Advocacy Grants Program: Advancing Drug Policy Through Partnership & Community Engagement
Attendees of “NOT ONE STEP BACK, a panel discussion led by our partners during our annual Policy Change Partners Gathering.
The Drug Policy Alliance’s (DPA) Advocacy Grants Program has been making small grants to grassroots organizations working on drug policy reform since 2005. The main fund within this program is Promoting Policy Change, an annual cycle that provides general operating support to proven drug policy reform organizations.
The Advocacy Grants Program funding priorities are guided by DPA’s mission to advance policies and attitudes that best reduce the harms of both drug use and drug prohibition, and to promote the sovereignty of individuals over their minds and bodies.
Gabriella Miyares (0:09)
Hello, and welcome to Drugs & Stuff. I m your host, Gabriella Miyares. Today, we re thrilled to kick off a new series of episodes that tie into a project that s been many years in the making here at the Drug Policy Alliance. That project, Uprooting the Drug War, which can be found on uprootingthedrugwar.org, exposes the insidious ways the drug war has taken root in six critical systems: education, employment, housing, child welfare, immigration, and public benefits. Each month on the podcast, we ll feature one of those six systems and learn more about how the drug war has become embedded within it. For our first episode in the series, we are so pleased to have Lisa Sangoi, Co-Founder of the organization Movement for Family Power, speaking with us about how the drug war impacts the child welfare system or, as she and many others have begun to call it, the family regulation system.