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2 — Wampum Saver, November 11 and Casa Grande, Ariz. DISPATCH, November 12, 2014
Schaider retires after seeing major progress on drugs
By RODNEY HAAS
Casa Grande Dispatch
Cindy Schaider walked out of
her ofice for the last time as executive director of the Casa Grande
Alliance on Oct. 31, proud of her
accomplishments.
In 25 years, she took the Alliance
from its infancy — she remembers
running it part-time out of a spare
bedroom — into a coalition with
50 members strong, a staff of seven
— working out of a 2,300-squarefoot building that Schaider admits
is starting to get too small.
“I’m proud of the growth of
the Casa Grande Alliance and the
growth of (parent organization)
CGA Inc. as a nonproit and the
overwhelming success that we have
had in reducing substance abuse in
youth,” she said.
Schaider retired as Breanna Boland took over as executive director.
Schaider’s post-retirement plans include travel with her husband along
with some consulting work.
“People say what am I going to
do when I retire and my answer is,
‘Whatever I want,’” Schaider said.
“I love working here. I really do
believe that if you have a job that
you love, you don’t work a day in
your life.”
During her tenure, Schaider has
seen substance abuse
prevention come a long
way. In 1989, then-irst
lady Nancy Reagan had
a campaign of “Just Say
No,” including a chart
of drugs and telling
young people that it was
wrong to use them. Other prevention programs
Schaider remembers include telling young men
to play basketball until
the middle of the night.
“It was well intended
but it wasn’t sciencebased,” she said. “In
25 years, what we have
seen is the science of
prevention has come a
long way and now we
know what works and
how to measure that.
We know how to be effective so we can put
our limited resources in
the strategies to make a
difference.”
In 2003, the coalition received a 10-year
grant from the Ofice of
National Drug Control Policy that
transformed the organization and
helped introduced evidence-based
strategy to reduce substance abuse.
According to Schaider, since
2004, the coalition has seen a 15
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percent decrease in the number
of area kids who have ever tried a
drug. The coalition also has seen an
85 percent reduction in the number
of youths who have used methamphetamines, a 35 percent decrease
in marijuana use and a 35 percent
Parents (not peers)
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influence on their
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relationships between parents and teenagers.
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decrease in alcohol
use.
“We use multiple
strategies across multiple domains,” Schaider said of the reasons
for the decreases. “We
do a ton of education,
parenting skills classes
and positive youth development through our
SADD clubs.”
During her time as
executive director, the
coalition has been recognized both statewide
and nationally including by President Barack Obama in 2012
with a Champions of
Change award, which
she accepted in the
Roosevelt Room at the
White House.
Although technically
a job, Schaider sees
her work as a calling
and said she’s received
great joy out of watching the community
come together and unify around the issue of helping kids
to be safe and healthy.
Schaider’s calling began in 1980
when she was fresh out of college
and moved to Pinal County after
getting a job as a counselor at a be-
havioral health agency.
“I found out that I had a gift for
instructing and started doing classes on various substance abuse topics and over the years I just grew
into it,” she said.
At the time Schaider began her
career, she said there was a wave
going on known as the coalition
movement. This meant that instead
of the government coming in telling people how to do something,
they were encouraged to develop
community groups that would look
at a problem and ind solutions to
solve it.
Schaider irst got on the wave
by doing community work through
the agency she was working for.
The wave eventually resulted into
the creation of the Casa Grande Alliance and after close to 35 years of
riding the wave, she was ready to
get off.
“It’s time. It’s been an emotional
experience, but we have had a very
good transitional plan in place,”
Schaider said. “I have worked fewer and fewer days to allow for that
plan to move forward for the community, the staff and the coalition.
“There’s three moving parts to
all of this, and I’m conident that
the transition has gone well and
I’m excited for the next phase in
my life.”
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Casa Grande Alliance’s new director hopes to continue Schaider’s legacy
By MELISSA ST. AUDE
Casa Grande Dispatch
Breanna Boland is passionate
about substance abuse prevention.
And it’s that passion that she expects to guide her in her new role
as executive director of the Casa
Grande Alliance.
Boland, who has worked for
Casa Grande Alliance for three
years, had been pegged to replace
Cindy Schaider, who retired last
month. Boland took the reins of the
organization on Nov. 1.
“I am a little nervous. It’s a big
job,” she said. “But I have a great
mentor and friend in Cindy. I also
have a supportive board of directors
and a community that embraces the
Casa Grande Alliance.”
