National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
For general information, publications, databases and resource material you can call the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information at 1-800-729-6686, or you can go to their Prevline website. A service of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Prevline offers searchable databases, links to other helpful sites, and access to hundreds of free and low cost publications, some of which may be ordered on line.   www.health.org

Alcohol and Substance Abuse Providers of New York State
The Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Providers of New York State is committed to working with one voice in the support of organizations, groups and individuals that prevent and alleviate the profound personal, social and economic consequences of alcoholism and substance abuse in New York State.   www.asapnys.org

Alcohol Screening
If you consume alcoholic beverages, it's important to know whether your drinking patterns are safe, risky or harmful. This site can help you find out. You can assess your own drinking, learn about alcohol and health issues, and find resources for additional help.    www.AlcoholScreening.org

Center For Intergenerational Learning - ACROSS AGES
The mission of Across Ages is to serve as a comprehensive intergenerational mentoring initiative that has been successful in helping youth navigate the difficult course through the early teen years. Originally designed as a school-based program for substance abuse prevention, the model was expanded to address multiple risk/protective factors and can be utilized as a wide-ranging prevention strategy in a variety of settings. Across Ages was initiated by CIL in 1991.    www.temple.edu/cil/Acrossageshome.htm

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
Our Mission: To decrease substance use and abuse by bringing effective prevention to every community. The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) is the sole Federal organization with responsibility for improving accessibility and quality of substance abuse prevention services. The Center provides national leadership in the development of policies, programs, and services to prevent the onset of illegal drug use, underage alcohol and tobacco use, and to reduce the negative consequences of using substances.    www.samhsa.gov/centers/csap/csap.html

Centers For Disease Control and Prevention - Tobacco Information
The Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) is a division within the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), which is one of the centers within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) OSH is responsible for leading and coordinating strategic efforts aimed at preventing tobacco use among youth, promoting smoking cessation among youth and adults, protecting nonsmokers from environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), and eliminating tobacco-related health disparities.    www.cdc.gov/health/tobacco.htm

Channing Bete: Communities That Care
CTC is a prevention planning system that helps communities develop an integrated approach to promoting the positive development of children and youth and to preventing problem behaviors, including substance abuse, delinquency, teen pregnancy, school dropout, and violence.   www.preventionscience.com/ctc/CTC.html

ClubDrugs.org - A Service of the National Institute on Drug Abuse
NIDA site on club drugs   www.clubdrugs.org

Crusade Against Impaired Driving, Inc.
The mission of Crusade Against Impaired Driving, Inc. is to save lives that are tragically lost daily at the hands of drunk drivers through education, advocacy, awareness, and victim services. Karen Kwiatkowski was a bright and responsible young woman whose life was tragically ended in a drunk-driving crash, and this Western New York based non-profit organization is named in her honor.   karenscrusade.org/

Do It Now Foundation
America's Drug Information Connection   www.doitnow.org

Erie County Council for the Prevention of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse
Locally, don't forget our colleagues at the Erie County Council for the Prevention of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse. ECCPASA has many quality programs including "Safe Homes" in which parents pledge to keep their homes as safe, drug-free places for children and teens to visit. They also have a video tape lending library and many materials available.    www.eccpasa.info

ETR Associates
Our mission at ETR Associates is to enhance the well-being of individuals, families and communities by providing leadership, educational resources, training and research in health promotion with an emphasis on sexuality and health education.   www.etr.org

Join Together Online
JoinTogether Online offers a summary of stories about substance abuse and violence prevention that have appeared in the press. You may sign up to receive email updates on these topics.   www.jointogether.org

Kids Helpline
The Kids Helpline has two exciting components. The first is a kid friendly website which offers online counseling in both group as well as an individual setting. The website also provides information on a variety of topics affecting youth such as depression, pregnancy, and suicide, to name a few. The second aspect of the Kids Helpline is a 24-hour hotline for youth to discuss issues or problems they're having in their lives. They also make many referrals to outside agencies that link youth with the services offered in the community.    www.kidscrisis.com

MADD Online - Activisim, Victim Services, & Education
MADD is a non-profit grass roots organization with more than 600 chapters nationwide. MADD's mission is to stop drunk driving, support the victims of this violent crime, and prevent underage drinking.   www.madd.org

Media Literacy for Prevention, Critical Thinking, & Self-Esteem - Links and Resources
Media literacy is the ability to "read" television and mass media. Media literacy education teaches people to ACCESS, ANALYZE, EVALUATE, and PRODUCE media. Many studies suggest that such education can produce less vulnerable children and adolescents. National PTA's, Teachers' professional organizations, substance abuse prevention programs and the President have all endorsed media literacy.    www.medialiteracy.net/resources/

