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County ADAC outlines prevention services, Clyde youth survey and Valley Central impact specialist
Summary
Representatives from the Alcohol and Drug Awareness Council (ADAC) described countywide prevention services funded with opioid settlement dollars, the Clyde youth survey being rolled out in 10 Orange County districts, and introduced Valley Central’s prevention specialist, Natalie Gatto.
Cynthia Lardy, Impact supervisor for the Alcohol and Drug Awareness Council (ADAC) of Orange County, presented the ADAC Impact program to the Valley Central Board of Education on April 7 and introduced Natalie Gatto as Valley Central’s ADAC prevention specialist. Lardy told the board ADAC has operated in Orange County since 1972 and that the Impact program places trained prevention specialists in school districts to provide universal substance-use prevention messaging and targeted brief interventions.
Lardy said ADAC’s Clyde survey — a validated, anonymous youth survey measuring recent use, lifetime use and perceived harm — is being rolled out in 10 Orange County school districts and will survey eighth, tenth and twelfth graders. She said ADAC is funding the survey with opioid settlement funds and expected the district surveys to…
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