Mission Statement: To eliminate substance abuse through community effort.

Vision Statement: Our dream is through God's guidance; we unite our community, and create an environment that encourages the elimination of substance abuse, so our children and families can thrive in a spiritual, moral, healthy, drug free environment.

Information About CARES Lunch & Learn

Next CV CARES Community Lunch & Learn 

Join the Concho Valley C.A.R.E.S. Coalition for the February Lunch and Learn. 

• Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2012
• Time: 12:00-1:00pm 
• Place: River Crest Hospital, 1636 Hunters Glen Rd, San Angelo, TX

Please RSVP to Jennifer Pittman at jenniferp@adaccv.org by Tuesday, February 7th as lunch will be provided!

Drug Abuse Warning Network: The Dawn Report  

Emergency Department Visits Involving Energy Drinks

This report focuses only on the dangerous effects of energy drinks that do not have alcohol.

Click here to read the entire article!

Parent Information 

Did You Know Talking to Your Teens Helps Reduce Substance Abuse?

Click here to learn more!

¿Sabía usted que hablar con su adolescente ayuda a reducir el consumo de drogas? ¡Aprenda 6 de otras maneras ahora!

¡Haga clic aquí aprender más!

Thanks to Angelo State University's Community Development Initiative for providing the information!

¿Querría más información en español? ¡Haga clic aquí en nuestro menú para entrar a sitios en español! Rollo al fin de página.

New Parent Helpline Provides Support, Resources For Teen Substance Abuse

Click here to learn more!

Parenting Teens Resource Network

Parenting Teens Resource Network (PTRN) is the source for everything to do with raising and understanding teenagers.

Click here to learn more!

Latest Tobacco News 

Smoke-Free San Angelo Committee Update

For the latest progress and meeting times, click here.

New Tobacco Controls Have Public Health Impact

Click on the icon to learn the latest from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention regarding the new tobacco regulations.

Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence Guideline Now Available in Spanish

For the first time, the entire 2008 U.S. Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guideline, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence, has been translated into Spanish. In past years, summaries of the guideline were translated into Spanish. The guideline in Spanish can be accessed at any of the following Web sites:

U.S. Surgeon General: 
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: 
http://www.ahrq.gov/path/tobacco.htm

Sociedad Española de Neumología y Cirugía Torácica (SEPAR): 
http://www.separ.es/doc/publicaciones/tabaquismo/guia_tabaquismo_v_espanola.pdf 

University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI):
http://www.ctri.wisc.edu/Researchers/researchers_CPGupdate2008.htm

The CDC offers a 1-page fact sheet that explains new scientific findings about how tobacco use causes disease, including talking points to help you speak with patients about quitting tobacco use.

 Click here Download or order FREE printed copies!

Neighborhood Action Investment League (NAIL)

NAIL, a project of Angelo State University's Community Development Initiative, received seed money from an ASU research enhancement grant.  The broad focus of the NAIL is to compile an inventory of local social development needs and prioritize them through an open and user-driven model that requires the active civic engagement of the residents of targeted neighborhoods.  Click here to visit their site!

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