This summer, CADCA gave its 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award to Beverly Watts Davis — a leader whose life’s work is the reason coalitions like ours exist. We want to take a moment to celebrate her.

Preventing youth substance use isn’t about one poster or one assembly. Real change happens when a whole community pulls in the same direction. Here’s the proven framework SSAY uses to get there — and what it looks like in Amador County.