Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America

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“The vp of finance & administration/cfo is responsible for ensuring cadca's annual form 990 is completed accurately and timely. The cfo works with the accounting firm to ensure this is done. Once the form 990 is completed, it is reviewed by cadca's executive staff and ceo. If there are no changes, the ceo then forwards the form 990 to cadca's board of directors for review and approval.”

“Cadca is a small non-profit organization that promotes open communication between all employees regardless of position within the company and strives to uphold a strong and solid reputation within our field and among our professional colleagues. Cadca's conflict of interest policy outlines situations that may arise during the course of business with others and what actions are to be taken in the event of a conflict. Employees are expected to report any situation that may be viewed as a conflict of interest to their direct supervisor. Conflicts of interest have been defined as the employment of immediate family, acceptance of gifts, fees, or honoraria, and creating a conflict of interest for others. It is understood that within our field employees may be recognized as experts and given a financial stipend to speak. Cadca has capped the receipt of gifts at $250.00. Employees are on the honor system to uphold cadca's values in their everyday line of work. If given reason to suspect or indicate anything less than cadca's values, employees will be questioned by the ceo and cfo to determine if a breach of conduct has occurred and what action to take. Employees failing to adhere to the policy may be terminated. Money received is processed by the office manager, given to the ceo or cfo for financial approval and processed by the ar associate. Through these checks and balances, any financial amount received that would compromise cadca's integrity would be subject to further examination and questioning. Money received that has been deemed questionable by the cfo is presented to the ceo. The monies are returned with a polite letter explaining cadca's policy.”

“The compensation committee of cadca's board is responsible for annually reviewing and approving the compensation of the ceo and senior staff of the organization. This process includes the use of a third-party compensation consulting firm, a compensation study, and comparability data from form 990 of similar organizations in the geographic region to determine appropriate compensation levels for each senior staff person.”

“Cadca's financial statements are available upon request or by various outlets such as guidestar. The governing documents and conflict of interest policy are available upon request.”

“Cadca is the only national membership-based organization representing community drug prevention coalitions. Cadca's mission is to build and strengthen the capacity of community coalitions to create and maintain safe, healthy, and drug-free communities globally by providing public policy, training and technical assistance, evaluation and research, communications and special events.”

“Training: international in 2024, cadca's international drug demand reduction (ddr) program continued its global expansion through several key grants. One major grant was the continuation of a five-year grant from the u.s. Department of state, bureau of international narcotics and law enforcement (inl) office of global policy and programs (gpp). This grant enabled cadca to provide comprehensive training, technical assistance, and ongoing support to communities, non-governmental organizations, local governments, and other groups in 16 countries. The goal was to develop effective substance use prevention coalitions capable of achieving population-level reductions in drug use and related challenges. This funding also facilitated international participation in cadca's 24th annual mid-year training institute and the issup regional conference in argentina and supported cadca's delegation at the 67th session of the un commission on narcotic drugs. In addition to this global grant, cadca was awarded or continued several country-specific grants in 2024, which further expanded coalition development efforts around the world: - albania: the u.s. Department of state inl office of global policy and programs (gpp) funds cadca's ddr program to support the creation of five new coalitions in albania. This grant also facilitated albanian representatives' participation at cadca's 24th annual mid-year training institute. - costa rica: the u.s. Department of state inl office in san jose, funds cadca to develope 12 new coalitions, strengthen the existing network of 17 coalitions, and integrate youth involvement across all coalitions in costa rica. - dominican republic: cadca was awarded a grant by the inl office in santo domingo to further expand the coalition network in the dominican republic. This resulted in the formation of six new coalitions. Three in santo domingo, two in santiago, and one in san francisco de macors. The grant also supports the participation of representatives from the dominican republic at cadca's 24th mid-year training institute. - ecuador: cadca received a grant from the inl office in quito to establish 12 new coalitions and support 4 existing ones in the province of guayas. This grant also supports the participation of ecuadorian representatives at cadca's 24th annual mid-year training institute. - philippines: funding from the u.s. Department of state inl office in manila supported coalition development across the philippines. This included hosting the 7th national conference of community coalitions, establishing 17 new coalitions through the provision of training, technical assistance and ongoing support and providing resources for the participation of local chief executive to attend cadca's 24th mid-year training institute. - panama: in 2024, cadca was awarded a grant by the inl office in panama city to establish, develop, and support 10 new coalitions in panama. This grant also supports the participation of panamanian representatives at cadca's annual mid-year training institute. - uzbekistan: in 2024, cadca was awarded a grant by the inl office to establish, develop, and support 4 new coalitions in uzbekistan. This grant also supports the participation of uzbekistani representatives at cadca's annual mid-year training institute, and the development of an uzbekistani national coalition training event. In addition, cadca will develop youth leadership programs yough coalition leaders in uzbekistan. The combined efforts from these grants enabled cadca's ddr program to support 242 coalitions across 22 countries in 2024. Cadca conducted nearly 500 engagement activities, including training sessions, technical assistance, webinars, and coalition forums, reaching over 9,000 attendees. Training materials were offered in 8 languages, including albanian, english, spanish, french, portuguese, russian, indonesian bahasa, and tagalog. With the resources provided by these grants, cadca trained over 13,000 volunteers across 23 countrie”

