CADA Connection

08/29/2024

Join us for food, fellowship, and a speaker meeting on September 15, 2024 at the CADA Bossier Treatment Center. There will be a business meeting immediately following from 6PM-7PM. We hope to see you there!

05/20/2024

Come out and join CADA Connection and Help Other's on June 8th at the Highland Club to hear Mark H. Tell his story. 🫶

04/17/2024

It's time for CADA Connection to Fundraise. Due to unfortunate circumstances we will not have the Shoot for Sobriety this year, but we still have some other fun events planned to fundraise and for everyone to engage with the recovery community. Join us on April 27, 2024 at the Highland Club for a fun Bingo & BBQ Fundraiser event followed by an awesome speaker, Sara N. We hope to see you there. Come get involved!

Bingo Cards will be sold for different levels of donation prices at the event.
Yellow -High Roller -$50
Green - Risktaker -$20
Red - Card Shark- $10
Blue - Player-$5
Pink - Fortune Hunter-$1
Black - Lucky Duck (For Black Out Bingo Only)- $5

BBQ Plates:
Chicken, Down Home Sausage, Potato Salad, Baked Beans.
Contact Will B. or Heath L. to pre-order plates.

*There will be prizes for all bingo rounds.
*We take many forms of payment: Cash, Check, Card, Cash App, & Venmo.

04/10/2024

04/05/2024

It’s time once again to Fight Hunger. Spark Change. with the Food Bank of Northwest Louisiana and Walmart and Sam's Club . Donations and roundups at the register in-store and online – plus the purchase of select products from participating suppliers – means more food and resources for people facing hunger.



Donations can be made at https://www.feedingamerica.org/Walmart or https://www.FeedingAmerica.org/SamsClub



Learn more: https://www.feedingamerica.org/.../walmart-and-sams-club...

02/26/2024

Join us on March 17, 2024 for the quarterly survivors weekend speaker meeting. We hope to see you there!

02/07/2024

This , and every month, Feeding America wants to honor and recognize some of the Black leaders in the food justice movement.

Ericka Huggins is an American activist, writer, educator and former leading member of the political organization, the Black Panther Party. Huggins became the director of the Oakland Community School, which served home-cooked breakfast and lunch five days a week to hundreds of schoolchildren. “It was just so nice to see that the children were not going to the classroom hungry,” Huggins recalls. They “knew they were loved.”

At its peak the nationwide Panthers' Free Breakfast Program fed thousands of children daily, with at least 45 chapters in major cities from Los Angeles to Boston, and in rural communities throughout the South. It paved the way for the USDA’s School Breakfast Program, permanently authorized in 1975.

Fifty years later the Free Breakfast Program serves as an enduring model for numerous initiatives that address food insecurity, particularly in the wake of the pandemic—programs such as D.C.’s Bread for the City, FrontLine Farming in Colorado, Harlem Grown in New York, and the Interfaith Food Shuttle in North Carolina.

Huggins is 73 now and lives close to the site of the Oakland Community School, home to a program that helps formerly incarcerated men reenter society. She frequently runs into former students who thank her for feeding them so many years ago. “This used to be my school,” one told her, “and it was the best part of my life.”

Read more about Ericka Huggins from the wonderful Bon Appétit Magazine article here: bit.ly/3UlZCia

02/05/2024

Now until February 29th, IHOP is offering a FREE small stack of pancakes to customers who donate $1, $2, $3 or more to Feeding America to help tackle hunger in the communities they serve. The company is committed to bringing smiles to people's faces and ending hunger. Customers are encouraged to visit their local IHOP to participate in the fight against hunger.

12/01/2023

CADA's LASOR Team is at the Mental Health Awareness & Substance Abuse Conference at LSUS today.

Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse of NWLA

12/01/2023

Join us in gathering toys for the annual Roy's Kids Toy Drive. We greatly appreciate any donations. Thank you so much for your attention and participation in the toy drive.

12/01/2023

Outreach at the Annual Bossier Schools Agency Fair with CADA's Peer Recovery Support Team.
Council on Alcoholism & Drug Abuse of NWLA