CADA Connection

Join us for food, fellowship, and a speaker meeting on September 15, 2024 at the CADA Bossier Treatment Center. There will be a business meeting immediately following from 6PM-7PM. We hope to see you there!

Come out and join CADA Connection and Help Other's on June 8th at the Highland Club to hear Mark H. Tell his story. 🫶

It's time for CADA Connection to Fundraise. Due to unfortunate circumstances we will not have the Shoot for Sobriety this year, but we still have some other fun events planned to fundraise and for everyone to engage with the recovery community. Join us on April 27, 2024 at the Highland Club for a fun Bingo & BBQ Fundraiser event followed by an awesome speaker, Sara N. We hope to see you there. Come get involved!

Bingo Cards will be sold for different levels of donation prices at the event.
Yellow -High Roller -$50
Green - Risktaker -$20
Red - Card Shark- $10
Blue - Player-$5
Pink - Fortune Hunter-$1
Black - Lucky Duck (For Black Out Bingo Only)- $5

BBQ Plates:
Chicken, Down Home Sausage, Potato Salad, Baked Beans.
Contact Will B. or Heath L. to pre-order plates.

*There will be prizes for all bingo rounds.
*We take many forms of payment: Cash, Check, Card, Cash App, & Venmo.

It’s time once again to Fight Hunger. Spark Change. with the Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana and Walmart and Sam's Club . Donations and roundups at the register in-store and online – plus the purchase of select products from participating suppliers – means more food and resources for people facing hunger.



Donations can be made at https://www.feedingamerica.org/Walmart or https://www.FeedingAmerica.org/SamsClub



Learn more: https://www.feedingamerica.org/.../walmart-and-sams-club...

Join us on March 17, 2024 for the quarterly survivors weekend speaker meeting. We hope to see you there!

This , and every month, Feeding America wants to honor and recognize some of the Black leaders in the food justice movement.

Ericka Huggins is an American activist, writer, educator and former leading member of the political organization, the Black Panther Party. Huggins became the director of the Oakland Community School, which served home-cooked breakfast and lunch five days a week to hundreds of schoolchildren. “It was just so nice to see that the children were not going to the classroom hungry,” Huggins recalls. They “knew they were loved.”

At its peak the nationwide Panthers' Free Breakfast Program fed thousands of children daily, with at least 45 chapters in major cities from Los Angeles to Boston, and in rural communities throughout the South. It paved the way for the USDA’s School Breakfast Program, permanently authorized in 1975.

Fifty years later the Free Breakfast Program serves as an enduring model for numerous initiatives that address food insecurity, particularly in the wake of the pandemic—programs such as D.C.’s Bread for the City, FrontLine Farming in Colorado, Harlem Grown in New York, and the Interfaith Food Shuttle in North Carolina.

Huggins is 73 now and lives close to the site of the Oakland Community School, home to a program that helps formerly incarcerated men reenter society. She frequently runs into former students who thank her for feeding them so many years ago. “This used to be my school,” one told her, “and it was the best part of my life.”

Read more about Ericka Huggins from the wonderful Bon Appétit Magazine article here: bit.ly/3UlZCia

Now until February 29th, IHOP is offering a FREE small stack of pancakes to customers who donate $1, $2, $3 or more to Feeding America to help tackle hunger in the communities they serve. The company is committed to bringing smiles to people's faces and ending hunger. Customers are encouraged to visit their local IHOP to participate in the fight against hunger.

CADA's LASOR Team is at the Mental Health Awareness & Substance Abuse Conference at LSUS today.

Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse of NWLA

Join us in gathering toys for the annual Roy's Kids Toy Drive. We greatly appreciate any donations. Thank you so much for your attention and participation in the toy drive.

Outreach at the Annual Bossier Schools Agency Fair with CADA's Peer Recovery Support Team.
Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse of NWLA

Please come out Sunday to Survivors Weekends at CADA Bossier. We will have pizza, salad and games. Let’s show the clients that there is fun in sobriety. It starts at 4 and Bill Rose will be telling his story at 5.

Hope to see everyone there ❤️

Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse of NWLA

Stacie Tarpley and Jackie Webb spoke with the students at Northwestern State University about Narcan today.

Walter Abney at the SAPST training provided by The Louisiana Center for Prevention Resources in Baton Rouge.

Stacie Tarpley and Jackie Webb spoke with the students at Northwestern State University about Narcan today.

The staff of CADA is crushed to announce Chris Fort passed away this week. We love you, Chris, and we will never ever forget you.

Please join CADA in thanking Dr. Steen Trawick and CHRISTUS Shreveport-Bossier Health System for their CHRISTUS Community Impact grant to CADA for crisis response peer services in Shreveport-Bossier!

https://www.cadanwla.org/support

Happy Wednesday, everyone. CADA loves to do fun activities with clients, especially during the holiday season. Below is a wish list put together to support some future activities. To access, click the link. If you would like to send art supplies not listed, please feel free to do so. We would also love to have some magazines for vision boards. CADA greatly appreciates all donations received.
Thank you for supporting CADA!

Check out my list on Amazon

Happy Wednesday, everyone. CADA loves to do fun activities with clients, especially during the holiday season. Below is a wish list put together to support some future activities. To access, click the link. If you would like to send art supplies not listed, please feel free to do so. We would also love to have some magazines for vision boards. CADA greatly appreciates all donations received.
Thank you for supporting CADA!

Check out my list on Amazon

This group, amongst several others not pictured, are changing the way our community serves individuals experiencing mental health crises and addiction.

Last week, CFNLA, CADA, and the YMCA co-hosted an informational session and community discussion about the new Crisis Response Person-Centered Care initiative. In partnership with the City of Shreveport and Caddo Parish first responders, CADA’s Peer Support Specialists will assist on crisis calls to help de-escalate and connect people with the appropriate services and treatment. This will ensure better outcomes for the individual in crisis and reduce overburdening our emergency rooms and avoiding involvement with the justice system when appropriate.

We are grateful to LSU Health Shreveport, particularly the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, for establishing the North Louisiana Crisis Response Coalition that led the way on this initiative.

Our mission at CFNLA is to connect people and resources to solve community problems and create positive, lasting change. Collaborations like this are critical to fulfilling that mission. Thanks to all the agencies, organizations, and individuals involved for creating a more compassionate and effective system for those in crisis.

CADA named crisis response service provider of northwest Louisiana The Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse (CADA) will be taking to the community to find out how people want future crises handled.

CADA STAFF wears PINK in October 🩷

CADA CONNECTION is having a Wreath Raffle. The value of the gift cards is $1200 and the Wreath is $100 for a total of $1300. We will be drawing on Dec 3rd at CADA Bossier after the speaker event. You do not have to be present to win! 1 for $2 or 3 for $5.
The sale begins on Monday, these would be great stocking stuffers😉!
Good luck everyone.

You are not alone. We are here. 🫶

The smallest act of kindness could mean all the difference in the world to someone. We never really know what people are going through. Step out of yourself and do something kind for someone else today. 🫶♥️