“Meetings and events: national leadership forum cadca's annual national leadership forum is the nation's largest training event for community substance misuse prevention coalitions and other substance use and misuse professionals and volunteers. It also serves as cadca's signature training, advocacy, and networking event. The 34th annual national leadership forum was convened in-person january 29-february 1, 2024, at the gaylord in national harbor, md and attracted over 3,000 prevention and treatment specialists from throughout the u.s. And abroad. The 2024 forum featured over 75 training sessions, six plenary sessions and special events covering a wide range of topicsfrom fighting mental health stigma to prevent substance misuse to working with diverse populations to create health equity. It included presentations from multiple federal partners, including dea, cdc, samhsa, and nih were well represented. The forum provided participants an opportunity to meet with u.s. Senators and members of congress during capitol hill day with over 1,000 attendees participating in over 150 appointments on capital hill. In addition, nearly 550 youth participated in cadca's youth leadership development program. Mid-year training institute cadca's annual mid-year training institute is prevention's only intensive, four-day training designed specifically for community coalitions. The 2024 mid-year was held in-person at the chicago hilton from july 14 18, 2024, and attracted 2,500 attendees. Included in this number were nearly 500 youth who participated in cadca's signature youth leadership development program and attendees from 23 other countries and 4 us territories. Mid-year offered over 75 ninety minute and half-day courses on topics including veterinary medicine and substance misuse and dealing with marijuana commercialization. In addition, almost 30 corporate partners supported the organization via sponsorship opportunities at cadca's three signature events: the national leadership forum, the mid-year training institute and the drug-free kids campaign. Sponsorship support includes the following: training sessions, digital communications, promotional eblasts, advertisement, learning labs, reception hosts, youth opportunities other meetings & events in addition to the forum and mid-year, cadca managed numerous events throughout the year including regional trainings, board meetings, and advisory meetings virtually.”

“National coalition institute: cadca's national coalition institute, (nci or the institute) is a federally funded program with the mission to increase the effectiveness of community substance misuse/use prevention coalitions throughout the united states and territories. The institute provides training, technical assistance, outreach, and support for coalition's participating in the yearlong trainings. The institute is also responsible for developing and disseminating information to promote evidence-based programs, policies, and practices. Cadca administers the institute through a grant awarded through the drug-free communities (dfc) support program, funded through the office of national drug control policy (ondcp). Training is offered through a cadre of master and lead trainers and are culturally appropriate. The national coalition academy is cadca's signature training offered to both dfc and non-dfc coalition staff and members to be better equipped to learn how to make long lasting change using cadca's model for community change. This 3-week training program is offered each calendar year in locations across the country. Cadca also offers these trainings several formats including completely virtually hybrid (a mix of in-person and virtual) and fully in-person trainings. The nci evaluation team is responsible for developing and analyzing all session surveys which are provided to ondcp in a year-end report. Training, coalition development/technical assistance & outreach - any coalition or project officer working on behalf of a coalition may request and receive unlimited, no-cost individual technical assistance delivered over the phone or to individuals/groups through distance learning systems. In addition, a coalition development & outreach booth is provided during major training events such as the national leadership forum and the mid-year training institute. This highly popular one-on-one meeting with the institute's coalition development staff/consultants generates a significant amount of high-quality technical assistance on site and for future encounters and opportunities. Training operations the training operation team conducts various types/lengths of in-person and/or virtual trainings throughout the united states and territories. The length and content of each training varies by need of the customer/client requesting the training(s). Individual coalitions/regions/states can seek the type and location of training and support that best meets their needs. All trainings, which are paid for by the customer/client, are carefully developed and are tailored to meet the specific needs of coalitions in rural, frontier, urban, and inner-city communities. Evaluation and research the evaluation and research (e & r) team of the leads the evaluation and research support of the national coalition institute and the coalitions who are current and past grant recipients in the drug free communities program. All cadca trainings and projects are evaluated, and every evaluation is a part of a systematic quality improvement effort. Additionally, e & r tracks and reports on all government performance and results act (gpra) measures. E & r manages the evaluation of the national coalition institute. We coordinate this work with the external evaluator of the nci: the center for public health system science with the brown school at washington university. This work will include the gathering of qualitative data from participating coalitions and the analysis of this data with data from the annual survey of coalitions and the blue-ribbon recognition. The blue-ribbon recognition program was launched in 2020. It is one of the e & r signature projects in supporting coalition efforts and is the only initiative that links coalitions outcomes with the training cadca provides. The new working plan will continue to build on the success of the blue-ribbon recognition in engaging coalitions trained through the national coalition academy. The careful coordination b”

“Other professional fees: program service expenses 3,339,181. Management and general expenses 123,792. Fundraising expenses 17,429. Total expenses 3,480,402.”