BUILDING
ALLIANCES
TRAINING & RESOURCES
COMMUNITY
IMPACT
LASTING
HOPE
Building connected
communities
Training, resources,
and best practices
Changing lives today
for a better tomorrow
For children, families
and communities
How We Create Change
Creating lasting change doesn't happen through one training or one program. It happens when communities have the awareness, partnerships, resources, and ongoing support to work together.
NADEC provides a complete ecosystem that helps communities move from learning about drug endangered children to building lasting multidisciplinary partnerships that protect children, strengthen families and transform communities.
This graphic represents the NADEC Ecosystem.
Every community begins in a different place. The NADEC Ecosystem brings together the tools, partnerships, and support needed to create lasting change - wherever your journey starts.
BUILDING ALLIANCES
Bringing agencies and communities together around a common vision and a collaborative, coordinated response.
TRAINING
Equipping people with the knowledge and skills to recognize and respond to drug endangered children.
AWARENESS
Building understanding of drug endangered children and the impact of substance misuse.
SUPPORTING MDTs
Strengthening multidisciplinary teams through ongoing support, resources and partnerships.
COMMUNITY RESPONSE
Creating collaborative, sustainable responses which protect children, and transform communities.
Why Communities Need More Training
Communities across the country care deeply about protecting children impacted by substance misuse. Yet many face the same challenges:
Agencies working in silos.
Limited awareness of the signs of substance misuse.
Few opportunities for cross-discipline
collaboration.
Uncoordinated
responses.
Limited long-term support.
Training is essential... but lasting change requires more. NADEC helps communities build the knowledge, relationships, and systems needed to create coordinated responses that continue long after a single training event has ended.
Why the Ecosystem Works
We Connect
Partnerships that align professionals around a common goal.
We Educate
Training that builds knowledge and confidence.
We Sustain
Ongoing support that keeps communities moving foward.
The NADEC ecosystem means Better Outcomes for children, families and communities!
Children Are Safer
Families Receive Support
Professional Collaboration
Stronger Systems
Healthier, More Resilient Communities
The Journey Isn't Always Linear
Some begin by raising awareness. Others already have strong multidisciplinary teams but need technical assistance. Some want to develop an alliance. Others are ready to strengthen existing systems with training.
Wherever you begin, NADEC meets you there and helps you build something that lasts!
Stronger Communities Start Here
Whether your community is taking its first steps or building on years of progress, NADEC can help you create a coordinated response that protects children, strengthens families,
and builds lasting change.
Where to Start?
Group of adults collaborating in front of a drug endangered child poster.
Photo of drug endangered child.
Group of multidisciplinary professionals being trained by a DEC trainer.
Two men working on a whiteboard.
Community group picture with both children and professionals.