2012 FCD 35 Years of Service 35 35 years ing yea t r a s 2,000,000 students r b e 1,000 schools l y e c 35 r 60 countries a f s cd er 5 continents anniv Prevention Works In 1976, Don Cutler and several of his friends launched a pioneering approach to substance abuse prevention in schools. Since then, FCD (Freedom from Chemical Dependency) has become the leading international nonprofit provider of school-based substance abuse prevention services. For most of these years, our primary service has been the FCD Four-Day Course, an intensive classroom-based student education program. 35 Years of Service Regionalization Initially a Boston-area service provider, FCD has Our Programs Today grown to be a leading resource for school-based substance abuse prevention worldwide. The first FCD remains on the leading edge of the substance inkling of this growth came in 1994, when several abuse prevention field by raising charitable funds schools in Southern California enlisted our services. to create innovative strategies. A result of FCD’s In 1999, that led to our first hiring of prevention vast experience, the research-based social norms specialists residing there. approach to prevention now underlies all of our work. FCD’s services include Intensive Student That experience became the model for our overall Education Seminars, Student Peer Leadership regionalization plan. We now have 31 prevention Training, Professional Development for school specialists resident in ten U.S. locations, as well as personnel, Early Intervention Health Systems, Latin America, Europe and Asia. Regionalization Prevention Assessments, Student Attitudes and decreases travel expenses, affords more flexibility Behavior Surveys and Comprehensive Prevention in scheduling and reduces “wear and tear” on our Planning for whole school communities. prevention specialists. Regional Management – Regional officers assist Our Prevention Team in hiring, evaluating, training and supervising our regionalized staffs. They are also engaged in Consisting of a small administrative staff in marketing, program development and fundraising Newton, Massachusetts, and a cadre of highly efforts within their regional bases. Jointly, they trained prevention specialists, we provide form a support team to interface between our our array of services throughout the U.S. and “road warriors,” as we affectionately refer to our around the globe. An important element of prevention specialists, and our program services, our work is that our prevention specialists are client relations and administrative services staffs. themselves in healthy recovery from substance addictions. Annually, we reach an estimated Collaborations – Recognizing the power and quarter-of-a-million students at more than 400 cost-effectiveness of synergistic relationships, schools worldwide. FCD is committed to seeking and developing collaborative arrangements with well-suited groups. Wherever we work, whether in the U.S. or abroad, For the past three years, we have operated a our prevention specialists travel to school sites and SALSA peer leadership training program in provide our services directly with students, teachers, Roxbury and Dorchester with the Boston Learning staff and parents. New prevention specialists Center. More recently, we signed an agreement receive basic training in our intensive education with Family Health Productions for distribution of program, and veteran prevention specialists receive their “Words Can Work” video and print materials. advanced training in a number of training and Also, we are working with United Educators to consulting roles on an annual basis. In addition, provide online student education courses for their our regional officers and program services staff insurance clients, and we are providing a Spanish- provide evaluation and training throughout the language social norms survey to a Mexican-based year, as needed, often using electronic means. prevention institute. Celebrating 35 Years 35 Years of Stewardship In Memoriam Governor Michael Dukakis and his wife Kitty are enthusiastically supporting the development of FCD and its Foundation Board. Throughout its 35 years, FCD has been guided and supported by an eminent group of leaders who have served on the governing board or have Governance and Stewardship made significant contributions in other ways. Among these abiding supporters whom we have FCD is wisely evolving a stronger and more recently lost: effective board leadership structure in order to mark the natural distinctions among the oversight, Jessie Sargent led a life full of compassion and stewardship and advisory roles of governing boards concern for the vulnerable in our society, which – often referred to as the “work, wealth or wisdom” was in full evidence with her service to FCD as a functions of trusteeship. To address these divisions founder and board member from 1977 to 1998. and our geographic expansion, a multi-tiered board structure was created, as follows: E. Miles Herter, a board member from 1981 to 2012, was a leader in all respects, most especially • Executive Board – Essentially the previous in helping to assure the success of a $1.1 million Board of Trustees, this board consists of members capital campaign, which made possible the acquisi- who can regularly