Three years ago, Boland was
working towards a degree in nursing when she took a part-time job
as a prevention specialist with the
Casa Grande Alliance. In that job,
she encountered people who were
struggling with addictions or who
were facing roadblocks in inding
treatment for loved ones.
She empathized with them, she
said, because she has known family and friends who have struggled
with the same issue.
“Substance abuse can be prevented. The damage it causes a family
Breanna Boland, Executive Director of the Casa Grande Alliance
can be prevented,” she said.
The job, and her passion for it,
led her to switch majors from nursing to public health.
It’s a switch she’s glad she
made.
“It seemed natural,” she said. “I
envision doing this for the rest of
my life.”
About a year ago, Boland was
selected as the Casa Grande Alliance’s future executive director.
The transition from prevention specialist to her new role was a slow
one.
For several months, she contin-
ued in her prevention specialist
role, running the organization’s
Students Against Destructive Decisions program. Eventually, she became program director and started
learning the ins-and-outs of running
the Casa Grande Alliance. Schaider
remained onboard as executive director longer than planned to mentor Boland.
As Boland became more involved in the day-to-day running of
the organization, Schaider gradually reduced her hours.
“We would still talk every day,”
Boland said. “Lately, she’s been
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in the loop. It’s been a really nice
transition.”
While Boland said her management style might be different from
Schaider’s, the direction and message of the Casa Grande Alliance
will remain the same.
“I don’t want to change what
works,” she said. “I see us continuing to meet the needs of the community and being the experts on
prevention and substance abuse. I
see us continuing to build strong
community partnerships.”
Marijuana will continue to be a
major issue for the Casa Grande
Alliance to tackle in the coming
years, Boland said.
“Legalization of medical marijuana has really sent mixed messages to our youth,” Boland said.
She said people often confuse
medical marijuana with the idea of
legalizing recreational use of the
drug.
Legalizing recreational use of
the drug may be on the statewide
election ballot in 2016 and the Casa
Grande Alliance is among those
hoping to prevent it.
“We want people to start thinking about this now and look at the
problems in Colorado and Washington,” she said.
Those states are struggling with
more marijuana-related auto accidents and DUIs, she said.
“Schools (in Colorado and Washington) are seeing more issues and
people are now trying it who may
not have used it before,” Boland
said.
The Alliance is asking area governments and organizations to adopt
resolutions opposing legalization
of the drug. The Casa Grande City
Council in October became the irst
area entity to adopt the resolution.
“Opposing legalization of medical marijuana its in with our community because we’re a community
that embraces healthy living,” Boland said.
Because substance abuse is a
major public health concern, Boland said the Casa Grande Alliance
will continue to follow trends and
adapt to changes, just as it has done
for the past 25 years.
“We’ll keep our inger on the
pulse of the community,” she said.
“The Casa Grande Alliance is good
at that and it goes back to our partnerships.”
A recent study, which found that
since 2006 the number of Casa
Grande kids who have never tried
drugs or alcohol has increased by
145 percent, indicates the organization is on the right track.
“That’s a lot more kids living
drug-free,” Boland said.
Schaider said Boland’s focus
on substance abuse prevention in
young people made her the ideal
candidate to take over the organization.
“She always says that kids are 25
percent of our community but 100
percent of our future,” Schaider
said. “That wisdom is why I know
she will take this organization in a
new direction.”
Frank Davidson, president of
the Casa Grande Alliance Board
of Directors, said having Schaider
mentor Boland before she assumed
responsibility for the running of the
organization has ensured a smooth
transition in leadership.
“I am very conident that the Alliance will continue to do exceptional work over the next 25 years.
There can be no doubt that we must
continue our vigilance regarding
substance abuse in our community,” he said.
Boland hopes to be a strong leader and make as much of an impact
on the Casa Grande Alliance as her
predecessor.
“Cindy has been a strong leader
in our community for the past 25
years. Although I might not do
things the same way, she will always be a mentor and a continued
friend,” Boland said. “Her legacy
will live on.”
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Former student leader has adult role with SADD
By SUSAN RANDALL
“Stepping into this area was a perfect it.”
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nior at Grand Canyon University,
majoring in counseling with an
emphasis on addiction, chemical
dependency and substance abuse.
