Parents: The Anti-Drug
www.antidrug.com
This is a great resource for parents who are looking to raise healthy and drug-free youth! The website includes information on different drugs, tips on parenting, action guides for if you suspect your teen is using and more.

Monitoring the Future Study
www.monitoringthefuture.org
This ongoing study of American youth and their behaviors, attitudes and values is run through the University of Michigan. The study provides national data on trends involving alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.

National Institutes of Health
www.nih.gov
This is the mother site for health information. It includes links to all the other health institutes that fall under NIH. The site provides tons of information on alcohol, tobacco, and other drug prevention, women’s health and more.

Centers for Disease Control
www.cdc.gov
The Centers for Disease Control website is another site with a plethora of information and data on health issues. You can find out everything from how to refrigerate food safely, to how many people worldwide have AIDS, to when children should switch from rear to forward-facing child safety seats.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
www.samhsa.gov
An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, SAMHSA also houses CSAP. Both are great sites for information on alcohol, tobacco and other drug issues. SAMHSA has a hot topics list that has included headlines such as “Baby boomers and youth marijuana use studied.”

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
www.tobaccofreekids.org
Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, American Cancer Society, American Lung Association and others, the campaign aims to change public policy and educate the public on the tobacco industry’s marketing and practices luring youth. The site includes initiatives that are taking action against Big Tobacco and special reports and highlights on tobacco issues.

Build Assets
www.buildassets.org
Assets for Colorado Youth provides leadership in creating positive social change for youth in communities throughout Colorado and nationally. Social change based on the 40 developmental assets framework capitalizes on youth and resources involving parents, educators and youth service organizations.

Search Institute
www.search-institute.org
Search Institute is an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide leadership, knowledge, and resources to promote healthy children, youth, and communities. To accomplish this mission, the institute generates and communicates new knowledge, and brings together community, state, and national leaders.

Connect For Kids
www.connectforkids.org/
Connect for Kids, an award-winning multimedia project, helps adults make their communities better places for families and children. The Web site offers a place on the Internet for adults—parents, grandparents, educators, policymakers and others—who want to become more active citizens, from volunteering to voting with kids in mind.

Giraffe Heroes
www.giraffe.org/giraffe
Visit the territory of real heroes, people who stick their necks out for the common good. The nonprofit Giraffe Heroes Project fosters active citizenship by telling the stories of these “Giraffes” in the media, on podiums and in the K-12 Giraffe Heroes Program for schools.

Character Counts!
www.charactercounts.org
CHARACTER COUNTS! is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonsectarian character education framework that teaches the Six Pillars of Character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship. The CHARACTER COUNTS! Coalition includes thousands of schools, communities and nonprofit organizations.

Points of Light Foundation
www.pointsoflight.org
The Points of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center National Network engages and mobilizes millions of volunteers who are helping to solve serious social problems in thousands of communities. Through a variety of programs and services, the Foundation encourages people from all walks of life – businesses, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, low-income communities, families, youth, and older adults – to volunteer.

Make A Difference Day
www.makeadifferenceday.com
Make A Difference Day National Website. Make A Difference Day is the most encompassing national day of helping others — a celebration of neighbors helping neighbors.

Stop Impaired Driving
www.stopimpaireddriving.org
Part of NHSTA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) The ultimate web address for detailed information about preventing impaired driving. The mission of the Impaired Driving Division of NHSTA is to develop partnerships to cooperatively save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce traffic-related health care and economic costs resulting from impaired driving (alcohol and other drugs).

The Century Council
www.centurycouncil.org
The Century Council is a non-profit organization dedicated to fighting alcohol abuse and underage drinking, funded by the nation’s leading distillers. The Century Council has a variety of point of sale items for merchants.

Coors
www.coors.com
Coors and Coors distributors provide merchant signage and point of purchase information. Contact Coors directly or check with your distributor. Coors Alcohol Issues Hot Line 1-800-328-6785

Anheuser-Busch
www.beeresponsible.com
Anheuser-Bush wholesalers provide merchant signage, ID books and other point of sale items. Contact Anheuser-Bush 314-577-2000 or your local distributors.

Driver License Guide Company
www.driverslicenseguide.com
This company has the best information on how to check IDs and what to look for in all 50 states and Canadian providence IDs. They also have a book on international IDs, and handy tool with all our international guests. The books are $21.95 each with a quantity discount available. 1-800-227-8827

Mothers Against Drunk Driving
www.madd.org
Information and statistics about impaired driving and prevention efforts nation-wide.

The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
www.niaaa.nih.gov
Press releases, publications, research and frequently asked questions about alcohol related issues.

The National Commission Against Drunk Driving
www.ncadd.com
The mission of the National Commission Against Drunk Driving is to continue the efforts of the Presidential Commission On Drunk Driving to reduce impaired driving and its tragic consequences by uniting a broad based coalition of public and private sector organizations and other concerned individuals who share this common purpose.

MOST of Us
www.mostofus.org
MOST of Us is the first program in the country to use social norms marketing at a statewide level and to address issues such as tobacco use and seat belt use on a large scale. Directed by Jeff Linkinbach, the project is based in Montana through Montana State University.

National Social Norms Resource Center
www.socialnorms.org
The National Social Norms Resource Center is an independent center that supports, promotes, and provides technical assistance in the application of the social norms approach to a broad range or health, safety, and social justice issues, including alcohol-related risk-reduction and the prevention of tobacco abuse. Find tons of information and resources in the social norms marketing.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
www.nhtsa.dot.gov
The United States Department of Transportation website includes information about buying a safer car, recalls, rollover ratings, performance standards, and many other traffic safety issues.

