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Useful GRAA TA Resources from CSAP’s CAPTs

The Grants to Reduce Alcohol Abuse (GRAA) Program is a 3-year grant program funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools.  GRAA funds go directly to school districts to provide effective programming and strategies aimed at reducing alcohol use among secondary school students.

Also see the extensive resources on the Northeast CAPT Online Portal

• Grants to Reduce Alcohol Abuse Checklist (PDF 62 KB)
• 2007 and 2008 Cohort Master Contact List (PDF 32 KB)
• Menu of CAPT Services GRAA Grantees (PDF 47 KB)
• Northeast GRAA Programs and Model Programs Being Implemented (PDF 80 KB)
• Grants to Reduce Alcohol Abuse Program, GRAA Southwest CAPT Region, Active Grantees (PDF 69 KB)
• Southwest Regional Map - Grants to Reduce Alcohol Abuse Grantees (PDF 70 KB)
• GRAA  Program Matrix – Southwest CAPT Region – (PDF 70 KB)

Drug/Alcohol Related Issues/Policy

• Drug Story .org
• Office of National Drug Control Policy
• National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
• The Partnership for a Drug-Free America
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
• Centers for Disease Control - Underage Drinking
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) Spotlight on Underage Drinking
• SAMHSA’s Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
• Rethinking Drinking
  Excellent new page offered by National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

Youth Brain Development

• Mentor Foundation
  The Mentor Foundation is an international non-government not for profit organisation with a focus on the prevention of drug misuse and the promotion of health and well-being of young people.
• Health and Justice for Youth Campaign
  Emerging Issues in Adolescent Brain Development: Implications for Youth in the Justice System - PHR Workshop for the Child Welfare League of America
• Be Responsible About Drinking, Inc Newsletter
  Alcohol and Youth Brain Development Article
  
• Adolescent Brain Development & Juvenile Justice Fact Sheet
• Youth in Action - Important Alcohol-Related Research
• “Reducing Underage Drinking: A Collective Responsibility”, Author: Mary Ellen O’Connell

Media Literacy Resources

• Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth
• Media Matters - American Academy of Pediatrics
• For AAP PowerPoint slide presentations
• Media Campaigns
  Congress created the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign in 1998 to prevent and reduce youth drug use.
• Media Sharp
  Help the middle- and high-school youth you care about with today’s three Rs—reading, writing, and real life.
• Smoke Screeners
  An educational program that helps teach media literacy skills to young people. This program improves their ability to critically analyze the messages they receive about tobacco use in movies and on television.
• Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
• Test Your Media Literacy Quiz

Parenting Teens

• Parents - The Anti-Drug
• Family Guide - Keeping Youth Mentally Healthy & Drug Free
• NIAAA - Making a Difference
• Shoulder to Shoulder
• Please Stop the Rollercoaster
• Parenting Teens Info

Prevention Performance Groups

• Prevention Activity Resources
• Alcohol and Drug Education and Prevention Team (ADEPT)
• Kuumba Lynx (KL)
• 'By Any Means' (BAM) Youth Performance Group
• Book titled, “First You Sit on the Floor”

Community/Coalition Information

• Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America
• International Institute for Alcohol Awareness

General

• Southwest Prevention Center (umbrella organization to the SWCAPT)
• Texans Standing Tall, a statewide coalition to prevent underage drinking
• Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center (UDECT)
• Center for Science in the Public Interest
• The Marin Institute
• FACE
• Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center (UDECT)
  This site sponsors national electronic seminars of interest to grantees working with underage drinking issues. They also hold a highly rated annual National Leadership Conference each summer.
• Youth News
• Center for Science in the Public Interest
• Join Together
• Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free
• Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board
  Good website offering information to students, parents, educators, law enforcement, prevention & treatment professionals