She also is a prevention specialist with the Casa Grande Alliance,
working with about 120 students
in SADD chapters at Casa Grande
Union, Vista Grande High School
and Casa Grande Middle School.
Estrada said she continued to
work with the national SADD organization after high school and
tried different majors at college,
but none was as gratifying as working with prevention.
“Stepping into this area was a
perfect it,” she said, “because it
was what I was looking for, even
though I didn’t quite know it at the
time.”
SADD started nationwide in
1981 as Students Against Driving
Drunk, she said. The organization changed its name to Students
Against Destructive Decisions in
1997 and expanded its mission to
include resistance to peer pressure,
under-age drinking, drug use, risky
driving, teen violence and suicide.
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Anesia Estrada was a member
of the irst Students Against Destructive Decisions chapter in Casa
Grande. The year was 2008, and
Estrada was a freshman at Casa
Grande Union High School.
She said she didn’t want to join
SADD at irst, she already had too
much to do, but her English teacher
insisted that she go to a meeting.
“I inally went,” she said, “and
one of the prevention specialists,
Jan Skelley, was giving her testimony about why she did prevention, and it kind of struck a chord
with me, and I just kept coming
back.”
With the other clubs and organizations that she belonged to, she
always felt as if she had to it into
their mold, she said. “With SADD
it was just where I it. I didn’t have
to pretend to be anything else or
change myself. It was where I belonged.”
Later Estrada was on SADD’s
Arizona Student Leadership Council, became chapter copresident at
Casa Grande Union, chapter president at Mission Heights Preparatory
High School and was on the SADD
National Student Leadership Council for two terms. Today she is a ju-
decisions,’ it opened the window
to not only promote being against
something, but being for something,” Estrada said.
Today the organization focuses
on positive behaviors like promoting healthy relationships, safe driving, community involvement and
good decisions.
Jordan Pierce, vice president
of Vista’s chapter, said she likes
SADD because it gives her a way
to help other kids.
Joining SADD adds positive
encouragement to a kid’s life, she
said, “because we help a lot of people.” SADD kids do a lot of things
with the middle school, like a skit
about how involvement with drugs
can mess someone up. “And we do
this thing called the Life Balloon.”
The middle school kids put three
good things that they have in their
life into the balloon, blow it up and
hold it closed on their laps. Then
they are asked: “What would drugs
and alcohol do to your life?” And
when they let go, the balloons take
off.
“With drugs and alcohol, you
don’t have any of those good things
in your life any
more,” Pierce said.
“When you let go by making the
choice to use drugs or alcohol, you
lose control,” Estrada added.
The middle school chapter is
trying to discourage bullying, she
said. Its SADD students have been
making and handing out cards with
positive messages: “You’re smart.”
“You’re nice.”
It started with just a few cards,
she said, but other people wanted
cards, too, so they had to make
more. The high school chapters are
focused on their MOST campaigns
— Making Our Students Think.
They are trying to create an accurate perception of the number of
students who use drugs or alcohol.
“Teens have an inordinate need
to it in,” said former Alliance Executive Director Cindy Schaider.
“And they also have a huge misperception of how many of their peers
are abusing substances.”
Data from the Arizona Youth
Survey show that 19 percent of
teens in Arizona smoke marijuana.
That means the large majority, 81
percent, don’t — the opposite of
what most teens believe.
Schaider said research shows
that giving teens accurate information reduces the motivation to
use drugs, so SADD high school
students have been learning how
to communicate with other youths
and have looded their schools with
posters and public announcements.
Estrada said adults can say anything, but it won’t necessarily reach
young people. When students create a campaign, it’s more effective
because younger students see older
students as role models. That’s
why SADD members help with
anti-drug rallies in the elementary
schools. They help at Anti-Crime
Night, the Halloween Carnival
and other events. Meanwhile, middle school kids made posters for
Union’s homecoming.
Schaider said high school SADD
members acted as mentors for the
middle school chapter when it
started. “Part of the model is to use
existing SADD members to mentor
the development of other members
and other chapters.”
Everyone is welcome at SADD,
Estrada said. The members are a
diverse group with a common goal:
doing good for their community.
Each school has a SADD sponsor: Clare Purdy at CGMS, Brenda
Boenzi-Reed at Casa Grande Union
and Anna Hicks at Vista. Students
who are interested in SADD can
contact the school sponsor or just
show up at a meeting: Tuesdays and
Thursdays after school in Purdy’s
room, Tuesdays after school in the
SADD room next to Boenzi-Reed’s
room and every other Thursday after school in Hicks’ room. Students
also may call Estrada at 520-8365022 for more information.
