The Americas

CREA is a network of young professionals from Latin America that seeks to connect people interested in human rights who want to promote healthier environments in the region.

CREA was formed in 2021 and seeks to promote youth activism in economic, social, cultural and environmental rights (ESCR) in the region, including the rights to health, education, adequate food, work, and more. CREA vision is to promote a healthier, more sustainable, fair, and equitable society where young people play a leading role.

Associação Alcoolismo Feminino is an organisation dedicated to raising awareness about the unique challenges women face related to alcohol use and its impact on their health, families, and communities. Through advocacy, education, and support services, the association works to prevent alcohol-related harm, empower women, and promote gender-sensitive approaches to alcohol policy and care.

Associação Alcoolismo Feminino helps women recover from substance use and give new meaning to their lives, making them powerful and protagonists of a new story of self-knowledge, self-esteem and self-love.

Associação Alcoolismo Feminino offers women knowledge and tools so that they can make their minds, bodies and spirits free and healthy.

ACT Health Promotion is a non-governmental organization that acts in the promotion and defense of public health policies, especially in the areas of tobacco control, healthy eating, alcohol control and physical activity. This work is carried out through advocacy actions , which include political advocacy, communication, mobilization, networking and research, among others.

ACT was created in 2006 to act in the area of ​​tobacco control and, as of 2013, it expanded its scope of work to incorporate the defense of adequate and healthy eating, physical activity and alcohol control. Together, these four guidelines represent the main preventable risk factors for chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which include cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, diabetes and cancer and are the leading cause of death in the world. ACT’s work also includes human rights and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Kiwi is dedicated to transforming school environments into spaces of well-being and growth. Kiwi’s mission is to promote mental health by offering personalized promotion and prevention strategies and programs that address the unique needs and risks of different environments, engaging the entire community. Kiwi’s commitment is to create safe and supportive environments so that every child and adolescent can fully develop.

Purpose
To build a legacy of emotional well-being and quality of life for future generations.

Objectives

• To promote and strengthen socio-emotional skills in the community that support mental health and prevent substance use.
• To enhance the skills of school staff and education professionals in managing mental health situations.
• To increase parental involvement and commitment within families.
• To empower adolescents, educators, and other stakeholders to implement effective mental health promotion and prevention strategies within various institutions.

Red Papaz is a non profit organisation founded in 2003 whose main purpose is to advocate for the protection of children and adolescents’ rights in Colombia and Latin America and to strengthen the capacities of relevant actors to guarantee their effective compliance

The association Costa Rica Saludable is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation, made up of an alliance of different social actors, non-governmental organisations and government allies, whose goal is to strengthen the action of civil society in the development of prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Costa Rica, through education, awareness, research and promotion of effective policies.

Costa Rica Saludable understands that the role of civil society is essential and urgent to counteract interests that hinder progress and improvements in the common well-being of Costa Ricans. Costa Rica Saludable emerged in 2019, with the participation and commitment of a group of civil society professionals motivated by the desire to promote effective strategies that affect the triggering factors of NCDs in Costa Rica.

CLAS is a coalition that brings together more than 200 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in America with the purpose of preventing and controlling Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in the region. These are heart and cerebrovascular diseases, cancers, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases, and mental disorders.

Founded in March 2011, CLAS objective is to strengthen the action of Civil Society to prevent and control these diseases through political advocacy, education, awareness and research, at the national and regional level, so that effective policies are implemented, in line with the objectives of the United Nations (UN), the World Health Organization (WHO) and its regional office, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), and the NCD Alliance.

YPR envisions a world where all young people have the resources they need to thrive in recovery from addiction to drugs and alcohol.

YPR’s mission is to provide the life skills and peer supports to help people recover from substance use disorder and reach their full potential.

YPR’s core values are community, caring, respect, inclusion, and commitment.

Prevention First is a nonprofit organization founded in 1980. Prevention First engages with local communities to promote healthy behaviours and prevent drug and alcohol use in every community.

Prevention First’s Alcohol Policy Resource Center provides training, education, resources, and tools on evidence-based alcohol policy strategies to municipalities, local officials, law enforcement, and community coalitions focused on underage alcohol use in communities throughout Illinois to make an impact both directly and indirectly with their programs and training.

Recover Alaska is a multi-sector action group working to reduce alcohol use and harm across the state. Recover Alaska belief is that the entire community is impacted by alcohol, so the solutions are going to take all of us.

Recover Alaska focused on every aspect of the continuum, from prevention and harms reduction to treatment and recovery, and seek to make sustainable change.

Carlton Hall Consulting LLC is a multi-faceted full service consulting firm designed to provide customised solutions and enable measurable change for communities, organizations, and individuals. Carlton Hall Consulting LLC delivers a system of professional services to clients in the public and private sectors.

Carlton Hall Consulting works to create a better world, and help people by solving complex social problems to improve the human condition. Carlton Hall has been providing intensive substance use prevention focused and community solving services to the nation for the last 25 years. These services include national and community based training opportunities, direct technical assistance at the local, state, national and international levels.

Movendi NY is a volunteer-driven non-profit organization dedicated to building community by uniting, strengthening and empowering people to confront alcohol as a serious challenge to health, safety, and wellness in New York State.
Movendi NY carries its task this by educating about, and advocating for, comprehensive and evidence-based public policy solutions; celebrating and promoting the value of alcohol-free choices, and mobilizing those who embrace them; and, building a movement to reduce alcohol-related consequences.

IOGT-USA is an organization of men and women of all ages who promote the ideals of temperance, peace and brotherhood. IOGT-USA is a voluntary, democratic organization based on the work of heart-driven people. IOGT promotes cultural and educational activities for the benefit of all.

IOGT-USA recognizes that a global approach must be taken to social problems. For this reason, IOGT-USA is engaged in outreach and development work and promotes the principles of human dignity, democracy, tolerance and justice at all levels of society.

OMIS was created with the objective of seeking, promoting and supporting in all its forms, integral human development in the most vulnerable social sectors, especially in the fields of family, minorities, adolescence and the elderly, health, education, housing, social welfare and environmental quality.

Nowadays, OMIS focuses on policy advocacy actions through management with authorities and actors linked to the issues of interest. Always with the objective of “leaving no one behind”, trying to avoid situations of inequality in the possibility of accessing quality of life standards. Activities are always carried out by evaluating the possibility of their realization and concentrating efforts on issues of interest or the ability to cover them with the available capacities. Thus, OMIS is currently focused on promoting the right to health and food, including the perspective of the rights of consumers and users of services.