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
www.highwaysafety.org
The IIHS is an independent, nonprofit institute funded by auto insurers dedicated to reducing highway crash deaths. Its website includes crash tests, vehicle ratings and other information for young drivers.

National Safety Council
www.nsc.org
Click on “Driving” under the topic column to locate articles about graduated licensing, defensive driving, seat belt safety, cell phones and driving and other traffic safety information.

MasterDrive
www.masterdrive.com
In addition to MasterDrive’s other programs, learn more about the MasterDrive program offered in Summit County by clicking on the “teen driver” button. Colorado Department of Transportation www.coloradodrivetime.com This website is for the new teen driver and his/her parents. It features information about Colorado’s graduated licensing policy, how to get your permit, a GDL driving log, driving manuals, and other driving information related to Colorado.

Teen Driving
www.teendriving.com
Created by a teen who lost several friends in car crashes, this website is about driving for other teens. Winner of the Prudential Spirit of America Award for an outstanding community service project, this site has a lot of good tips including how to buy a used car, parallel parking, passing and driving in bad weather. Clink on the links page for more teen driving information and special offers.

National Spit Tobacco Education Program
www.nstep.org/whatis/whatis.htm
Good resource for dentists and hygienists.

The American Legacy Foundation
www.americanlegacy.org
A national, independent, public health foundation located in Washington, D.C. Among their top priorities are to reduce tobacco use by young people and to support programs that help people whether they are young or old-quit smoking.

Smoke-free Families
www.smokefreefamilies.org
This site offers information for providers, pregnant women, and community organizations providing innovations to stop smoking during pregnancy and beyond.

American for Nonsmokers’ Rights
www.no-smoke.org/advo.html
This site contains model policies, information on the economic impact of clean indoor air ordinances, tips for working with policymakers, new studies and information on indoor policy.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
www.cdc.gov/tobacco/ETS_Toolkit/secondhand-smoke.htm
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has compiled resources to create an online toolkit to assist you in your work to protect workers and families from secondhand smoke.

American Lung Association
www.lungusa.org/tobacco/
The Tobacco Control section of the national American Lung Association web site provides resources for tobacco control and advocacy efforts.

Quit Smoking Support
www.quitsmokingsupport.com
Gives support and motivation to smokers trying to quit, a self-assessment tool, and forums for people to talk with each other.

QuitNet
www.quitnet.com
Provides a comprehensive directory of smoking cessation programs nationwide. It is a project of Join Together, Boston University School of Public Health.

CDC - Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (TIPS)
www.cdc.gov/tobacco
The web site for the Office on Smoking and Health at the Centers for Disease Control. It contains prevention information, quit tips and resources, and resources available from the CDC.

Campaign For Tobacco Free Kids
www.tobaccofreekids.org
The site for the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids and provides tobacco prevention information, advocacy tips, and other resources for tobacco prevention.

Kickbutt
www.kickbutt.org/links
A website sponsored by Washington DOC (Doctors Ought to Care). Their goals are to: link various tobacco control groups, improve access to information, and provide communities with resources to aid in change.

Surgeon General
www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco
The Virtual Office of the Surgeon General. This web site features a Consumer Guide, a video of the Surgeon General’s press conference, a fact sheet, statement by President Clinton, audio news releases, and more.

Truth Campaign
www.thetruth.com
Truth is a campaign developed by teens from all over the country. With help from ad agencies they are coming up with marketing ideas, reviewing ads, organizing events like concerts, serving as campaign spokespeople, and helping design the truth web site. They are trying to encourage other young people to think for themselves and take control of who they want to be and how they want to live their lives.

Tobacco.org
www.tobacco.org
A good source for the latest tobacco news including health and science, advocacy, cessation, settlement, lawsuits, international, business, and much more.

State Links

Get REAL
www.getrealcolorado.com
Colorado’s youth movement against tobacco lies, Get R!EAL, is empowering youth ages 12-17 to engage in grass roots activism aimed at challenging and changing social norms that support tobacco use.

Smokefree Colorado.org
www.smokefreecolorado.org
The Smokefree Colorado Website provides Colorado residents with information about the dangers of secondhand smoke and links them to many organizations addressing secondhand smoke issues throughout the state.

American Cancer Society
www.cancer.org/eprise/main/docroot/ped/ped_10?sitearea=PED&level=1
Provides quit tips, information on programs to help smokers quit smoking, and public issues from the American Cancer Society.

American Lung Association-Colorado Chapter
www.lungusa.org/colorado/
Provides quit tips, information on programs to help smokers stop smoking, and lung diseases from the American Lung Association of Colorado, along with a description of lung diseases.

CTEPA
www.ctepa.org
Colorado Tobacco Education and Prevention Alliance. The umbrella organization for the anti-tobacco movement of Colorado. Focuse on youth access, secondhand smoke, and use of tobacco settlement funds.

American Heart Association
www.americanheart.org
Provides health information regarding tobacco use and heart disease along with quit tips and prevention information. Click on state and highlight Colorado.

GASP
www.gaspforair.org
Is the web site for GASP (Group to Alleviate Smoking Pollution). The web site features the Colorado Guide to Smoke-Free Dining searchable database which lists more than 3,900 eateries by name, address, phone, zip code, and food type. The web page also features the GASP educational center with articles about the dangers of secondhand smoke and links to other tobacco sites.

Prevention Information Center (PIC)
www.preventioncolorado.org/stepp.htm
A Clearing house for STEPP, tobacco control resources housed at the the Rocky Mountain Center for Health Promotion. A variety of free videos and QuitLine and QuitNet materials are also available. Videos may be borrowed without cost by residents of Colorado. Call the Prevention Information Center for information at 303/239-8633 or 800/251-4772 (in Colorado)