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Pathway Society has a heart. The staff who work here are dedicated to their jobs, the community, and helping people better their lives. There’s a saying that goes, “the most beautiful lotus flower grows in the deepest mud,” and I like to apply that to the work we do at Pathway Society. Pathway Society gives people the opportunity to rise from their ashes to become the best they can be. - Erin Carlson-Jones

A Healthy Alcohol Market Place: Balancing Public Safety and Business Needs  healthyalcoholmarket.com

Alcohol Justice, The Industry Watchdog – promotes evidence-based public health policies and organizes campaigns with diverse communities and youth against the alcohol industry’s harmful practices.  alcoholjustice.org

Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America –  CADCA  –  cadca.org
CADCA’s Tobacco Use Prevention Toolkit  preventtobaccouse.org

Center for Alcohol Marketing and Youth – CAMY  – at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health monitors the marketing practices of the alcohol industry to focus attention and action on industry practices that jeopardize the health and safety of America’s youth.  camy.org
Fact Sheets: camy.org/factsheets

Friday Night Live – FNL – is a California-based youth leadership process for High School students (Club Live is for Middle Schools) that builds partnerships for positive and healthy youth development and engages youth as active leaders and resources in their communities.   fridaynightlive.org

Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking  – ICCPUD – The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2004 directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish the ICCPUD and to issue an annual report summarizing all Federal agency activities related to preventing underage alcohol use.  stopalcoholabuse.gov

National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse – CASA –  centeronaddiction.org

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism – NIAAA  – niaaa.nih.gov
and rethinkingdrinking.niaaa.nih.gov

National Institute on Drug Abuse – NIDA  – drugabuse.gov
NIDA for Teens  teens.drugabuse.gov

Palo Alto Medical Foundation – PAMF – Resources for teens in Santa Clara County  pamf.org/teen/santaclara.html
Teen crisis lines and hotlines pamf.org/teen/hotlines

Partnership for Drug-Free Kids – drugfree.org –  a non-profit that continues to be inspired by what teens have told us about their lives, and how they deal with the influences that shape their decisions.  abovetheinfluence.com
A Social Host Ordinance makes the adults in the household also liable for the underage drinking parties in their home.  Find out about the laws in your state on Social Hosting: socialhost.drugfree.org

Prevention by Design – Community Planning for Safe and Healthy Environments  socrates.berkeley.edu/~pbd

Santa Clara County Youth Resources santaclarayouthresources.com

Santa Clara Valley Department of Alcohol and Drug Services sccgov.org

Smart Approaches to Marijuana  – SAM  – a project of the Policy Solutions Lab  learnaboutsam.com
SAM champions smart policies that decrease marijuana use GrassIsNotGreener.com

Federal Government’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration  – SAMHSA – samhsa.gov
SAMHSA Publications store.samhsa.gov
Articles and Archive samhsa.gov/samhsaNewsletter