participate, provide adequate tion of FCD’s center of operations in Newton, oversight, act decisively when needed and bear named the Donald F. Cutler Prevention Center. full responsibility for corporate accountability. Other early board members who have passed away, • Foundation Board – The stewardship function with their years of service to FCD’s board: requires a group that is prepared to give and/or raise substantial contributions and/or attract (1976–2006) John A. Paine, Jr. new clientele. This group will be organized to Charles C. Cabot, Jr. (1977–1994) reflect FCD’s national and international reach. (1977–1988) John J. Buckley • Advisory Board – Like the Foundation Board, Archer Harman, Jr. (1979–2004) this group will be organized to reflect FCD’s international scope. Its role will be to provide Kerry Lyne (1979–1991) FCD with expert advice and assistance in its primary programmatic endeavors. Peter D. Danforth (1982–1997) The Cutler Society In tribute to FCD’s founding executives, Donald F. Cutler and his wife Lloyd, FCD has established a new giving category 3 to honor its top donors over the 1 2 years, as well as those who have 1. Miles Herter participated in FCD’s newly 2. Jessie Sargent with her husband, Governor Francis Sargent created planned giving program. 3. John Paine, Jr. The first bequests have come 4. Peter Danforth from John A. Paine, Jr., E. Miles 5. Charles Cabot, Jr. Herter and Gilbert L. Steward, Jr. 4 5 35 Years of Support G. Peabody and Rose Gardner The TJX Foundation, Inc. Charitable Trust Laura Jane Musser Fund Bushrod H. Campbell and Adah F. Hall Harcourt General Charitable Donors Charity Fund Foundation, Inc. The Gillette Company The Peridot Foundation The Frederick E. Weber Charities Hurdle Hill Foundation The Cutler Society Corporation The Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Mr. and Mrs. E. Miles Herter Henry Hornblower Fund, Inc. Foundation Barbara and Richard Kearney Trustees of Sears and Other Funds Gardner Charitable Trust II Mr. Edward L. Bigelow 1957 Charity Trust Middlecott Foundation Mr. and Mrs. A. Werk Cook Fidelity Foundation Melvin S. Cutler Foundation Anne and Paul Goldenheim John Hancock Financial Services Prevention Society Walter L. Landergan, Jr. Cabot Corporation Foundation Nelson S. and Ruth C. Mead Mrs. Elise C. von Koschembahr The Louis Stott Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Cave Mrs. Jessie Sargent Marion L. Decrow Memorial Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Cutler Mr. and Mrs. David B. Arnold The Barnes Foundation Mr. and Mrs. G. d'Andelot Belin Mr. David M. Slye Charles Hayden Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Loring, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Cutler Ellen Abbot Gilman Trust Mr. and Mrs. William L. Saltonstall Mr. and Mrs. Francis W. Hatch William and Martha Ford Fund Mr. and Mrs. Tingey Sewall Mr. and Mrs. Frederic A. Eustis, II Thomas Anthony Pappas Charitable Wendy Goodrich Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Dana, III Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Almy, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Thorne William E. and Bertha E. Schrafft Alex J. Packer, Ph.D. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Paine, Jr. Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert L. Steward, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Cabot The Lodge of St. Andrew Mr. and Mrs. William D. Manice Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Adams FleetBoston Financial Foundation Ruth M. Barker Mr. and Mrs. Putnam B. McDowell The Harold Whitworth Pierce Mr. and Mrs. Martin Begien Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. Danforth Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Cabot Mr. and Mrs. Julian Crocker Robbins-de Beaumont Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Paul S. Russell Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Bancroft Dr. Scholl Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John A. Amory Mr. and Mrs. Guido R. Perera The Stride Rite Foundation Mr. and Mrs. G. Marshall Moriarty Mrs. G. Barrie Landry Liberty Mutual Insurance Group Mr. George Slye Mrs. Elizabeth F. O’Connor KeySpan Energy Delivery Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Bartlett Corporate and Foundation Grants Shawmut Bank, N.A. Mr. and Mrs. Austin P. Olney Edwin S. Webster Foundation BankBoston Charitable Trusts Mr. and Mrs. W. Nicholas Thorndike The Walrus Foundation The Samuel Rosenthal Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Doran The Edward E. Ford Foundation Mary W.B. Curtis Trust Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Cutler Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Mary and Kathleen Harriman Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Bird, III Stearns Charitable Trust NStar Mr. and Mrs. Emmett E. Lyne Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust The JM Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Hadden The Cashin Family Fund Abbot and Dorothy H. Stevens Mr. and Mrs. M.D. de Beaumont Sanders Fund Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Slotnick Greater Boston Council on Alcoholism Robert G. Friedman Foundation Mrs. Vicki M. Barletta Peters Memorial Fund Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation Mr.