—La Familia
The prevention project through La Familia works to increase awareness of the consequences of alcohol and other drugs among the Latino community. Services include providing educational services and life and social skills workshops to students in Orange County middle schools. La Familia engages student and parent groups, facilitates alternative and diversionary activities, and provides outreach services to the community. For more information, call (714) 479-0873.

Community Service Programs, Inc.—Positive Action Towards Health (CSP/PATH)
Faith-Based ATOD Prevention Project
The mission of CSP/PATH’s Faith-Based Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug (ATOD) prevention project is to build the capacity of faith-based organizations (FBOs) to provide youth-focused alcohol and other drug prevention services. The project focuses on building protective factors that counter or buffer the risks of alcohol and other drug use. Project staff provide education, training and technical assistance to several Orange County faith-based organizations.  For additional information, call (949) 757-1096. 

Data Collection Projects

CLEW Associates – Alcohol/drug Sensitive Information Planning System (ASIPS)

The ASIPS Program is a specialized information utility designed to assist local communities in developing data on alcohol and other drug (AOD) involvement in police activities and applying that data to the prevention or reduction of AOD-related problems in the local community. The heart of the program is an ASIPS Data Base, which uses police calls-for-service and arrest data to profile alcohol/drug involvement in police activity and to report AOD-related events in local community environment contexts of time, location, and type of setting. For additional information, call (510) 526-2210.