Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America

Other program activities:walmartwalmart partnered with Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (cadca) to promote a series of Community events hosted by cadca members at local walmart academy sites. These events are aimed at sharing information about local efforts and resources for fighting opioid misuse, and training Community members to recognize and respond to opioid overdoses. Each Community event featured a virtual reality (vr) demonstration developed by walmart that enables participants to simulate the steps of recognizing and responding to an opioid overdose, including administering the overdose-reversing drug naloxone. The events serve as pilot trainings that will inform the development of a nationwide series to deploy the vr overdose response training and promote opioid misuse awareness to communities around the country. Medication assisted treatment (mat)cadca updated and expanded a medication assisted treatment (mat) training academy and Community awareness program in 2022. Cadca developed the academy curriculum and created content which was used by mat training academy participants in their follow-up Community work. This program educated communities on all of the available mat options and where they can find these services and helped reduce the stigma and discrimination associated with seeking out and receiving mat services.j&jcadca has been at the forefront of otc medicine safety work for many years, both through training youth to make change in their communities and by working with key coalition leaders and preventionists who can spread the message of otc medicine safety widely. Implementing medicine safety initiatives is a huge step towards promoting health literacy and wellness to all people in the communities we serve. Throughout 2022, cadca partnered with johnson & johnson's science education and patient advocacy team and the consumer healthcare products association to raise awareness to how medicine misuse intersects with dangerous social media challenges.cadca's geographic health equity alliance (ghea) reduces tobacco and cancer related health disparities by increasing capacity and effectiveness of Coalitions. Cadca's geographic health equity alliance (ghea) program continued in its fifth year of a 5-year program period. Ghea is one of the eight cdc national networks working to impact populations experiencing tobacco- and cancer-related health disparities. In 2022, ghea initiatives focused on building the capacity and effectiveness of states, communities, and other partners working to address differences in health outcomes and behaviors related to place. To do so, ghea trained public health professionals and Community members on implementing evidence-based practices, partnership building, strategic communications, and piloted a readiness assessment to guide ta efforts around coalition capacity building to implement policy, system, and environmental change strategies.