LICADD Receives "We Care" Grant from Nassau County Bar Association

Judge John G. Marks presents the We Care check on behalf of the Nassau County Bar Association to LICADD Executive Director Dr. Jeffrey Reynolds

The Long Island Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (LICADD) is honored to be the recipient of a $3,500 2011 We Care grant from the Nassau County Bar Association.

The We Care grant will support LICADD’s evidence-based substance abuse prevention education programs delivered in schools, community centers and other settings across Nassau. LICADD offers a full continuum of prevention interventions including: Too Good For Drugs (TGFD) for grades K-12; Start2Stop psycho-educational groups for teens experimenting with alcohol and drugs; and Teen Intervene, which is for substance-abusing youth. LICADD also offers treatment placements, relapse prevention and recovery support services to local young people and their families.

“These funds will help us meet Long Island’s increased demand for our services and respond to the region’s struggle with an intense teen heroin crisis that is directly linked to an upsurge in prescription drug abuse,” said LICADD Executive Director, Dr. Jeffrey Reynolds. “Fatal overdoses have increased in recent years and we are lucky to have supporters like the Nassau County Bar Association, as they empower our organization and allow us to serve those in critical need of our assistance.”

LICADD is proud to be working with the Nassau County Bar Association, as both organizations share a mutual goal of improving communities through effective action and leadership. Founded in 1899, the Nassau County Bar Association headquartered in Mineola has a membership of nearly 6,000 private and public attorneys, judges, legal educators and law students, making it the largest suburban bar association in the country. The Bar demonstrates its commitment to the community by offering a variety of services for the public, including lawyer referral services, mortgage foreclosure and senior citizen clinics, judicial screening, public education programs and support for the Volunteer Lawyers Project, which provides much-needed free legal services for the indigent of Nassau County. The We Care Fund is the nationally-recognized charitable arm of the Nassau County Bar Association and to date has distributed more than $2 Million to local charities.