Family Support Centers

Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA)

Natalie Keaton

The Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) is the nation’s leading substance misuse prevention organization. Representing more than 5,000 anti-drug coalitions worldwide, CADCA strengthens coalitions while providing a comprehensive array of coalition support and education, community education and collaboration, and advocates for stronger public policy. Signature events include the National Leadership Forum, Mid-Year Training Institute, and the Drug-Free Kids Campaign Awards Dinner. In partnership with Community Connections, Inc., CADCA delivers intensive, customized education for coalitions across the state of West Virginia. In addition to world-class coalition assistance, CADCA’s West Virginia trainings include the National Coalition Academy, the Graduate Coalition Academy, and the CADCA Youth Leadership Initiative.

HRSA NAS Education Program-BIBS (Babies in Better Situations) HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration) Grant

Jamie Styons

The HRSA NAS Education Program is a collaborative effort with Southern Highlands CMHC, Community Connections, Inc., and local OB-GYNs to provide education to those struggling with mental health and/or substance use disorders. The program focuses mainly on female candidates of childbearing age in Mercer, McDowell, and Wyoming Counties; however, males have been admitted due to the number of single fathers within our region. The goal of this initiative is to reduce the incidence and impact of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) by improving systems of care, local conditions, social determinants of health, family supports, and creating a systematic change to promote all pathways of mental health and substance use treatment and recovery.

Mercer County Coalition for Healthy Communities

Candace Harless

Mercer County Coalition for Healthy Communities is a voluntary collaboration between groups and/or sectors of the community in which the group/sectors withhold their identities while working together toward a common goal of creating a safe, healthy, drug-free community.

The WV Partnerships for Success (PFS)

Angela Watkins, Kathy Brunty, and Cheryl Jonese

The WV Partnerships for Success grant prevention program aims to decrease underage drinking, intravenous drug use, and marijuana use among high-risk WV students aged 9-20, through selective and indicated prevention strategies informed by the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF); local, state, and federal data; and targeted and culturally and age appropriate evidence-based practices (EBPs).

West Virginia has a solid prevention foundation, and this SPF-PFS grant builds upon the state’s existing prevention infrastructure to strengthen and create new partnerships, bolster the State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup (SEOW), and enhance the overall strategic prevention framework processes at the state, regional, and county levels. Partnerships include, but are not limited to colleges, child-serving agencies, schools, and behavioral health providers.The WV prevention workforce and other key stakeholders (law enforcement, schools, community members, youth serving groups, physicians, families, and more) will plan, implement and sustain effective and culturally relevant evidence-based prevention practices, programs and policies to address underage drinking, marijuana use and intravenous drug use among persons aged 9-20.