Our vision is to build a community of spiritual healing by empowering and supporting faith and community organizations in their services to people suffering from substance abuse and other addictions through prevention, awareness, education, and training.

Four ways to include drug prevention in your religious programs:

• Elevate substance abuse prevention on your faith agenda
• Put substance abuse prevention messages in the context of your faith and religious beliefs
• Help youth sort out the meaning in the messages
• Look for opportunities to spread the word

FACE-IT works in conjunction with:

• Harford County Office of Drug Control Policy
• Addiction Connections Resource, Inc.
• Upper Chesapeake Health Link
• Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration
• Inner County Outreach
• Harford County Cancer & Tobacco Community Coalition

FACE-IT Highlights:

• Past recipient of two SAMHSA grants to provide educational opportunities as a means of combating substance abuse issues
• Recently awarded the 5 year-Drug Free Communities
  Grant in partnership with the Harford County Office of Drug Control Policy
• Sponsors a full-day training symposium in June
• Sponsors an annual Faith and Community Based Resource
  Fair in September that addresses substance abuse issues;
  with over 70 non-profit vendors participating
• Sponsors specialized training / educational workshops for faith and community members
• President, Pastor Tom Lantieri, received the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America Volunteer of the Year Award on January 14, 2005

Statistics:

• According to a recent National Center on Addiction & Substance Abuse Household Survey:
• Those age 18 and over who attend religious services are less likely to use tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and other illicit drugs than those who do not attend religious services.
• Adults who never attend religious services are almost
  twice as likely to drink as those who attend services
  weekly or more often.
• Almost 14 million adult Americans (6.9 percent) use
  illicit drugs. Adults who never attend religious services are almost eight times likelier to have used marijuana in the
  past 30 days and more than five times likelier to have
  used another illicit drug than those who attend religious services weekly or more often.

Regular Monthly Meetings:

• Meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m., Historic Colored High School, 205 Hays Street, Bel Air, MD 21014.
• Check out the Event Calendar for specific dates
• After the meeting, minutes are posted on the Minutes page, as well as on the Event Calendar entry for that meeting.

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