National PTA
Parents will like the National PTA's Common Sense Strategies for Raising Alcohol and Drug Free Children, which features interactive quizzes, bulletin boards and program ideas for PTA leaders as well as parenting tips for raising drug-free kids.    www.pta.org/commonsense

New York State Education Department
The State Education Department is responsible for general supervision of all educational institutions in the State, for operating certain educational and cultural institutions, and for certifying teachers and certifying or licensing practitioners of thirty-eight professions. The department's supervisory activities include chartering all educational institutions in the State, including schools, libraries, and historical societies; developing and approving school curricula; accrediting college and university programs; allocating State and federal financial aid to schools; and providing and coordinating vocational rehabilitation services.   www.nysed.gov

New York State PTA
The New York State Congress of Parents and Teachers, Inc. (NYS PTA) recognizes that every child deserves excellence in education and in quality of life. NYS PTA will maintain its commitment and service to all children and to its diverse membership through increased parent and community awareness, advocacy, education, and involvement.   www.nypta.com

Northeast Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT)
CSAP's Northeast CAPT's mission is to support the application of science-based substance abuse prevention programs and strategies at the regional, state and local levels; and enhance collaboration between and within each level.    www.northeastcapt.org

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
Providing national leadership, coordination, and resources to prevent and respond to juvenile delinquency and victimization. OJJDP accomplishes this by supporting States and local communities in their efforts to develop and implement effective and coordinated prevention and intervention programs and improve the juvenile justice system so that it protects the public safety, holds offenders accountable, and provides treatment and rehabilitative services tailored to the needs of families and each individual juvenile.   www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org

Office of National Drug Control Policy
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), a component of the Executive Office of the President, was established by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988. The principal purpose of ONDCP is to establish policies, priorities, and objectives for the Nation's drug control program. The goals of the program are to reduce illicit drug use, manufacturing, and trafficking, drug-related crime and violence, and drug-related health consequences. To achieve these goals, the Director of ONDCP is charged with producing the National Drug Control Strategy. The Strategy directs the Nation's anti-drug efforts and establishes a program, a budget, and guidelines for cooperation among Federal, State, and local entities.    www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov

Parenting Is Prevention
The mission of the Parenting IS Prevention Internet Web Site is to provide accurate information, support, and resources to assist parents and others in raising children to be healthy, drug-free, productive adults. In pursuit of this mission, the Parenting IS Prevention Internet Web Site provides tips, informational resources, links to local and national organizations, a focus on what other parents are doing in their communities, and opportunities to ask questions and have them answered by parents whose children have become healthy, drug-free, productive adults.   www.parentingisprevention.org

Partnership for a Drug-Free America
The Partnership for a Drug-Free America exists to help kids and teens reject substance abuse by influencing attitudes through persuasive information.    www.drugfreeamerica.org

Project ALERT - Substance Abuse Prevention That Works!
Project ALERT is an effective research-based drug prevention program for middle grade students (grades 6, 7 and 8) taught in 14 class sessions over a two-year period. More than 20,000 teachers in a quarter of the nation's school districts use Project ALERT.    www.projectalert.best.org

Search Institute - Raising Caring and Responsible Children and Teenagers
Search Institute is an independent, nonprofit, nonsectarian 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.    www.search-institute.org/

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
SAMHSA is the Federal agency charged with improving the quality and availability of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitative services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and cost to society resulting from substance abuse and mental illnesses.    www.samhsa.gov

Syndistar - Award Winning Videotapes, Publications, & Software
Syndistar Inc., founded in 1979, is a national distributor of educational videos, print materials and software. Our products cover many different subject areas, including, substance abuse education, violence prevention, character education, career education, fire prevention, technology education and more.    www.syndistar.com

The Marin Institute
The Marin Institute works to reduce alcohol problems through environmental prevention-improving our physical and social environment to advance public health and safety.    www.MarinInstitute.org

Truth - The Anti-Drug
TheAntiDrug.com was created by the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign to equip parents and other adult caregivers with the tools they need to raise drug-free kids. Working with the nation's leading experts in the fields of parenting and substance abuse prevention, TheAntiDrug.com serves as a drug prevention information center, and a supportive community for parents to interact and learn from each other.    www.theantidrug.com

U.S. Department of Education - Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities
The Safe and Drug-Free Schools program 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. This program is designed to prevent violence in and around schools, and strengthen programs that prevent the illegal use of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs, involve parents, and are coordinated with related Federal, State, and community efforts and resources.   www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/SDFS/index.html