Ruth Williams-Clark
Executive Director

Serving one of Ohio's largest Hispanic communities in addition to the African American population of Lorain County, UMADAOP of Lorain, Inc. uses a holistic family and culture-centered model to provide substance abuse prevention, intervention and related services.

Lorain UMADAOP provides the following specialized programs in English & Spanish:

• Project TAD (Together Against Drugs) for preschoolers with Andrew, the puppet and the curriculum New Kids—New Start/Ninitos Nuevos—Pasos Nuevos with follow-up services as a school-based program for K-3.
  
  

• Project Reconnections —a youth mentoring program for 12-17 year olds that includes a match with community adult mentors and group educational sessions with the curriculum, Reconnecting Youth . Project Reconnections has been expanded to include a group of youth in detained-facilities with members of a Recovery Circuit Panel as mentors for an early intervention mentoring program.

• Youth With a Vision —an after-school/summer program targeting Hispanic adolescents as program participants to utilize their talents of cultural drama, art music, and developing community video-based documentaries on topics of teen pregnancy, violence, alcohol, tobacco and other drug related issues affecting today's Hispanic youth.
  
  

• Parenting & Family Life Skills —Family Drug Court and other collaborative partners are provided with this program targeting parents, families and other collaborative family members for personal development and other environmental issues.
  
  

• Senior Sense —an educational experience for our elderly on the widespread misuse and abuse of medications to include the use of alcohol with such medications, and a wellness program of exercise, nutrition and other positive alternative activities.
  
  

• Circle for Recovery Ohio —a community based re-entry educational program for paroled offenders to ease the adjustment into family and community. This is a model of a UMADAOPs of Ohio project.
  
  

OTHER PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:

• Community Coalition for a Drug-Free Lorain County
  
  

• Grafton Correctional Institution's Hispanic Reconnection Program
  
  

• Teen Institute
  
  

• Cultural Competency Trainings
  
  

• Drug-Free Workplace
  
  

• Speaking Engagements/Awareness Programs
  

  Lorain UMADAOP
  2314 Kelly Place
  Lorain, OH 44052

  Phone: 440-246-4616
  Fax: 440-246-1997