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Our Big Winner

August 23, 2011 11:19:09 AM CDT

Have you been waiting with bated breath to find out who our drawing winner was from the UDETC National Prevention Conference in Orlando?  Well, I thought you might...

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Greetings from Orlando!

August 12, 2011 9:29:13 AM CDT

Melvy here, checking in from Orlando.  It's been a quick couple of days, and I didn't want to wind down our trip to UDETC's National Leadership Conference without posting a quick blog about my journey. 

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UDETC, Meet Cafe Prevention

August 9, 2011 9:12:59 PM CDT

Well, my travels were a bit daunting, due in large part to finding gray rainy skies upon setting foot outside the airport.  However, our arrival at Rosen Shingle Creek hotel here in Orlando was easy breezy.  What lovely people.  Walking across the hotel to the convention center where the National UDETC Leadership Conference is being held, I realized how much work OJJDP puts into this conference.  Wow!  It's incredible.  Cafe Prevention has a little, lonely station in the exhibit hall across from what appears to be a DJ booth... live stage... karaoke stand... I don't know exactly what it is, but I intend to find out - looks very intriguing, anyway. 

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Posted in News By melissa vanderlinden

Cafe Prevention Heading to Orlando!

August 4, 2011 12:11:40 PM CDT

UDETC Conference

I'm gearing up to join law enforcement, community and coalition members, and youth from all over the country for UDETC and OJJDP's “Spotlighting Community Solutions to Underage Drinking” national conference in Orlando, Florida next week.

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Posted in News By melissa vanderlinden