Riverhead Community Awareness Program - Drug and Alcohol Prevention

Prevention begins with awareness achieved through community outreach and education, media campaigns, and speaking events.

Prevention continues with building skills and providing support achieved through implementing evidence-based programs, prevention counseling, advocacy, broad-based coalition building, alcohol and drug-free activities, and cultural competency.

Prevention is most effective when we change community conditions that contribute to underage drinking and drug use. We achieve this by reducing access to alcohol and illegal dugs through community partnerships and initiatives, policy change, and enforcement.

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Riverhead Community Awareness Program, Inc. (CAP) is a non-profit community-based organization founded in 1979 by volunteers to address growing problems caused by alcohol and other drugs within the Riverhead schools and community. Today, CAP is the major provider of drug and alcohol prevention, counseling and community coalition services in the Riverhead Central School District and community.

In the News

Volunteers Needed for 2024-2025 Pulaski Program | 09/27/2024

CAP is once again seeking community volunteers to help teach its 2024-2025 Too Good for Drugs Prevention Program to fifth and sixth-grade students at Pulaski Street Intermediate School. The Too
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Paulette Orlando: Coalition Member Spotlight | 09/27/2024

This quarter’s coalition member spotlight is on Paulette Orlando. Paulette is a Community Engagement Specialist at the Tobacco Action Coalition of LI (TACLI). As a Community Engagement Specialist, she partners
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Coalition Spotlight: Peer Leadership Senior Class | 06/27/2024

This quarter, we’re spotlighting the CAP Peer Leadership senior class. The Class of 2024 consists of 15 outstanding peer leaders, each making remarkable and positive impacts within the Riverhead community.
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Upcoming Events

October 26

Fall 2024 Take Back Event at STOP Day

The Riverhead Community Coalition for Safe and Drug-Free Youth is hosting its
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Riverhead Community Awareness Program, Inc. (CAP) does not charge for our services, but we depend on the generous support from our friends and neighbors to meet the growing need for drug and alcohol prevention and school-based counseling programs in the Riverhead community. Please consider making a donation by clicking on the button below. Thank you.
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Volunteer

Since 1982, CAP Volunteers have provided the CAP Drug and Alcohol Prevention Education Program (Life Skills) for 5th and 6th grade students at Pulaski Street Elementary School. CAP currently needs adult Volunteers to help teach our Pulaski Street School Drug and Alcohol Prevention Program. No experience is necessary! Free education and training provided.
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