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The M.O.S.T. Approach to Prevention
By BREANNA BOLAND
Casa Grande Alliance
Program Director
Many students in our local high
schools feel pressure to drink or
use drugs to it in. When asking
teens about their perception of peer
alcohol and drug use their immediate response is “everyone does
it”. In the world of teenagers this
perception, along with the desire to
be accepted among their peers, is
one of the driving forces of youth
substance misuse and abuse. Peer
pressure can persuade a student to
participate in risky behaviors they
wouldn’t typically indulge in. Unbeknownst to our local teens, the
perception that everyone drinks or
uses drugs is wrong!
Casa Grande SADD chapters
have embraced the idea that not all
of their peers are making unhealthy
choices and they are spreading the
word on their school campuses.
SADD chapter members at Casa
Grande Union High School, Vista
Grande High School and Casa
Grande Middle School are raising
awareness in a fun and creative way
called M.O.S.T., which is short for
Making Our Students Think. United Way of Pinal County and Cenpatico Behavioral Health fund the
M.O.S.T. campaign.
M.O.S.T. is a social norms campaign that takes information perceived by many to be “the norm”
and lips it. Accurate information
is presented in order to dispel unhealthy myths and perceptions.
Here is an example. When asked,
teens tell us they believe 80-100%
of their peers drink alcohol...this is
not true. Only 31% of Casa Grande
teens report using alcohol in 2012.
That means MOST teens are standing tall and not drinking alcohol!
SADD members have created
posters, morning announcement
messages at school, and social media messages conveying the accurate statistics. All of their messaging is based on veriied data from
local student surveys. The Casa
Grande Alliance, a communitybased drug prevention agency, is
working with the students to access the data and apply it to their
project.
The misperceptions are well
entrenched. Some teens don’t believe the data is correct and others
are truly surprised by the information. When the campaign irst started in 2012, one teen girl responded
to the information by stating, “my
perception of Casa Grande is completely wrong”. Over the past
couple years, the data shows there
Left to Right: Tyler Hemmings, Justyce Rodgers, Holly Ochieng, Kristina Khan and Chastity Laskey are testing the knowledge of
their peers about teen substance abuse.
have been some positive changes in
perceptions among our youth.
Don’t be confused by this message. Substance use is still a major
health concern affecting youth in
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The facts about prescription drug abuse
By CINDY SCHAIDER
Casa Grande Alliance
There has been a great deal of
publicity about prescription medication misuse and addiction. The
death of actor Phillip Seymour
Hoffman helped shine a spotlight
on the epidemic of pain medication addiction, and the transition
some patients make to the abuse of
heroin.
• Each day, 46 people die from
an overdose of prescription painkillers in the U.S. (Centers for Disease Control)
• 80% of heroin users began with
the abuse of prescription pain relievers. (Journal of the American
Medical Assoc, 10/2013)
What most people do not know
is that narcotic pain medicines like
oxycontin, oxycodone and hydrocodone can be very addicting (trade
names include Percoset, Vicodin,
Lortab). Metabolically, these narcotics are frighteningly similar to
heroin.
A person can quite innocently
become dependent upon pain medications following multiple surgeries or a back injury. Unfortunately,
these medications can also create a
feeling of euphoria (a high) and it
is easy to abuse them. People who
would never try street drugs might
feel safe abusing prescription drugs.
The step to addiction - compulsive
use of the drug to get high rather
than stop pain - is not far behind.
And there are many of us using
prescription pain medications! As
a culture, we have become accustomed to not just having our pain
managed, but we expect it to be
eliminated completely. Here are
some startling statistics from the
AZ Criminal Justice Commission:
• Enough Rx pain relievers were
prescribed in 2011 to medicate every Arizona adult around-the-clock
for more than two weeks.
• In Arizona in 2010, about 50%
of adults reported Rx drug misuse
in the past 12 months and 13% reported misuse in the past 30 days.
We have been working on this in
Pinal County for the past two years
by taking a multi-faceted approach
that includes doctor education,
patient education and advocating proper storage and disposal of
medicines.
Here are some things you can do
to help:
• When you are in need of a prescription pain reliever, you can ask
your doctor to not give you synthetic opiates. There are other pain
reliever choices that are much less
addictive.
