Reducing Addiction, Partnership Profiles

Read about KZYX&Z in Philo, CA, a small rural community station that partnered with Mendocino County Youth Project to produce a monthly one-hour radio program covering youth health issues related to substance abuse called What You Don't Know: Youth Speak Out.

Find out how WBAI-FM Pacifica Radio in New York City, and Global Kids, Inc. trained youth to create and broadcast radio programs on youth substance abuse.

Read about how KUAC-FM in Fairbanks, AK and the Fairbanks Native Association selected young Alaska Natives or American Indians to produce their own substance abuse and recovery stories.

WBAI-FM, Pacifica Radio, in New York, NY and its partner Global Kids developed Youth Pulse, a unique program through radio production which focused on developing youth leadership skills and teamwork to help lesson the high rates of youth substance abuse in New York.

Radio Arte, a bilingual youth-operated radio station in Chicago, and the Benito Juarez High School helped make their community more aware of substance abuse and helped them find new ways to reduce addiction. Using young people in all phases of the Radio Vida project, the partners produced pre-recorded interviews and live programs featuring a diverse panel discussing the neighborhood drug problems.

Find out how KZYX-FM in Philo, CA and the Mendocino County Youth Project explored youth substance abuse through the voices of the young people living in this rural northern California county.

Learn about WMRA-FM in Harrisonburg, VA, with its partnership with VaLiance Health Partners and the Search Institute of Minneapolis, to curtail youth substance abuse and educate communities about asset building.

Discover how WFPL-FM in Louisville, KY and the University of Louisville Hospital produced a series of radio programs and stories on youth smoking in Kentucky.

Discover how WRTU-FM, in San Juan, PR, and its partner -Center for Rehabilitation through the Arts (C.A.R.E)-used innovative programming to prevent the use and abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs by children and adolescents.

KIYU-AM in Galena, AK and its partner Yukon-Koyukuk Mental Health produced Real Problems, Real Solutions, giving local youth a voice in helping them overcome the problems of substance abuse in their community.