Amy Ronshausen Drug Free America

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Amy Ronshausen is the Executive Director of both Drug Free America Foundation Inc and Save Our Society From Drugs S O S national nonprofit organizations that work to defeat drug legalization attempts promote sound drug policies and prevent drug use abuse and addiction Mrs Ronshausen has dedicated most of her adult life to the work of reducing illegal drug use and drug prevention In her twelve years with Drug Free America Foundation and S O S she has assisted in coordinating successful grassroots advocacy campaigns to defeat marijuana legalization efforts organized statewide prevention summits analyzed and tracked state and federal drug policy legislation and trained prevention professionals at local national and international conferences Prior to coming to DFAF Mrs Ronshausen spent three years as a program specialist with the Pinellas County Adult Drug Court working under four judges While in drug court Mrs Ronshausen linked defendants with treatment providers and monitored their progress through the criminal justice system In 2007 Mrs Ronshausen was awarded Best Team Practices for her work in Adult Drug Court Mrs Ronshausen started her work in drug prevention with Operation PAR where she started off as a call specialist in their access center and then worked as a juvenile certified GAIN assessor She also worked as a juvenile counselor for PAR s Adolescent Recovery Intervention Services and the Juvenile Enhancement Treatment Services and is trained in Motivational Enhancement and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Mrs Ronshausen volunteers as the Executive Director for the Florida Coalition Alliance representing over 30 community anti-drug coalitions She chairs the Marijuana Task Force as part of the Hillsborough County Anti-Drug Alliance and serves on the Pinellas County Opioid Task Force Mrs Ronshausen serves on the board of Informed Families and was recently elected President of the World Federation Against Drugs Mrs Ronshausen received her Bachelors of Arts Degree from University of South Florida https www addicted org supe HELP SUPPORT OUR FIGHT AGAINST ADDICTION DONATE HERE https www patreon com theaddictionpodcast PART OF THE GOOD NEWS PODCAST NETWORK AUDIO VERSIONS OF ALL OUR EPISODES https theaddictionpodcast com CONTACT US The Addiction Podcast – Point of No Return theaddictionpodcast yahoo com Intro and Outro music by Decisions by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4 0 license https creativecommons org licenses by 4 0 Source http incompetech com music royalty-free index html isrc USUAN1100756 Artist http incompetech com Click here to visit this podcast episode