• Clean out your medicine cabinet and remove
any medicines
that you are not
taking regularly.
Do not lush
them down the
toilet; take them
to your local police station for
disposal. Call
520-836-5022
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drop-off box locations, or go to
www.casagrandealliance.org.
• Safely store
your remaining
medicines out
of reach of not
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• A 28% reduction in opioidrelated deaths in the pilot counties
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Casa Grande Alliance outcomes and successes
Youth DUI Trends in Casa Grande, Arizona
Youth MIP Trends in Casa Grande, Arizona
Rate per 1,000 Population of Youth
Rate per 1,000 Population of Youth
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90.00
7.49
7.56
78.86
80.00
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Rate per 1,000 Youth Population
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55.18
50.00
44.51
37.62
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The rate of youth cited
for possessing alcohol,
and youth DUIs, have
both dropped signiicantly over time!
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4.57
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3.46
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There was a 15.29% increase in the number of
youth who have never tried drugs or alcohol.
The drug severity index went down 37.08%
from 2010 to 2012.
Reductions in attitudes and behaviors that put youth at higher risk of
substance abuse
(Risk Factors):
• Laws and norms favor drug use, 18.68% reduction
• Perceived availability of drugs, 19.69% reduction
• Early initiation of drug use, 33.81% reduction
• Attitudes favorable to drug use, 26.25% reduction
• Perception of parent attitudes that favor drug use, 11.64% decrease
• Friends use drugs, 27.57% reduction
• Been drunk or high at school, 31% reduction
• Binge drinking, 38.4% reduction
Increases in attitudes and behaviors that help youth be resilient
(Protective Factors):
• Opportunities for pro-social involvement, 17.54% increase
• Belief in the moral order, 19.42% increase
• Interaction with pro-social peers, 11.32% increase
• Perception of peer disapproval of alcohol use, 25.03% increase
Rx project successes, over 18 month
time period:
• Increased Prescription Drug Management Program (PDMP) sign-ups
among law enforcement, pharmacists and prescribers.
• Prescribers are writing fewer prescriptions for potentially addictive
medications, for fewer pills.
• Parents feel more prepared to discuss prescription drug abuse
dangers with their children.
• Increased number of medication turn in boxes in Pinal County
from 5 to 20.
• 2133 lbs of waste medicine turned in across Pinal County in 2012 &
2013. (That’s a ton of drugs!)
Youth substance use and risk/protection data based on results of Arizona Youth survey
for Casa Grande schools. Cumulative average compares 2004 to 2012 data.
Awards:
1999: Governor Jane Dee Hull to Casa Grande 2000 Alliance for
Networking and Collaboration
2005: Casa Grande Police Department for Partnership in
Drug Prevention
2006: CEO Cindy Schaider, Greater Casa Grande Chamber of
Commerce Community Service Leader Award
2007: Governor Janet Napolitano for Outstanding Coalition
Leadership
2007: Bank of America Neighborhood Excellence Initiative,
Local Hero Award
2010: Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America Dose of
Prevention Award
2010: Governor Jan Brewer for Over-The-Counter Medication
Abuse Prevention
2011: White House Champions of Change – President Barack Obama
and Oice of National Drug Control Policy Director
Gil Kerlikowske
2012: CEO Cindy Schaider, Greater Casa Grande Chamber of
Commerce Business Leader Award
Past 30-day substance use, grades 8, 10, 12
Lifetime substance use, grades 8, 10, 12
Substance
2004
2012
% Change
Substance
2004
2012
% Change
Alcohol
68.1
53.4
-21.6
Alcohol
38.8
24.5
-38.86
Cigarettes
48.3
34.1
-29.4
Cigarettes
19.4
13.9
-28.35
Marijuana
41.6
30.4
-26.9
Marijuana
20.4
13.2
-35.29
Hallucinogens
7.1
3.7
-47.9
Hallucinogens
4.8
1
-79.17
Cocaine
10.9
4.3
-60.5
Cocaine
3.3
1.1
-66.67
Methamphetamine
11.5
1.6
-86.1
Methamphetamine
5.6
0.5
-85.71
Heroin/opiates
3.4
1.4
-58.8
Heroin/opiates
1.2
0.2
-83.33
Both lifetime use of substances,
and past 30-day use (regular use),
have diminished signiicantly
among Casa Grande youth!
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