Non-Profit Organizations

National Association for Children of Alcoholics
Advocating for all children and families affected by alcoholism and other drug dependencies.

Adult Children of Alcoholics
A Twelve Step, Twelve Tradition program of women and men who grew up in alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional homes.

Al-Anon
A Twelve Step, Twelve Tradition recovery program for family members and friends of alcoholics.

Alateen
Alateen is Al-anon's recovery program for young people. Alateen groups are sponsored by Al-Anon members.

Alcoholics Anonymous
An international fellowship of men and women who have had a drinking problem. A.A. members share their experience with anyone seeking help with a drinking problem; they give person-to-person service or "sponsorship" to the alcoholic coming to A.A. from any source. The formal A.A. program, set forth in the Twelve Steps, is discussed at A.A. group meetings.

Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University
Located on the Butler Hospital Campus in Providence, Rhode Island, the Brown University Center promotes the identification, prevention, and effective treatment of alcohol and other drug use problems through research, education, training, and policy advocacy.

Children of Alcoholics Foundation
A national non-profit organization that provides a range of educational materials and services to help professionals, children and adults break the intergenerational cycle of parental substance abuse.

Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America
A membership organization of some 5,000 community anti-drug coalitions, CADCA offers its members technical assistance and training and represents them in the public policy arena.

Faces and Voices of Recovery
Formerly known as The Alliance Project, this coalition of grassroots advocacy organizations seeks to change public perceptions by demonstrating the hope and reality of long-term recovery from addiction.

Indiana Prevention Resource Center
Located on the Bloomington campus of Indiana University, the Indiana Prevention Resource Center (IPRC) serves Indiana's alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) prevention programs through the provision of information, materials, consultation, and technical assistance. As Indiana's designated RADAR Network (Regional Alcohol and Drug Awareness Resource Network) State Center, it also provides information, government publications, and referral services to all Indiana residents.

Join Together
Funded primarily by a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to the Boston University School of Public Health, Join Together supports community-based efforts to reduce, prevent, and treat substance abuse across the nation. It promotes comprehensive strategies that respond to the harms related to substance abuse, such as domestic violence, unemployment, crime, loss of workplace productivity, and gun violence. It produces a variety of informational products including reports, newsletters, and community action toolkits.

Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free
A nationwide coalition of more than 30 state governors' spouses, federal agencies, and public and private organizations working to prevent the use of alcohol by children ages 9 to 15. The initiative was founded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors
A nationwide organization of alcoholism and drug abuse professionals, NAADAC is committed to increasing general awareness of alcoholism and drug abuse and enhancing care of individuals through treatment, education, and prevention programs.

National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors
NASADAD's purpose is to foster and support the development of effective alcohol and other drug abuse prevention and treatment programs throughout every State.

National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
A nonprofit trade association serving the education, advocacy and networking needs of more than 800 community providers of mental health and addiction treatment services.

National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc (NCADD)
Founded in 1944 by Marty Mann, the first woman to find long-term sobriety in Alcoholics Anonymous, the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. (NCADD) provides education, information, help and hope to the public. It advocates prevention, intervention and treatment through offices in New York and Washington, and a nationwide network of Affiliates.

National Families in Action
Based in Atlanta, Georgia, NFIA is a drug education, prevention, and policy center founded in 1977. Its mission is to help families and communities prevent drug use among children by promoting policies based on science. It maintains a drug-information center and a Web site, and publishes numerous articles, pamphlets, books, and a quarterly digest, Drug Abuse Update.

National Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention (LCA)
LCAT is a national organization dedicated combating alcohol and tobacco problems and their underlying causes in Latino communities through research, policy analysis, community education, training and information dissemination.

Web of Addictions
Produced by Andrew L. Homer, Ph.D. and Dick Dillon, Web of Addictions is a Web site dedicated to providing accurate information about alcohol and other drug addictions.

Government-Agency Web Sites

National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI) is supported by the federal Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) as a national resource to promote and distribute alcohol and other drug information on prevention, intervention and treatment to a wide variety of audiences.

E-Books is a new library included within the NCADI Web site (www.health.org/multimedia/ebooks/). It includes documents about helping children stay drug-free. Readers download and install Microsoft Reader in order to obtain the documents.

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
NIAAA is one of 18 institutes that comprise the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the principal biomedical research agency of the Federal Government. NIAAA supports and conducts biomedical and behavioral research on the causes, consequences, treatment, and prevention of alcoholism and alcohol-related problems. NIAAA also provides leadership in the national effort to reduce the severe and often fatal consequences of these problems.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Established by Congress in 1992, the 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 to reduce illness, death, disability, and cost to society resulting from substance abuse and mental illnesses. SAMHSA works in partnership with States, communities and private organizations to address the needs of people with substance abuse and mental illnesses as well as the community risk factors that contribute to these illnesses.

SAMHSA operates two Centers that disseminate information of particular relevance for helping COAs. The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention provides national leadership in the development of policies, programs, and services to prevent the onset of illegal drug use, to prevent underage alcohol and tobacco use, and to reduce the negative consequences of using substances.
The Center for Drug Abuse Treatment works to ensure access to clinically sound, cost-effective addiction treatment.

Government-Sponsored Web Sites

Freevibe
Freevibe helps youth understand the dangers of substance abuse and make
responsible decisions with their lives. The site engages visitors to submit
their own "Anti-Drugs," provides an opportunity to discuss the effects of
drugs and peer pressure and offers an online community for learning about
staying drug-free. A special section of the site
(www.Freevibe.com/headsup/help_resource.shtml) provides information for
young people who live with a parent who uses drugs or drinks too much.
Freevibe also features an animated Webisode series, Summit High, which
follows five freshmen students as they adjust to high school.

Girl Power!
A site inaugurated in 1996 by the Department of Health and Human Services to deliver positive health messages to pre-teen (age 9-14) girls. Its "locker room" includes an ongoing section for children coping with addiction, called "You Are Not Alone." (www.girlpower.gov/girlarea/notalone/index.htm.)

National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign
The Congressionally-funded National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign is an
unprecedented effort designed to educate and empower youth to reject illicit
drugs. The Media Campaign targets youth ages 9-18, parents and other adults
who influence choices young people make to lead drug-free lives.
MediaCampaign.org provides Campaign stakeholders with information about
drug-prevention programs, activities and strategies. The site includes the
Campaign's press releases, announcements, quarterly newsletter, downloadable
anti-drug Web banners and template materials that can be easily adapted by
stakeholders.

National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign: Parents: The Anti-Drug
TheAntiDrug.com provides parents and other caring adults with strategies
and tips on raising healthy, drug-free children. This award-winning site
encourages parents to help their children with these difficult issues by
offering information from behavioral experts as well as other parents.
Information from TheAntiDrug.com is available in Spanish at
www.LaAntiDroga.com and accessible in Korean, Cambodian, Chinese and
Vietnamese from the homepage of TheAntiDrug.com.

¡Soy Unica! ¡Soy Latina!
This bilingual site for Hispanic girls ages 9-14 and their mothers and caregivers is designed to help the girls build and enhance their own self-esteem, mental health, decision-making and assertiveness skills, and to prevent the harmful consequences of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs.