The Catoosa Alcohol Prevention Initiative (CAPI) is a community movement dedicated to helping teens and children avoid problems related to under-age drinking. CAPI wants all children to grow to be happy and healthy adults free from alcohol and drug addictions. We work to educate parents, teens, children, and all community members how to prevent kids from becoming involved with alcohol. CAPI collaborates with all sectors of the community - from schools to businesses to law enforcement and more in between - to make a strong wall of help for our children.

Do you need help? For Immediate Emergency Help, dial 911 on your phone.

 

 

 

 

The Department of Behavioral Health and Disabilities (DBHDD) will connect you to help in your area. Dial the toll-free number below.

 

For 24-hour help from SAMHSA (Substance and Mental Health Services Administration), dial the toll-free number below.

Getting help can take some time and work. DON'T GIVE UP!

Be the Wall Social Marketing Campaign

    "Be the Wall" Social Marketing Campaign is publicized
    throughout the area through billboards, television, radio,
    websites, newspapers, facebook, twitter, schools, public
    offices, and area events. Hear or read the phrase, and you've
    got the basic steps of under-age alcohol prevention - "Be the
    Wall between Teens and Alcohol. Be firm. Be clear. Be
    consistent."  For more information visit www.BetheWall.org.

For a larger "Be the Wall" campaign map, click here.

VOLUNTEER
If you have a passion for youth and would like to volunteer your time and join us in our projects, we have room for YOU! Perhaps you've seen first-hand the devastation alcohol abuse can have on a youth, who becomes an adult, and then a family. Take your passion, empathy, frustration, anger, or concern, and use that energy toward educating our community in the steps to the prevention of alcohol abuse. According to The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), 1/2 of alcoholics are addicted by age 21, and 2/3 are addicted by age 25 (click here for more information); therefore, we need to work early. We need to work NOW. If you would like to help, please click .

 

MIXING ALCOHOL AND THE TEEN BRAIN - A RECIPE FOR SUCCESS?
Read the latest science on the teen brain and alcohol. This is the information that often wins over the skeptic. There is strong evidence that binge drinking as a teen can lead to real problems in life.

  
    Click here for information about breaking the cycle.

    Click here for information about the teen brain.