Northeast Communities Against Substance Abuse recently celebrated its silver anniversary. 

The agency became incorporated as a 501C3 tax exempt non-profit corporation in July of 1990. 

NECASA has accomplished a great deal in its 25 years: Bringing $2.5 million in additional prevention funding to the region; granting more than $1 million to local communities for prevention work; purchasing evidence-based curriculums for the region’s schools; helping to establish a drug intervention program in the Superior Court; mentoring the towns of Putnam and Windham so they could get federal drug-free grants as well; conducting school surveys so the trends and the issues could be addressed; distributing more than 350,000 substance abuse and suicide warning cards in schools for over 17 years; creating the Judith Nilan Award and the Volunteer with Youth Award to honor and promote adults working with young people.